homeopathy

Significance of dreams in homeopathy

2012-01-18T00:00:00.001-08:00

Since time immemorial, man has been trying to decipher the significance of dreams.
There have been various views on the subject of dreams. According to some school of thought, through the dreams the future is revealed in a symbolic form, which is not easily understandable. According to some other schools of thought, the suppressed ideas of man reveal themselves through dreams. In a society, the man lives with a number of inhibitions and a number of desires and wishes remain suppressed due to social barriers and social inhibitions. When the man is asleep, the conscious is subdued and the suppressed ideas and emotions reveal themselves through the subconscious in the shape of dreams.
Whatever may be the cause or effect of dreams, from the homoeopathic point of view, we have to study the dreams from an entirely different angle. In homoeopathic prescribing, the general symptoms play the most important role in the selection of a remedy. Persistent dreams can be classed among the general symptoms. In this monograph I want to show how far the dream symptoms would help us in the selection of a remedy in a complicated case.

To start with. Let us quote the views of Dr. Robert Gibson Miller on the subject of dreams. According to Dr. Miller, "effects of sleep and dreams can be taken as general symptoms" Dr. Miller says, "again how often has the study of the dreams revealed the hidden key to the remedy. For in sleep, man is off his guard and his subconscious self can assert itself, and under. Such circumstances the veil is often lifted a little, so that we are able to apprehend in some degree the deep and hidden mysteries of that disordered life, we call disease. Of course, such dreams must be regular and persistent to make them of value and great care must be taken to eliminate the effect of all external influence.

"I recall a case of aortic aneurysm giving rise to much pain and many other pressure symptoms. The patient had not the slightest idea what his disease was, yet he dreamed night after night of pools and seas of blood and so distressing was this that sleep was one of wild nightmare. The other symptoms were valueless, so far as selection of the remedy was concerned, but taking the dreams as my guide I gave Solanum Tubersum the pains that he went down to his grave in peace."
In connection with dreams, I recall a case from my own experience, which dates to 1961. In 1961 I was consulted by a friend of mine for his indigestion and dyspepsia which was continuing for last three years in spite of best possible allopathic treatment. He had also been under the treatment of well-known homoeopathic physicians for quite some time, but to no effect. His symptoms were that he won't tolerate any type of starchy food. Sour belching was present everyday in the evening. There was distension of abdomen due to excessive flatulence, which was predominantly marked between 5 to 8 P.M.   He was very fond of hot tea, coffee and was extremely fond of sweets. Even though the doctor had asked him not to take sweets, he was taking much amount of sweets everyday and it was aggravating his dyspeptic symptoms. When this friend of mine narrated these symptoms, I felt quite happy, because I was thinking in my mind that this was a cases of Lycopodium. But the patient told me that he had taken Carbo veg. And Lycopodium in various potencies (6, 12, 200, 1M) but there was no improvement. As the symptoms of Lycopodium were clearly indicated in this case, I again wanted to try Lycopodium.

I started with 200 and went up to 10M, but there was practically no improvement except that after administration of 10M potency, there was severe aggravation without any improvement afterwards. One evening, while I was talking to him, he told me that he had been experiencing one queer symptom for last 2 years. He had been dream-in persistently that he was quarrelling with his neighbors. This type of dream of quarrelling either with a friend or with a neighbor was quite frequent for last 2 years or so. Thus I thought, this particular symptom must be indicative of a particular remedy. I wanted to look to a repertory, but at the moment I had with me only a small repertory by Dr. Robert Faulkner. On making a reference to this repertory, I found that under the heading "dreams of quarrels", there was only one remedy and that was Nux vomica. I wanted to give Nux vomica as a trial. But here again my friend told me that he had taken enough of this remedy without any result. I started with Nux 30, then 200, but there was no improvement. After a fortnight or so, I administered a single dose of Nux vom. 1M. There was acute aggravation for two days but on the third day the relief was so very marked that the patient told me that he had never felt so well for last three years of his life. With the administration of 1M potency he never dreamt the dreams of quarreling again. Day by day his condition improved. After about two months I administered another dose of 1M dyspepsia vanished like magic. Later, a single dose of Sulphur 1M had been administered as a complementary medicine.
Natrum mur. patient dreams of thieves and dacoits entering the house
The patient is so very sure of the incident that he actually gets up and does not get relief until and unless he moves about in the house and sees for himself that actually no thieves had entered the house. These clear symptoms must have been experience by many, but under mur. we also find another peculiar type of dream.

The natrum patient dreams of poisoning
I recollect one such case from my experience. In 1965 I had treated a patient who had been suffering from fever for ten days. This patient had got drenched in the rains one night and from the next morning he had developed slow fever for next three days. But he had never bothered for it. On the third day at 8-30 in the morning, the temperature rose up to 103 F, and he was bed-ridden. Allopathic treatment, given for five days, produced practically no result. Hearing about the history of getting drenched in the rains, I administered Rhus tox. 30 and 200, but to no effect. Administration of Dulcamara 30 and 200 also produced no result. In this particular case the fever would come some day in the morning and some day in the evening. One day there would be thirst for large quantities of cold water, but the next day the patient would be thirstless. There was no constipation, on the other hand loose bilious stools were present. When Dulcamara 200 failed and the symptoms did not indicate any particular remedy, I went through the case history and materia medica again and again, but could not decide as to which remedy would fit into this case. One evening, the father of the patient told me that for the last 7 consecutive nights, the boy was dreaming that somebody was administering poison to him. This peculiar dream proved a beacon light to the selection of the proper remedy, and making a reference to the small repertory by Dr. Robert Faulkner I found that only Natrum mur. Patient dreams of poisoning. In this case not a single symptom of Natrum mur. Was present, but basing on this particular dream symptom, I administered Natrum mur. 30 for two days and to my utter amazement and satisfaction the fever which was persistent for last twenty days vanished like magic and never returned again.

In the above case, I had remarkable success with Natrum mur., but in another case I had a bad failure with this remedy. This patient was a boy aged 10 years who had been suffering from constipation for last one year or so. This boy had an attack of typhoid about a year back and since then he had been suffering from constipation. In this case bowels won't move for days together and there would be distension of abdomen due to excessive wind in the stomach. No other peculiar symptoms were there. In spite of constipation, the appetite was normal. But there was pain in the abdomen when flatulence was excessive. Night after night, this little patient was dreaming of thieves entering his house. He would frequently get up from the bed at night and call his parents in loud voice that thieves had entered his house. He would never hear any consolation from the parents that thieves had not entered the house and he would insist that his father should go round and see for himself that thieves have not entered the house. On hearing this particular dream symptom and obstinate constipation, I was sure that Natrum mur. Would be the remedy. I administered Natrum mur. 30, 200 and 1M, but neither the constipation was not cured nor the dreams would go. Basing on the fact that this constipation was persistent since the time of the last typhoid, I administered Carbo veg. 30, 200 and 1M, but that too practically produced no result except giving a little relief to the flatulence. Here again the little repertory by Dr. Faulkner came to my rescue. Under dreams of thieves, Dr. Faulkner has given two-medicine (1) Magnesia mur. (2) Rumex. He has not given Natrum mur. under this head. After a close scrutiny of the case I decided to give Magnesia mur. as a trial. Single dose of Magnesia mur. 200 removed constipation for a fortnight and thereafter administration of a single dose of Magnesia mur. 1M cured the constipation for all time to come and along with the constipation dreams of thieves also vanished.

Medicated globules in homeopathy

2012-01-15T05:39:00.001-08:00

Medication of Globules.-Moisten the globules with the requisite potency, in a bottle two-thirds filled, cork the bottle, and shake it so that all the globules shall become uniformly moistened. Then invert the bottle, standing it on the cork, and let it remain in that position from nine to ten hours. Then loosen the cork a little, and let the liquid that may have collected within the neck of the bottle drain out. In a few days the pellets will be entirely dry, and ready for dispensing. It is not proper to dispense medicated globules until they have become perfectly dry.
Potencies prepared with dilute alcohol cannot be used for medicating globules, as the globules become disintegrated by the solvent power of the water contained in the dilute alcohol.

Medicated pellets, like all other homoeopathic medicines, require to be kept well corked, and protected from heat and sunlight. Carefully kept they retain their virtue many years.
Note.-Hahnemann gives another method in his Chronic Diseases, Vol. 1, page 187: "The globules are poured into a clean porcelain bowl, rather deep than broad, and enough of the required potency dropped upon them to moisten completely every globule in the space of one minute. The contents of the bowl are then emptied on a piece of clean, dry filtering paper, so that any excess of liquid may be absorbed, and the globules spread out that they may soon dry. The dry globules are then poured into a vial duly marked with the name and potency, and securely corked."

homeopathic drug Apis mellifica in opthalmology

2012-01-15T05:35:00.001-08:00

Lids much swollen, red and oedematous; often everted; the upper lid hangs like a sac over the eye. Erysipelas of the lids; they are dark bluish-red and so swollen as to close the eye, following severe pains; the swelling extends around the eyes and down over the cheek. The conjunctiva becomes congested, puffy, oedematous and full of dark red veins. Lachrymation hot, spurts out of the eye. Lachrymation with burning in the eyes and with photophobia; with pains in the eyes on sewing, evenings; with pain on looking at bright objects; with severe burning and sensation of a foreign body in the eye.

Subjective
Burning, stinging and sensation of swelling around the left eye in the superciliary ridge. Soreness of the lids and canthi, with agglutination; burning of the edges of the lids, causing lachrymation. Stinging or itching in the internal canthi, or smarting of edges of lids. Stinging in the ball and pain across the forehead; aching pressing in the
lower part of the left eyeball. Fulness inside the ball, with flushed head and face. Violent shocking pains over the right eye extending down to eyeball. Smarting and sensation of burning in the eyes, with bright redness of the conjunctiva; very sensitive to light. Stinging pains; pains on sewing; most dreadful pains shoot through the eye in inflammations; pains throbbing and burning; pains aggravated on moving the eyes; photophobia; eyes pain and are easily fatigued on exertion.

homeopathy drug Antimonium crudum in opthalmology

2012-01-15T05:34:00.001-08:00

Small humid spots in the external canthus which are very painful if sweat touches them; mucus in the canthi mornings with dry crusts on the lids. Eyes red and inflamed, with itching and agglutination nights and photophobia mornings; lids red with fine stitches in eyeballs. Itching in the canthi.
Clinical
This drug has cured, or assisted in curing, some obstinate cases of blepharitis in which the lids have been inflamed, swollen and moist, with pustules on the face; especially when occurring in cross, peevish children. (Compare Graphites.)
Marked success has been observed by Dr. Wanstall from the use of this remedy in scrofulous ophthalmia characterized by pustules on the cornea or conjunctiva, with profuse mucous discharge and lachrymation; lids
swollen, red, excoriated and bathed in the secretions; accompanying which will be found pustular eruptions on the face, moist eruptions about and on the ears, soreness of anterior nares, swollen upper lip, etc.

drug picture of pyrogenium a homeopathy course

2012-01-10T05:23:00.000-08:00

SUBSTANCE Introduced into homoeopathy by Drysdale in 1880, pyrogenium was obtained by the following mode of preparation: Half a pound of chopped lean beef is put into a pint of tap water and macerated on the sunny side of a wall for two or three weeks, so that a pellicle may form and the maceration fluid assume a reddish, thick, and fetid appearance. Then: strain through muslin and filter; evaporate the filtered liquid to dryness in a water bath at boiling heat. The dry residue, which forms a brown, caky mass, rub up in a glass mortar with 2 ounces of rectified spirit, and allow to digest for two hours; boil for five minutes this spirituous maceration, filter, and thoroughly dry in the warm chamber the residue that is on the filter, which forms a hard, brownish mass, weighing 54 grains. Rub this with 540 minims of distilled water; allow to stand an hour an a half, and then filter. This clear amber-coloured liquor which passes through is the watery extract or solution of sepsin. 1 homeopathy course

CONSTITUENTS The exact composition of 'artificial sepsin' is obscure. Modern analysis of this 'brown, viscous, horridly stinking mass' has shown it, aside from a veritable cocktail of anaerobic and aerobic bacteria, to contain ammonia, mercaptans [thiols, organic compounds containing sulphur with a strong disagreeable odour], indole and skatole [both produced from tryptophan by bacterial action in faeces] and the extremely toxic amino-compounds cadaverin and putrescin [both belonging to the ptomaine group and formed from putrefying animal tissues]. 2
HISTORY "Burdon Sanderson has stated [British Medical Journal, February 13, 1875] that 'only liquids which contain bacteria or have a marked proneness to their production' are capable of setting up pyrexia. This remark struck Drysdale, and though, of course, he could not endorse the 'only' of the statement - many drugs known to homoeopaths set up fever - he saw that the fact might be turned to account. Sanderson further defines Pyrogen as 'a chemical non-living substance formed by living bacteria, but also by living pus-corpuscles, or the living blood- or tissue-protoplasms from which these corpuscles spring.' In Sanderson's experiments with Pyrog. the following effects were observed. [1] From a non-fatal dose: The animal shivers and begins to move about restlessly. The temperature rises from 2o to 3o C., the maximum being reached in three hours. Thirst and vomiting come on, followed by feculent and thin mucous, and finally bloody diarrhoea and tenesmus. In five hours these symptoms begin to subside, and the animal recovers with wonderful rapidity. When death occurs it is from heart failure. In non-fatal cases with gastro-enteric symptoms the temperature gradually rises for four hours, and as gradually subsides: in fatal cases it rises rapidly to 104o F., then rapidly declines to below normal. [2] From a fatal dose: There is intestinal haemorrhage, purging, collapse, and death. After death extravasations of blood are found in heart, pleura, and pericardium; the spleen is enlarged and full of blood. Mucous membrane of stomach and small intestines is intensely injected with detachment of epithelium and exudation of bloody fluid, which distends the gut. The blood is dark, the corpuscles being in clumps instead of rolls, and many being dissolved in the liquor sanguinis. White corpuscles partially disintegrated. Drysdale prepared a tincture of Pyrogenium - which he preferred to call Pyrexin, since it is not a mere fever-producer: others have called it Sepsin; but this is too close to Septicaemin, a name given to a related and perhaps identical nosode. ... His success was very encouraging, but as he continued to use the ø tincture and lowest attenuations the difficulty of keeping the preparation was not small; and the remedy did not come into extensive use till Burnett published his pamphlet on Pyrogenium in Fevers and Blood-poisoning in 1888. Burnett used chiefly the 6th centesimal dilution, which is perfectly harmless, and which will keep indefinitely. Heath, who made one of the preparations used by Burnett, gave some of it to Swan of New York, who ran it up into the high infinitesimals. Much of the American experience is with Swan's attenuations, including a proving by Sherbino. Most of the symptoms of Pyrogenium are clinical. Yingling collected symptoms from many reported cases, and arranged them with the symptoms of the proving. ... Drysdale's original cases include a number in which threatened typhoid was averted, a case of tabes mesenterica cured, and one of ulceration of the colon greatly benefited. Burnett's were cases of fully developed typhoid all cut short at the height by Pyrogenium 6c given every two hours.... Pyrogenium is one of the germinal remedies of the materia medica. When once the idea of its essential action is grasped an infinity of applications become apparent. As Drysdale put it, 'The most summary indication for Pyrog. would be to term it the Aconite of the typhus or typhoid quality of pyrexia,' and wherever poisoning by bacterial products [e.g., in the hectic of phthisis] is going on Pyrog. will be likely to do good. Sepsis is the essence of the action of Pyrog."3
PROVINGS •• Probably none. Sherbino's proving was conducted with the potencies made by Swan. According to Kent, these were made from the content of a human septic abscess and were not run up, as Clarke maintains, from the preparation made by Heath. Kent: "Swan's potencies of Pyrogen were made from septic pus. Sherbino's proving was made with Swan's potencies, and therefore with septic pus." In his New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies, Anshutz has included Pyrogenium under the name Sepsin. Below, symptoms from Sherbino's proving are marked [S]. The remainder concerns clinical symptoms.
[1] Ashwell, Companion to the British and American Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeias. [2] Flury, Pyrogenium; Zeitschrift für klassische Homöopathie, 1972 Heft 4. [3] Clarke, Dictionary, Vol. III.
Affinity homeopathy course
BLOOD. Heart. Circulation. Muscles.
Modalities
Worse: Cold damp. Becoming cold. Passing flatus. Night.
Better: Motion [change of position; rocking, hard]. Heat. Hot bath. Pressure.
Main symptoms
M Loquacity; can think and talk faster than ever before [during fever]. [S]
• "I never talked so much in one day in all my life. I could think faster than I ever could." [S]
Brain active during the night, could not sleep,
was making speeches and writing articles.
• "Most of the Pyrogenium influenza patients that I have seen have been overactive mentally. They tend to be very loquacious and chatter away readily, and become definitely excited in the evening, may be even delirious. They are very much troubled with sleeplessness, due to again to excessive mental activity." [Borland]
M All over the place.
• "Sensation as if she covered the whole bed; knew her head was on pillow, but did not know where the rest of her body was."
• "Feels when lying on one side that she is one person, and another person when turning on the other side."
• Sensation as though crowded with arms and legs." [H.C. Allen]
M Distinct consciousness of heart. [S]
• Tired feeling about the heart; "feels like taking it out to let it rest; it would be such a relief to stop it, let it lie down, and stop throbbing." [S]
• "In Sherbino's proving he was cured incidentally of a consciousness of the heart and its working, and palpitation from least excitement or anxiety, < beginning to move; congestion to head, as if apoplexy would ensue." [Clarke]
G < COLD in general.
Violent attacks of sneezing from a cold draught.
Fond of a HOT BATH.
G Sweat without relief.
G Thirst for cold water.
• "A dry mouth is always found in a Pyrogenium case, with a good deal of thirst for small quantities of cold water. The tongue tends to become dry, the mouth offensive." [Borland]
G PROSTRATED, yet restless.
G RESTLESSNESS.
Must move constantly to > soreness of parts.
> Warmth and motion [Rhus-t.].
> Motion.
G BRUISED SORENESS.
Bed seems too hard.
Sore pain in parts lain on.
Sore pain > motion.
G FOUL secretions.
[stools, urine, sweat, odour of body, breath, menses, vomit]
G SEPSIS [almost specific for puerperal fevers].
G Bone pains.
G Quickly oscillating temperature.
HIGH FEVER.
• "In ALL cases of fever commencing with pain in the limbs." [Swan]
G PULSE QUICK, OUT OF ALL PROPORTION TO TEMPERATURE.
Or the reverse.
G NEVER WELL SINCE an infection attended with suppuration.
• "Latent pyrogenic processes, patient continually relapsing after apparent simillimum."
• "When in septic states the best selected remedies fail to relieve or permanently improve." [H.C. Allen]
REMOTE effects that date back to septic conditions: typhoid fever, empyema, severe sinusitis, blood poisoning, dissecting wounds, puerperal fever, miscarriage, food poisoning, sewer gas poisoning, ptomaine poisoning, dental extraction.
• "Another well tested use of Pyrogen is in chronic ill health after abortion or a severe labour, even without any obvious pelvic pathology, and in the absence of offensive odours or any other symptoms of Pyrogen." [Foubister]
Succession of BOILS.
Rubrics
Mind
Confusion, as to his identity, sense of duality [2]. Delusions, body occupies whole bed [1/1], body was scattered about, he tossed about to get the pieces together [1], crowded with arms and legs [2; Pyrus], identity, she is someone else [1], he himself seems to large [1], of wealth [2]. Disgust of the odour of one's own body [1/1]. Loquacity during fever [1]. Mental activity increased at night [1*]. Rocking > [1]. Thoughts rapid during fever [1; Cham.].
Head
Pain, > external pressure [2]; pressing, like a cap [1].
Ear
Noises, synchronous with pulse [1].
Nose
Sneezing from uncovering hands [1].
Stomach
Vomiting as soon as water becomes warm in stomach [2].
Rectum
Diarrhoea, after ice cream [1], from septic conditions [2].
Chest
Coldness in region of heart [1], icy coldness during chill [1].
Perspiration
Odour, cadaverous like carrion [1]. On single parts [2].
Generals
Cold feeling in blood vessels [1], in bones [1]. Pain, bones as if broken [2]; sore, > motion [2]. Touching cold things < [2]. Weakness from perspiration [2].
* Repertory addition [Sherbino].
Food
Aversion: [1]: Hot food; warm drinks.
Worse: [2]: Spoiled fish; bad meat. [1]: Hot drinks; warm drinks.
Better: [1]: Cold food.

