Our enemy is within and not from without!

[Dr Krishna murthy]

A dissertation on the Uses of the Most Useful and Indispensable Reference Works in day-to-day practice.
Dr. V. Krishnaamurthy​

[The Winged White Horse from Heaven]

A-1, Mahathi Apts., 52/14 Jubilee Road

West Mambalam, Chennai – 33. India

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[Note: Over the past several years, there has been repeated outcry from homoepaths all around the globe that governments are against us. Yes, if homoeopaths do not make use of the more useful and indispensable reference works viz., Lilienthal, Knerr, Yingling and/or Wilkinson’s, it would amount to doing injustice to their patients. No doubt, it will not be a wonder if such ignorant homeopaths are one day or the other, put behind the bars! No one need get offended by this. Our enemy is ignorance and ignorance of the most useful reference book]
Dr. James Tyler Kent, in his Lesser Writings says, “Homoeopathy has not become popular because of defective books as well as because of defective use of books. Here, the question is what are the reference books that are indispensable and the best. They are:
1. The great Dr. Samuel Lilienthal’s HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS.
2. Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica. (Not the entire ten volumes of Hering’s GUIDING SYMPTOMS OF OUR MAT.MEDICA are useful. In this 10-volume book, under each remedy, symptoms given in the paras ‘Mind’ ‘Tissues’ and ‘Stages of Life and Constitution’ alone are useful. Therefore, I have taken out these alone and compiled it by giving the title WILKINSON’S MATERIA MEDICA.
3. The great Dr. Calvin B. Knerr’s REPERTORY.
4. Dr. William Boericke’s MAT. MEDICA.
5. The great Dr. W. A. Yingling’s ACCOUCHEUR’S EMERGENCY MANUAL.
6. Dr. J. T. Kent’s REPERTORY.
Many homoeopaths object to the use of Lilienthal, because he gives only a few symptoms for each remedy under various diseases. These homoeopaths are under the illusion that we have to prescribe on totality-of-symptoms; so, they consider anger, irritability, restlessness, sleepless etc. etc. These quasi practitioners with little knowledge of the subject forget to note that ‘totality-of-symptoms’ is to be read with Section 153 of the Organon which says that we have to prescribe on ‘uncommon-rare-strange-peculiar symptoms.’ Thus, it may always be said that we have to prescribe on ‘totality of uncommon-rare-strange-peculiar’ symptoms.
Dear readers, such uncommon, rare-strange-peculiar symptoms in any given case would be one, or, in rare cases, at the most, two only. Lilienthal contains such ‘uncommon-rare-strange-peculiar’ symptoms alone and thus, and, therefore, it is only a few lines in each remedy under various diseases!
More than ninety per cent of cases can be cured by the use of one or more of the listed six reference books. However, ninety-nine per cent of practitioners do not have a copy of Lilienthal, Knerr, Yingling and/or Wilkinson. If these books are used by all homoeopaths in their day-to-day practice, we can easily close down more than seventy per cent of allopathy hospitals all over the world.
Actual cases cured by referring to the above reference works are given below and upon reading these cases, any one would realise it is imperative to buy and use them.
(A) Cases treated and cured with the help of Lilienthal:
Case: A middle-aged man, suffering from loss of voice for a few years; along with this, he also had another complaint. Whenever he touched any metallic object he would feel electric shock and so was always wearing gloves; would avoid steel cot or metallic bucket etc. In Lilienthal under the chapter Aphonia, twelve remedies are described. Under the remedy Sulphur, we find the words “excite animal electricity”. Sulphur 1M, single dose cured both aphonia and electric shock like sensations.
Case: The mother of an eleven-year-old boy brought his son, said to be suffering from worms. He was having frequent spasmodic movement of arms and his features were violent. In allopathy, they gave double the adult dose of santonine, all in vain. A homoeopath gave Cina-30 (to be given daily morning) and Graphites-30 (daily evening) for the boy’s another complaint—skin eruption on his left forearm with gluey discharge. The mother said that even after giving these two medicines for one month there had been no relief. I was noting down on the case sheet without interrupting her.

[Section 84 of the Organon is as important as Section 153 and 213. A case well taken is half-cured. Ignorance of Section 84 means 50% failure in practice. That Section reads thus: He (the patient) details the history of his sufferings; those about him tell what they heard him complain of, how he has behaved and what they have noticed in him . . . The practitioner writes down accurately all that the patient and his friends have told him. Keeping silence himself, he allows them to say all they have to say, and refrains from interrupting them. Every interruption breaks the train of thought of the narrator, and all he would have said at first does not again occur to them in precisely the same manner after that.’]

Dear reader, write it on the wall. “Keeping silence himself, the practitioner allows the patient to say all that they have to say, and refrains from interrupting them.”

After a pause, the mother concluded, “Doctor, ever since the onset of this worm complaint six months ago, he is often complaining of vertigo and headache. What is it due to, doctor?”

I read all the thirty-four remedies in the chapter WORM AFFECTIONS in the mega reference work Lilienthal. Both ‘vertigo’ and ‘headache’ were found together under one remedy only viz., Cicuta Virosa. I gave one dose in the 1M Potency. He was completely cured (both skin and spasmodic violent movement of limbs.) Thanks to Lilienthal! Cina is not the only one remedy for worms!
Case: A case of colic. This woman complained of agonizing cramp like pain in abdomen. Many times, she screamed with acute pain accompanied by vomiting and with greenish diarrhoeic stool. She consulted various allopaths and homoeopaths but no one could cure her. In Lilienthal, I turned to the chapter ‘Colic’ and read all the remedies given therein. Under one remedy only, viz., Cuprum met. I found the words “lack of reaction” and with one single dose, the patient got total relief.

