find the rx- answer to the case

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Dear List,
The similimum in this case was Valeriana.Congrats Hans
Radax for the correct answer!
This case was given by Boenninghaussen in his preface
to his Therapeutic Pocket Book.

The case is an example of the run- of- a - mill cases
where there is no remarkable symptom to individualize.
But, as Boen puts it,the "case is well taken" and the
remedy is to be found.Just take the case as it is and
search the TPB for the result.

Mind: Look at what Boen is hinting at. The change in
mentals only.The anger and the excitement.

Then the locations: lower extremities-legs-below knee
directions-sides: right lower and left upper
sensation: jumping, cramps -muscles of,jerking,
internally,from within outward,tearing in muscles,

aggravation: evening,rest,motion after,
amel:morning, continued motion,motion of affected
part,walking,rubbing

concomittants: fatty taste in
mouth,nausea,sleeplessness before midnight,
chest, lower part,pain, pressing, heat flushes of.
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Just a cursory look at these rubrics in the TPB will
give an idea of what is the similimum. The curious one
and a smaller rubric is the fatty taste (28
remedies!).But the 5 grade remedies are just
taken into mind. Then with the other important rubric
of flying pain, and the sensation of inside out,amel
walking and motion of affected part- all visually
taken before arriving at the core group representing
the above. then just confirm whether the rx is there
in every rubric.
Though, time consuming, once the mm is known
sufficiently enough, the
job will only be confirmation. Now, with computer
reps, this work will be a breeze. But most of today's
programmes are not user friedly vis a vis TPB by
making it just a symptom list and by treating it
at par with other alphabetical reps.
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Now to what, Boenninghaussen himself says about the
case:
No skilful homœopathist, who is perfectly familiar
with the action of his remedies, will long remain in
doubt as to the correct remedy in this case, with so
complete and accurate a picture of the disease, for
all these symptoms together correspond to a single
one, which is thoroughly homœopathic ; but the
beginner will be obliged to look for nearly every
symptom and only after long search will he find the
one most fit among the concurrent remedies. Between
these two extremes of knowing and not knowing, lie
many degrees of partial knowledge, which require a
more or less frequent consultation of the book.

One person, for example, knows that the pains
repeatedly changing
from place to place, worse towards evening and during
rest, together
with the fatty taste in the mouth, the sleeplessness
before midnight
and others of the symptoms mentioned, belong
especially to the action
of Pulsatilla, but he is not sure whether the
remaining symptoms also
belong to it, and he will not, if be acts
conscientiously, spare the
trouble to compare these latter ; but he will soon see
that pulsatilla
is not the correct homœopathic remedy, because, in
addition to
the mental symptoms, there are others which are not
similar, but, indeed,
are directly, contradictory to it.

Another person who has studied more the
peculiarities of the
pains and distinctly remembers that china corresponds
to the paralytic
and bruised pains as well as to the jerking tearings
and the stitches
from within outward and to the pains jumping from
place to place.
In addition, he believes that also symptoms, like
sleeplessness before
midnight, the aggravation during rest, as well as the
relief from motion
and rubbing, together with the flushes of heat with
thirst, correspond to
this drug, but because he does not know he also must
consult the books ;
so he will soon meet with contradictions, just as the
previous one did,
and he will see clearly the unfitness of china for the
case.

Neither of these two, however, will think of
administering to the
patient a remedy whose curative power in this case is
so improbable,
but as conscientious homœopathic physicians, they will
look farther and
compare, and by the help of this hand-book they will
soon find, without
great difficulty, the only really homœopathically
indicated remedy.

But even a third physician, educated in
homœopathy, one who recognizes
the contra-indications of pulsatilla, china and other
concurrent remedies,
does not know sufficiently that VALERIANA corresponds
to the chief symptoms,
and in order to be perfectly sure about this rather
infrequently used
remedy, he will quickly look up the few doubtful
symptoms, and convince
himself that this drug, among all the known
medicines, is the best adapted
to this case, as was proved in the result ; for, after
a single very small
dose exhibited in a high potency in water, the whole
trouble, with all the
concomitant symptoms, was completely removed within
three days.
The half-educated physician, however, who consults
only the original
sources and discards every sort of repertory will not
easily think of
looking for this drug, which is seldom used for
similar complaints,
in the second volume of the Archiv., and before doing
it, he will expend
much time and trouble, which might have been more
usefully employed,
in comparing other and more frequently used remedies
; and if, at last,
he should consult it, he will even here meet with
difficulties and doubts,
which are not easily overcome by the unskilled
without other help,
since most of the symptoms which must be considered
here, must be more
or less completed by the characteristics of the
remedy, in order to be
found suitable, and besides many errors in the notes,
many
secondary effects which are not marked as such and
hence are
not easily recognized, increase the uncertainty.
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