homeopathy to treat gout

2012-01-10T05:15:00.000-08:00

Rheumatic or arthritic pains, especially of a sycotic or gonorrhoeal nature; sweating of the parts not covered; those which are covered keep dry; sensation as if the whole body were very thin and delicate, and could not resist the least attack, as if the continuity of the body would be destroyed.' Dr. C.G. Raue.
'Probably the most important use of Thuja is in the treatment of sycotic diseases, not only for the condylomata, or wart-like excrescences, occurring in various parts, but also for various diseases which may have their origin in the condition of system which Dr. Hahnemann designated as sycosis - a constitutional taint following gonorrhoea. Gonorrhoea; also bad effects after checking gonorrhoeal discharge, especially articular rheumatism and inflamed prostrate. Secondary syphilis, fungus growths about cervix; cauliflower excrescences, with burning and yellowish green leucorrhhoea' - Dr. Cowperthwaite. thuja brabant
'For headaches of rheumatic orgin, Thuja is useful; pain as of a nail driven into vertex. Rheumatic headache symptoms are worse in damp air. Crampy pain in lumbar region. Burning from sacrum up to scapula. Pain in the hip, the limb becomes larger than before. Stitches in limbs and joints. Averse to motion. Emaciation rapid. Great prostration. Attacks are usually aggravated in afternoon and at night, always toward three o'clock and also in evening, and are relieved during rest.' - Dr. Boenninghausen. homeopathy to treat gout,thuja brabant,

Homoeopathy and "our teachers"

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In a short article in our contemporary, The Monthly Homoeopathic Review, for November last, there is an allusion, by Dr. Dyce Brown, to our Prospectus. He finds fault with us for putting within inverted commas, "swabbing of the tonsils, pharynx, and larynx, with solutions of nitrate of silver of various strengths."
We acknowledge our error, but, to our view, it is a matter of indifference whether a remark is spoken or written, it is equally worthy of being considered as a quotation; and as our teachers present at the Congress owned to the soft impeachment, and even attempted to justify their conduct as consistent, because forced upon them, as they seem to think, by the poverty of our Materia Medica, we considered ourselves perfectly justified in alluding to a practice which is strictly Alloeopathic, a practice which will defy even the ingenuity of Dr. Dyce Brown to find a rule for in the Organon of Hahnemann.
We have promised in our Prospectus to steer clear of personalities as much as possible. In the present instance, we should have avoided again alluding to the subject but for the misfortune that our quotation was so correct, the portrait was so faithful a picture of the original, the cap fitted so well, that Dr. Dyce Brown must needs put it on and wear it as his own. We are not aware that he is the only teacher of Homoeopathy in this our much-favoured country. With all deference, we hold ourselves to be in the position of teachers, even although we have not the honour of lecturing to "two," or "four," or even more students in a Metropolitan School of Homoeopathy. There are hundreds of teachers of homoeopathy in the land; every "Medicinae Doctor" is a teacher of medicine, and it would be well for our openly professed teachers that they recognized this more than they are wont to do.
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Dr. Dyce Brown, we are glad to see, does study his Materia Medica, but he studies it in his own peculiar way, and sometimes to serve his own purposes. Having stepped into the mire, he tries to save himself by catching at straws, with no better result than to settle down still deeper in the mud. He goes home and turns up his "Allen," and there finds, under Argentum-nitricum, "as perfect a picture as possible of Follicular Pharyngitis;" and this justifies a teacher, who "bases his teaching on the Organon and Chronic Diseases of Hahnemann," and who declares "that it would be difficult to teach Homoeopathy on any other foundation, as long as he is a lecturer in the London School of Homoeopathy," in swabbing cases of Follicular Pharyngitis with nitrate of silver in any strength. This is not the teaching of the Master! This is not the Homoeopathy of the Organon! Nowhere in this great work can Dr. Dyce Brown show us a single sentence to justify him in recommending intelligent students, thirsting for Hahnemannian knowledge of the treatment of the sick, to swab out every throat which they cannot cure, by what they may consider the legitimate homoeopathic simillimum. We should like to know how the Follicular Pharyngitis was induced, how the proving was obtained? It was certainly not obtained by "swabbing the throat with solutions of nitrate of silver of various strengths." It was obtained by taking the drug in small quantities at a time until the throat symptoms appeared like any other genuine homoeopathic pathogenesis-and if it was so induced, and Argentum-nitricum is the simillimum in the case, most assuredly it will cure the case if administered in the same way, and still better in a smaller dose, without the Alloeopathic "swabbing."
Hahnemann directs us to individualize, not to generalize; to treat the sick patient, and not his disease; to treat the patient as if there never had been another such case. Argentum-nitricum, no more than Sulphur or Kali-bichromicum, et hoc genus omne, are homoeopathic to Follicular Pharyngitis. What will prove to be the simillimum, the cure in one case of the kind, will not necessarily touch another, and vice versá. In short, Argentum-nitricum, to be homoeopathic in any given case, must be so to "the totality of the symptoms," and not to the Follicular Pharyngitis, which is in general only one symptom, or a group of symptoms, of a constitutional state of the patient, frequently ignored by the physician, and, shall we add, by his teacher, who declares that he bases his teaching and practice on the Organon and Chronic Diseases. We have not so learned of Hahnemann!
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As to the last clause of Dr. Brown's article on Follicular Pharyngitis, it is more like a parody on the Homoeopathy of Hahnemann than aught else. It reads:-"The more we can enlarge the range of Homoeopathy, and show that useful means employed chiefly by Alloeopaths are homoeopathic in their action, so much the more shall we develop the universality of the law of similars"-let us add, in the direction of Alloeopathy, which is the high-road to destruction.
We should like to ask Dr. Brown if he considers "Alum" and "Ferri-mur" homoeopathic to "Follicular-Pharyngitis," and whether, along with "Argentum-nitricum," they are to be used indiscriminately?
The Alloeopathist attempts to cure disease as an entity, much the same as Dr. Dyce Brown informs us he teaches the Practice of Medicine. The true Homoeopathician, who is guided by the Organon of Hahnemann, aims solely at healing the sick according to the totality of their symptoms. We fear it will be a long time before "our teachers" can comprehend this simple but important distinction. The treatment which they must undergo before they can comprehend it, is a course of emetics ad nauseam, followed up by a carefully-selected course of the most powerful hydragogue cathartics donec alvus liberaliter dejiciatur, and dispensed secundum artem. It may help to rid their cerebral convolutions by derivation of their strong alloeopathic proclivities-their nosological, chemico-physiological, and pathological indications for the selection of the remedy, which Alloeopaths can practise and teach much better than Homoeopaths-and the more so as they are by law appointed so to teach, and we are not; although there are a few of us who, having an eye to "solid advantages," would like the same debasing privilege.
Verily, Hahnemann's teaching is honoured more in the breach than in the observance; some seem to honour him in name, whilst they practically ignore or subvert his philosophy and practice.
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We should not have penned this article had not Dr. Dyce Brown attempted to justify his Anti-Hahnemannian Practice of Medicine in his own pages.

Homeopathic principles

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The following five principles form the backbone of homeopathy:
The Law of Similars: The discovery of homeopathy dates back to the late eighteenth century when a leading physician named Samuel Hahnemann performed a very simple experiment. At that time he was translating a Latin medical text and he came across a passage which claimed that a certain herbal substance was beneficial in treating malaria because it had "bitter properties." The substance, Peruvian bark, is rich in quinine and still is the source for this well known anti-malarial drug. There was little doubt that Peruvian bark was indeed effective in the treatment of malaria, but Hahnemann rejected the explanation that the bitter properties were the reason. After all, there are many other substances that taste bitter which have no effect against malaria.
Hahnemann reasoned that perhaps it would be possible to learn about the nature of Peruvian bark if he himself, a healthy person, ingested it. He did so,
and Hahnemann began to temporarily suffer the symptoms of malaria. He then reasoned that it is the similarity of the effects when a substance is given to a healthy person to the symptoms present in a sick person which is responsible for the healing response. This is otherwise known by the phrase "like cures like." This principle forms the basis of homeopathy, and in fact, is the basis of the name - "homeo" meaning similar, and "pathos" meaning disease.
As Hahnemann developed this concept, he and a growing number of students began to do "provings" with various substances. That is, they would administer a particular substance, for instance the element sulphur, in varying doses to a number of healthy persons. They would record the symptoms that arose in these people over time as a result of ingesting the substance. The symptoms were of both an objective nature, such as skin rashes or diarrhea, and a subjective nature, like feeling angry or not being able to concentrate. The history of homeopathy, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, is full of these provings performed with thousands of substances. There is an enormous literature filled with the findings of the provings. Recent twentieth century provings of substances originally proven 200 years ago have resulted in similar symptomatology.
The study of homeopathy is based on becoming familiar with the provings and recognizing that a set of symptoms exhibited by a patient is similar to a set of symptoms that was created during the proving of a particular substance.
The Minimum Dose: As Hahnemann began to conduct provings and use medicines according to the Law of Similars, he recognized that the dosage of the substances he used often created very severe toxic reactions in the provers (those who were the subjects of the provings) and patients. He therefore began to dilute the medicines to avoid these reactions. This lead to another important discovery. The more the medicines were diluted, the gentler and more effective was their curative action. It seemed as if the dilute forms of these substances acted at a deeper level in the body.
It is more than a simple dilution process by which the homeopathic remedies are made. One part of the original form of the substance is first diluted in ninety-nine drops water and/ or alcohol (in the centesimal scale). Then it is shaken vigorously. Kinetic energy is applied to activate the remedy at each dilution. The shaking is called succussion and the entire procedure is termed "potentization" - that is, the remedy is made potent by the process. This first generation of the remedy is called a 1c (or centesimal). A further generation is created when one drop of the 1c solution is diluted in ninety-nine drops of water and/or alcohol and succussed again. This is the 2c "potency." The process is similar for the decimal scale, but the dilution is 1:9, producing a lx potency.
It is easy to see that after carrying out this process a few times, there is little or nothing left of the original substance. Homeopaths use potencies that range from 6c all the way to the CM, or one hundred thousandth, generation of succussion. Clearly, the action of a homeopathic remedy goes beyond chemical reactions and physical substance as we commonly understand it. Remedies must act on a dynamic or energetic plane. Modern science lacks instrumentation to measure this plane. Nevertheless, it is real.
The Vital Force: Hahnemann and his followers believed that the essential nature of a living organism was not to be found in the physical tissues and organs of the body. Homeopaths perceived an intelligence, variously called "the dynamic principle" or "vital principle," "the dynamic" or "vital force," which was responsible for the coordination and activities of life.
This idea was and is actually very popular in many traditional cultures. In the modern world, however, we are accustomed to considering the physical world as purely material. Everything else is part of the non-scientific spiritual realm. As a modern "science," conventional medicine perceives and analyzes human life as a set of material functions seated in physical tissues. What it cannot measure, science denies or ignores.
I am reminded of the story about some missionaries who went to China during the last century. They reported back that their study of the Chinese language showed that it was essentially without a grammar. The framework of oriental language was so foreign to their experience that they could only imagine that an entire nation must be speaking a disorganized gibberish. Little did they perceive the sophisticated grammatical structure of Chinese, and even less did they know that the Chinese had a rich literary tradition dating back thousands of years.
Nothing can so clearly illustrate the difference between these two views as the matter of life and death itself. The legal and medical worlds increasingly struggle with this as questions about the definition of death become more complex. The experts must determine which organ and what physiological function holds the kernel of life. Is it the brain, and if so what part of the brain? Or is it the heart and circulatory function? Actually the determination is impossible and, ultimately, the decision is arbitrary. But the layperson, the relative or close friend can often sense when the real life has gone out of a body. It is not a matter of the brain or heart, but of the vitality and responsiveness of the organism.
The Nature of Symptoms: To the homeopath, symptoms are an expression of the vital force of a person. They surface as an attempt by the vital force to stabilize, compensate or cleanse the entire system when it becomes disordered, but they are not the disorder itself. Ideally, when the system is adequately stabilized or cleansed the symptoms disappear.
But this is not always the case. Sometimes in chronic illness or inherited conditions, the best the vital force can do is to maintain a semblance of balance by manifesting symptoms in the outer areas or relatively less important parts of the body. This condition is called a chronic disease. It does not resolve on its own without some assistance to the vital force. The weaker the vital force becomes, the closer the symptoms approach the interior and more important parts of the organism.
But symptoms are not the only way in which a homeopath becomes familiar with the vital force of a patient. The nature of the vital force also manifests itself in a myriad of traits, habits or signs in every individual. These might include the types of food that a person might like or dislike, the nature and position of sleep, the temperament of the patient, and a host of other details that seem otherwise insignificant to the problem at hand. The more particular the information or the more peculiar the trait, the more that can be understood about the vital force. The homeopath always seeks out the characteristics of a person that are special, that are individual to that person, in order to approximate the nature of their vital force by applying the most similar dynamic remedy.
Typically, a person comes to a healthcare practitioner with a symptom or set of symptoms from which they seek relief. The conventional approach is to focus only on those symptoms along with the area in which the symptoms appear. The symptoms point toward the possibility of a disease that resides in a certain part or system of the body. Eradication of disease means the eradication of the symptoms, and that constitutes a cure. A person complains of joint pains. They are located in the hands and indicate that an inflammatory process is occurring. The disease is called "arthritis" and is deemed cured when the pains and inflammation subside.
The homeopathic approach begins with the main complaints of the patient. It then extends into an investigation of the total person, exploring every aspect of individual whether or not there is an obvious relationship with the complaints themselves. Once the nature of the vital force is perceived, a suitable remedy is chosen which will catalyze a healing response. The end result will be that not only are the symptoms thrown off, but that the person feels generally healthier and more energetic. Oftentimes, a person will express this as "a sense of well-being." It is an intangible feeling that comes about when the vital force is strengthened.
The Use of Individual Remedies:
Hahnemann meticulously observed and recorded his findings throughout his long career. Though the discipline he founded appears subtle in theory and application, his method was firmly grounded inexperience and fact. He was adamant that a clear picture of the effects of a homeopathic remedy can be perceived only if one individual remedy is given at a time. By using multiple remedies the Law of Similars is no longer applicable and the basic tenets of homeopathy are discarded. Even in acute problems when remedies may be changed several times within an hour, it is essential that they be given in sequence so that action of the one remedy be evaluated before proceeding to the next. Every practitioner when faced with uncertainties about which remedy to choose feels the temptation to administer all the possibilities together. But the interaction of the multiple remedies is unknown and the response of the vital force to the mixture becomes unclear.
Modem science cannot explain these principles based on our present day understanding of the laws of biochemistry and pharmacy. This leads some to criticize homeopathy as unscientific and therefore unworthy of any consideration at all. Some consider it to be a hoax or to merely possess a placebo effect. But the facts are objective and the principles of homeopathy are founded on empirical observations. Homeopathic provings and published cured cases have created a large amount of data, based on the experience of thousands of homeopaths, provers and patients. If our understanding is lacking, it is because we are locked into a certain pattern of thinking. The theory of homeopathy has an internal coherence and logic of its own. The results are reproducible, and most importantly, it works!!
Julian Jonas, C.A. , graduated from the Meiji College of Oriental Medicine in Osaka, Japan. He has practiced in Japan and Sri Lanka, holding licenses also in California, Massachusetts and Vermont. He currently practices in Saxtons River, Vermont. He completed the NESH course in 1991.

