AN EXTREMELY THOROUGH, EXHAUSTIVE
AND ACCURATE GUIDE TO
BASIC, INTERMEDIATE AND
ADVANCED PRACTICE OF HOMOEOPATHY
[For curing patients with one single dose or a
few doses of one single remedy or a few
remedies.]
—Explained in down-to-earth
language and matter-of-fact way—
A teacher is he who makes difficult things easy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The teachings in this book are
unimaginably beyond everything
on homoeopathic practice.
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PREFACE
I started my career as a freelance medical
journalist. Forty-two years ago, while in New
Delhi, when I entered the scene of homoeopathy I
noticed one striking thing—while one homoeopath
cured most of his patients with one single dose
(even obstinate chronic cases), another was giving
more than one remedy that too repeatedly, with
partial or nil relief. Thus, my journey was towards
filling this gap of knowledge among homoeopaths.
I started studying and practising homoeopathy
out of sheer academic interest and I found that
precision and versatility is the culture of
homoeopathy. After forty-two years of continuous
and rigorous study and search I got the inspiration
to write this book by carefully lifting the clouds of
mysterious obscurities enveloping homoeopathy.
September 27, 2014
Dr. V. Krishnaamurthy
32/56, Kuppaiah Street,
West Mambalam,
Chennai - 600 033. India
Phone: 044-24890370, 09884612450, 09789069362
E-mail: jaykrish1966@gmail.com
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Practical homoeopathy
THE SYMPTOM-COVERER VERSUS
THE HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
When we come to the practical aspects, it is the intelligence
of the practitioner that counts more than anything else. Most
homoeopaths end up as symptom-coverer as the following case
illustration would show:
Case: Letter from Dr. X., M.D.(Radiologist), 33 years, is
given below.
“Respected sir, This is Dr. .. These are the following things
all my complaints.
1. Loss of libido (lack of sexual desire). Since l year, my
U.T.A. and stricture problem started. My sexual life very
limited. Now we are trying for kids. But I am not much
active sexual life. Please do the needful.
2. Three months ago suffered with severe cough. That I had
pneumonia patch in right midzone (of lung). No cough
subsided but on an off pain is coming right posterial chest
wall where pneumonia patch was there previously.
3. Hypertension. My blood pressure sometime touching 150/
100. If I take twice (BP tablet) daily dose. Then it will be
controlled.
4. Overweight. I observed I am putting more weight. My
food intake also seems increased. I am fond of sweets and
junk food. My present weight is 118 kg. Please do the
needful.”
MOST IMPORTANT NOTE TO BE BORNE IN MIND: We
are going to learn something new and unique out of this case.
Every case is, of course, unique. There is difference between a
symptom-coverer and a true homoeopathic physician. Any
average practitioner would work out on the following symptoms:
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Impotency
Hypertension
Obesity
What the patient tells is just and mere cotton. No one can
wear cotton as such. We have to make thread out of cotton, then
weave cloth with the thread; and stitch a shirt out of that cloth.
Now only it is ready for wearing. So also, out of the symptoms
told by the patient we have to conceive and derive many things.
In the above case, the practitioner must work out the case as
under:
The age of the patient is 33.
Point No. 1: He has impotency, hypertension. These two
symptoms, put together, should be viewed from a different
angle. These two normally appears in old age, i.e. above
sixty years of age. But we find this in a person of 33 years.
Therefore, the term pre-senility should at once come to our
mind. In other words, he should be treated as an old-age
patient.
Point No. 2: He is already an allopathic doctor and the medicines
he had taken fail to bring down the blood pressure.
Therefore, the term ‘lack of reaction’ should also come to
our mind.
The above two symptoms are ‘general symptoms.’
Wherever possible we must always work out cases on ‘general
symptoms.’ Craving for sweets, increased intake of food are
secondary.
SAMUEL LILIENTHAL’S HOMOEOPATHIC
THERAPEUTICS: Constitution, Age…(page 233-234) –For
old people—aged persons get very fleshy: Kali carb., Aur-met.,
Op., Sec., Amm-carb., Fluor-ac. [We take this because, though
the patient is just 33 years old, he has pre-senility.]
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These six remedies are studied in Boericke’s Mat. Med.
Only the first para or preamble under various remedies are useful
for confirming one out of the several remedies selected through
the repertory:
The remedy Ammonium carb. was selected because of the
following words found under that in Boericke’ Mat. Med.
The diseased conditions met by this remedy are such
as we find often in rather stout . . . have a slow reaction
generally, . . . Mucous membranes of the respiratory organs
are especially affected. Fat patients with weak heart . . .
HOW TO CONFIRM A REMEDY WITH BOERICKE. If
the remedy selected by you is correct—the similimum, then the
symptom appears in the first sentence of that remedy in Boericke.
Or, if the symptom appears in the subsequent sentences, it is
either given in italics; or, it is preceded by an adjective or
followed by an adverb.
Again, let us read Ammon-carb. in the FINAL MAT. MED.
OF MIND SYMPTOMS and there we find the following to
further confirm our selection:
…makes frequent mistakes in speaking and writing;
…gloomy, depressed…[If the reader carefully read the letter
of the patient reproduced on page 5, he can notice the glaring
grammatical mistakes made by the patient. For this reason
alone we have reproduced his letter without correcting the
spelling and other mistakes.]
Amm-carb.10M, one single dose and placebo. Patient
shows much progress in his health and is under treatment.
One has to decide whether he would remain as a mere
symptom-coverer in his lifetime or he would like to be a
Homoeopathic Physician.
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Case: [Letter from Mrs. XYZ, 27 years is given below]
“Respected Dr. Krishnamurthy
I am feeling depressed and getting angry very easily because
of my problems in the joint family. Frankly I am not enjoying
my (present) life. I am always worried of some or the other
problem.
I completed the previous medicine you have given. As
well I am now using them. The feeling of childlessness is always
worrying me a lot. It has been 4 years of our married life.
And, again coming to my problems the growth of unnatural
hair is a bit better, but no complete cure is seen. Hair fall, dry
skin, loss of elasticity of skin, stretch marks, joint pains are also
worrying me a lot. I am also having slight visual disturbances
and headache sometimes. Every day I wake up in the morning
that I am not active. I am having body pains, backache, due to
which the start of the day is lazy and uninteresting. This is all
about my problems sir. Kindly give the medicine accordingly.”
Symptoms from the above case to be taken for
repertorisation.
1. Anger (a symptom of will)
2. Worried — Anxiety
3. ‘Every day I wake up in the morning that I am not
active’ — sleep, unrefreshing.
4. Lazy and uninteresting — Dullness.
Kent’s Repertory: Anger (top-grade remedies) + Sleep,
unrefreshing (top-grades) = Nit-ac. (we read this remedy in the
MATERIA MEDICA OF MIND SYMPTOMS) and it does not
match with the patient. When you get no remedy or 1-2 remedies
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(after repertorisation) and they do not match with the patient,
you must become alert! You have not chosen the correct rubrics.
Though ‘Sleep, unrefreshing’ is a general symptom, it has
no value in the case of dull patients (the start of the day is lazy
and uninteresting) there is another general symptom in this case.
She has (a) hair fall, (b) visual problems, and (c) headache.
Two or more complaints above the neck: for this take the
rubric Congestion in the Chapter Generalities in Kent’s
Repertory.
Top-grade remedies common to the rubrics ‘Anger’ plus
‘Congestion’ are: Acon., Nux-v., Sulph.
We now read these three remedies in the MATERIA
MEDICA OF MIND SYMPTOMS by the author and the
following lines under the remedy Sulphur agrees with the case.
. . . Venous lethargy, inclination to consume hours in
doing nothing, does not take any interest in anything . . .
being too lazy to rouse himself up . . .
