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On 2 Jun 2004 "Finrod" wrote: "Patient feels Cold when everyone else is warm
and warm when everyone else feels cold.
REPLY FROM DR. V KRISHNAMURTHY

The answer is very very simple. See Ignatia in Boericke's Materia Medica.
"Great contradictions". Ignatia is the remedy for the patient. If you had
studied and learnt Materia Medica and Repertory under a good teacher, you
won't have such doubts.
Ignatia: In homeopathy we do not treat aches, fevers and haemorrhoids but
the patient. Treating the patient and not disease, alone brings permanent
and complete cure in the shortest possible time and in the gentlest way.
Thus, instead of pathology and prognosis we, in homeopathy, have to learn a
different classification of patients (not diseases), and that is the real
and correct study of homeopathic techniques.
In the remedy Ignatia we find the phrase 'Great contradictions' (again, in
William Boericke's Materia Medica). This, indeed, is a very interesting
symptom. My first case was that of my daughter.
One night when I was away from home at 10 O'clock she was found muttering
and trembling in bed. My wife woke her up and took her to a nearby allopath
who put the thermometer in her mouth and found a temperature of 1020. But
her body was not hot to touch. That doctor gave her medicine. The next
morning I returned home. On touching her I found her body hot but the
thermometer showed 98.40. This, at once, brought the above symptom to my
mind. The previous night when the thermometer showed 1020, her body was not
hot to touch. Now the body is hot but thermometer shows a normal
temperature. Ignatia 200, in a single dose, cured her. Homeopathy is just
and only a specialty.
Another homeopath reports that by keeping in mind the above symptom 'great
contradictions' in Ignatia, he could cure a case of haemorrhoids with one
single dose. The curious feature in his case was, in the very words of the
patient, "Whenever I get constipation and strain at stool there would be
complete relief of pain and burning in my piles. Whenever I get diarrhoea,
during loose bowel movements, the suffering gets worse.''
It is both-ways. Constipation alone aggravates piles and loose bowel
movements give total relief to piles patient. In this case, both are
directly opposite. Hence the word appears in plural in Ignatia: "Great
contradictions.' Dr. William Boericke is indeed a great author!
CLINICAL CASES
Note: Though mental symptoms are more important in selecting the remedy,
equally valuable and on par with mental symptoms are generals. In
classifying a mental symptom we may commit mistakes but in respect of
generals there cannot be mistakes. Again a 'mental symptom' may be common or
uncommon. In the case of 'general symptoms' we can easily and, at the same
time, unmistakably, say whether it is common or uncommon.
A general symptom occurring as a modality or concomitant to another general
symptom is like Supreme Court judgment and you can be damn sure of your
selection, if a remedy is found in the repertory for that. See case of
epilepsy cured with the remedy Artemisia vulgaris (page 30)
Again, equally valuable is a mental or particular symptom occurring as a
'modality' or 'concomitant' to a general symptom. The following cases would
illustrate this:
Case: [Fibroid tumor is one of the commonest complaints of ladies during
menopause. In any case, where there are no valuable or mental or uncommon or
general symptoms, just ask the patient when it started. Suppose it is
anywhere between the age 40-47 we may reasonably conclude that the complaint
is during menopause. Menopause or 'climacteric period' is a general symptom.
So also puberty and pregnancy.]
A Telugu lady accompanied by her husband came for consultation. She did not
know English and so spoke in Telugu and her husband translated it to me. The
main complaint is fibroid tumor and among other symptoms told by her there
was no other uncommon or valuable symptom. She was forty-five. After I
prescribed (placebo, of course) she got up and asked something. Her husband
translated it saying that she wanted to know whether she would become
alright (whether her fibroid tumour would be cured) and whether there is
nothing to fear.
[In some cases, you get a valuable symptom after you have dismissed the
patient with your prescription!]
Again, Knerr's Repertory was consulted:
(Page 21) Mind and Disposition
Anxiety, about disease: ... at change of life, Kali br.
It is, of course, true that any patient would be and has to be anxious to
get cured; but in the absence of any rare, strange, peculiar symptom, you
may take whatever symptom is available (common or otherwise) and this as a
matter of exception.
Kali-bromatum 10M single dose was given. Two months later scan report
revealed she was completely cured.
Whenever a lady (in the age group 42-48) reports arthritis/rheumatism/gout,
and in the absence of any more valuable symptom pointing to a remedy. I
have, as a matter of routine, prescribed Salicyclic Acid, 1M or 10M single
dose, and it has cured completely. (See page 638 of Knerr's Repertory...