Differentiations between bryonia, gelsemium and baptisia

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Then it is necessary that we understand them thoroughly, so as to apply them correctly, for a mistake at this stage is not easily corrected later, and may prove fatal. Let us compare a little. All three remedies have muscular soreness and prostration; but if the soreness is most prominent Baptisia leads; if the prostration, Gelsemium. Gelsemium and Baptisia are both drowsy with red face, but with Baptisia the mind is very clouded, with Gelsemium not nearly so much so. Gelsemium and Bryonia want to lie still, and dread motion - Gelsemium because he is so weak, Bryonia because his pains (especially in the head) are greatly aggravated. Bryonia is constipated, Baptisia diarrhoeic, Gelsemium neither. With all three the face is red. Baptisia most so "besotted," Gelsemium next. Bryonia least, and turns pale on rising or sitting up. Tendency to decomposition comes early with Baptisia, not so with the others. The delirium of Bryonia is about the business of the day, Baptisia cannot get himself together. Gelsemium not characteristic. The tongue of Bryonia is white, with parched lips and thirst. With Gelsemium the tongue is thinly coated or not at all, there is no thirst, and the tongue trembles when attempting to protrude it; while Baptisia is the only one that turns dark in a well defined streak through the middle in this stage. The urine with Bryonia is scanty and high colored, if changed at all, with Gelsemium may be profuse, and with Baptisia is scanty, dark and offensive. Other diagnostic differences between these remedies might be added, but enough is done to show that there is no reason for confusing them or difficulty in choosing between them.

dr. j t Kent's conversion to homeopathy

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It is possible that the late Pierre Schmidt heard this story from his teacher, Frederica E. Gladwin -who was a favorite pupil of Kent *. This is an excerpt.
Although he wasn't very demonstrative, j t kent md
adored his wife. He was very much affected when she became ill in 1878. Neither he nor any of his most competent allopathic or eclectic colleagues had the slightest success with the asthenia, weakness, persistent insomnia, and anemia which obliged her to keep to her bed for months on end. As time went by her condition deteriorated. His wife then asked him to consult a homoeopathic doctor who was already quite old and who had been recommended to her as being very knowledgeable. Kent didn't like this idea, because he had already consulted everybody who had any kind of reputation in Saint Louis, and for a condition which seemed to him more and more serious he thought it would really be grotesque to consider something like

Homoeopathy, with "its ridiculous little doses." Dr. Richard Phelan, "with his white beard and black coat," (A picture of Phelan in his obituary showed him with a dark moustache -He was 66 years old. At the time Phelan met Kent, he was a bit over 40 years old, so with "white beard" might be a romantic exaggeration) ...came one afternoon in his carriage, and remained for more than an hour questioning the patient and "asking silly questions," which seemed to Kent so unrelated to her illness that he couldn't help laughing mockingly behind his whiskers as he leaned against the end of her bed.
The doctor asked about her mental state, her fears, her desires, her preferences in food, with many detail, while quite obviously she had no digestive disturbance. He asked her about her indisposition's, her reactions to cold, to heat, to climactic and seasonal influences, etc... He auscultated and examined her, and asked Kent for a glass of water, which he brought.
When j t kent md
saw him putting a few tiny little globules into the water, telling her to take a teaspoonful every two hours until, what a nerve, she fell asleep -when she hadn't even closed an eye for weeks -j t kent md
decided that the man was a fool or an impostor, and showed him to the door very unceremoniously.
He was in his office in the room next door to his wife, preparing one of his lectures and, not wanting to make her feel bad, went two hours later to give her little spoonful of medicine, without any conviction. But after this second dose he was so absorbed by his work that he forgot to return to her room. He only remembered four hours later, and what was his stupefaction, on entering the room, to see his wife profoundly and peacefully asleep -something that hadn't happened for a very long time, in spite of many drugs conscientiously administered. The old doctor came back every day and little by little the patient improved until she recovered.
What no professor of medicine, however famous, had been able to do, this simple homoeopathic physician had accomplished: promptly, gently, and permanently restoring his wife's health. j t kent md
* was profoundly impressed, and since he was fundamentally straight and honest, he felt obliged to apologize to his colleague, confessing his skepticism and complete lack of confidence on his first visit, and his total conversion after the remarkable improvement in his wife's condition. Such a result, the evolution of which he had seen day after day, couldn't possible be mere chance. Could Homoeopathy be a really valid system? He was so stirred up by the cure that he resolved to study this therapy thoroughly.
Under the doctor's guidance he studied the Organon of Hahnemann, the fundamental work on Homeopathy, and worked day and night, reading everything he could lay his hands on about this paradoxical method. We are told that he even stayed up for nights on end, for weeks on end, with his greatcoat over his shoulders to keep him warm, devouring every scrap of literature that had ever been published in America on this subject. He was so bowled over that he resigned first of all as professor of anatomy and then as a member of the National Society of Eclectic Medicine, and from that moment on he was completely converted to Homoeopathy.
Henceforth he devoted himself body and soul to this new doctrine, the profound truth and value of which he started to perceive. He understood especially, comparing it to all the other methods he had learnt, that it was the only one offering a law and principles which could be followed as a guide in therapy.
All the other systems seemed to him risky and inconstant, changing their instructions all the time. The allopathic and eclectic schools acted on end results, whilst the most important thing about Homoeopathy was that it came as near as possible to fundamental causes. And he had seen that when one treated end results, even if they were quite near the beginning in the sequence of causes and effects, one never really achieved any lasting help or improvement, let alone cure.
He had noticed that any therapy acting on end results only brought about complications, and this was one of the reasons why he had abandoned his practice to become a professor. And here, suddenly, his wife's illness had showed him a new direction. His study of Homoeopathy brought him such certainty and conviction that he was not satisfied until he had equipped himself to apply it with all the conscience and strictness which the doctrine demanded. It was during this time that he was able to observe the difference between every other therapy, and Homoeopathy practiced according to the precise indications of its founder.
He started taking patients again, but this time, enlightened by everything he had learnt from his homoeopathic colleague and from his own relentless work; he proved to himself by many documented cures the perfect truth of the law of similars, the necessity to individualize, and, thanks to the method of potentization discovered by the founder of this method, Samuel Hahnemann, the unbelievable value of the infinitesimal dose.

understanding homeopathy remdy Bovista lycoperdon

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alvatia gigantea. Lycoperdon bovista [?]. Giant Puffball. Molly-puff. N.O. Fungi.
CONFUSION Confusion of mind and head was one of the symptoms arising from the proving of Bovista. The confusion appears to have affected the nomenclature, too, since Bovista is found under numerous names in homoeopathic literature: Calvatia gigantea, Langermannia gigantea, Lycoperdon giganteum, Bovista gigantea, Globaria bovista, Lycoperdon bovista, Lycoperdon globosum, Bovista nigrescens. In his Companion to the British and American Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeias, Ashwell describes the mushroom as follows: "Stemless; a regular globe, with only two coats; smooth, soft and yellowish-white when young, becoming yellow, and then brown; filled with a white cottony substance, which becomes brown, and contains when ripe, an immense quantity of extremely fine brown-black spores. Habitat, on dry

meadows and downs in most parts of Europe."
CLASSIFICATION The puffballs [Lycoperdales] comprise three groups: [1] Calvatia [Giant Puffballs], [2] Lycoperdon [Common Puffballs], and [3] Bovista [Tumbling Puffballs]. [1] Calvatia species are medium-sized to very large [size of a basketball]; stalk or sterile base are usually absent; they grow on meadows, fields and open hillsides; the spores are deep olive-brown to brown; the spore mass is firm and white when immature, then slowly darkening to olive brown, dark brown, or purple and becoming powdery and cottony. [2] Lycoperdons are not stemless, but have a sterile base; they are small to medium-sized and prefer rotten wood or forest floors as their habitat; the outer layer of the fruiting body is warty or spiny. [3] Bovista species are small and found mostly in grassy or open areas; the fruiting body is more or less round and ruptures to form a large mouth at the top; the inner layer is usually thin and papery when mature, resulting in them breaking loose from the soil and tumbling about freely in the wind; the outer layer lacks distinct spines or warts; being white and firm at first, the spore mass finally becomes powdery [not cottony]. 1 In conclusion, the Bovista used in homoeopathy is actually a Calvatia species, in particular Calvatia gigantea, since this species is very common in meadows in Europe.
FEATURES Puffballs are mushrooms with a fruiting body that consists of a roundish to oval spore case. Some species are stemless, others are stalked or have a sterile base beneath the spore case. "The skin of the spore case is usually composed of an inner an outer layer. ... The interior of the spore case is usually white and firm when young, but turns yellow, greenish, brown, or purplish as the spores mature, first becoming mushy as moisture is released, then powdery or cottony as the moisture evaporates. The spore colour corresponds to that of the mature spore mass, and is usually some shade of brown or purple. Once the spores have matured, the spore case either splits open or rupture irregularly or disintegrates - thereby exposing the spore mass to the elements - or a mouth or slit [apical pore] forms at the top, so that the spore case looks and acts like a miniature volcano. ... Puffballs can be found almost anywhere at any time, but are especially prominent in prairies, deserts, and high mountains, where other fungi are not so plentiful."2
HABITAT The Giant Puffball is among the most prolific of living organisms. An average-sized specimen may contain 7 trillion spores. Instead of splitting open at the top, Calvatias crack up into flat scales which eventually flake off. Though often not larger than a moderately sized turnip, the Giant Puffball may reach a size of 90 cm or more in diameter. It is usually found solitary, scattered, or in groups or large circles in fields, pastures, cemeteries, on exposed hillsides, along roads, and in drainage ditches. "Because of its preference for open hillsides, it can often be spotted from the road. Large specimens, in fact, have been mistaken by passers-by for herds of grazing sheep! [Mushroom hunters, on the other hand, are more likely to mistake grazing sheep for giant puffballs.] Dried specimens found under houses have been mistaken for bleached skulls, while a sinister-looking individual found in England during the war was labelled 'Hitler's Secret Weapon' and used for propaganda purposes at an exhibition to raise war funds!"3
NAME The puffball derives its name from the 'puff' or clouds of spore dust that emerges when a mature specimen is touched by a gust of wind, or poked, squeezed, or kicked by man or animal. The Blackfoot Indians of North America called puffballs 'fallen stars' or 'dusty stars'. The name Calvatia derives either from L. calvus, bald, or from L. calvaria, the roof of the skull, both in allusion to its smooth and globular shape. Puffballs have scatological associations. Lycoperdon means 'wolf's fart' in Latin, which is in keeping with common names as 'pixie-puff' and 'puckfist', denoting an imp's silent fart. To the Basque people the puffball is the 'ass's fart'. Among the Maori of New Zealand puffballs are known as 'faeces of ghosts or stars'. Using the puffball for obstetrical purposes, the Dakota Indians called it 'baby's navel'.
USES Dried Giant Puffballs have been used as sponges, toys, dyes, and tinder. "In divers parts of England where people dwell farre from neighbours, they carry them kindled with fire, which lastest long: whereupon they were called Lucernarum Fungi. The dust or powder hereof is very dangerous for the eyes, for it hath been often seen, that divers have been pore-blinde ever after, when some small quantities thereof hath been blowne into their eyes. The country people do use to kill or smother Bees with these Puffe-balls, being set on fire, for the which purpose it fitly serveth."4 The belief that the spores were harmful to the eyes lead to the English name 'blind man's ball'. The spores, however, are more likely to cause a persistent pneumonitis called lycoperdonosis.
EFFECTS Young puffballs are used as food in nearly all European countries as well as in North America. They can be sliced and fried like pancakes, or dropped as cubes in soups, or eaten raw in salads. They may have laxative effects. "But it is only in the immature condition, whilst the interior remains fleshy and perfectly white, that they are edible, and on no account should any puffball be cooked after the flesh has commenced discolouration, as poisonous properties are apt to be developed when old, even before decomposition sets in, so that it is essential they should be eaten only before the development of the spores."5 It seems unlikely that puffballs commencing to become yellow will be appetizing, since the spore mass emits an odour like old urine when ripening.
TOXICOLOGY Puffballs have a reputation as a haemostatic, for which purpose either the spores or the internal cottony mass are employed. This use was developed independently by various groups in different parts of the world, including native North Americans. Puffballs were commonly used to stop the bleeding of men wounded in battle. If inhaled in large amounts, the smoke from the burning fungus is said to cause anaesthesia, and death by respiratory failure. In Allen's Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica symptoms are included which were observed from inhaling the fumes of the burning fungus. In a botanical work of the mid-nineteenth century, the Reverend Hugh Macmillan describes the anaesthetic and sleep-inducing properties of puffballs. "The common puffball deprives the patient of speech, motion, and sensibility to pain, while he is still conscious of everything that happens around him. ... When the fumes of the burning fungus are slowly inhaled, they gradually produce all the symptoms of intoxication, followed first by drowsiness, and then by perfect insensibility to pain, terminating, if the inhalation be continued, in vomiting, convulsions, and ultimately in death." Attributing it to the presence of carbon dioxide, the stupefying effect of the smoke has been disputed. There is, on the other hand, enough evidence that puffballs possess narcotic properties. The North American Flathead Indians, for example, rub spores of certain puffball species [probably Lycoperdon] on the eyelids and cheeks of children to induce sleep. Even hallucinogenic effects have been reported. By ingestion of one or two specimens of Lycoperdon species, the Mixtec Indians of Mexico brought about a state of half-sleep, during which voices and echoes were heard. The course of future events was then deduced from the echo answers.
CANCER "Of all the biological activities lying untapped within the fleshy macrofungi, the possible role of mushrooms in treating patients with cancer has created the most excitement. The antineoplastic properties of fungi were initially reported in the 1950s when the giant puffball, Calvatia gigantea, was shown to contain a compound - labelled calvacin - that was thought to be active against tumours. This report followed earlier work with other mushrooms and was published during the period when many products were being screened for antimicrobial activities. Because various forms of cancer are common, many folklore remedies have been developed to treat them. It was from old stories about the use of mushrooms for this purpose that the idea to test the puffball first originated."6
ALUMINIUM The ash of Calvatia gigantea contains high contents of aluminium.
HEAVY METALS "Many species of the higher fungi - from a large number of different genera, including many of the best-known edible varieties - have been shown to concentrate or accumulate trace elements, including some of the toxic metals. ... Many different trace elements have been detected in mushrooms, although concentrations depended on where the specimens were collected. It is clear that many of the fungi have the ability to preferentially accumulate and concentrate certain elements in their fruiting bodies, even when the soil contains only trace elements. The reasons for the ability of mushrooms to concentrate these minerals are entirely unknown. Mushrooms may play the role of 'sink', removing many of these elements from the environment and reducing their availability to the plant community. Cultivated mushrooms also concentrate heavy metals, which have been found in the oyster mushroom and others. This finding is important because many of the commercial mushrooms are cultivated on waste material, which could potentially be contaminated with heavy metals. Mercury and cadmium are the elements most often encountered in appreciable levels in species of Agaricus. They are not limited to this genus, however. Nor are these elements the only ones accumulated by mushrooms. Vanadium, selenium, arsenic, lead, manganese, bromine, nickel, silver, and gold have been detected. Lead is one of the elements not specifically concentrated by mushrooms. For this reason, it is only a problem in areas of high environmental contamination, for example, around lead smelters [and their downwind extension] and along busy roadways. Measuring of the concentration of mercury [mg/kg of dried mushroom] in edible mushrooms harvested in Switzerland in 1976 demonstrated in Lycoperdon perlatum a concentration of 2.87-3.75 in agricultural areas, of 3.32 in industrial areas, and of 11.0 in urban areas."7
VANITY Curtis Gates Lloyd [1859-1926], one of the leading experts in the identification of puffballs, objected strongly to the practice of adding the name of the discoverer of a fungus after its Latin name. As part of his satirical attack on this 'advertising' and 'name-juggling', Lloyd created Professor N.J. McGinty, through whom he named several fungi, including the fictitious Lycoperdon anthropomorphus. As satirical was the epitaph prepared for his own tombstone: Curtis Gates Lloyd - Monument erected in 1922 by himself, for himself during his life to gratify his own vanity - What fools these mortals be. 8
PROVINGS •• [1] Hartlaub, Nenning, Schreter - method: unknown; according to Hughes, it 'is one of the vicious symptom-lists of the sub-Hahnemannic epoch, without any information as to subjects, doses, or relations between symptoms."
•• [2] Petroz - method: 'symptoms observed from inhaling the fumes of the burning fungus' and 'symptoms observed by a young woman from olfaction of the tincture.'
[1-3] Arora, Mushrooms Demystified. []4 Gerard, The Herbal. [5] Grieve, A Modern Herbal. [6-7] Benjamin, Mushrooms: Poisons and Panaceas. [8] Hudler, Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Moulds.
Affinity
CIRCULATION [HEART; uterus; kidneys]. SKIN. Nervous system. * Right side. Left side.
Modalities
Worse: Menses. Full moon. Getting warm. Early morning. On waking. Cold food. Hot weather. Coffee. Wine.
Better: Doubling up. Eating. Hot food.
Comparisons
c COMMON SYMPTOMS OF BOVISTA AND AGARICUS
Audacity. - Courageous. - Awkwardness; drops things. - Delusion distances are enlarged. - Irritability after coition. - Speech by jerks. - Stammering speech. - Stammering from excitement. - Sudden vertigo. - Lachrymation during headache. - Feeling as if eyes were drawn backward, during headache. - Epistaxis from blowing nose in morning. - Obstructed nose at night. - Itching of sacrum and coccyx. - Sensation of strength. -
Main symptoms
M Unreserved conversation.
   • "Very open-hearted; she spoke of her own failings, contrary to her custom." [Allen]
This proving symptom is included in the repertories [mind section] as Tells the plain truth. Addition to the rubric Revealing secrets may be considered.
   • "To tell the truth is obviously such a rare feature that only four remedies are given under this heading in the SR. When I met a lady with heavy fibroid bleedings for the first time, she told me everything about her sexual relationships and her attitude of changing partners. It was no problem for her to talk about these very personal matters. As if it was something everybody should know about. There was no proudness, nor timidity, no 'I-do-not-know-if-I-should-tell-it'. It was as it was and it was told as it was. She says what she thinks - the truth. Not in an offending way as perhaps in Hyoscyamus or Tarentula. It differs also from the 'truth' we find in Veratrum album. In Veratrum it is the truth about the whole world, what all the deep secrets of mankind really hide. This is totally different from Bovista, which just means the truth about oneself. It is just open-heartedness regarding very personal matters. These are spontaneous, lively, quick acting, active people."1
M Alternating moods.
Crying # laughing.
Great exhilaration in morning - "life seems very pleasant to her" - peevishness and irritability in evening.
Lively when in company; sad, depressed, and not interested in anything, when alone.
Despair # hope.
• "At one time life seemed very exciting to him, at another very hateful." [Allen]
c Compare: Great changes of colour in face, which is at one time red, at another pale.
M Courage and strength.
• "Very courageous and vigorous; he would like to fight with everybody." [Allen]
[compare the fearlessness and increased strength of Agaricus.]
M Sensation as if enveloped in a black vapour. [Anguish]
M Mistakes in space.
   • "She feared that a person sitting near her would stick the scissors into her eyes, although she sat two steps away and was cutting paper; all her visual perceptions were distorted; it seemed as if the scissors were close before her eyes."
• "Sensation as if objects turned bottom upwards." [During sudden attack of faintness.] [Allen]
c Compare: Defective accommodation [Agar.].
M Confusion.
Easily intoxicated from wine.
Great confusion and absentmindedness, resulting in mistakes in writing and dulness of head. Can't concentrate on what one is doing or saying.
Staring, lost in thoughts.
M AWKWARDNESS: in speech and movements; drops things, stutters, etc.
For the Dutch homoeopathic physician Vrijlandt, Bovista is a specific for stammering bachelors who are easily angered and then stammer even more. 2
G Chilly persons, sensitive to cold; chilly during pains.
G Much thirst [common to fungus remedies].
• Unquenchable thirst, in one who had previously never needed to drink [after 3 hours]." [Hughes]
G < DURING and AFTER MENSES.
G < After coition.
G Feeling of distension.
Head as if enlarged. Heart as if enlarged.
Cheeks and lips as if swollen.
Cheeks as if about to burst from heat.
Actual distension / swelling
Flatulent distension.
Abdomen puffed up at single spots.
Puffy condition of skin. Pitting oedema.
Intolerance of clothing around waist.
• "Swelling of cervical glands; pain in upper front teeth, which are tender on touch and on chewing, somewhat on upper lip beginning to swell; this it continues to do till it hangs over lower one, and is in line with nose; after swelling of lip has subsided a little left cheek began to swell; all swollen parts are tender to touch [14th day]." [Hughes]
G PRESSING pains, deep inward.
G Tough, stringy and tenacious discharges from nose and all mucous membranes. [Kali-bi.]
G Haemorrhagic tendency.
Epistaxis; in the morning; [slight] on sneezing.
Bleeding of gums, on sucking them.
Profuse bleeding after tooth extraction.
Excessive haemorrhages during climaxis.
Bleeding between periods.
Menses only or chiefly at night, or most profusely in morning, and scanty during the day and night.
Dreams that she had a bleeding wound.
P Eyes.
Hartlaub records an interesting observation related to light.
• "Confusion and heaviness in occiput, with inclination of eyelids to close, and feeling as if eyes would be drawn backwards [esp. in clear evening light], with anxiety and restlessness of body." [Hughes]
P Obstruction of nose, troubling one in speaking.
< At night.
And Pressing pain in temples.
P ACNE DUE TO COSMETICS.
P Great DRYNESS / numbness of mouth and throat in morning on waking; tongue seems almost like wood.
P Feeling of icy coldness in stomach.
Mössinger considers this symptom specific for Bovista in chronic gastritis, esp. if accompanied by an objective coldness of the skin over the stomach region. 3
P DIARRHOEA BEFORE and during MENSES.
P Perspiration in axillae smells like GARLIC [or onions].
P Intolerable itching at tip of coccyx; must scratch until raw and sore.
P Urticaria and diarrhoea, palpitation, rheumatic lameness or menorrhagia.
< Bathing, excitement. Chronic.
Red scabby eruption on thighs and bends of knees, appearing with hot weather and with full moon.
[1] Swoboda, "Telling the truth"; HL 2/93. [2] Vrijlandt, Homeopathische prescriptie in de praktijk. [3] Mössinger, Allg. Hom. Zeitung, 1955 Heft 2.
Rubrics
Mind
Anxiety during headache [1]. Chaotic [2]. Cheerful in company [1/1]. Confusion > after breakfast [1], after coition [1], knows not where he is at night [1], while standing [1], when stooping [1]. Delusions, a heavy black cloud enveloped her [1*]; objects are turned upside down [1*]. Discontented after eating [1]. Fear of pins [pointed things] [1]. Irritability, taking everything in bad part [1]. Openhearted loquacity [1]. Secretive [1].
Vertigo
After coition [1]. Before menses [1]; during menses [1]. From wine [1].
Head
Feeling of constriction on entering a room [1/1]. Pain, > perspiration [1]; in forehead, above eyes, extending to nose [1; Agar.*].
Vision
Defective accommodation [1*]. Vertical hemiopia [1].
Nose
Epistaxis in morning in bed [1], in bleeders [1], during sleep [1].
Face
Twitching of facial muscles before attack of asthma [1/1].
Mouth
Dryness, as from sand in it [1/1]. Numbness of posterior part of tongue [3/1]. Stammering speech [2], from anger [excitement] [1*].
Stomach
Appetite, constant [1], ravenous soon after eating [1], wanting in morning [1]. Sensation of icy coldness, during pain [2], with objective coldness of skin over gastric region [1/1*]. Nausea during palpitation [1].
Abdomen
Pain > eating [2], > motion [1].
Urine
Copious during headache [1]. Purple sediment [1].
Female
Menses, copious in morning [2], copious < exertion [2], scanty during daytime [2].
Chest
Sensation of emptiness [1]. Oppression < clothing [1]. Sensation of swelling of heart [2]. Sensation as if heart were swimming in water [1].
Back
Sensation of heaviness in lumbar region before menses [1/1]. Pain, dorsal, between scapulae > straightening up the back [1/1]. Stiffness after stooping [1/1].
Limbs
Sensation as if leg were too short, from cramp in calf [1*].
Sleep
Sleeplessness after coition [1], from coldness [1], from itching [2].
Dreams
Of being in a cellar and that the walls were falling in [1/1], that she was obliged to remain and could not get out [1/1]. Danger of drowning [1]. Of snakes biting [1; Cench.; Irid.]. Of having a bleeding wound [1/1*].
Perspiration
Odour of urine [1]. On single parts, front of body [2].
Skin
Eruptions, urticaria at night [2], after bathing [1], with diarrhoea [1], after excitement [1], during menses [1], from warmth and exercise [2]. Indented easily from pressure [3; Ars.; Verat.].
* Repertory additions [Hughes].
Food
Aversion: [1]: Cooked food; milk; tobacco; warm food.
Desire: [2]: Cold drinks. [1]: Alcohol; bread; bread, only; brandy; milk; wine.
Worse: [2]: Cold food. [1]: Coffee; dry food; wine.
Better: [1]: Hot food.