Sulphur-10M one single dose was given.
Patient is improving and is under treatment.
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In his Lesser Writings Dr. James Tyler Kent points
out, “Homoeopathy is slow to win its way because of
defective use of books as well as because of defective
books.” One cannot learn swimming without first getting
into the water. So also, to learn car driving, on the first
day itself you are made to sit on the wheels! Thus
without actual cases one cannot learn homoeopathic
practice. Let us therefore side by side, study with the
actual cured cases. There are no ‘theories’ or ‘principles’
in homoeopathy. Following are cured cases:
Case: A patient met with a vehicle accident and his
thigh bone was broken. After treatment he was okay,
but very soon had developed complications and after
taking all necessary tests he was told by the doctors
that his kidney (though not injured in the accident)
was not functioning and he was put on dialysis. If the
practitioner has thorough knowledge of the valuable
reference works, he can prescribe the similimum in
some cases without even seeing the patient (and
questioning for ‘sensation, modality, concomitants’ etc.)
This case is very easy. In all vehicle accidents a
victim invariably rolls down either inside the vehicle or
on the road and the spinal cord and/or the trunk is
twisted (as when we twist a cloth after washing by
holding both ends to extract excess water from it.)
Now his kidney is not functioning. After road
accidents if an organ fails (without any injury to that
organ) the only probable cause is that the plexus
(a network of veins or nerves) of that organ is affected
and this is not revealed in x-ray or scan report.
[See BRITISH ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MEDICAL
PRACTICE - 12 volumes.]
Wilkinson’s Materia Medica comes to our help in
this case. In this book under the remedy Eupatorium
purpureum we find the following:
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“Through the renal plexus, this remedy
has a specific and special action upon the
kidneys. . .”
This remedy was given in one single dose in the
10M potency. His kidney started functioning normally
and dialysis was stopped. It is now more than two years
and the patient is in good health.
Case: For outstation patients, I ask them to write down
their symptoms on a paper in their own handwriting
and send it to me. The letter of one such patient is
given below:
“Respected doctor, I am suffering from chronic
sugar for 15 years, and I am taking medicines
regularly. I am having ulcer also for the past 10
years and taking medicines only for ulcer then
and there and mostly avoiding pain-killer tablets
and antibiotics.
Now for the past six months I am having throat
pain due to reflux in the stomach irritation. Now
throat infection got cured but mouth ulcer
started before 2 months. For that also I took
Riboflavin daily six tablets and Histac, Pan40
etc. But I am vexed of tablets, tablets, tablets.
In the meantime I have seen your valuable
books and am getting excited. Please kindly
guide me.”
Finding the remedy—the similimum for this patient
is simple and very easy. There are two mind symptoms:
(A) “I am vexed of tablets, tablets, tablets.”
For ‘vexation’ Kent’s Repertory tells us
to see “Irritability.”
(B) She says that she got excited by seeing
my books because she feels they are
valuable. For this mind symptom you
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should not take the rubric ‘Excitement,
excitable.’ The correct rubric for this is
‘gay, frolicsome, hilarious.’ The
equivalent rubric in Kent’s Repertory
(under the chapter ‘MIND’) is ‘Mirth.’
I now compare the remedies in top-grade in both
the rubrics viz., ‘Mirth’ and ‘Irritability.’ Only one remedy
viz., Natrum carb is found in top-grade in both the lists.
As a next step I read the remedy in the author’s FINAL
AND SENSIBLE MAT. MEDICA OF MIND SYMPTOMS. We
find the following: “exceedingly irritable . . . dyspepsia,
with sour belching, waterbrash, retching…” (see the
patient’s letter above. She writes, ‘I am vexed of tablets,
tablets, tablets.’) Again in Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica we
find the following under Nat-carb.:
“Irritable, excitable mood . . .
Subacute, inflammatory irritation of
whole alimentary mucous membrane,
from mouth to anus.”
Natrum-carb-10M single dose was given. It not
only cured her completely of the gastric complaints
but also diabetes.
Precision and versatility is the culture of homoeopathy.
The abovementioned books are available with the
author for sale as under (including postage):
WILKINSON’S MATERIA MEDICA (pages 713) Rs.750=00
FINAL AND SENSIBLE MATERIA MEDICA AND
REPERTORY OF MIND SYMPTOMS Rs.300=00
BRITISH ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MEDICAL
PRACTICE [12 Volumes and one index
volume, each volume about 650
pages]—For diagnosis and differential
diagnosis only. Rs.15,300=00
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HOW TO MAKE HOMOEOPATHY MORE
POPULAR AND ACCEPTABLE? Of late, there has been
repeated hue and cry from homoeopaths against governments
and others for not giving due recognition to homoeopathy.
The remedy lies not outside but inside—among us
homoeopaths. If we improve the quality of our practice,
government and others (including allopaths) would
automatically come forward not only to recognise but also
admire us. This work is an attempt to this end.
The following are from Kent’s LESSER WRITINGS:
“It is very rarely the case that among the
provings of our remedies not one is to be
found which corresponds to the characteristic
features of a case”3
“Homoeopathy is slow to win its way
because of defective use of books as well as
because of defective books.”
The following books are the most useful reference
books in day-to-day practice and they are without defects:
1. Samuel Lilienthal’s HOMOEOPATHIC
THERAPEUTICS (Hereinafter called ‘Lilienthal’)
2. FINAL REPERTORY OF 'MIND' SYMPTOMS
AND 'GENERAL' SYMPTOMS compiled by
Dr. V. Krishnaamurthy (Rs.250)
3. J. T. Kent’s Repertory
4. WILKINSON’S MATERIA MEDICA [compiled from
the 10-volume Hering’s Guiding Symptoms of our
Materia Medica] (Rs.750)
5. Boericke’s MATERIA MEDICA
6. W. A. Yingling’s THE ACCOUCHEUR’S
EMERGENCY MANUAL
7. REPERTORY by Dr. Calvin B. Knerr
3I have to mention this because provings of new remedies are being
published in journals as if we lack remedies in the existing materia
medicas.
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RANDOM NOTES ON PRACTICE
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 spot 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.
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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
whatever suited him that day, he would wear. One single
dose cured him. Name the remedy.
18. A certain old age person of seventy-five, walking with a
cane and standing on one side of the road, 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?
[For answers see page 15.]
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SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF
HOMOEO SOFTWARES?
A practitioner would be doing a great blunder if he thinks
that he can find the remedy for all his patients with the
repertory or software. Most of those using software are under
the illusion that once the homoeo software is installed, they
can be damn sure of selecting the remedy for their patients. To
remove this delusion the following is being written.
The practitioner searches in the software for ‘diabetes’
and he gets some results. But, at the same time, he would be
missing many remedies for diabetes. This is because in some
places of materia medicas for ‘diabetes’ the terms ‘glycosuria’
or ‘sugar in urine’ is used. Also the word saccharine is used.
(See Boericke’s Mat. Med., Lactic Acid.—Urine)
Before programming the materia medica the programmer
must have either change the word ‘glycosuria’ to ‘diabetes’ or
give ‘diabetes’ within brackets after all the words ‘glycosuria.’
Alas! The present day homoeo softwares have been designed
by those with kindergarten knowledge of homoeopathy.
Because of either ignorance or arrogance the homoeo
software programmers are not listening to these observations.
Again a doctor may search for ‘liver’ but in many places
we find equivalent terms ‘hepatic affections’ ‘bilious’ etc.
being used for liver affections and the list goes on.
Therefore, the alternative terms must also be included in
the materia medicas such as the following terms:
) old age, aged persons
) glycosuria, diabetes, diabetes mellitus
) kidney, renal, nephritis, and so on and so forth.