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. Climacteric period, rheumatic gout: Sal. ac.)
In these cases, the routinist prescribes Lachesis and fails miserably, as if
Lachesis is the only remedy for all complaints of menopause.
Climacteric period or menopause is a general symptom.
Again, 'diabetes', to some extent, is a general symptom and in cases of
patients coming for treatment for diabetes, in the absence of any valuable
mental, general or uncommon symptom, I ask only one question:
"Ever since the onset of your diabetes, what are the other
symptoms/complaints that you developed?"
or
"How you discovered, or, in other words, what troubles prompted you to test
your blood for diabetes?"
As per the reply of the patient, if he reports any symptom and if it is
found in the repertory as a concomitant of 'diabetes' our work becomes easy.
Some of the rubrics frequently used by me are given below:
Weakness, in diabetes, mellitus Arg. met.; Ars.; Lact. ac. (Page 1039 of
Knerr's)
Constipation, in diabetes: Uran. n. (page 535)
Case: A patient complained of pricking sensation in small and identified
spots, in many places but only on the left side of his body. (Many homeo
doctors would repertorise this case as 'complaints on left side.' The
result would not be successful.)
If one and the same complaint appears on many places on one side only of the
body (lateral) you should write down in the case sheet 'one half of body'
and not 'right' or 'left' side. In this case, the selection of the remedy
was done as under:
Boericke's Repertory-
GENERALITIES: (page 958) Complaints appear in small spots: coff.; ign.; Kali
bich.; Lach.; Lil.t.; Ox. ac.
MODALITES-AGGRAVATION,(page 972) Modalities, Aggravation: One half of body--
Cham.; Ign.; Mez.; Puls.; Sil.; Spong.; Thuja.; Val.
Ignatia is the only remedy common to both the above lists. A does in the 1M
potency cured the patient.
Ignatia: In homeopathy we do not treat aches, fevers and haemorrhoids but
the patient. Treating the patient and not disease, alone brings permanent
and complete cure in the shortest possible time and in the gentlest way.
Thus, instead of pathology and prognosis we, in homeopathy, have to learn a
different classification of patients (not diseases), and that is the real
and correct study of homeopathic techniques.
In the remedy Ignatia we find the phrase 'Great contradictions' (again, in
William Boericke's Materia Medica). This, indeed, is a very interesting
symptom. My first case was that of my daughter.
One night when I was away from home at 10 O'clock she was found muttering
and trembling in bed. My wife woke her up and took her to a nearby allopath
who put the thermometer in her mouth and found a temperature of 1020. But
her body was not hot to touch. That doctor gave her medicine. The next
morning I returned home. On touching her I found her body hot but the
thermometer showed 98.40. This, at once, brought the above symptom to my
mind. The previous night when the thermometer showed 1020, her body was not
hot to touch. Now the body is hot but thermometer shows a normal
temperature. Ignatia 200, in a single dose, cured her. Homeopathy is just
and only a specialty.
Another homeopath reports that by keeping in mind the above symptom 'great
contradictions' in Ignatia, he could cure a case of haemorrhoids with one
single dose. The curious feature in his case was, in the very words of the
patient, "Whenever I get constipation and strain at stool there would be
complete relief of pain and burning in my piles. Whenever I get diarrhoea,
during loose bowel movements, the suffering gets worse.''
It is both-ways. Constipation alone aggravates piles and loose bowel
movements give total relief to piles patient. In this case, both are
directly opposite. Hence the word appears in plural in Ignatia: "Great
contradictions.' Dr. William Boericke is indeed a great author!
CLINICAL CASES
Note: Though mental symptoms are more important in selecting the remedy,
equally valuable and on par with mental symptoms are generals. In
classifying a mental symptom we may commit mistakes but in respect of
generals there cannot be mistakes. Again a 'mental symptom' may be common or
uncommon. In the case of 'general symptoms' we can easily and, at the same
time, unmistakably, say whether it is common or uncommon.
A general symptom occurring as a modality or concomitant to another general
symptom is like Supreme Court judgment and you can be damn sure of your
selection, if a remedy is found in the repertory for that. See case of
epilepsy cured with the remedy Artemisia vulgaris (page 30)
Again, equally valuable is a mental or particular symptom occurring as a
'modality' or 'concomitant' to a general symptom. The following cases would
illustrate this:
Case: [Fibroid tumor is one of the commonest complaints of ladies during
menopause. In any case, where there are no valuable or mental or uncommon or
general symptoms, just ask the patient when it started. Suppose it is
anywhere between the age 40-47 we may reasonably conclude that the complaint
is during menopause. Menopause or 'climacteric period' is a general symptom.