Persistent weeping or crying and homeopathy

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Persistent weeping or crying
All babies cry, some are placid and happy babies and others are not so contented. Beyond the range of normal there are children or infants who cry nearly all the time and particularly at night. As in all situations a clinical evaluation is essential to exclude rare but serious organic conditions such as Intussusception, Strangulated hernia, Otitis media, or even acute Osteitis or Arthritis. Injury is an important consideration to be looked into. Poor feeding techniques, or even the possibility of intolerance of cow's milk proteins may give rise to gastrointestinal colic. Having carefully considered all the possibilities, one is often left with a screaming and desperate child and tired and very fraught parents. It is often difficult to see when the trouble began

because crying child upsets the parents and upset parents further upset the child and it becomes a vicious circle. Infants can not communicate in any other way than crying. Crying with different degrees means different things and accordingly a physician evaluates it as a symptom in various degrees. Excessive crying is a common problem in children. Its cause is often baffling and to an initiated physician often frustrating. IN many instances it is important to realize that there may be a problem of initial bonding. The child who is aware that emotionally rejected can become very irritable and cry increasingly. A thorough understanding of the psychological needs and pathological procedures which may lead to crying is essential while trying to discover the causes of crying in a given child. In the hands of a mother who has no great feelings for the baby (especially girls), child is very much at risk to non-accidental injury. Likewise, the insecure mother who senses her anxiety may also get to the point of loss of control after a prolonged period of enduring the screaming child and lack of sleep. In both cases it is important to be prepared to spend time in order to get to the bottom of things.

Now, every crying child can not be quieted with the dose of Chamomilla. Crying as a presenting problem is more common in infancy. It is largely because the infant has no other means of communication. So whether the child is thirsty, hungry, uncomfortable, insecure, lonely, frustrated, afraid or having any pain, he just cries. And any situation which leads to crying, if not resolved or properly understood may lead to persistent crying. Of course, personality of individual child has also a great influence in the frequency and persistence of crying. Here, I am reminded of a child who was crying furiously. The child was given all possible household measures as told by elders like massaging the abdomen, giving the feed, Gripe water, putting in front of the cooler. Taking the child on lap and moving slowly would give little respite to the child but the moment child used to be put on the bed, he would wake up and howl and cry endlessly beyond tolerance, finally the child was brought to me. After listening to their tale I looked into the ear for the purpose of examination but found nothing wrong, abdomen was also abdomen was also ok. Suddenly I saw a safety pin which was put on the child's shirt was unhooked and then I realised the actual problem. The moment they used to put the child on the bed this pin use to hurt the delicate body and the child was screaming with pain. By unfastening the safety pin from the shirt child was restored to normal peaceful sleep with in no time. After this incident I have made a point to first of all look for very small and petty causes before going in for other causes of crying in children and also look into the situation prevailing around them.
  Thirst is a common cause of crying particularly in our country. It is often understood that infants require comparatively much larger volumes of fluids than adults. The high Sodium content of cow's and buffalo's milk also dictates that the infant on top milk be given more water. Similarly, when solid foods are started, free water requirement goes up. If an infant is crying because of thirst, he is unlikely to be satisfied with milk. He may briefly go in for the bottle or breast, but rejects it soon as he discovers it is milk and not water. I have seen this behaviour particularly in infants suffering from diarrhoea and dehydration. Though at times, a dose of Arsenic Album or Bryonia also helps.
Hunger is becoming a more frequent cause with increasing urbanisation, adoption of top feeding and adoption of strict Victorian principle of time feeding. Often one sees very educated mothers, worried about child's discipline and their own freedom of movements allowing the child to cry even when he is hungry because the clock does not say that the child should be hungry still. Happily the scientists have proved that rigid time and scheduling of feeds leads only to development of frustrated personality in adulthood and is contributory to the development of disciplined habits of the child. Thus it would appear that the time honoured method of "On Demand Feeding" is the best. In late infancy, crying late at night is often due to hunger, because of mother's reluctance to give night feed at "such a late night". The problem can usually be resolved if the child is given a semi-solid diet late in the evening-followed by a milk feed just before sleeping. Otherwise a dose of Psorinum for midnight hunger and China for voracious appetite may be the answer.
  Wetting is a common cause of crying. In fact, it is surprising how often children do not cry even when they are wet. Quite often, the infants cry before passing urine. As we find this in Lycopodium. This usually has no pathological significance and may be only considered as a "signal from the infants" before the stream comes. The problem of perianal and perivulval rash and ulceration is likely to increase with increasing use of impermeable plastic napkins for maternal convenience.
Very often infants cry because of loneliness, particularly if left alone in the dark room, especially when they are separated from their mother or where both the parents are working. As in the case of Cina and Pulsatilla, quite often the infant cries just because he wants to be cuddled and picked up, which again is prevalent in westernly modes of infant rearing which is considered as spoiling the child, e.g. when the child stops crying on being carried as in Chamomilla.
An important but poorly recognised cause of crying in infant is frustration. The frustration is often due to inability to perform developmentally. If the infant has learnt to manipulate with his hands but gets no toys to practice then he may cry. Alternatively he may go for house hold objects like knife, matchsticks etc. which are potentially dangerous and so forbidden. This often leads to excessive crying and temper tantrums. Obviously appropriate needs of a developing child must be recognised and necessary objects and toys be made available so that the infant does not cry unnecessarily. Wanted things refused later can be taken care by few doses of Cina as if has Capraciousness as characteristic.

An important cause of crying in an infant or a child in the clinic situation, is the Doctor himself. Most of the graduating doctors having spurned Pediatric wards and out patients as unnecessary appendages of medicine during their periods of training, feel totally unsure in fact are even afraid to handle a child. They start practising the art of examination learnt in adult wards on children in a most tentative manner and this often leads to excessive crying in the child. A perspiring physician handling a howling child is a common enough clinical problem. Once the physician himself keeps some patience and gives enough time to the child to adjust and makes himself friendly to the child by using various methods and then does the examination and prescribes the Homoeopathic medicine, Later on after receiving the sweet pills and sweet behaviour from a Homoeopath the child is very unlikely to cry with a fear of a doctor.
R.S. Illingwoth has mentioned in his book that; There is an increasing interest in the nature of the cry of the infants. Analysis of the cry by Spectrographic methods has yielded interesting and useful information (michelson and Wasz-Hockert 1980). The cries of the Asphyxiated, Hypothyroid, Mongoloid and other abnormal babies all have their special characteristics when studied by these methods. Fisichelli and Karelitz showed that normal infants cry more rapidly than do children with brain abnormalities. Babies with Cerebral irritability, Meningitis, Hydrocephalus have a shrill, high pitched cry.

A hoarse gruff cry is characteristic of Hypothyroidism.
The hoarseness of Laryngitis is characteristic. More important is the cry of a child with stridor which is always present since birth.
The cat-like cry of the 'Cri-du-chat' Syndrome is characteristic. This occurs in microcephalic infants. There is often some degree of hypothyroidism, an antimongoloid slant of the eyes and low-set ears. It is associated with deletion of the distal portion of the short arm of the 4 to 5 chromosomes (Kajiiet al 1966).
Other characteristic cries are the weak cry of the child with Amyotonia congenita (or similar muscle weakness) or the child with Myasthaenia gravis, and the whimper of the seriously ill child.
The child with Pneumonia may have a grunting type of cry.
Excessive crying in later infancy and early pre school age is a behavioral problem. This is more likely to occur in border line retarded child. Resolution of behavioral problem requires a careful assessment of parental attitude and a thorough constitutional Homoeopathic remedy.
Following are the few homoeopathic remedies for weeping and crying in various situations.
Treatment
Ammonium carbonicum
Weeping on waking and rising after, Anxiety in the evening 5-6 p.m. Abusive in the evening. Weeping tearful mood. Startling at night from fright in children.
  Antimonium crudum
Child can not bear to be touched or looked at, does not wish to speak, peevish, vexed without cause. Child is very weepy and irritable. Ecstasy at night walking in moonlight, sadness before chill, child becomes sentimental during diarrhoea. Love sick, ailments from disappointed love. Quarrelsome in the evening. Repulsive mood. Weeps when touched or even looked at and weeps on trifles.
Apis mellifica
Awkward appearance, drops the thing readily, stupour with sudden sharp cries and startlings. Stupour alternating with erotic mania. Sudden shrill, piercing screams, whinning, jealousy, fright rage, vexation, grief. Desire death in the forenoon. Delusions as the tongue is made of wood and can not concentrate mind when attempting to read or study. Desires to break the things. Ailments from anger and bad news, declares there is nothing the matter with him and he is well.
Arsenicum album
Weepy, tearful mood at night, causeless weeping during the chill, during coughing in sleep. Says he is well when he is very sick. Anguish driving from place to place, restlessness, anxiety when anything is expected of him. Fastidious. Thirst for small quantity of water at frequent intervals. Bites the tumbler when drinking.
Baryta carbonica
Goes alone and weeps as if had no friends. Child thinks all visitors laugh at him. Keeps the hands over the face and peeps through the fingers and hides behind the furniture. Childish behaviour aversion to company. Dullness, sluggishness in children. Tendency to catch cold easily. Suppurative tonsillitis, quinsy. Dwarwish growth. Sensation as if forced through a narrow place, slow gasping silly and backward. Mistrustful. Lack of self confidence. Talking mania. Always borrows troubles.