Also, certain syndrome (group of symptoms) cannot be
classified under any rubric in the repertory or software and so
a homoeopath must necessarily learn by rote such symptoms!
Example cases are given on pages 32 to 35 and 47 to 49.
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(Answers to questions on page 12 and 13)
1. 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. This
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.
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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
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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,
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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 FEL. cured her.” (See Kent’s
LECTURES ON HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA
MEDICA—Spigelia.)
18. 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,
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between hips, and took away all power below that spot from
limbs . . . Shuddering and trembling running down through all
nerves of body . . . Violent tremblings 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. — The Guiding
Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (10 volumes) by
Dr. Constantine Hering—Calabar.
Remember 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 in mind.
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The present day seminars, workshops,
articles in homoeo journals and books published
after the year 1946 and research papers of the
Central Council are but mockery of homoeopathy.
Homoeopathy is based on eternal laws. There are no
theories or principles of practice. It is ridiculous to talk of
‘principles’ and ‘theories’ of homoeopathy.
Question: 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?
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
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and (ii) “Children Diseases of—Morbi
Neonatorum et Infantum.” in HOMOEOPATHIC
THERAPEUTICS by Dr. Samuel
Lilienthal. (p. 148 to 184)
Dr. Bach Flower Remedies
Dr. Bach Flower Remedies of England go hand in
hand with homoeopathy. Dr. Bach Remedies are not for
treatment of your patients as such.
They are more for you to increase your efficiency in
treating your patients. There are thirty-eight remedies in all.
Let us now learn some of the uses in day-to-day practice of
any homoeopath:
Before you take up the case of patient, take a dose or
two of the Bach remedy Agrimony. Your taking this remedy
would make the patient to tell or pour out valuable
symptoms to enable you to work out the case so nicely.
After you finish the case-taking i.e. writing down the
symptoms, you start to work out the case (with the use
Repertories/Materia Medicas listed on page 10-11 of this
book.) Before doing so, take a dose of Bach Remedies
Chestnutbud and Pine. The key-word for this is “hundred
for hundred” or centum marks. These remedies enable you
to find the simillimum without fail and soon you become
so popular to the point of getting patient from all over the
globe! That is the experience of those who are using these
two remedies.
Daily morning take two other Bach Remedies Walnut
and Chestnutbud and this enable you to become guaranteed
No.1 homoeopath in the whole world.
For details of Dr. Bach Remedies See our book HIGHDEFINITION
METHODS of Bach Remedies Practice.
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WHITHER HOMOEOPATHY?
Could Nirbhaya of Delhi 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, socalled
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 for Nirbhaya: One single dose of the remedy Crotalus
horridus (be it in 200th or 1000th or 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
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(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 highdefinition
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 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?
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Dr. Samuel Lilienthal, M.D.
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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 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: “With the high
potencies . . . frequent repetitions are unnecessary . . .” [See The
Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual, Preface and 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!
Jayerkar, bensation method, Hegal method… What are
they? Throw them out! They are the measles and mumps of
homoeopathic community.
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One of the medical emergencies is during childbirth or
abortion. Again, I asked the audience to raise their hands if
anyone had ever treated or cured a difficult labor case and none
lifted their hands.
Actual cases cured by the author:
Case: I once visited an old friend of mine in Delhi where I saw
his pregnant daughter sitting and shedding tears. Upon inquiry
her mother told me that the next day was delivery date and the
doctors said that she was very weak and so wouldn’t be able to
develop any labor pain; therefore, caesarean alone was to be
done.
In the Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual by Dr. W. A.
Yingling (page 231) we find the following:
Weak, patient too weak to develop
normal pains: Caul., Mur-ac.
Since Muriatic acid has more weakness I started putting
questions to the patient along the symptoms of this remedy.
A characteristic symptom in the remedy Muriatic acid is
“Mouth and anus chiefly affected.” [See Boericke’s Materia
Medica.]
I asked her whether she was having soreness or any
complaint in mouth and to this she replied in the affirmative. I
further asked if she had similar complaint in her anus and she
confirmed this too. I went to a nearby homoeo drug store, bought
one dram pills of Muriatic Acid 200 (they did not have this
remedy above the 200th potency) and asked the patient to take
one pill every four hours. (Had 10M potency been available then,
I would have given that. For example, if you want to give a dose
of 10M and if that potency is not available you may give 200th
or 1M potency every 4-8 hours, three doses only. Three doses of
200 or 1M would act like a single dose of 10M.)
Within minutes of taking a dose of Muriatic Acid-200 she
developed labor pains; was rushed to hospital and upon entering
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she took another dose. Within halfan-
hour it was a normal and safe
delivery.
Precision and versatility is the
culture of Homoeopathy.
Case: A pregnant lady in a village
went to a town (where her sister
lived) for delivery. The doctors in
a nursing home after examining
her, declined to admit her because
instead of descending, the uterus
was in the upward position. She
was then taken to the Govt.
hospital. Upon examining her,
even they said that a major surgery had to be done and since the
senior surgeon was not available they would not admit her. She
came home weeping. When I heard this I wanted to find out if
homoeopathy could help her and so turned to Yingling. On page
229 we find the following:
Upward, uterus seems to go: Cimic.
I gave her Cimicifuga (Actaea recemosa)-10M, one single
dose. Within minutes she felt the uterus coming down to its
normal position; and also developed labor pains: so, was rushed
to the hospital. This time, upon examining her, the attending
doctor said that everything was normal and so admitted her and
it was a safe and normal delivery!
Does the reader need any further or better justification for
having a copy of Yingling?
Let him not practise homoeopathy who has not read
several times the Preface and Introduction in the book
The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual by Yingling. [Copy
of this book can be had from the author by sending Rs.380=00
by money order only.]
Dr. W. A. Yingling, M.D.
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‘MIND’ SYMPTOMS
The most misunderstood topics in homoeopathy are
‘mind symptoms’(section 213 of the Organon) and
‘uncommon-rare-strange-peculiar-symptoms’ (Section 153.)
When Section 213 is read with section 153 we can conclude
that we should take only those mind symptoms which we have
never heard before normally/commonly/usually in any patient.
‘Mind Symptoms’ and ‘uncommon symptoms’ (for
selecting the remedy) are not what you have learnt but
they are, in reality, something different which you have
to learn by rote.
Again, most of the valuable ‘mind’ or ‘uncommon’
symptoms cannot be classified under any head in the
repertories and an honest and conscious homoeopath
has to learn them by rote. (‘rote’ means mechanical or
habitual repetition). Therefore, in many cases (if not
all cases), homoeopathic software is of no use, however
costly it may be and how much 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’
and ‘uncommon 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.’
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Case: 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 when 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 the 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 in 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: 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 off and a son who is
looking out for a job. Who would come forward to marry my
daughter, if I have a weeping eczema? Only because of that,
I want to get cured. Before I die, I want to settle things in my
family; my daughter getting married and son getting a job.
Then I can die peacefully.”
Under the homoeopathic remedy Petroleum (Boericke’s
Materia Medica) we find the following:
Feels that death is near, and must hurry to
settle affairs.
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Now, this sentence fits in approximately with the
remarks made by the above eczema patient. This remedy was
given in single dose and it cured him completely.
Case: 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 fits with the remarks made by the
patient in the last case. One single dose of
Petroleum-10M cured this patient as well. We do not prescribe
on names of disease or pathology but on ‘uncommon’
symptoms having no connection with pathology.
The above two cases would show the reader that
(a) one and the same remedy may be called for in
different persons with different diseases; also,
(b) different persons suffering from one and the same
disease may need different remedies.