So also puberty and pregnancy.]
A Telugu lady accompanied by her husband came for consultation. She did not
know English and so spoke in Telugu and her husband translated it to me. The
main complaint is fibroid tumor and among other symptoms told by her there
was no other uncommon or valuable symptom. She was forty-five. After I
prescribed (placebo, of course) she got up and asked something. Her husband
translated it saying that she wanted to know whether she would become
alright (whether her fibroid tumour would be cured) and whether there is
nothing to fear.
[In some cases, you get a valuable symptom after you have dismissed the
patient with your prescription!]
Again, Knerr's Repertory was consulted:
(Page 21) Mind and Disposition
Anxiety, about disease: ... at change of life, Kali br.
It is, of course, true that any patient would be and has to be anxious to
get cured; but in the absence of any rare, strange, peculiar symptom, you
may take whatever symptom is available (common or otherwise) and this as a
matter of exception.
Kali-bromatum 10M single dose was given. Two months later scan report
revealed she was completely cured.
Whenever a lady (in the age group 42-48) reports arthritis/rheumatism/gout,
and in the absence of any more valuable symptom pointing to a remedy. I
have, as a matter of routine, prescribed Salicyclic Acid, 1M or 10M single
dose, and it has cured completely. (See page 638 of Knerr's Repertory...
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. Climacteric period, rheumatic gout: Sal. ac.)
In these cases, the routinist prescribes Lachesis and fails miserably, as if
Lachesis is the only remedy for all complaints of menopause.
Climacteric period or menopause is a general symptom.
Again, 'diabetes', to some extent, is a general symptom and in cases of
patients coming for treatment for diabetes, in the absence of any valuable
mental, general or uncommon symptom, I ask only one question:
"Ever since the onset of your diabetes, what are the other
symptoms/complaints that you developed?"
or
"How you discovered, or, in other words, what troubles prompted you to test
your blood for diabetes?"
As per the reply of the patient, if he reports any symptom and if it is
found in the repertory as a concomitant of 'diabetes' our work becomes easy.
Some of the rubrics frequently used by me are given below:
Weakness, in diabetes, mellitus Arg. met.; Ars.; Lact. ac. (Page 1039 of
Knerr's)
Constipation, in diabetes: Uran. n. (page 535)
Case: A patient complained of pricking sensation in small and identified
spots, in many places but only on the left side of his body. (Many homeo
doctors would repertorise this case as 'complaints on left side.' The
result would not be successful.)
If one and the same complaint appears on many places on one side only of the
body (lateral) you should write down in the case sheet 'one half of body'
and not 'right' or 'left' side. In this case, the selection of the remedy
was done as under:
Boericke's Repertory-
GENERALITIES: (page 958) Complaints appear in small spots: coff.; ign.; Kali
bich.; Lach.; Lil.t.; Ox. ac.
MODALITES-AGGRAVATION,(page 972) Modalities, Aggravation: One half of body--
Cham.; Ign.; Mez.; Puls.; Sil.; Spong.; Thuja.; Val.
Ignatia is the only remedy common to both the above lists. A does in the 1M
potency cured the patient.
Ignatia: In homeopathy we do not treat aches, fevers and haemorrhoids but
the patient. Treating the patient and not disease, alone brings permanent
and complete cure in the shortest possible time and in the gentlest way.
Thus, instead of pathology and prognosis we, in homeopathy, have to learn a
different classification of patients (not diseases), and that is the real
and correct study of homeopathic techniques.
In the remedy Ignatia we find the phrase 'Great contradictions' (again, in
William Boericke's Materia Medica). This, indeed, is a very interesting
symptom. My first case was that of my daughter.
One night when I was away from home at 10 O'clock she was found muttering
and trembling in bed. My wife woke her up and took her to a nearby allopath
who put the thermometer in her mouth and found a temperature of 1020. But
her body was not hot to touch. That doctor gave her medicine. The next
morning I returned home. On touching her I found her body hot but the
thermometer showed 98.40. This, at once, brought the above symptom to my
mind. The previous night when the thermometer showed 1020, her body was not
hot to touch. Now the body is hot but thermometer shows a normal
temperature. Ignatia 200, in a single dose, cured her. Homeopathy is just
and only a specialty.
Another homeopath reports that by keeping in mind the above symptom 'great
contradictions' in Ignatia, he could cure a case of haemorrhoids with one
single dose. The curious feature in his case was, in the very words of the
patient, "Whenever I get constipation and strain at stool there would be
complete relief of pain and burning in my piles. Whenever I get diarrhoea,
during loose bowel movements, the suffering gets worse.''