Causticum
Children weep at the least worry and after spasms. Anxiety while straining at stool. Over sympathetic to others. Hopeless, despondent, wants to die. Lack of ambition. Child does not want to go to bed alone. Looks on the darker side. Lacks control and balance. Least things make him cry. Passes stool with much straining or only on standing up.
Chamomilla
Marked irritability with crying. Sends the nurse out of the room, weeps and cries during the chill and in sleep. Ugly in behaviour, cross and uncivil, quarrelsome, vexed at every trifles. Averse to being spoken to or touched or being looked at. Children want to be carried and petted to make them quiet, kicks when carried and becomes stiff. Wants many things but refuses them when offered or given. Intolerable pain, becomes mad with pain, numbness after pain.
Chelidonium majus
Weeps and cries when carried. Feels like crying with ill humour or without any reason. Liver affections. Children desire to beat. Delusions, he has ruined his health. Unconsciousness, rubbing of feet ameliorates. Inclination to fall forward. Constant pain in the inferior angle of right scapular region.
Cina maritima
Child cries piteously if taken hold of or carried, causeless weeping. Ill humour. Child very cross and does not want to be touched. Capraciousness, morose during daytime complain on waking. Irritability, rocking fast ameliorates. Moaning in the afternoon. Easily gets frightened on waking. Irritable, can not bear to be looked at. Easily gets offended, very obstinate, throws things away. Shrieking in children before convulsions.
Coffea cruda
Weeping from joy, weeping with pains, weeping alternating with laughter, weeping during headaches. Affections and ailments after pleasant surprises. Ecstasy, full of ideas, quick to act, hence wakeful. Weeps, torments and tosses about, over trifles. Cry and laugh easily, while crying suddenly laughs quite heartily and finally cries again. Joyous at one moment and gloomy at another moment.

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Weeps, cries without cause, weeps from music, sad, fearsome irresolute, hesitate at trifles. Impulse to groom, timid, dread of work. Fidgety while sitting at work. Feels miserable and unhappy. Dullness after siesta. Forgetful, makes mistakes in speaking and writing. Child impudent, teasing laughing at reprimands. Thinks of nothing but death. Memory active till midnight. Fear of death from pain and from pleasure.
Lycopodium clavatum
Weeps and cries between 4 to 8 p.m. , during chill, about future, cries aloud, cries before micturition, weeps when thanked, child is cross, kicks and scolds on waking. Weeps during perspiration and weeps when greeting a friend, loss of self confidence, weeps all day. Sad on hearing distant music. Fear of being alone. Dread of men, presence of new persons. Fear of everything even ringing of door bell. Craves sweets and hot drinks.
Natrium muriaticum
Weeps when looked at, on thinking of past events. Weeps more if he believes he is pitted. Weeps bitterly only when alone. Involuntary weeping, consolation aggravates. Immoderate laughter with tears absorbed, burried in thoughts as to what would become of him. Aversion to company, can not urinate in the presence of some one. Craves salt. Weeps at night.
Pulsatilla pratensis
Mild timid, emotional and tearful, easily moved to tears and laughter after eating. Weeping in the afternoon at 4 p.m. When disturbed t work, when interrupted, sobbing while nursing, when telling about own sickness. Better in open air. Causeless weeping during chill, involuntary weeping during heat, very irritable touchy, feels slighted or fears slight. Suspicious. Answers yes or no by nodding the head. Desires company and sympathy.

Sepia officinalis
Nervous, so that the child wants to hold on to something or he should scream. Says and does strange things. No body knows what the child will do next. Aversion to family, to those loved best.

principles of homeopathy drug thuja

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It has been elsewhere stated that Hahnemann considered the foundation of any case of chronic disease to consist in poisoning by one or more of three "miasms". Of these he distinguished one under the name of sycosis and it was as the main remedy for sycosis that he valued thuja. The field of the sycosis of Hahnemann is covered to-day strikingly by the disease gonorrhoea, and it is no small proof of Hahnemann's clinical insight that he recognised long before it became common knowledge the deep action of this deadly poison.

Other disorders associated with coccal infections often come into the thuja sphere of action . Inasmuch as Hahnemann lived before bacteriology, the boundaries of his "miasms" are less precise than they might have been if he could have drawn them some decades later and no doubt he may have included under sycosis cases not obviously gonorrhoeal; but, on the other hand, homoeopathy, always concerned at the bedside rather with body reactions than with body enemies, finds the same remedy frequently indicated in symptom-complexes, arising from diverse causes, but arousing the system to similar reactions. Thuja, therefore, while very frequently required in gonorrhoea, can also be a remedy for other conditions, and the homoeopathist chooses it by its indications among the symptoms rather than by the presence of one specific germ of disease.
One of the features by which Hahnemann distinguished sycosis was a tendency to the development of warty growths and especially of soft cockscomb-like papillomata, bleeding readily and moist with an unpleasant secretion. It has been already noted that Professor Lewin finds evidence of a specific power of thuja over papillomata and the provings well confirm this belief. Whenever papillomata are present, and most of all when they show characteristics outlined above, thuja comes swiftly to mind, not that it is the only remedy for such new growths by any means, but because it is a very prominent one.
Thuja is one of the remedies that suits those whose complaints are much aggravated by damp and cold, but especially by damp. The unfavourable reaction readily takes the form of catarrh of mucous membranes through the lowering of systemic resistance to germs of catarrh and for infections of the upper respiratory passages and genito-urinary tract,and for certain chronic gastric conditions, when damp and cold aggravate the symptoms, thuja comes well forward as a likely remedy. A kindred drug is sulphate of soda, but the discharges that fit this medicine are more profuse and purulent. The discharges that suggest thuja are free, but not excessive, of muco-pus and generally foul smelling.
Chronic catarrh, sensitiveness to damp cold and tendency to new growths are, then, leading indications for thuja, but there is another, even more important. Thuja has a marked action upon the skin, producing either scaly patches suggesting psoriasis (often pigmented), warts, or condylomata, or a definitely pustular eruption, not as a rule covering very wide areas, but suggesting in the individual pustule the characteristic pock of small-pox. For this reason thuja has been used for small-pox considerably and there is reason to believe that it has real value in the disease; but the eruption is even more like that of vaccination and it is the relation of thuja to vaccinosis (as Burnett called it) that has become significant. In so far as it is generally used to decry the value of vaccination (a question not here at issue), the fact is generally denied or made light of that various chronic disease symptoms not infrequently seem to start from vaccination, successful or even unsuccessful.
The question deserves further consideration, however. Apart from vaccination, chronic skin troubles, neuralgias, dyspepsias, etc.,may present thuja symptoms and respond to thuja. But clinical observation finds that a starting point of disease in vaccination is an additional indication for the drug, and even when other thuja symptoms are not prominent this relationship may hold good for the relief of the patient. More difficult for many physicians is the whole conception of "vaccinosis" as an entity of disease. However, there is no question, first, that vaccine lymph contains a powerful toxic agent, and, second, that the body reacts to it sometimes violently. Further, several germ poisons ( e.g. , influenza) produce effects which continue long after the acute stage is past. There is nothing, therefore, inconceivable in the conception that vaccine lymph should (in susceptible subjects, and these alone are in question here) produce remote and lasting effects. Clinical observers who look for evidence of this will find it, and Burnett's views can be taken at least as a working hypothesis. Even if the risk of "vaccinosis" be conceded, it is not a very frequent or often a severe sequel of one vaccination. Repeated vaccinations are more likely to give rise to it and the element of risk should be weighed against the prophylactic power for which the operation is undertaken.
Another general antidotal effect of thuja has been clinically discovered and emphasised by the late Dr. Clarke, and that is its power to relieve chronic symptoms brought on by abuse of tea. The headaches and subjective heart symptoms, sleeplessness and dyspepsia of tea drinkers to excess are frequently relieved promptly by thuja when the mere cessation of the poison has brought no early relief.
The thuja patient is frequently an individual with dark complexion, black hair and unhealthy skin, though children are often light haired. It is pre-eminently the remedy to be considered in the treatment of illnesses following vaccination and maltreated gonorrhoea and where there is a history of snake bite or small-pox. It has been found to be both preventative and curative in an epidemic of small-pox. It aborted the disease and prevented the pitting when the disease had developed.
To these general features that characterise the drug can now be added regional symptoms in detail. The thuja patient is a sick person, of soft fibre, easily exhausted and easily prostrated. His appearance is characteristic, he is sickly looking with a waxy shiny face that looks as if it has been smeared over with grease. Mentally he is anxious, indisposed to do anything and with a disposition to weep; he is especially so affected by music. This mental condition of dejection and depression may even approach melancholia and is then apt to be characterised by fixed ideas. These are usually fantastic ( e.g. , a delusion of fragility, as if the body were brittle and would easily break; or he imagines there is a living animal in the abdomen; feels as if he were under the influence of some superior power). He is apt to be ill-humoured and peevish; a characteristic symptom is tha the will act hurried and talk hastily and he is extremely scrupulous about small things. Slight degrees of aphasia or allied conditions ( e.g. , use of wrong words in writing or speaking) are not uncommon.
There is a definite influence on sleep and thuja is suited to patients who wake early and cannot sleep afterwards ( cf. nux vomica). The dreams are often of falling from a height.
The headaches which indicate the drug cause much mental confusion; they are often dull and stupefying, but relieved by the open air.
The special sense organs show the effects of thuja in chronic catarrhs and tendency to develop overgrowths of tissue. Thus, not only papillomata, but granulations ( e.g. , anal), polypi and fibromata can be benefited. Conjunctivitis with lachrymation is marked, and, remembering the deadly effect of the gonococcus on this structure, any local measures adopted for the cure of gonorrhoeal conjunctivitis should be supplemented with thuja as an internal remedy. Burnett had a saying that "Gonorrhoea is the mother of catarrh", meaning thereby that uncured gonorrhoea, even if latent, predisposed to all kinds of secondary infections of nearly all mucous surfaces. Thuja certainly affects all mucous membranes, tending to cause muco-purulent,copious, foul-smelling discharges, and therefore, on grounds of similarity, its curative relation to gonorrhoeal cases becomes emphasised.
The alimentary canal is a site of marked action of thuja. It affects the teeth profoundly; the roots become carious, while the crown remains sound, or relatively sound. The gums are swollen and inflamed. Pyorrhoea alveolaris is certainly often helped by the administration of the remedy. Ranula and epulis are both conditions for which thuja has been given with success. The tongue is usually clean or only thinly coated and often is red and painful. The power of thuja to antidote excess in tea-drinking has been already mentioned and great tea-drinkers often present a tongue of this character, even when (as often they are) constipated. There is a chronic post-nasal catarrh characteristic of thuja and a chronic pharyngitis with swollen veins and unhealthy mucous membrane.
The appetite is capricious. There is often a mawkish or sweetish taste in the mouth, to relieve which the patient craves salt. Cold food is preferred and a very little as a rule satisfies the appetite.
Every sign of chronic catarrh of the stomach is present : eructations,vomiting (mucus and food), nausea, discomfort, pressure and flatulence. Acute pain is not so common and signs of actual ulceration rare. The sensations are rather those of weight and pressure. Abies nigra, a plant allied to thuja, has a deserved reputation for similar gastric conditions, when the sensation of a lump in the stomach after food is very clear and definite. The catarrhal condition appears to extend throughout the greater part of the bowel, with flatulence and discomfort and soreness as accompanying symptoms. There is marked constipation and tenesmus and the anus shows haemorrhoids or condylomata, cracks or fissures with great frequency. Offensive perspirations are usual in groin and round buttocks and genitals. Occasionally there is an early morning sudden explosive diarrhoea.
In the respiratory sphere there are again signs of catarrh. The larynx is affected and trachea and polypus of the vocal cord has disappeared under the drug. There is not much evidence of effects of thuja on the lungs, but the whole bronchial tract is influenced. Sputum is of muco-pus and cough irritating and explosive. Asthma is a disease wherein at times thuja has great power. It is to be chosen largely, however, from general symptoms, such as aggravation from damp weather and association with a history of gonorrhoea or of repeated vaccinations. With regard to the latter, the asthma of sycosis frequently produces symptoms during the attack which call for arsenicum. In such cases, in order to clear up the condition it becomes necessary to follow the palliative drug with an anti-sycotic remedy such as thuja (or natrum sulph.).
The genito-urinary sphere is one of the utmost importance for the action of thuja. In the female are to be noted as indications for it gonorrhoeal symptoms of all kinds, discharges condylomata, ulcers and swellings.
In the male the effects of both acute and chronic gonorrhoea are similarly countered. Urethritis, prostatitis, varicocele, ulcers, condylomata and balanitis - any of these local conditions suggest thuja, and if the general constitution of the patient is not definitely opposed to that which indicates the drug, this is the remedy of choice. The more chronic effects of gonorrhoea are signally helped - persistent urethritis and prostatitis and arthritis. There is some evidence of the effect of the drug on the kidney tissue. Sharp pains in the kidney region may be experienced, and in the urinary passages a continuous urging to urinate and often severe cutting pains after urination. In this connection a keynote of thuja may be mentioned. A pain experienced in any part of the body may be accompanied with frequent micturition. But it is rather the passages from ureters to bladder and then the urethra that feel the influence of thuja most, and for any recent inflammations in those regions it has definite claims for consideration. Sugar, blood, mucus and albumen have all been found in the urine of subjects under the influence of thuja, but the mere presence of any one of them would not be sufficient indication for its use without some further symptoms from the general pathogenesis.
It may be appropriate here to consider the question of local applications (irrigations, etc.) in gonorrhoea. Comfort and cleanliness demand some irrigation, but the homoeopathist is,as a rule, inclined to doubt the value of the very powerful antiseptics that are fashionable. It is clear that their use does not avail to prevent a greater or less degree of generalised infection. Urethral discharges may quickly cease under their use and the patient apparently recovers more quickly than if they are not used, but bitter experience most frequently shows that the disease is latent, not eradicated.
Subjects in whom gonorrhoea is uncured are often sufferers from subjective cardiac symptoms. Those that indicate thuja are palpitation (worse morning), cardiac anxiety and stitching pain and a slow, weak pulse, with occasional bursts of tachycardia.
The joint condition have already been discussed. Gonorrhoeal arthritis, acute or chronic, may be helped by thuja, and even when there is no clear history of this disease it is worth a trial if there is much worsening of symptoms from damp and if local foul-smelling sweats are present. Movement generally relieves pains to some extent and heat (oddly enough) is not often grateful when locally applied, rather the reverse. Pyorrhoea as a cause of arthritis is another possible indication for thuja.
Muscle sheaths and fasciae may be effected in cases that respond to thuja,and a few years ago a most extraordinary improvement was effected by this drug in two cases of the rare disease myositis ossificans, treated at the London Homoeopathic Hospital. Both were advanced cases of the disease and one was well known to most of the hospitals in London. The improvement made under thuja was well-nigh miraculous and sustained. In both these cases the drug was chosen on the whole symptom-complex, not on the local muscle symptoms, but it is interesting that each case, considered quite independently, worked out to the same remedy and justified the choice of it by its response.
Finally, the skin in thuja subjects may show a variety of eruptions, papular or pustular, eczematous or like psoriasis. The nails suffer, chilblains are common, the sweat glands are active (sweating is generally more on parts uncovered), and extra pigment is deposited. The tendency to warty growths is marked.
The general modalities of thuja are : an early morning aggravation of symptoms from 3 a.m. onwards, also at 3 p.m. the patient is chilly; worse cold damp air : worse bright light : worse sun : worse during the waxing moon : the left side of the body is predominantly affected. Pains are worse at night and worse from the heat of the bed. Pains are frequently found in localised small spots and often accompanied by frequent micturition.

homeopathic remedy Thuja occidentalis physical examination and observation

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Physiognomy and examination
Hair on unusual parts, for example between the eyebrows but absent on the lateral parts of the eyebrows.
Sensitivity of the third cervical nerve along the spine on the right side (radiculitis) with painful sensitivity if you press downward and backward toward the brachial plexus in the fossa supraclavicularis or in axilla, resulting in twitching of lips and ear on the right side, in pain along ulnar nerve and in a compensatory stiffness of the left side of the external throat. So, the left sterno-clavicular joint is raised.
Radiculitis of the fifth dorsal nerve on the left side with sensitivity of the 5¦ intercostal space at the anterior axillar line.