Case: A seventy-year old carpenter was under my treatment
for skin complaint. 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.”3 (‘Raasi’ in Tamil means luck). In other words the
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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’
or ‘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 any homoeopath tell me what remedy I gave the
patient?
‘Mind’ Symptoms: Superiority of Lilienthal:
Read the remedy Staphisagria in the chapter
Melancholia in Lilienthal. (page 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
3A professor was having a two wheeler. After ten years it was no more
useful, also the vehicle was outdated and could not be used because
spare parts were not available and so it was to be condemned. He bought
a car and also very good latest Japanese two-wheeler. But he was not
ready to dispose of the ten-year old two wheeler. He said, “Everything
went well and I got prosperity only after buying that vehicle. So I won’t
part with it.”
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sorrowfulness ending in paralysis of the
intellect . . .
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 (Kent's Repertory—MIND) and read them in the
chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal. Staphisagria suited the
symptoms of the case.
Case: 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 ran down. Therefore she could
not afford deterioration of health any further with another
surgery and she had to 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 he might not have
enough to live on . . .
Nux-vomica-1M, one single dose was given in the
evening. Not only did her general health improve, but also the
size of the stone started reducing. (Patient is still under
treatment.)
Case: A chronic renal failure patient came to me with a few
relatives, all of whom were allopathic doctors. They showed
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3The 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!
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 alright and would recover soon. But instead
of encouraging me for speedy recovery they have branded me
as a permanent and incurable patient.”3
This patient feels that his sons, instead of encouraging,
are letting him down. What one requires from his 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. They are
“… a feeling of moral deficiency…” – Kali
brom.
“… despondency, sadness, moral depression
and relaxation…” – Tarentula hisp.
[See the Final Mat. Medica of Mind Symptoms by the
author. p. 113-114 and 146-147]
Tarentula hispania 10M - single dose was given.
Case: 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 near my clinic. Before going to school
she would come to me once a month, take medicine and go
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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 I also 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 to 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 that she need not pay any fees
for the one-time acupressure and 100% cure was also assured.
Therefore, travelling thirteen kilometres won’t be a crime. But
to do this she has hesitation. Before we show the reader how
we selected the remedy on this symptom, let us now see two
more cases.
Case: A lady allopathic doctor was learning homoeopathy
from me every Sunday morning for two hours. She consulted
me for her complaints and for total relief of her ailments.
Once she said, “Doctor, can you give one-dose treatment for
my son? Since birth he is having perennial cold; now he is
five years and almost every week he has to take drugs.” I told
her that she must bring her son at least once and I would cure
him completely. Bringing her son once (and I am not going to
charge her since she is my student) is not an ordeal or
something immoral. To this she replied, “For this I have to…
bring him all the way from my home” (which is just ten
kilometers away.)
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She hesitates for this small thing of bringing the boy
once only to me and for which the boy is going to get total
relief permanently.
Only if you actually listen to the patient’s reply in person
may you understand this. Let me explain and elaborate on
this.
Suppose you are asked by your teacher to murder a
certain person. What would be your reaction? Immediately
you would reply as under: “Sir, I… have to…” (The sentence
would be incomplete. Because you have hesitation since
doing this job would prick your conscience.)
In the above said two cases, 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 (case No.12
above) and even acupressure treatment was not given.
Case: 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.
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The above 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.
The above three cases are quoted here to illustrate that if
the practitioner can memorise the symptoms of various
remedies given in the Final Mat. Medica of Mind Symptoms
by the author he would be able to select the remedy in more
than fifty percent of cases that too at the very first attempt.
—————
Let no one practise homoeopathy who does not have a
copy of Lilienthal and does not make use of it.
Precision and versatility is required to practise
homoeopathy.
What is most disappointing is that no one talks about
Dr. Lilienthal’s work, be it in seminar papers, monthly meetings
or articles in journals.
Said Charles Gatchell in a review of
HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS, “… it is an
extraordinarily useful book and those who add it to
their library will never feel regret…”
In a review, Samuel A. Jones said about Lilienthal’s
as under:
“For the fresh graduate this book will be
invaluable… to the older one who says he has
no use of this book, we have nothing to say.
He is a good one to avoid when well, and to
dread when ill.”
The authors who have correctly and elaborately written
mind symptoms are:
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3Only the useful portions from this 10-volume have been taken out by
Dr. V. Krishnaamurthy and compiled in two volumes with the title
Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica.
(1) Dr. Samuel Lilienthal
(2) Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory.
(3) Dr. Constantine Hering (Guiding Symptoms of our
Materia Medica 10 volumes)3
(4) Dr. William Boericke (Mat. Medica)
And Lilienthal tops the list. If you can understand
correctly and thoroughly the lines under all remedies in the
chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal, you get more than 70%
success in your practice.
Lilienthal is ten times worth its weight in gold.
Wilkinson’s too is good at mind symptoms. How to
master mind symptoms with Hering?
After having selected a remedy and having seen that it
has cured the patient with one single dose of that remedy, read
that remedy in the Chapter ‘Mind’. If you do it two or three
times for a remedy, fourth time when that remedy-type patient
comes in, you can straightaway prescribe that.
For example, I would never miss Lycopodium and Nux
vomica for patients, most of whom throw the following
symptoms:
Lycopodium:
• (Wilkinson’s) – Talks with an air of command. Manner
stiff and pretentious.
Nux vomica:
• (Boericke’s Mat. Med.) – ...particular, careful, zealous...
fiery temperament.
• (Wilkinson’s) – Desire to talk about one’s conditions with
anxious reflections about it. (The patient comes in, sits
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and turning his face to one side, stares at the roof and
tells his complaints in the past-present chronological
order. He continues to stare up the ceiling continuously
till he finishes the history of his complaints till date.)
Sometimes, you have to read the entire symptoms under
Mind in all the remedies to select a remedy for a patient. (For
this I use Lilienthal, Boericke’s Materia Medica and
Wilkinson’s). But once you find the remedy, subsequent cases
requiring that remedy becomes easy.
I am not reporting here cases with their follow-up but my
attempt is to tell the reader how and what exactly
homoeopathic practice is. As one cannot learn swimming
without getting into water, or driving a car without sitting on
the wheels, so also without actual cases on hand one cannot
learn homoeopathy. To that extent only I am quoting actual
cases as seen in my clinic.
I am a freelance medical journalist and so I took the
following two cases as a challenge for homoeopathy.
Case: 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 return double the amount paid
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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;
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, spending two or three hours
daily 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, working for three hours
daily) and to 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. Precision and versatility
is the culture of Homoeopathy. After this case I cured two
more patients with Stillingia both of whom said the above
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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.
The above two cases would illustrate the reader how
rich, exact and accurate (and also complete) our existing
materia medicas are. Thus and therefore, what is needed is
exact mastery of the use of five reference books viz.,
Lilienthal, William Boericke, J.T. Kent, Wilkinson’s and Knerr
(and more importantly Yingling, for medical emergencies at
the time of labor or abortion.).
Case: 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
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homoeopathy. Soon both of them started learning and
practising homoeopathy.
Homoeopathic system of medicine is exact and accurate.
Precision and versatility is its culture.
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Myth and reality of ‘mind symptoms.’
In some cases Calvin B. Knerr’s REPERTORY is
excellent to work out cases with mind symptoms.
Case: 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).
hmW X{Im{, XdmB© Xm{ & [“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 of ‘sensation’ ‘location’ ‘modality’
‘concomitant.’ I took Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory to him and
showed 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.”
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Dr. Calvin B. Knerr, M.D.
Lycopodium 10M, one single dose, cured diabetes.
Let us reiterate the following:
Homoeopathy is a system where the patient
himself (by way of some words or actions or as a
reaction to his disease or treatment or attitude towards
the doctor) indicates the remedy to us.