It is both-ways. Constipation alone aggravates piles and loose bowel
movements give total relief to piles patient. In this case, both are
directly opposite. Hence the word appears in plural in Ignatia: "Great
contradictions.' Dr. William Boericke is indeed a great author!
CLINICAL CASES
Note: Though mental symptoms are more important in selecting the remedy,
equally valuable and on par with mental symptoms are generals. In
classifying a mental symptom we may commit mistakes but in respect of
generals there cannot be mistakes. Again a 'mental symptom' may be common or
uncommon. In the case of 'general symptoms' we can easily and, at the same
time, unmistakably, say whether it is common or uncommon.
A general symptom occurring as a modality or concomitant to another general
symptom is like Supreme Court judgment and you can be damn sure of your
selection, if a remedy is found in the repertory for that. See case of
epilepsy cured with the remedy Artemisia vulgaris (page 30)
Again, equally valuable is a mental or particular symptom occurring as a
'modality' or 'concomitant' to a general symptom. The following cases would
illustrate this:
Case: [Fibroid tumor is one of the commonest complaints of ladies during
menopause. In any case, where there are no valuable or mental or uncommon or
general symptoms, just ask the patient when it started. Suppose it is
anywhere between the age 40-47 we may reasonably conclude that the complaint
is during menopause. Menopause or 'climacteric period' is a general symptom.
So also puberty and pregnancy.]
A Telugu lady accompanied by her husband came for consultation. She did not
know English and so spoke in Telugu and her husband translated it to me. The
main complaint is fibroid tumor and among other symptoms told by her there
was no other uncommon or valuable symptom. She was forty-five. After I
prescribed (placebo, of course) she got up and asked something. Her husband
translated it saying that she wanted to know whether she would become
alright (whether her fibroid tumour would be cured) and whether there is
nothing to fear.
[In some cases, you get a valuable symptom after you have dismissed the
patient with your prescription!]
Again, Knerr's Repertory was consulted:
(Page 21) Mind and Disposition
Anxiety, about disease: ... at change of life, Kali br.
It is, of course, true that any patient would be and has to be anxious to
get cured; but in the absence of any rare, strange, peculiar symptom, you
may take whatever symptom is available (common or otherwise) and this as a
matter of exception.
Kali-bromatum 10M single dose was given. Two months later scan report
revealed she was completely cured.
Whenever a lady (in the age group 42-48) reports arthritis/rheumatism/gout,
and in the absence of any more valuable symptom pointing to a remedy. I
have, as a matter of routine, prescribed Salicyclic Acid, 1M or 10M single
dose, and it has cured completely. (See page 638 of Knerr's Repertory...
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. Climacteric period, rheumatic gout: Sal. ac.)
In these cases, the routinist prescribes Lachesis and fails miserably, as if
Lachesis is the only remedy for all complaints of menopause.
Climacteric period or menopause is a general symptom.
Again, 'diabetes', to some extent, is a general symptom and in cases of
patients coming for treatment for diabetes, in the absence of any valuable
mental, general or uncommon symptom, I ask only one question:
"Ever since the onset of your diabetes, what are the other
symptoms/complaints that you developed?"
or
"How you discovered, or, in other words, what troubles prompted you to test
your blood for diabetes?"
As per the reply of the patient, if he reports any symptom and if it is
found in the repertory as a concomitant of 'diabetes' our work becomes easy.
Some of the rubrics frequently used by me are given below:
Weakness, in diabetes, mellitus Arg. met.; Ars.; Lact. ac. (Page 1039 of
Knerr's)
Constipation, in diabetes: Uran. n. (page 535)
Case: A patient complained of pricking sensation in small and identified
spots, in many places but only on the left side of his body. (Many homeo
doctors would repertorise this case as 'complaints on left side.' The
result would not be successful.)
If one and the same complaint appears on many places on one side only of the
body (lateral) you should write down in the case sheet 'one half of body'
and not 'right' or 'left' side. In this case, the selection of the remedy
was done as under:
Boericke's Repertory-
GENERALITIES: (page 958) Complaints appear in small spots: coff.; ign.; Kali
bich.; Lach.; Lil.t.; Ox. ac.
MODALITES-AGGRAVATION,(page 972) Modalities, Aggravation: One half of body--
Cham.; Ign.; Mez.; Puls.; Sil.; Spong.; Thuja.; Val.
Ignatia is the only remedy common to both the above lists. A does in the 1M
potency cured the patient.