This nerve acts also on the stomach (see figure in addendum: D5 is related with the stomach). (Fear is felt in stomach).
There is a stress at the height of the second and third lumbar vertebra, resulting in a spasm of the musculus iliopsoas.
(N.B. : Lovette-brother vertebrae C3 - L3).
There is also a spasm of caecum. (Thuja gets diarrhoea when nervous). The junction point between the caecum and the colon ascendens is very sensitive (see figure in addendum: L2 related with the appendix). Left sided colitis (cfr. Lyc. and Ox. ac.).
Sensitivity of the fifth lumbar nerve on the left side: left sided sciatica.
(Also, pain at left testis or ovary, pain at left sacro-iliac joint and pain at left inguinal region, extending to axilla). (see addendum, figure: L5 related with the reproductive organs).
Scoliosis.
(Right) shorter leg.
Muscle-tests: - Weakness of the right musculus supraspinatus* (relation with the conception vessel meridian).
- Weakness of the left musculus latissimus dorsi* (relation with the spleen meridian).
- Weakness of the left musculus gluteus medius* (relation with the circulation sex meridian).
- Weakness of the right musculus tensor fasciae latae* (relation with the large intestine meridian).
This can create a right genu varus.
Target organs: genito-urinary tract, perineum, glands and skin.
Appearance and behaviour
Adults
Adapted to people with a hydrogenoid or lymphatic constitution. They are very fleshy people with dark complexion, black hair, unhealthy skin, greasy and waxy face with dry, deep naso-genian folds.
Women often have hirsutism (cfr. Ign., Lyc. and Sep.).
Children
Adapted to children with lax muscles and light hair.
There can be a left congenital inguinal hernia or an umbilical hernia which protrudes when crying.
Inquisitive and know-all children.
Children, especially if retarded, have the hair dry, hard and strawy, like threads and their skin is sometimes dirty and shining.
Behaviour during the consultation
Thuja patients are manipulative. They create confusion and mislead people. They are not extroverted and keep information behind. They are serious and cannot take a joke. During the interview, they have the inclination to look behind them, as if a stranger would enter the room. They have difficulties expressing their emotions and often seek for words when in conversation. You have the impression that they always distort the information. They are very worried about their health. You have to think of the possibility of thuja when the patient tells you a long story without much clarity.
Family anamnesis: gonorrhoeal infection, rheumatism, allergy.
Personal anamnesis: conflicts with parents and educators (makes them very suspicious), never well since vaccination or childhood disease (chronic nose catarrh), history of hay-fever and allergy shots, (suppressed) gonorrhoea, injury of spine.
Clinical observations
Obsessional neurosis (fixed ideas). They often have a fanatical trait.
Mental depression after childbirth.
Dandruff, white. Lustreless hair.
Eczema on 'glabella'. (Also, frontal sinusitis with a medial pain-spot). Hair-growth on glabella*.
Hair is very dry or greasy, becomes grey early or falls out, especially on vertex.
Nystagmus disappears while writing.
Big greasy nose. Rhinophyma.
Coryza during stool.
Cracks at wings of nose.
Acne on chin. Acne, which leaves sunken scars (cfr. Calc. sil.).
Eczema at fissure of right wing of nose.
Warts around nostrils. Warts on chin (cfr. Lyc.).
Cracking jaw when chewing or when opening mouth wide.
Pale face after eating. Freckles.
Ranula. Epulis. Mapped tongue.
Varicosis on tongue. Bluish lines on lips.
Teeth decay at roots (children). Teeth are black and crumble.
Aversion to uncover the throat.
Heartburn on stooping (= hernia of stomach).
Condylomata.
Hardened prostate with watery discharge and gonorrhoea in the anamnesis.
Offensive sperm.
Copious and short menses.
Metrorrhagia after a warm bath.
During pregnancy: child moves so violently that it wakens the mother.
After parturition: quiet disposition and even mental depression.
Asthma and hay-fever: in 'sycotic' children, especially after vaccination (cfr. Nat.s. ).
Chronic laryngitis in children.
Cough while lying on left side, turning on right side ameliorates and makes expectoration easier.
Angina pectoris from emotions, which ameliorates by eructation.
Blue colour of skin around clavicles. Brown spots on chest.
Tumour of right breast in male.
Backache with standing erect almost impossible after sitting.
Cracking in cervical region on moving the head.
Skin of neck is brown and greasy.
Enlargement of joints, esp. 'osteoarthropathy hypertrophicante pneumonique'.
P.S. H.(right) with aggravation of pain from lying on.
Blue fingernails, during menses.
Nails are brittle, corrugated, crippled, softening, ugly and distorted.
Ingrown toenails.
Tendency to cellulitis of thighs with 'water' obesity (cfr. Bad.).
During chill: red face, difficult respiration, aversion to uncovering, blue fingernails.
During fever: cheerful and industrious, pale face, cold hands and feet, desire for uncovering.
During sleep: moans, shrieks, restless feet, masturbation, perspiration (disappearing at once as soon as he awakens).
Perspiration on uncovered parts, except the head.
Perspiration on parts, not lain on (cfr. Benz. ac.).
Perspiration on upper lip, or on eyebrows, or around the nose, or on nates only, or about groins on inner surface of thighs, or on toes.
Perspiration, at times oily (staining the clothes yellow), or fetid, or smelling sweetish, like honey, or like garlic.
Frosty deposits in axillae on hair (cfr. Sel.).
Skin can be dirty and shining, and tend to the colour of earth, especially in cancerous conditions.
Coppery eruptions on covered parts. Naevi.
Varicosis: fine nets of veins, as if marbled on face and soles of feet.
Anaemia: does not react on iron, but very well on 'vitamin E' (Dr. Pladys).
Cretinism.
Morvan's disease (cfr. Aur.m. ).
Early arteriosclerosis.
Hardenings of tumours: fibromas, enlarged prostate-gland, glands, lipoma, polypi in ear, sinus, pharynx and on vocal cords, styes, warts,...
Lack of vital heat but warmth aggravates.
Pains begin and end suddenly (cfr. Bell.). Frequent micturition during the pain. Pains ameliorate by wrapping up.
Energetic points
Weihe point: situated just above the middle of the line connecting the xiphoid process and the umbilicus (= Conception Vessel 12).
TL: - Stomach 3, on the left side. This point is situated on the left cheek on one inch (cun) distance lateral from the ala nasi.
- Another Thuja point is located on the right mastoid process.
- On the right kidney, when the patient crosses the ankles.

TEKENING TUB.

understanding homeopathy remedy Borax veneta

2011-10-27T04:38:00.000-07:00

OCCURRENCE Found on alkaline lake shores, in playa lakes and other evaporite deposits, borax is a soft and light, transparent crystalline substance of sweetish taste. Extensive borax deposits are found in California [Death Valley], Turkey, Tibet, and the Andes Mountains.
PROPERTIES The decahydrate - named borax or Jaikin - consists of hard odourless crystals, granules or crystalline powder. Due to giving up of the water of crystallisation to the atmosphere, it becomes coated with white powder in dry air. When heated it swells up, while at the same time losing
water, and changes into a glassy mass, formerly called borax pearls. At 100o half of its water content is gone and at 320o it is free from water [anhydrous]. The anhydrous form, also called fused sodium borate or borax glass, consists of glass-like plates. It becomes opaque on exposure to air. The pentahydrate is used in very large quantities in the manufacture of insulation fiberglass and sodium perborate bleach. Dissolves many metallic oxides when fused with them.
USES Borax has many uses: soldering metals; manufacture of glazes and enamels; tanning; in cleaning compounds; artificially ageing wood; as preservative, either alone or with other antiseptics against wood fungus; fireproofing fabrics and wood; curing and preserving skins; in cockroach control. 1 The glass-industry is by far the largest market for borates [salts of boric acid], followed by the industries of detergents and of pesticides [algae in swimming pools; fleas; cockroaches; etc.]. As a mild antiseptic used in lotions, gargles, mouthwashes, and as a detergent. As a cosmetic ingredient used in cold creams, foundation creams, hair colour rinses, permanent-wave solutions, hair-setting lotions, freckle lotions, nail whiteners, eye lotions, and shaving creams.
TOXICOLOGY Since borates are rapidly absorbed from mucous membranes and abraded skin, toxic symptoms may develop from prolonged use. These include anorexia, weight loss, vomiting, diarrhoea [typically of a blue-green colour], skin rash [weeping eczema], falling of hair, convulsions and anaemia. Ingestion of 5 to 10 g of borax can cause severe vomiting, diarrhoea, shock, and death in young children. It has a drying effect on the skin and may cause irritation. Continued use of shampoos containing sodium borate causes the hair to become dry and brittle. Also used to prevent irritation of the skin by the antiperspirant aluminium chloride.
BORON Along with aluminium, gallium, indium, and thallium, boron constitutes group 13 [formerly group 3A] of the periodic table. None of the elements of this group occurs free [uncombined] in nature. Boron is more or less the black sheep of the family: it is the lightest member and the only one being considered a metalloid [having properties of both metals and nonmetals]. Boron's place in the periodic table is in between beryllium and carbon, above aluminium and diagonally to silicon. Physically and chemically, silicon is its closest ally.
OCCURRENCE The earth's crust contains about 0.001% of boron. It occurs usually as orthoboric acid in volcanic spring waters and as borates in borax, tincal, rasorite and colemanite.
PROPERTIES Boron has the optical characteristic that it transmits portions of the infrared. It is a poor conductor of electricity at room temperature, but a good conductor at high temperature. Like aluminium, its reaction with oxygen is self-limiting due to the formation of a boric oxide film. In pyrotechnic flares, amorphous boron provides a distinctive green colour. Boron crystals are almost as hard as diamond. Zinc borate makes plastics flame-resistant.
OPTICS In the boron mineral ulexite, nature provides its own version of fibre optics: closely packed fibrous crystals. If polished flat on both sides perpendicular to the fibres, ulexite will show an unusual optical phenomenon by transmitting images from one side of the specimen to the other; ulexite, resting on a newspaper will have the writing appear to be on top of the specimen without any distortion of the lettering. The newspaper can be read upon the surface of the ulexite! The manmade version - bundles of extremely thin flexible glass fibres - is used in optical instruments to transmit maximum light by total internal reflection, giving images of maximum clarity, and designed, because of their flexibility, for seeing into otherwise inaccessible places.
GLASS Boron occupies a special place in the glass-industry. Boron oxide is mixed with silica to make heat-resistant glass [borosilicate glass or Pyrex glass] for use in cooking ware and certain types of laboratory equipment. Borosilicate glass is less apt to break when subjected to rapid temperature changes. In addition, it is resistant to many chemicals and is an electrical insulator. Fibres and fabrics made of it possess excellent heat insulation and fire-resistant qualities. It is also an excellent encapsulation material for radioactive waste that had been aged for a decade.
ENERGY Boron is an excellent energy source. Boranes - compounds of boron and hydrogenium - furnish high-energy fuels [double the energy of kerosene] used in rockets in the 1950s. Due to the toxicity of the exhaust fumes as well as the high costs, this application was soon abandoned.
USES "Limited quantities of elemental boron are widely used to increase hardness in making steel. Added as the iron alloy ferroboron, it is present in many steels, usually in the range of 0.001 to 0.005 per cent. Boron is also utilized in the nonferrous-metals industry, generally as a deoxidizer, in copper-base alloys and high-conductance copper as a degasifier, and in aluminium castings to refine the grain. In the semiconductor industry, small, carefully controlled amounts of boron are added as a doping agent to silicon and germanium to modify electrical conductivity. Boron combines with various metals to form a class of compounds called borides. The borides are usually harder, chemically less reactive, and electrically less resistive and have a higher melting point than the corresponding pure metallic elements. Some of the borides are among the hardest and most heat-resistant of all known substances. Aluminium boride, for example, is used in many cases as a substitute for diamond dust for grinding and polishing. ... Two geological settings are conducive for the formation of borate minerals. The first is commercially more valuable and consists of an environment where an impermeable basin received borate-bearing solutions that resulted from volcanic activity. Subsequent evaporation caused precipitation of hydrated alkali and alkaline-earth borate minerals. With increased depth of burial resulting from additional sedimentation, beds of compositionally stratified borates crystallized as a consequence of temperature and pressure gradients. Because evaporation must occur for precipitation of the borates, such basin deposits usually occur in desert regions. The second geologic setting for borate minerals is a metamorphic carbonate-rich environment, where they are formed as a result of alteration of the surrounding rocks by heat and pressure. Some compounds were produced by the reaction of boron-bearing vapour derived from hot intruding granites during metamorphism; others are the recrystallization products of evaporite borates. Numerous borosilicates [e.g. tourmaline] were formed under these conditions."2
PROTECTION The naturally occurring isotope -10 is used in nuclear chemistry as neutron absorber, as a control for nuclear reactors [by preventing chain reactions in uranium atoms from running wild and producing an explosion] and as a shield for nuclear radiation. The shielding property of boron-10 is quite remarkable: 1 cm of boron-10 provides as much protection as 20 cm of lead or 5 metres of concrete. In addition, it is used in delayed action fuses, as igniter in radio tubes and in air bags in motorcars, and as coating material in solar batteries. Boron compounds are extensively used in the manufacture of borosilicate glasses. Boron nitride can make material as hard as diamond, but also has lubricating properties similar to graphite.
INDICATOR Borax as well as phosphor salts can be formed into a pearl-like shape when heated in a flame. If the still hot pearl is brought into contact with the pulverised oxide of a metal, the pearl will change into the colour that is specific for the metal concerned.
GROWTH Boron is required for the growth of vascular plants and embryonic development in fish. Deficiency signs were first discovered in plants, showing it to be an essential element for plants as early as 1910. Boron is immobile in plants; hence deficiency symptoms show up first in younger tissues. The symptoms resemble calcium deficiency: leaves turn yellow and curl upward; tips of leaves fail to expand. Too much boron results in the same effects; excess of boron as well as lack of boron interferes with calcium intake of plants. Boron-deficient plant tissues are brittle or fragile, while plants grown on high boron levels may have unusually flexible or resilient tissues. In addition, boron is poorly absorbed from soils with low potassium content, e.g. saline soils. Gigantism of several species of plants growing in soil naturally abundant in boron has been reported. Boron plays a role in the formation of pectin in the plant cell wall.