Homoeopathy is practical and practical only and there is
no place for any theory, imagination, etc.
Among pharmacologically-oriented systems of therapeutics
homoeopathy will ever remain supreme to cure patients with
the least number of medicines/doses. For example, we have cured
lakhs of chikungunya patients completely and permanently with
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one single dose of the homoeo medicine called Polyporus
officianale-200.
Why is Polyporus officinale (Boletus Laricis) almost a
specific for chikungunya disease? With crippling joint pains
many chikungunya victims were virtually crawling to go to the
toilet etc. Their face was gloomy.
Knerr’s Repertory—Mind—Gloomy, ague, in: Bol-la
(Polyporus officinale).
Homoeopaths were then asking medicine for the pandemic
swine flu.
Those who had died in hospitals with swine flu had lung
failure; The nearest rubric (for purposes of selecting the homoeo
remedy) for this 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.” The
two remedies were studied in the materia medicas and
Merc-sol. agreed with most 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-1M, and in just an hour all their
symptoms disappeared and after a week when they tested, the
result was negative. (Rate of success: 99%).
One of the best shortcuts to homoeopathic practice (to
select the remedy—the similimum) is Dr. Samuel Lilienthal’s
Homoeopathic Therapeutics. (Drop the symptom in Lilienthal
and you get the remedy!)
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“UNCOMMON-RARE-STRANGE-PECULIAR”
SYMPTOMS ARE NOT WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNT
BUT THEY ARE, IN REALITY, SOMETHING
DIFFERENT, WHICH YOU HAVE TO LEARN BY
ROTE.
Case: A patient came in with pain in the femoral part of
urethra and backache. It was worse while riding 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 rarestrange-
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: 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.
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Case: Let us now examine what uncommon symptoms mean:
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: 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. At 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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Among pharmacologically-oriented system of therapeutics
homoeopathy is thorough, exhaustive and accurate.
Case: 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: 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 excitability 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
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voluntary muscles and he gets convulsions in them (increased
irritability and action).
Opium-10M, given in 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: 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 nonhealing
of wound in my leg anything to do with numbness in
my arm? But my arm was not hurt in the accident.”
We say that homoeopathy is a system of medicine where
the patient tells or indicates the remedy to us. 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.
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USE OF REPERTORIES
Repertorisation is not what you have hitherto learnt
elsewhere.
Without actual cases, one cannot learn practical
homoeopathy. Following are actual cases treated by us:
Case: A primipara (first pregnancy lady) was having morning
sickness from her third month till the sixth month. After
taking full meals when she gets up to wash hands she would
vomit all that she had taken in the reverse order. As the patient
was in a faraway place she was asked to write down in her
own handwriting her symptoms as if she is telling her friend
about her complaints. Her letter is given below.
“After full meals as I get up I get vomiting. So after
eating, I wash my hands in the plate and lie down. Only after
half-an-hour or so I get up.
I also feel foetus’ kicking pain in a particular spot. When
a heavy truck goes on the road making a thunder noise, I feel
that noise hitting in that place in my belly where the kick of
the child causes pain.
Case repertorisation:
Boericke’s Repertory (last chapter) MODALITIES
(p.970)—AGGRAVATION:
Jar — Ars., Bell., Berb. v., Bry., Cic., Crot., Glon., Ign.,
Nux-v., Spig., Ther.
Noise —Acon., Asar., Bell., Bar., Calad., Cham., Cinch.,
Cocc., Coff., Colch., Ferr., Glon., Ign., Lyc., Mag.
m., Med., Nux-m., Nux-v., Onosom., Phos.,
Solan-lyc., Spig., Tar-h., Ther.
The six remedies viz., Bell., Glon., Ign., Nux-v., Spig.,
and Ther. are common to the above two lists. All these six
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remedies were studied in Boericke’s Mat. Medica.
The remedy Theridion was selected because of the
following found therein.
Sensitive to noise; it
penetrates the body... Noises
seem to strike on painful spots
over the body.
Theridion-30, single dose completely stopped the
vomiting and pain < by noise.
Case: A boy of ten years was brought by the father. The latter
described:
“He is having less concentration in studies.”
Myself: What is the report of the class teacher about
him?
Father: He says that my son is intelligent, but lacks
concentration. He is a capable boy and only if he concentrates
can he shine well. He was scoring 95 marks in earlier classes.
He has become dull in the last two years.
(I then asked general questions about his food habits,
appetite, sleep etc.)
Father: One point. He goes to bed at 9 p.m. and will
immediately sleep. Morning we have to wake him up and
even at 6 o’clock on waking, he is not fresh or active. He goes
to drum classes. That teacher says he is excellent in his
performance on certain days only.
I asked the boy some questions about his difficulties to
which he replied, ‘Nothing.’ To some questions he nodded his
head or answered in single words.
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Kent’s Repertory — MIND — Answers, shortly, curtly
ANSWERS, refuses to.
In the above case, there are two generals viz., (1) Sleep,
unrefreshing; and (2) plethora.
Earlier he was scoring 95% marks. The drums teacher
tells that (on some days) he is excellent. First ranking and
centum-scoring boys are plethoric individuals.
Kent’s Repertory — SLEEP — UNREFRESHING...
GENERALITIES: PLETHORA—
‘Sleep’ is a general symptom and ‘Unrefreshing sleep’ is
rare-strange-peculiar; good sleep should refresh any healthy
person in the morning. The remedy Phosphorus alone is
common in top-grade in both the above rubrics. This remedy
is also found in Kent’s Repertory under MIND — ‘Answers,
shortly, curtly’ and ‘Answers, refuses to’.
The remedy was read in Final Materia Medica of Mind
Symptoms and the following symptoms under Phosphorus
agreed with the case:
slow in replies... weakness...
Note: We do not use or recommend homoeo books by Indian
authors, or for that matter any book published abroad after the
year 1946; They are not at all useful in finding the remedy.
The research in homoeopathy and seminars should
only focus on how to use the references works listed on page
11 of this book.
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Case: In some cases it is possible to treat a patient through
letter communication. Such a letter from a patient is given
below:
Respected Doctor,
I've been suffering from cold and bad throat for quite a
long time now. It occurs during the change of season. I also
have sinusitis which is hereditary (paternal uncle - Chacha).
I've a tendency of sneezing a lot early in the morning and
also if there's dust around. My bowels do not get cleared
properly and I feel constipated. I’m probably associating
constipation with the lack of a proper eating and sleeping
schedule as I'm in 12th std and unable to regulate it.
Also, I have severe pain in the lower abdomen and lower
back during the onset on menstrual cycle which lasts for the
first 2 days. Managing it without a hot water bag is difficult.
So I usually end up taking doses of DYSMIN (suggested by
the physician) in accordance with the pain. The period of
cycle is 5-7 days. Menstrual cycle occurs every
28-30 days.
The problem of acne started not long back and it has
gotten worse over the past few months. Pimples have also
developed on the upper arms, shoulder blades as well as on
the upper chest.
Regards.
Case Repertorisation: The following portions from the
above letter are valuable for selecting the remedy:
“Change of season agg.”
‘Dust allergy.’ [All allergies are manifestation of
syphilis.]
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‘Menses lasts 5-7 days’ (Beyond 3 days is haemorrhage)
There are no ‘mind’ symptoms in this case. We must note
here that in his Lectures on Materia medica Kent has said that
in many remedies mind symptoms have not been fully brought
out in proving. But equally valuable are ‘general’ symptoms.
There are three generals in this case viz.,
(a) Syphilis (dust allergy; more than one
person in the family has sinusitis).
(b) Haemorrhage
(c) Change of weather agg.