Without Lilienthal, the above cases could not have been cured!
(B) Actual cases cured by referring to another gigantic work, Dr. Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory are given below:

Case: A patient suffering from malaria for more than six months was treated in vain by allopaths and homoeopaths. During consultation with me, he ended up saying, “Doctor, I get the chill-heat-fever syndrome daily in the evening. However, ever since the onset of this malaria, I get pain in my chest in the morning, what is it due to, doctor?”
A symptom occurring during the evening chill-fever-sweat syndrome belongs to the pathology of malaria; hence common. However, symptom occurring during apyrexia does not belong to malaria, but belongs to the patient; hence ‘uncommon’ and so, more valuable.
KNERR’S REPERTORY—FEVER, intermittent, apyrexia: pain in chest: Sabad.
Sabadilla cured the above six-month old case of malaria. Our salutes go to the unparalleled Knerr. Which other Repertory gives symptoms of malaria during apyrexia?
Case: Our student, Prof. S. Raghunathan, former director and H.O.D. of Computer dept. in A.C. College of Engg. Technology, Karaikudi (now living in Bangalore—phone no. 080- 66187919, 09902952539) reports as to how he had cured almost instantaneously the toothache of his wife at midnight, without the need to rush to a doctor at odd hour: “Dear Dr. Krishnaamurthy, Thank you for introducing me to homoeopathy and the wonderful book Dr. Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory. One night, my wife got up and complained of toothache. I did not own a vehicle to go to a doctor. I opened Knerr and went through the remedies described under ‘Toothache’. My eyes stopped at the following:

TOOTHACHE—at night only, compelling one to rise and walk about: Mag-c.

“Yes, she was walking up and down the room. I have almost all homoeo remedies. I gave her only one pill of the remedy Magnesia carb. Moments later the pain stopped and she went to bed and slept.

“I have come across many homoeopaths—both at lower and at the top levels and the shocking thing is none of them is having nor using Knerr’s Repertory. How can our system become popular by these quasi homoeopaths? God alone can save homoeopathy.”

Case: A child was admitted in an allopathic hospital and doctors told that it was a case of meningitis. I called aside the mother and asked her to tell me from the beginning. She said that while giving food, the child suddenly started crying and when she lifted it to pacify it, it was stretching its hands to take hold of her face.

Knerr’s Repertory: MIND AND DISPOSITION; Weeping, sudden, with clutching of hair, or nurse’s face (cerebro-spinal meningitis): Dig.

Digitalis-1M was given—one dose. After a day, the child was discharged.

We are yet to come across a failure with the use of Lilienthal, Knerr, Boericke, Yingling, Wilkinson’s and Kent.

We do not recommend any other reference book. Without the above six works one cannot hope for success in practice.
(B) Now, actual cases cured by referring to Boericke:

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 primipara (first pregnancy woman) was having morning sickness from her third month until the sixth month. [In the case of patients who are far away and cannot visit you in person, you may ask them to WRITE DOWN THEIR SYMPTOMS/COMPLAINTS ON PAPER IN THEIR OWN HANDWRITING and send it to you.] As the above 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, meals when she gets up to wash hands she would vomit all the items of food that I had taken, one by one in the reverse order. In addition, I feel foetus is turning and kicking causing 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 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., Onos., Phos., Solan-lyc., Spig., Tar-h., Ther.

Six remedies viz., Bell., Glon., Ign., Nux-v., Spig., and Ther. are common to the above two lists. All these six remedies were studied in Boericke’s Mat. Medica.

In the remedy Theridion, I found the following:

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. The reader need not ask why 30th potency. Any potency would work. Correct remedy selection—the similimum is more important that its potency.
(C) Cases treated by the use of The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual by the great Dr. W. A. Yingling
Case: A pregnant woman in a village went to a town 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. I turned to Yingling. On page 229, we find the following:
Upward, uterus seems to go: Cimic.
Just one single dose of Cimicifuga (Actaea recemosa)-10M was given. Within minutes, she felt some movements in her abdomen, the uterus coming down to its correct position and developed labor pains: so, was rushed to the hospital. This time, upon examining her, the attending doctor found everything to be normal and so admitted her and it was a caesarean-free delivery! Does the reader need any further or better justification for having a copy of Yingling?
Yingling’s Emergency Manual is for medical emergencies in abnormal conditions of parturition, those which occur directly before, during, or after labor or abortion. It does not deal with those conditions wherein the physician has plenty of time for consideration, as in many ailments during gestation, and those following some days after delivery. It is strictly an emergency manual, yet containing all the symptoms of the rubrics treated of, and many indication of remedies not usually considered critical, as it is impossible to tell beforehand what symptoms may be the keynotes in the emergency hour to either save life or prevent undue suffering. Strictly speaking, only those conditions endangering life would be emergency conditions, but as any undue suffering or abnormality may be the precursor or direct cause of the emergency condition, indications of remedies covering these must, of necessity, are included in the book The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual. This work contains both repertory and materia medica.
(D) A case treated with the use of Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica.
Case: A patient with chronic headache, after trying various doctors, ultimately 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 give me two weeks’ time
To a professor of English I gave a copy of Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica and paying him the ten 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 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 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 complete) are our existing materia medicas.
Tailpiece: The reader need not take any offence by thinking that we are exposing the ignorance of members of our profession both junior and senior homoeopaths. We are only attempting to wake them from their long continued slumber.
Awake, arise, the hour is late; the hour is late.
The enemy is within and not from without!

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