PHYSIOLOGY Boron as a trace mineral was recently found to be of prime importance in humans for the proper absorption and utilization of calcium and magnesium. A study involving postmenopausal women who supplemented their diet with 3 mg of boron daily resulted in reduced calcium excretion by 44 per cent and dramatically increased the levels of estradiol. It also interacts with potassium, vitamin D and the essential amino acid methionine. There is sufficient evidence that it raises in women the level of estradiol, the most potent naturally occurring estrogen. Boron can therefore be beneficial in menopause. It has also been found to be effective in alleviating symptoms of arthritis, esp. juvenile arthritis. Deficiency symptoms of boron include bone demineralization, brittle bones, arthritis, low estrogen levels in menopause, and reduced growth. Body builders use boron supplements because these supposedly double testosterone in a short time, thus contributing to muscle growth.
BIOCHEMISTRY "Boron is distributed throughout the tissues and organs of humans with the highest concentration in the bones and dental enamel. These range from 5 to 15 mcg per g ash and from 0.5 to 190 mcg per g dry enamel respectively. Blood plasma boron is high at birth but decreases rapidly within 5 days of birth. After ingestion of boron, the greatest increases occur in spleen, kidney and brain although thyroid levels remain at the same high figures as before."3 The total body burden is 20 mg boron.
FOOD The best natural sources are legumes, fruits and vegetables. Highly fertilized crops provide much less quantities of boron. Foods of animal origin are a poor source of boron. Legumes are particularly rich in boron. Of the vegetables, cabbage, asparagus, celery, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, and beet are richest in boron. Fruits with a high content of boron include plum, quince, strawberry, peach, apple, fig, tomato, pear, sour cherry, red currant, and apricot. Boron appears to be important for plant nutrient content. It increases carotene level of carrots, and ascorbic acid [vitamin C] in cabbage, lettuce and snap beans. Beverages like wine, cider and beer contain significant amounts of the mineral.
MEDICINE The neutron absorbing properties of boron-10 are utilized in an experimental approach to cancer treatment called Boron Neutron Capture Therapy. "First, a boron-containing compound is administered to the test animal or patient. This boron-containing compound must be able to accumulate to higher concentrations in the tumour than in the surrounding normal tissues. Next, a beam of low-energy neutrons is directed at the boron-containing tumour. The interaction of the B-10 with a thermal neutron [neutron capture] causes the B-10 nucleus to split, releasing an alpha particle and a lithium nucleus. These products of the boron neutron capture reaction are very damaging to cells but have a combined path length in tissue of approximately 14 micrometers, or roughly the diameter of one or two cells. These charged particles release sufficient energy locally to kill any tumour cells containing high concentrations of boron without appreciably harming normal cells that contain low concentrations of boron [selective cell surgery by radiation targeting]. The selective delivery of radiation dose to the tumour during BNCT is due primarily to the biodistribution of the boron compound, not to the incident beams of neutrons. This provides a potential advantage of BNCT over other forms of radiation therapy. High tumour/normal tissue boron concentration ratios have been demonstrated in experimental animal tumours and in surgical samples from glioblastoma patients. If individual tumour cells or small clusters of tumour cells infiltrating the normal brain, preferentially accumulate the boron delivery agent to the same degree as has been shown for surgical tumour samples, they will receive significantly higher dose than the immediately adjacent normal brain. The concept of BNCT is not new. Patients with malignant gliomas were irradiated with thermalized reactor neutrons for BNCT at Brookhaven National Laboratory [BNL] [1951-1961] and, starting later [1959-1961], at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]. The disappointing results of these trials were attributed to two primary factors: 1) inadequate tumour-specificity of the boron compounds employed, and 2) insufficient penetration of thermal neutrons. Efforts to deliver therapeutic neutron fluences to deep tumours resulted in excessive damage to the skin. The high boron concentrations in blood and brain tissue during irradiation damaged the blood vessels in normal brain. Since the 1950s, there has been considerable improvement in boron compounds and neutron beams. More is known now about the radiation biology of BNCT, which has re-emerged as a potentially useful method for preferential irradiation of tumours. Clinical trials have been initiated at BNL and MIT, with an improved boron compound and higher energy [more deeply penetrating] neutrons."4
OSTEOPOROSIS There is a strong connection between the boron content of soil and the incidence of osteoporosis. High levels of boron are most likely to occur in soil derived from marine sediments and arid soils. The average soil concentration of boron is 10 mg/kg, while it has a concentration of 4.6 mg/l in ocean water. Israel has a soil comparatively rich in boron and also one of the lowest osteoporosis rates. Conversely, Jamaica's soil is extremely poor in boron and its population includes more people than average who suffer from osteoporosis. "Epidemiological studies indicate a relationship between boron intake in the diet and the prevalence of arthritis in various populations. Where boron intake is lowest, there is a high incidence of arthritis [50-70 per cent in Mauritius and Jamaica]. Where the diet provides more available boron [0.5-1.5 ppm] the incidence of arthritis is 20 per cent [UK, USA, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand]. Daily intakes of more than 1.5 ppm in boron give rise to the lowest incidence of arthritis [Israel and limited areas in other countries]. Trials indicate that human beings and animals respond well to supplements of 6-9 mg boron daily, and in a few weeks reduction of symptoms in 80-90 per cent of cases has been claimed. This therapeutic dose of 6-9 mg boron daily can be reduced to 3 mg once symptoms are relieved. When added to the 2 mg in the diet, these studies suggest that 3 mg supplementation [giving 5 mg daily in total] should relieve arthritic symptoms. Extra boron has been found to give harder bones than the normal arthritic femur. In one examination, arthritic femurs had only half the content of boron [29 ppm] compared to healthy bone [60 ppm]."5
COGNITION In 1994, the effects of dietary boron on cognitive performance were investigated in three studies with healthy older men and women. "When the low boron intake was compared with the high intake, there was a significant increase in the proportion of low-frequency brain activity, and a decrease in the proportion of higher-frequency activity, an effect often observed in response to general malnutrition and heavy metal toxicity. Performance [e.g., response time] on various cognitive and psychomotor tasks also showed an effect of dietary boron. When contrasted with the high boron intake, low dietary boron resulted in significantly poorer performance on tasks emphasizing manual dexterity; eye-hand coordination; attention; perception; encoding and short-term memory; and long-term memory. The data from these three studies indicate that boron may play a role in human brain function and cognitive performance."6
THEMES The main themes of boron seem to be hardness, protection and growth. It is the second hardest element [after carbon, diamond], it hardens metals and bones, and it makes glass more shatterproof.
PROVINGS •• [1] Hahnemann - 2 [male] provers; method: unknown.
•• [2] Fischer - provings with tincture of Borax, 1857.
[1] Merckx Index. [2] Encyclopaedia Britannica. [3] Mervyn, Vitamins and Minerals. [4] Brookhaven National Laboratory Medical Research Center. [5] Mervyn, ibid. [6] Penland, Dietary boron, brain function, and cognitive performance; Environ. Health Perspective, Nov. 1994.
Affinity
Occiput. NUTRITION [NERVES; MUCOUS MEMBRANES]. MOUTH. Skin. Kidneys. Bladder. * RIGHT SIDE.
Modalities
Worse: DOWNWARD MOTION. MORNING. Wine. Sudden noises. Cold; wet. Fruit. Smoking [diarrhoea]. Before urinating. Salty or sour food. Touch.
Better: Pressure. Walking in open air. Smoking [toothache].
Main symptoms
M Hypersensitivity to unexpected noise.
STARTING from SLIGHT NOISES ["unusual sharp sounds, a cough, sneeze, a cry, lighting a match, etc." - Mathur].
Starting from sleep, crying, terrified, clinging, without cause, or SHRIEKING IN SLEEP. Clinging as if frightened.
• "The child weeps periodically very violently, after some minutes it stops, and is then very friendly and laughs." [Hahnemann]
M Lack of shielding / lack of borders.
Confusion of own identity with that of others.
• "I am only worth something if I have something to give. As a therapist I feel the diseases of the patient. If someone has a toothache I feel it right away. In a past life I had a twin sister and I lost the place where I end and she begins. As a child I was told that there was no difference between me and my mother, that everything is just one. ... I don't have the ability to be an individual, independent and on my own. A feeling that I was dependant on her and she on me, and that we cannot be separated."1
• Borax patients are highly excitable individuals with a great intensity of both their emotions and thoughts. Their thoughts and feelings can be so confused that they cannot be separated one from the other. They are people who do not understand what it is to be cool and phlegmatic. There is a resemblance to Phosphorus in the vulnerability to external impressions and stimulus. However, Borax patients are not as receptive and sympathetic as Phosphorus." [Vithoulkas]
M Aggravation from mental effort.
Thinking is difficult and may bring on nausea.
M FEAR of and AGGRAVATION from DOWNWARD MOTION [aeroplane, escalator, stairs].
Causes anxiety, vertigo, confusion, headache.
• "Very timid, in driving down a mountain; quite at variance with his customary bearing; he felt as if it would take his breath away [the first 5 weeks]." [Hahnemann]
• "The child is timid while being dandled; when it is rocked up and down in the arms it makes a very frightened face during the downward motion [the first 3 weeks]." [Hahnemann]
• "A new understanding of Borax that can be suggested is that they feel that they don't have ground under their feet and that is why they are afraid of going down. Ground means something solid, basic, routine, structured. That is when their pathology starts, at the age when we are supposed to build our ground, our basic identity. The process of separation from our guide goes wrong. That is why the Borax child clings to his mother; he doesn't have his own identity and is afraid to let go."2
M Nervous, anxious, fidgety.
Dislikes strangers.
M Anger; takes offence easily.
Scolding and cursing about trifles.
• "Before the stool, which ensued easily in the afternoon, he was peevish, cross, lazy, discontented; after it cheerful, contented with himself and with the world, and looking brightly into the future." [Hahnemann]
G Infants with pale face refuse to eat or have little appetite and little gain in weight; after birth-trauma.
G Young women with shining red nose.
G Chilliness [general] but heat in / of single parts.
Heat in mouth, vagina, palms of hands.
Hot head of nervous, crying infants.
G Desire for open air, but cold air <.
G Appetite decreased or wanting.
G Thirst increased or extreme.
[Thirst after sweating; after sleep; before chill; during chill.]
G Easy conception, during the use of borax, observed by Schreter in five women.
G < Fruit. [Fruit is rich in boron.]
• "After eating stewed apples with mutton, fulness of the stomach, with peevishness and ill humour, and fulness in the head, as if the blood were violently pressing in."
• "After eating pears, esp. in the morning or forenoon, pressure in the scrobiculus cordis, with discomfort." [Hahnemann]
Stomach pain after fruit.
Diarrhoea after fruit [pears].
G < AFTER menses.
G < During SLEEP.
G < RIDING on the cars.
G > Seashore.
G APHTHOUS, catarrhal tendency. Mucous stools.
G Clear, thick, hot, biting discharges.
P Hair tangles easily; cannot be combed smooth.
P Aphthous stomatitis: white patches with red areola [prevents child from nursing].
During dentition [and excessive salivation].
Hot mouth; hot urine making the child cry when urinating.
Sore mouth from plate of teeth; < after eating salty or sour food.
P Pain in the OPPOSITE BREAST during nursing.
P Slightest injury suppurates; DRY SKIN, festers easily, won't heal.
Tendency of old wounds and ulcers to suppurate.
[1-2] Rosenthal and Azriel, 'I lost the place where I end and she begins', A case of Borax; HL 1/00.
Rubrics
Mind
Fruitlessly busy [1]. Clinging, child awakens terrified, knows no one, clings to those near [3]. Cursing about trifles [1*]. Delusion he is possessed by a devil [1]. Dulness > walking in open air [1]. Fear of contagious disease [1]; from sudden noise [2]; of thunderstorm [2]. Idiocy with shrill shrieking [2]. Mistakes in space and time [1]. Changeable mood, > epistaxis [1/1]. Thoughts sexual [1*]. Fritters away his time [1].
Vertigo
On descending [3]. After animated talking [1].
Head
Sensation of current of air or wind, above the eyes [1/1]. Hair sticks together at ends [2/1].
Eye
Sensation as if he could not move his eyes, during fulness in head and pressure about eyes [1/1*].
Vision
Waves of light [1/1].
Nose
Obstruction, alternating sides [1], with lachrymation [1/1].
Teeth
Pain, > tobacco smoking [1], during wet weather [2].
Stomach
Nausea from thought of food [1], from mental exertion [2], while talking [1]. Pain, after fruit [1].
Abdomen
Sensation as if full of hard pieces which were jumbled together [1/1*].
Bladder
Sudden urging to urinate during menses [1]. Frequent urination at night, seldom during the day [2.].
Urine
Odour, like cat's urine [1].
Female
Itching of vagina during pregnancy [1]. Menses, in morning [2], only at night [1], copious and of short duration [1], during lactation [1].
Chest
Pain, > lying on back [1], > pressure [2], when sneezing [2], while talking [3], > walking slowly [1], when yawning [2]. Sensation as if the heart were on the right side [2/1], and was being squeezed off [1].
Limbs
Chilblains > open air [1/1]. Sensation of cobweb on hands [1/1]. Coldness and blueness of hands alternating with heat of hands [1*]. Eruptions, eczema of fingers with loss of nails [1/1]. Trembling of hands from mental exertion [1/1].
Sleep
Disturbed by coldness [1]. Late falling asleep, early waking [1].
Perspiration
Sensation as if about to perspire, but no moisture appears [1].
* Repertory additions [Hughes].
Food
Aversion: [1]: Meat; milk; mother's milk.
Desire: [2]: Sour. [1]: Brandy; cold drinks; milk, milk in the morning.
Worse: [2]: Fruit; sour; pears; wine. [1]: Apples; chocolate drinks; cold drinks; hot food; mutton.
Better: [1]: Cold drinks; cold food.