Haemorrhage—wherever found in any case should be
considered first. Whether it is gum bleeding or uterus
haemorrhage or bleeding piles, do not look for Metrorrhagia
etc. Dr. Kent has said that the best cures are made by working
out cases on ‘generals’. Therefore wherever may be the
bleeding, go to the list of remedies against ‘Haemorrhage’ in
the last chapter GENERALITIES in Kent’s Repertory.
Kent’s Repertory—GENERALITIES—HAEMORRAGE
28 remedies are in top-grade (Let us call this List ‘A’)
SYPHILIS—15 remedies in top grade (List ‘B’).
CHANGE OF WEATHER agg. (List ‘C’)
In the above three lists we do not find any remedy (remedies)
in top-grade in all the three lists.
What is to be done? Let us, as an exercise, take the
remedies found common to all the three lists irrespective of
grades and compare and find out those remedies scoring more
points. [Remedies in bold type - 3 points, italics - 2 points,
ordinary type - 1 point]
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Remedy name Haemorrhage Syphilis wCeahtahnegre aogfg. Total scores
Ars. 2 2 1 5
Lach 3 2 2 7
Merc. 3 3 1 7
Nit-ac. 3 3 1 7
Ph-ac. 2 2 2 6
Phos. 3 2 3 8
Sil. 2 3 3 8
Sul. 3 2 2 7
A beginner would rush to say that we should select either
Phosphorus or Silicea. That is what the so-called authors on
repertorisation are teaching.
The correct method is something different. You must
arrange the valuable symptoms (be it mind or general or
uncommon) in order of their grade or importance. See the
table above. We have arranged the three symptoms from left
to right in order of their importance or grade. Life threatening
symptoms are of the highest value. So also, haemorrhage.
Next comes broad general Syphilis. ‘Change of weather’ is
only a modality (though a general) comes last in the order of
importance.
Now, how to make use of the table? Do not merely add
up the points. You write the number (of scores) one after the
other. Look at the remedy Ars. Do not add 2 + 2 + 1 = 5, but
it should be read as
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221 (Two hundred and twenty-one).
If this is done for all the remedies we get
as under.
Ars. — 221
Lach. — 322
Merc. — 331
Nit-ac.— 331
Ph-ac. — 222
Phos. — 323
Sil. — 233
Sul. — 322
If you merely add all the three digits, together, of course,
Phosphorus and Silicea gets 8 each. But if you look at the
above, you find that Merc., and Nit-ac. get 331, each (Three
hundred and thirty-one) whereas Phos. is 323 (Three hundred
and twenty-three only).
So we must consider the remedies Merc. and Nitric acid
only. Under Nit-ac. in the chapter DYSPEPSIA (Lilienthal)
we find the following:
Intestinal dyspepsia due to syphilitic cachexia.
Again, in Lilienthal under MENSTRUATION, in Nit-ac.
we find the following:
Pain in hypogastrium and sides.
In Boericke’s Mat. Medica under Nit-ac. we find the
following.
Excessive physical irritability (dust
allergy)... Cachexia due to syphilis.
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Nit-ac. 10M, one single dose cured her.
Note: In any case if there is haemorrhage you must give top
priority to it. Wherever may be the bleeding, you should not
go to the chapter for the part affected, but you must take the
top-grade remedies under HAEMORRHAGE in Kent’s
Repertory—Generalities.
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'uncommon' symptoms. For this, one must know what
'common' symptoms of a disease are.
Also, in some cases, aetiology (cause of disease), age
incidence etc. may also help us to select appropriate rubrics
for a given case.
Again DIAGNOSIS AND DIFFERENTIAL
DIAGNOSIS would, in many cases, help us a lot and the
above encyclopaedia has helped even lay people know the
correct diagnosis where even specialists could not make out
anything.
For example, a girl of eight years was having
uncontrollable stool and urine. In the above said
ENCYCLOPAEDIA in the Index volume we see the
following:
urine, incontinence of
faeces, incontinence of
Against the above two headings, the number of a few
volumes (along with the page number in which the symptom
appears) were given. We found a page number of a volume
common to the above headings and in that page there we
found ‘incontinence of urine and faeces’ is a symptom of
arteriosclerotic parkinsonism. We went to Lilienthal and on
page 73 read the remedies and thus could find the correct
remedy for the patient.
AETIOLOGY or CAUSE OF DISEASE; When we read
AETIOLOGY in the above said encyclopaedia in the chapter
Parkinson's disease (paralysis agitans), we read that it occurs
in sixth or seventh decade and trauma is a possible cause. In
the absence of more valuable symptoms we must take the
following rubrics for any case of Parkinson's disease.
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KENT'S REPERTORY—GENERALITIES:
—OLD people: Acon., Agar., Aloe., Alumn., Ambr., Am-c.,
Ammc., Anac., Ant-c., Ant-t., Ars., Aur., Bar-c., Bry.,
Calc-p., Camph., Carb-an., Carb-v., Caust., Cic., Coca.,
Colch., Con., Fl-ac., Iod., Kali-c., Lyc., Nat-m., Nit-ac.,
Op., Sabad., Sec., Sel., Seneg., Sulph., Sul-ac., Teucr;
—WOUNDS, constitutional effects of: Arn., Carb-v., Con.,
Hep., Ind., Lach., Led., Nat-m., Nit-ac., Phos., Puls.,
Rhus-t., Staph., Sul-ac., Zinc.
Three remedies viz., Carbo-veg, Conium, Nat-mur, Nitric
acid and Sulphuric acid are common to the above two lists.
For knowing the common symptoms of any disease or
for that matter diagnosis and differential diagnosis the above
said 12-volume encyclopaedia is a must for every homoeopath
who wants to do sincere practice. Otherwise one would end
up as a symptom-coverer as Bernard Shaw writes: "When a
homoeopath looks at any Chinese he would prescribe him for
jaundice."
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—————
In the earlier editions of this book we had offered a prize
money of Rs.10,000/- to the first ten readers giving correct
answers to all the following questions. A few of them
responded with wrong answers.
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1. A patient developed fever, body pain etc. and was
treated. The fever went away; but the body pain
continued. What remedy you would prescribe?
2. Another patient had sore throat, body pain, fever etc. and
was treated. Every symptom disappeared excepting fever
which continued for over a month. No other symptom.
One dose cured him. What is the remedy?
3. There are cases where a very rich person or a rich actress
with huge wealth, suddenly goes to a so-called spiritual
guru, gives away all their wealth for getting salvation.
What remedy would cure this mania?
—————
Answer to the above questions are now given below:
1. See Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory— FEVER, remittent—
sequelae: Kali-mur.
2. The same Knerr’s Repertory—FEVER, remittent—in
convalescence: Eucalyptus.
3. Again, Knerr’s Repertory—MIND—MELANCHOLY—
religious—gave away everything she could lay her hands
upon, in order to do penance: Plat.
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CONGESTION, RUSH OF BLOOD,
HYPERAEMIA
Many terms are unique to homoeopathic practice. We
now give examples in this and in the following chapters.
Most homoeopaths remain symptom-coverers. Bernard
Shaw wrote that if a homoeopath looks at a Chinese he would
prescribe him for jaundice (because the colour of the skin of
Chinese people is yellow.)
No one need get offended by this statement. We are only
trying to carefully lift the clouds of mysterious obscurities
enveloping homoeopathy.
Be that as it may. Let us now learn some terminologies
most useful in selecting the remedy.
Congestion: When two or more symptoms are in one
and the same part of the body, instead of considering each
symptom separately you should take the rubric ‘congestion’.
For example, a patient came in complaining of headache,
dandruff and hair fall; he had been having this for several
years. The neophyte would take ‘dandruff’ ‘hair fall’ and
'headache' for finding the remedy. But when these three
symptoms are found together in one place viz., head, we
should not take the three symptoms separately but as one
whole unit and the term is ‘congestion’. For this do not take
the list of remedies under CONGESTION in the Chapter
‘Head’ in Kent’s Repertory but you must go to the Chapter
GENERALITIES at the end of Kent’s Repertory and there
also you find a rubric CONGESTION. You must take this for
chronic diseases.
A patient was having varicose veins in legs, pain in knee,
corns on sole, cramps in feet. All these complaints are on the
lower limb. Here too we must use the rubric 'congestion.'
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‘Congestion’ — other examples
When pain or some other symptom is felt in a part while
exerting another part, e. g., headache while coughing,
involuntary urination or urging to urinate when excited etc.
‘Worry causes headache’. ‘Mental tension causes or
aggravates skin complaints’. (For this we have the term
neurotic eczema. See the remedy Anacardium orientale in
Boericke's Materia Medica. In that remedy under the para
Skin we find the following: Intense itching, eczema, with
mental irritability… neurotic eczema.)
In the materia medicas some authors use the term ‘rush
of blood’ or ‘hyperaemia’ in place of ‘congestion’.
[Hyperaemia - an excess of blood in an organ or any part of
the body.]
Following is from Lilienthal:
Rush of blood of plethoric individuals requires: 1. Acon.,
Aur., Bell., Calc., Lyc., Phos., Sep., Sulph. 2. Arn., Bry.,
Chin., Ferr., Nat-mur., Nux-vom., Rhus-tox, Thuj.
Rush of blood complained of by plethoric, debilitated,
hypochondriac, or nervous individuals. The principal
remedies are: 1, Acon., Aur., Calc., Hep., Kalm., Kreos.,
Lyc., Phos., Sep., Sulph.; 2, Amb., Amm., Arn., Bell.,
Bry., Carb. v., Caust., Croc., Chin., Fer., Iod., Natr. m.,
Nux v., Op., Petr., Phos. ac., Rhus, Samb., Sarsap.,
Senn., Sil., Stann., Thuj.
Rush of blood of nervous, very irritable individuals:3
1. Acon, Arn., Bell., Chin., Nux v.; 2. Amb., Aur., Calc.,
Fer., Lyc., Petr., Samb.
(Memory weak, inability to think) - if by congestion of blood
to the head: chin., melilot., merc., rhus, sulph.
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PLETHORA, PLETHORIC
INDIVIDUALS, PRECOCITY
To the newcomer desiring to learn
homoeopathy:
In homoeopathy one and the same remedy may be
indicated for typhoid in one patient and for diabetes in another
patient. If this is so, we come to the question as to what is
the basis for making a homoeopathic prescription which is
different from allopathy or other systems of medicine.
Classification of patients for making the prescription in
homoeopathy is not on the name of diseases or pathology; but
it is on an altogether different classification. Such classifications
are already existing in different patients from time
immemorial.
We have already learnt some of the classifications:
‘Symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in
groups.’ This straightaway points to the homoeo medicine
Cuprum met. Whatever may be the name of disease that the
patient may be suffering, if a patient reports this syndrome
this remedy would cure the underlying pathology.
Before making use of repertories you must learn the
different terms, most of which have no relevance to other
systems of medicine.
‘Plethora’ means ‘excess or abundant energy in body.’ These
persons are called plethoric individuals.
The dictionary defines 'plethora' as over-fullness or excess in
any way; an excess of bodily fluid, particularly blood.
Excessive fullness of blood.
Plethoric persons can do the job of ten persons singlehandedly,
both quantitatively as well as qualitatively. Other
examples of plethoric persons are those who have done
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several Ph.D.s or who do Ph. D. at their sixtieth year of age;
also those who have done several postgraduate studies in
many subjects; also those who start studying, learning and
mastering a subject or art even at their forty-five years of age.
The term ‘tiredness’ is not in their vocabulary. Work for
them is worship. The workaholics. Old age is not a deterrent
for them.
Therefore, if you find the patient is of the above type you
cannot ignore the term ‘plethora’ which is a general symptom.
Under some remedies in some materia medicas you
would find the term ‘abdominal plethora.’ Let us explain this.
(l) Mr. Y drinks country liquor daily; does not care for food.
Any amount of liquor would be withstood by his abdomen
(whereas if we take that country liquor even for one day, we
would vomit or get abdominal pain). Here, Mr. Y is said to
be having abdominal plethora.
If a practitioner does not learn these terms, he would
be a signal failure in practice and it is because of this
reason, failures are more and thus homoeopathy has gone
into disrepute.
Plethoric individuals - 1, Acon., Aur-met., Bell., Cal-c., Lyc.,
Phos., Sep., Sulph.; 2, Arn., Bry., Chin., Ferr., Nat-m.,
Nux v., Rhus, Thuj.
—Complaints of plethoric, debilitated, hypochondriac, or
nervous individuals. The principal remedies are: Acon.,
Amb., Am-c., Arn., Aur-met., Bell., Bry., Cal-c., Carb-v.,
Caust., Chin., Croc., Fer., Hep., Iod., Kalm., Kreos., Lyc.,
Natr-m., Nux-v., Op., Petr., Phos., Phos-ac., Rhus.,
Samb., Sarsap., Senn., Sep., Sil., Stann., Sulph., Thuj.
—Nervous, very irritable individuals: Acon., Amb., Arn.,
Aur-met., Bell., Cal-c., Chin., Ferr., Lyc., Nux v., Petr.,
Samb. [See page 930 of Lilienthal.]
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CHECKED DISCHARGES,
SUPPRESSION OF SECRETIONS
The above symptom would be of immense help, more
particularly in some chronic and grave acute cases.
Suppression of haemorrhage or habitual depletions or
any discharges make the disease travel from less important
organs to more important organs. This is the direction of
disease. Hence most valuable. If found in a case you cannot
afford to ignore them. You may straightaway take it.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Here we must make a mention of the
term ‘menopause.’
If the complaint of a female patient starts around the age of
42-46 and she also continues to get her monthly periods
you may think of the rubric MENOPAUSE in the chapter
GENITALIA—FEMALE in Kent's Repertory. But upon
inquiry if you find that her complaints started a few
months after complete cessation of menses you should
not take the rubric MENOPAUSE but consider the
following on page 1006 of Lilienthal:
Suppression of haemorrhage or abandoning habitual
depletions: 1, acon., bell., chin., fer., nux v., puls., sulph.;
2, arn., aur., bry., calc., carb. v., graph., hyosc., lyc., natr.
m., nitr. ac., phos., ran., rhus, seneg., sep., sil., spong.,
stram.
If a patient tells that his complaints started some months after
his bleeding fissure in anus or piles was cured, in such
cases too you must take the above rubric.
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HIGH DEFINITION 27-09-2014.PMD 64
Certain remedies cannot be found through
repertorisation and, therefore, we learn the symptom
of such remedies by rote. Let us now learn about
two such remedies viz., Selenium/Stillingia.
When a patient complains of back pain and she
has early decay of teeth, you may ask if she cannot
go in hot sun without covering her head (intolerance
of sun heat falling on the head) and if the answer is
in the affirmative, you may at once think of
Selenium. The following two symptoms are keynotes
for confirming the remedy Selenium.
Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy—
Boericke’s Mat.Med.
Total unfitness for any kind of work—Wilkinsons.
The bedridden osteoporotic patient. Look at
him; all his teeth are gone long ago. Pre-senility is
another term to describe Selenium. A sixty-year old
person looks like a 72-year old debilitated individual.
Two per cent of our patients would be Selenium
types.
‘Selenium is a constant constituent of bone and
teeth.’ This is the first sentence of Selenium in
Boericke’s Mat. Med.
Why did we take Stillingia along with Selenium?
See Boericke’s Mat. Med. At the end of Stillingia
we find the words ‘Valuable for intercurrent use.’
After giving Selenium-10M one dose, we follow it up
with Stillingia-l0M after one month. Again, two
months after this we give Selenium-50M; one month
after this Stillingia-50M.
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Why is Stillingia a complement to Selenium?
In Selenium we find the following mind
symptom (Boericke’s Mat. Med.)
“Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy.”
In Stillingia (Wilkinsons) we find the following:
“Deplorably downhearted.”
There is only marginal difference between
the above two mind symptoms.
Remember, whenever a patient tells that he
would give away half of his wealth to anyone who
cures his headache, he needs Stillingia. (Deplorably
downhearted.)
—————
Stages of diseases are:
(a) irritation;
(b) inflammation; and
(c) degeneration.
There is another classification of diseases.
(a) functional; and
(b) structural.
Let us illustrate the above with a remedy viz.,
Aconite. This remedy is more to be kept in the house
of a patient than in the clinic of a doctor.
The best example is as follows: A person keeps
a stool on a chair and standing on the stool he tries
to remove the bulb from the ceiling. While doing so,
the stool tilts and he falls down. Imagine his mental
state at this time. ‘Fear, anxiety, restlessness.’ Give
one dose of Aconite at this time (within 20-40
seconds of his falling down) and you can prevent all
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the after-effects. But a few minutes after that
swelling etc. takes place in the injured place. At this
time if you give Aconite there won’t be any effect.
Aconite is useful in irritation stage only. In inflammation
and degeneration it is of no use. In other
words, by the time the patient reaches the clinic of
a doctor or hospital, Aconite symptoms go away.
That is why we write that Aconite is more to be kept
in the house of a patient than in the clinic of a doctor.
A certain homoeopath was giving a long lecture
to an audience of homoeopaths. Suddenly he fell
down fainting. May be heart attack. One of the
audience, a doctor, ran to him, put a few pills into his
mouth and moments later the speaker stood up and
continued his talk. That is Aconite. The sooner you
give in any medical emergency the better. For the
chronic effects of trauma Aconite won’t be of any
help.
—————
New subject. You should learn the ‘pace’ of
remedies. In this connection let us now learn about
two remedies viz., Aethusa cynapium and Helleborus.
You must keep such remedies at your fingertip.
(You cannot afford to lose sight of them by failure in
repertorisation.)
Case: You are called in to attend a child of six
months at 5:30 a.m. Thumbs are clenched, eyes
drawn downward and the child is moaning
(convulsion.) Without a dose of Aethusa that child is
sure to die at 6 a.m. the same day. That is the pace
of Aethusa. Death is stamped on its face from the
beginning.
HIGH DEFINITION 27-09-2014.PMD 67
Another remedy that must be kept in your finger
tip is Helleborus.
A 40-50 year old bedridden patient starts talking
incoherently and at 2:30 in the afternoon he goes
into coma, taken to a hospital and after a few days
dies there. [See Kent’s Repertory—GENERALITIES—
2:30 p.m.: Helleborus]
The stroke of the clock at 2:30 p.m. is the death
bell for the Helleborus patient and without that
remedy he is sure to die in a few days of
hospitalization.
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HIGH DEFINITION 27-09-2014.PMD 68
70 to 90 PER CENT OF CAESAREAN
SURGERIES CAN BE DONE AWAY WITH,
BY THREE DOSES OF HOMOEOPATHIC
MEDICINE.
The foetus (baby in the uterus of the pregnant mother)
1-3 weeks prior to delivery date (so long remaining in upright
position) turns upside down, and the uterus descends down in
such a way that the head of the foetus remains fixed in the
pelvic floor of the mother. 1-3 weeks later, at the delivery time
the mouth of the uterus dilates and the child comes out. Even
after the full term of ten months if the child does not turn
upside down, or turns half-way and lies crosswise,
or
having turned upside down, does not descend further down,
the attending lady doctor would say that head is still floating
or is in incorrect position and so opens the abdomen to take
out the child. This is called caesarean surgery. 70 to 90 per
cent of caesarean surgeries at the present day are conducted
solely for this reason.
At this time if the patient takes three doses of the
homoeopathic medicine Pulsatilla-1000, every 4-8 hours, in
the next twenty-four hours it would be a normal and safe
delivery.
In the reference book The Accoucheur’s Emergency
Manual by Dr. W. A. Yingling, M.D., of U.S.A. we find the
following :
"Abnormal presentations may be
righted if Pulsatilla is given before the
membranes are ruptured or the
presenting parts are firmly engaged…"
HIGH DEFINITION 27-09-2014.PMD 69
In a maternity hospital, Pollachi Road, Dharapuram,
Tamilnadu, by using Pulsatilla and other remedies there has
not been even a single caesarean for the past several years and
the lady doctor in-charge has put up a board “Caesarean-free’’
Clinic. The Dharapuram Lions Club has given her a certificate
testifying this.
—————
From : Dr. (Mrs.) K. Rajeswari, M.B.B.S., D.G.O
Obstetrician and Gynecologist - Reg. No. 34030,
Pioneer Hospital, 68, Madurai Road, Ramnathapuram
Dear Dr. Krishnamurthy,
I tried Pulsatilla - 1000 for two patients; resulted in normal
delivery.
(a) A lady with third pregnancy, with history of two previous
normal deliveries came for check up. The position of the
baby was oblique in the last month; and the chances of
cesarean delivery, discussed with them. When re-examined,
the baby was crosswise and the due date was only ten days,
I gave her three doses of Pulsatilla - 1000 and she came
with pains, after 10 days, with head in the lower pelvis,
delivered normally without any complications.
(b) Another lady with first pregnancy, with normal position of
the baby, but I was not satisfied with head descent and gave
three doses of Pulsatilla 1000. She developed pains, head
descent was little better, but not to my expectations. I gave
sufficient time, and when she screamed, Bach remedy
Cherry Plum was given every 10-15 minutes.
—————
HIGH DEFINITION 27-09-2014.PMD 70
CASE: Letter from a patient is given below:
“To Dr. Krishnamurthy,
“I sweat a lot and I have a dandruff problem and hairfall
problem also. I used to have frequent headaches but not any
more. My college is nearby i.e. 5 to 10 minutes walking distance
but after I reach home from my college I feel tired and don’t feel
lazy to do any work. I don’t know whether it is something
abnormal or it is just that I don’t push myself. I often stay
confused regarding my career or anything I do.”
From the above letter let us note down the symptoms one
by one.
Sweat, Profuse
Dandruff
Hair fall
Headache
Tiredness
Kent’s Repertory—Generalities—Congestion:
Kent’s Repertory—Perspiration—Profuse:
Three remedies, viz., Bell, Chin and Ferr-met are common
to the above lists in top-grades.
To confirm one remedy we read these three remedies in
Lilienthal under the chapters Headache, Debility, Menstruation
and Ferr-met was decided because of the following found under
this remedy.
Menstruation, Ferrum-met: physical and mental depression.
(Tiredness of body and she is unable to decide her career)
Two or more symptoms in a particular part
of body, put together means ‘congestion’.
Do not take “Head, congestion” in Kent’s
Repertory but take “Generalities-
Congestion”. }
HIGH DEFINITION 27-09-2014.PMD 71
Debility - Ferrum-met: Easily exhausted from light exertion.
Headache - Ferrum-met: headache, debilitated persons,
especially with congestion to head.
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HIGH DEFINITION 27-09-2014.PMD 72
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