understanding homeopathy remedy Berberis vulgaris

2011-10-27T04:36:00.000-07:00

CLASSIFICATION Berberis belongs to the family Berberidaceae, a widespread family comprising 18 genera of trees, shrubs [mostly], and herbs, widespread in north temperate regions, South America, and mountainous regions in the tropics. The family is in homoeopathy represented by four members: Berberis vulgaris, Berberis aquifolium [= Mahonia aquifolia], Caulophyllum, and Podophyllum.
DISTRIBUTION The genus Berberis comprises about 500 species of deciduous and evergreen shrubs with yellow wood, spiny branches and simple leaves. The genus may be divided into two groups: the yellow-flowered Asiatic species and the orange-flowered South American species. Yellow, red or blue berries follow the flowers. Many species are cultivated as ornamentals, esp. as hedging
plants. Because the common barberry is an intermediate host of the black rust fungus [Puccinia] of cereals, it has been systematically eradicated in agricultural areas. Berberis vulgaris is found among rocks and in hard, gravely soils.
FEATURES Mostly shrubs with long-shoot leaves and short-shoot leaves, the tissues of Berberidaceae commonly are coloured yellow with berberine. They are commonly heterophyllous [having different kinds of foliage leaves]. The long-shoot leaves are often spiny. In Berberis spines replace them. The spines are sometimes divided into several parts. They are not prickles like those of the rose, for they are regularly arranged over the stem, and will not break off by a slight pressure sideways; nor spines like those of the hawthorn [Crataegus], for in the hawthorn the spines originate in the bosom of the leaves, but in the barberry the leaves originate in the bosom of the spines. These parts are a curious state of the leaf. They are the first kind of leaf that the barberry produces when it shoots forth from the bud; but immediately after, or perhaps at the same moment with, their production, other perfectly formed leaves break out from their axils, and thus at nearly the same instant, the branches are covered with spines for their defense, and with leaves for their adornment. Having both male and female reproductive parts in the same flower [hermaphrodite], Berberidaceae are adapted to pollination by insects. Although the hermaphrodite arrangement lends itself to self pollination, this family has developed an intricately specialized pollination mechanism in which the stamens spring violently upwards when their irritable bases are touched, thus showering pollen all over the intruders.
NAME It derives its name from berberys, the Arabic name for the fruit. Etymologically, the common name barberry is not connected with berry. It is adopted from the Arabian barbaris, from Barbary, the country of the Berbers, in North Africa. In Italy the plant bears the name of Holy Thorn, because it is thought to have formed part of the crown of thorns made for our Saviour. The French name, Epine vinette, means 'acid thorn'. In both Jewish and Christian traditions, thorns conjure empty uncultivated soil; hence it was denoted as 'a land of thorns and thistles'. Since thorns stood for unploughed virgin soil, the crown of thorns symbolized a woman's virginity as it did the virginity of the soil.
CONSTITUENTS Berberine, the chief alkaloid of Berberis, is found in several other plants, e.g. Hydrastis, Coptis [Goldthread], Phellodendron amurense [Amur Cork Tree], Argemone mexicana [Prickly Poppy], Chelidonium majus, and Mahonia aquifolia [Oregon grape]. It is toxic and has antibacterial, antimalarial, and antipyretic properties. Berberine is used extensively in Japan and Southeast Asia to control tropical diarrhoea and certain eye diseases. Many of the alkaloids of Berberis are thought to inhibit cancer. A decoction of the bark or berries has been found useful as a wash in aphthous sore mouth and in chromic ophthalmia.
USES One to two meters in height, Berberis vulgaris provides wood - very hard but fine grained, therefore suitable for such objects as toothpicks, mosaic pieces and turnery -, dyestuff [for wool, cotton, flax, and leather] and edible berries. Once cultivated for their supposedly antiseptic properties, the rather acid fruits were made into jellies and preserves. The leaves were also eaten in a sour sauce. The shrub is distributed throughout Europe, Turkey, the eastern United States, and naturalized in the British Isles.
EFFECTS An infusion of the root promotes the secretion of bile and is thus beneficial in liver disorders. It also helps to dilate blood vessels and so can help to lower blood pressure. The bark of the root has a laxative effect.
BERBERINE "Perhaps the most celebrated of berberine's effects has been its antibiotic activity. Berberine exhibits a broad spectrum of antibiotic activity. Berberine has shown antibiotic activity against bacteria, protozoa, and fungi, including Staphylococcus species, Streptomyces species, Chlamydia species, Corynebacterium diphtheria, Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, Vibrio cholerae, Diplococcus pneumoniae, Pseudomonas species, Shigella dysenteriae, Entamoeba histolytica, Trichomonas vaginalis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis, Treponema pallidum, Giardia lamblia, Leishmania donovani, and Candida albicans. Its action against some of these pathogens is actually stronger than that of antibiotics commonly used in the treatment of diseases these pathogens cause. ... Berberine has also shown to increase the blood supply to the spleen. The combined effect of improving blood supply to the spleen and increasing macrophage activity translates into improved filtration of the blood and is consistent with the historical use of berberine-containing plants as 'blood purifiers'. ... Berberine has produced an antipyretic effect three times as potent as that of aspirin in rats. However, while aspirin suppresses fever through its action on prostaglandins, berberine appears to lower fever by enhancing the immune system's ability to handle fever-producing compounds produced by micro-organisms. ... Berberine exhibits potent anticancer activity directly by killing tumour cells and indirectly via stimulating white blood cells. ... Berberine has shown significant success in the treatment of acute diarrhoea in several clinical studies. It has been found effective against diarrhoeas caused by Escherichia coli [traveller's diarrhoea], Shigella dysenteriae [shigellosis], Salmonella paratyphi [food poisoning], Klebsiella, Giardia lamblia [giardiasis], and Vibrio cholerae [cholera]. It appears that berberine is effective in treating the majority of common gastro-intestinal infections. ... Another alkaloid found in berberine-containing plants, berbamine, has been used in China since 1972 in the treatment of depressed white blood cell counts due to chemotherapy and/or radiation."1
FOLKLORE Barberry is the birthday flower for 10 April, and signifies ill temper and sourness. Astrologically it is assigned to Mars.
PROVINGS •• [1] Hesse - 10 provers [7 females, 3 males], 1834; method: three doses of infusion and powdered bark of the root; also 'repeated doses of the 6th potency'; one prover took a drop of the 5th potency and another prover took one dose of the 30th.
•• [2] Bayr - 45 provers, 1982; method: double-blind, placebo-controlled; 3 daily doses of 5 drops of 3x or 30x for 3 weeks.
•• [3] König and Santos - 14 persons [10 females, 4 males], 1993; double-blind, placebo-controlled, daily doses of 30c - to be stopped when reaction occurred and to be resumed when reaction ceased; observation period of 6-8 weeks, with special attention to dreams.
[1] Murray, The Healing Power of Herbs.
Affinity
Urinary and digestive tract [KIDNEYS; liver; bladder; ureters]. Lumbar region [hips]. Joints. Uterus. Spermatic cords. * Left side. Right to left.
Modalities
Worse: Motion [jarring; stepping hard; rising from sitting]. Fatigue. Urinating.
Better: Rest. Motion [pains].
Comparisons
c LYCOPODIUM
The tendency of the pains going from right to left, observed in Bayr's proving, plus the affinity for gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys, and lumbar region, make Lycopodium obviously one of the first remedies to compare with Berberis. "An occasional dose of Lycopodium helped the action of Berberis", Clarke observed. Both remedies have many symptoms in common; among them some peculiar ones: Confusion of mind on waking. Irritability on waking. Heat of head after eating. Bubbling noises in ears. Nasal catarrh extending to frontal sinuses. Eructations alternating with yawning. Bubbling sensation in inguinal region. Bubbling sensation in renal region. Dryness of vagina after menses. In addition, during the proving by Bayr an afternoon aggravation was observed, in particular in regard to the throat symptoms, which got worse or started around 3 p.m. The main difference seems to lie in the sensation of enlargement / swelling. In Berberis this is felt on the physical level in the head, the throat, and the breasts. But, whilst Lycopodium puts on a front of greatness [inflation of ego], Berberis experiences his surroundings as enlarged. Lycopodium enlarges, magnifies himself; Berberis enlarges, blows up his surroundings.
Main symptoms
M Thinking difficult.
• "During mental work, external occurrences easily cause disturbance, usually unnoticed; he easily loses the connection, becomes fretful, and must cease work." [Allen]
M Taciturn.
• "Remarkable melancholy and disinclination to speak, which she can in no way overcome, with quiet, not thoughtful, sensual longing." [Allen]
M Objects seem enlarged [in the twilight].
• "In the twilight some children and dogs appeared twice as large as natural." [Allen]
c A similar symptom occurred in one of Bayr's provers.
• "Before falling asleep, saw faces with distorted mouths; also had the feeling that the bedroom was much bigger."*
[Compare: feeling as if head were becoming larger.]
During daytime, the same prover didn't recognize several friends, believing them to be strangers.
M Hidden wounds.
• "The thorns of the barberry plant were considered to be the thorns that Jesus wore on his head. To me this is symbolic of situations where Berberis is needed, where there are hidden wounds we are unwilling to look at. ... We all contain separate personalities within us. But in the case where there has been severe physical or sexual abuse [as there is in all multiple personality disorder patients] the split becomes too great and normal conscious activities can coalesce under the direction of unconscious aspects of the subpersonalities. Case Number 1 led me to examine the cases where I had prescribed Berberis, particularly in cases of chronic vaginitis and urinary tract infections. As I discovered that many of these cases had histories of sexual abuse, I came to the conclusion that these physical symptoms may be acting as a defense mechanism for the emotional wounds of the patient. The essence of the wound in Berberis is a secret that remains hidden to the patients. The medicine is sycotic, combining the elements of urogenital inflammation, suppression of emotions, and secretiveness. It lies somewhere between the symptomatologies of Thuja and Staphisagria. While in Staphisagria the anger lies close to the surface, in Berberis the origins are often no longer accessible to the conscious mind. They lie quiescent, coalesced in a conflict that creates fatigue, withdrawal, and psychosomatic expressions of pain. The pain itself is not clear. It wanders, radiating in different directions from the kidneys, liver, joints, and sexual organs. ... Interestingly, Dr. Margery Blackie mentions it as being useful in 'contradictory, changeable personalities'."1
c The apparent element of the way of the Cross can be taken one step further. The pains of Berberis in the metacarpal and metatarsal bones are as if there were a nail thrust into them.
M Mother - woman.
• "Berberis fits women who are in conflict between being mother and woman. To be a woman and at the same time a sexual being seems incompatible. A mother who lives her sexuality is dirty? In this situation being a woman must be denied. Perhaps as a compensation the social position is rated extremely high. ... Which patients could benefit of Berberis? We think of women who feel not being desired by their partners during or after a pregnancy. Or, women who do not feel sensually or sexually after a pregnancy or since becoming mother. It might well be that a Berberis patient complains of being disregarded or feeling neglected as a woman and sexual being. Even sexual abuse must be considered. It seems worthwhile to investigate the Berberis theme in the case of patient with myoma, patients [male and female?] with recurrent infections of the bladder, tendency to stones, sciatica, lumbago, chronic skin eruptions [acne, psoriasis]. ... We propose to enter Berberis in the repertory - in the form of preliminary rubrics until clinical verification - as follows: Ailments from sexual abuse; Delusion she or her mother has been abused; Delusion of being vulnerable as a woman; Disgust of being a woman; Delusion mother is a whore; Ambition, social position. Associated feelings include disgust, depreciation, estrangement, humiliation."2
G Many rapidly changing or alternating symptoms; shooting outward, as in urethra, toes, etc.
• "Symptoms are apt to alternate rapidly, e.g. a thirsty feverish condition can change quickly into a thirstless prostration, a voracious appetite can suddenly give way to complete anorexia, acute polyuria can alternate with oliguria." [Gibson]
G Great chilliness.
Suffering parts chilly.
Chill as if in bones.
Chills as from cold water [over back].
• "Chilliness or disagreeable sensitiveness to cold occurred in 10 provers. Five provers experienced increased warmth without perspiration; four others had increased warmth with perspiration."*
G Thirst.
• "Severe thirst wakes her several times at night."
• "Increased thirst with dry mouth, esp. in the afternoon, in several persons." [Allen]
• "Four provers had increased thirst; two of them wanted cold drinks."*
G Sleep unrefreshing.
• "In the morning when waking he often doesn't feel refreshed, but weary in body and mind." [Allen]
Light sleep.
• "At night a condition between sleeping and waking; in which she is tormented with a system of education, which at times assumes the form of a tree, at another some other wonderful form; she tries in vain to get rid of the image, arouses from slumber and opens the eyes and becomes very fretful about it." [Allen]
Difficult waking.
• "Difficult waking in the morning, when she cannot rightly recollect, cannot collect her thoughts, and must exert all her power to get awake." [Allen]
Waking about 2 to 4 a.m.
• "He wakes frequently and very easily about 2 to 4 o'clock, cannot sleep again in spite of the fact that he is still very tired, or he falls asleep again, but also wakes again; with tension in the head, rush of blood to it and excitement." [Allen]
• "Five provers woke up at 2, 3 or 4 a.m. "*
G Sexuality.
• "Diminished sexual desire in both sexes; the ejaculation of semen during coition is usually too soon, and the desire is weak and passes soon away; in women orgasm is delayed, sometimes associated with cutting or sticking pain." [Allen]
• "Complete want of pleasurable sensation during coition." [Hering]
Coition is painful. After coition, weakness of parts.
c Four of Bayr's provers noticed an increased sexual desire. In one female prover there was an aversion to sex.
G RADIATING PAINS; from one point; lower spine, etc.
G Pains last a moment and pass away [twinges of pain].
Sudden stitches; as if from a nail or like a sting of an insect.
G NUMBNESS externally.
Insensitive to extreme heat or cold.
G GURGLING / BUBBLING sensation.
As if water were coming up through the skin.
G Sensation of coldness on isolated spots.
As if from cold metal, cold substances, or as if cold drops were sprinkled.
• "A feeling in the eyes as if there were two drops of cold water between the margins of the lids, or between the lids and the eyeballs."
• "A feeling as if cold drops of rain spattered in the face on going from the house into the open air."
• "Sensation as if cold drops of rain fell on back of hand when she went from house into open air."
• "A sensation as if cold water were spattered on the skin at a small spot below the left calf." [Allen]
G DRY mucous membranes; mouth, vagina, etc.
Yet perspires easily.
• "Everything excites sweating." [Boger]
• "Nearly every Berberis patient perspires after midnight." [Blackie]
G DIRTY-GREY face, gums, faeces, etc.
Grey or brown mucus instead of menses.
Dirty-grey circles around eyes. [Eyes seem to lie deep.]
• "Inner side of the upper lip shows a bluish grey discolouration, together with bluish or red spots in the corners of the mouth." [Charette]
G Pains go from right to left side.*
[This occurred five times during Bayr's proving. Pain in throat, 2 provers; pain in nipples before menses, first in right nipple, then in left, 1 prover; lumbar backache, 1 prover; pain in knees, 1 prover]
P Feeling as if head were becoming larger.
[This symptom occurred in the proving of both Hesse and Bayr. In the latter it was accompanied by vertigo.]
P Violent urging to urinate and burning pain [during last drops].
And WIDELY EXTENDING PAIN to back, hips and legs.
P Various painful sensations in region of KIDNEYS and LOINS: "bubbling", boiling water, burning and painful sensitiveness.
Pain < least motion, stepping hard, jumping, jarring, etc.
And Numbness, stiffness, weakness and sensitiveness to pressure of kidneys and loins.
P Lumbago with PAIN EXTENDING DOWN LEGS and red sediment in urine.
Rising from a seat almost impossible, has to support back with hands.
P Pain in lumbar region extending over hips to thighs [posterior parts].
And Stiffness and lameness.
Problems with rising from sitting.
P Pain in the balls of the feet on stepping and standing.
No pain when putting most of the weight on the heels.
P - Brown skin pigmentations.
• "Berberis comes in useful once in a while in the field of dermatology. A characteristic symptom found in Berberis eruptions is that the eruptions leave a sort of brownish spots of pigmentation after their disappearance. A case was reported where acne of the face was characterised by this typical pigmentation after the disappearance. It has papulo-pustular type of eruptions. The eruptions are surrounded by a red areola. On drying up these eruptions leave a brownish stain. The favourite locations for the Berberis eruptions are near about anus, wrists, hands and the lower extremities. The itching is worse by scratching, warmth, rubbing and walking. The eruptions are better by cold applications. It is usually overlooked in the treatment of skin eruptions."3
* Bayr, Eine Prüfung von Berberis vulgaris D3 und D30; Allgemeine Hom. Zeitung, 1983 Heft 5.
[1] Lange, Two cases of sexual abuse - one with multiple personalities; IFH 1992. [2] Santos and König, Dream Proving of Berberis, HL 2/94. [3] Kishore, A side-light on Berberis vulgaris; Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie, 1985 Heft 5.
Rubrics
Mind
Ailments from quarrelling [1]. Difficult concentration if interrupted [1; Mez.]. Courageous, experiences a certain ill will, a spirit of intrepidity [1A]. Desires death during menses [1/1]. Dulness after sound sleep [1]. Ennui during menses [1/1]. Excitement on waking at night [1]. Hurry while eating [1]. Irritability before menses [1], during menses [1], after menses [1].
Vertigo
When lying, > moving arms [1K]. From vertex [1].
Head
Enlarged sensation [2], during vertigo [1B]. Pain, from exertion of body [1], at beginning of menses [1], < motion of arms [1], sudden [1], wandering [1]. Sensation of a skullcap [2].
Eye
Feeling of heat in lids [1K].
Vision
Colours, objects seem dark [1]. Objects seem large [1], in twilight [2/1].
Nose
Catarrh, extending to antrum [1], to frontal sinuses [1]. Discharge, offensive, burnt [1/1], pungent [1/1]. Obstruction, alternating sides [1K].
Face
Sensation of swelling around both eyes [1B].
Mouth
Saliva like cotton [2], soapy [1], viscid > eating [1/1]. Taste, burnt, in morning [1/1], sour after drinking [1].
Throat
Pain, in afternoon, 3 p.m. [1B], > drinking [1B], on speaking [1]. Scratching sensation > drinking [1B].
Stomach
Nausea alternating with hunger [1], > eating [1B], from exertion of vision [1K], > looking steadily [1K]. Pain after cold drinks [1B].
Abdomen
Fulness, flatulence, after eating, > red wine [1B].
Rectum
Pain, burning during menses [1].
Bladder
Pain during urinating, after a few drops pass [1]. Frequent urging < slightest motion [1].
Kidneys
Pain, at beginning of menses [2], during menses [1], < motion [1], < pressure [1], radiating [2], > standing [1/1]. Feeling of weariness in renal region [1].
Urethra
Pain, burning after coition [1], during ejaculation [2], > urination [1].
Male
Coition, enjoyment absent [1], enjoyment diminished [1].
Female
Coition, aversion after menses [1], enjoyment absent [2], painful [2]. Dryness vagina [2], after menses [1]. Insensibility of vagina during coition [2]. Itching > lying [1/1], < sitting [1/1], < walking [1]. Menses, clotted, offensive [1].
Chest
Pain in nipples before menses [1B], first in right nipple, then in left [1B].
Back
Eruptions, boils in groups [1/1]. Numbness cervical region [1], sacrum [1], coccyx [1]. Pain, > flatus [1], on rising from sitting [3].
Limbs
Cramps in sole of foot on hanging foot down [1/1]. Discolouration, upper limbs, marbled spots [1/1], back of hands, petechiae [1/1]. Numbness upper limbs when hanging down [1/1].
Sleep
Waking from perspiration [1], from thirst [1].
Perspiration
Odour of urine [1].
* Repertory additions. A = Allen; B = Bayr; K = König and Santos.
[König and Santos, Berberis, Rhododendron, Convallaria: Traumgeschehen und Psychodynamik Dreier Arzneiprüfungen (1992-94); Göttingen 1997.]
Food
Aversion: [1]: Milk [K].
Desire: [1]: Salt [K].
Worse: [2]: Farinaceous. [1]: Alcohol.

understanding homeopathy remedy Bellis perennis

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CLASSIFICATION Bellis, a genus of 7 species, is widely distributed throughout Europe and the Mediterranean. It comprises annual or perennial herbs with simple leaves, often borne in a basal rosette, and numerous small flowers in dense heads.
FEATURES The outer flowers [white] are the ray florets or rays; the inner ones [yellow] the disk florets. It flowers from the earliest days of spring till late in the autumn; it may even blossom under a thin layer of snow. It prefers nutritious, calcareous soils, with sufficient moisture during the winter and
spring. It grows slowly, but will, in due time, cover large areas. In meadows and lawns it is very persistent and sometimes considered being a pest. In spite of being repeatedly trodden upon, it "always comes up smiling afterwards." Mowing the lawn regularly, stimulates Bellis to produce more flowers [and seed]. In hay-fields blossoming is prevented by the high grasses which take away the sunlight. But very soon after the hay is harvested, Bellis perennis starts its second flowering season. Bellis perennis is a typical representative of the group of vulneraries belonging to the Aster family or Compositae. Other members of this group are Arnica, Millefolium, Calendula, and Echinacea. Bellis should not be confused with the American White or Ox-eye Daisy, which is Chrysanthemum leucanthemum.
NAME Bellis derives from L. bellus, pretty; perennis means perennial, living more than two years. Its common name is a contraction of 'Day's eye', because it closes its pinky lashes and goes to sleep when the sun sets, but in the morning expands its petals to the light. Another version is that bellis comes from L. bellum, war, because it grew in fields of battle and is useful in curing wounds. Its Dutch name, madeliefje, probably comes from 'made, maagd' [virgin, maiden] and 'lief' [sweet, pretty], referring to the virgin Mary and representing her innocence and purity. In Nordic countries the plant was dedicated to the love and fertility goddess Freya. Her alternate name, Frigg, became a colloquialism for sexual intercourse as well as masturbation. In some Germanic countries it is still believed that Freya's sacred day, Friday, is the luckiest day for weddings. The Friday was thought to favour fertility.
SYMBOLISM As an emblem of deceit, Greene called the daisy the 'dissembling daisie'. 'Light of love wenches' are warned by it 'not to trust every fair promise that such amorous bachelors make them.' Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet gives the queen a daisy to signify, 'that her light and fickle love ought not to expect constancy in her husband.' It is said that whoever picks the first daisy of the season, will be possessed of a spirit of coquetry beyond any control.
FOLKLORE Fresh as a daisy, bright and vigorous, finds its opposite in pushing up the daisies, dead and buried, or in someone on his way there while drinking himself under the daisies. Also: you must put your foot on the first daisy you see in spring unless you want daisies to grow on your grave or that of someone dear to you before the year is out. According to an old Celtic legend, the spirits of children who died at birth scattered new and lovely flowers on earth to cheer their sorrowing parents. "The cheerful little daisy is a symbol of innocence, because of its association with children, and of survival. Daisies adapt to almost any landscape and soil type, and will survive being trodden underfoot and all the indignities of the hoe and the lawnmower."1
LOVE DIVINATION The daisy was often used in love divination. "In Wales the daisy is generally selected by the doubting maiden who is wishful to test the fidelity of her lover. Gathering a daisy, she commences plucking the petals off, saying with each one, 'Does he love me? - much - a little - devotedly - not at all', and the last petal decides the question." On Empire Day - 24 May - daisy chains were worn and daisies were picked from the lawns. "Gather daisies. The daisy is a symbol of our greatness. The golden centre was us - Great Britain; the petals were the colonies, absolutely inseparable and dependent on us."2
SOCIAL ORDER The daisy has also been used to express criticism of the social structure of Great Britain: "'They are nice flowers', he said, her emotional tones putting a constraint on him. 'You know that a daisy is a company of florets, a concourse, become individual. Don't the botanists put it highest in the line of development? I believe they do.' 'The compositae, yes, I think so', said Ursula ... 'Explain it so, then', he said. 'The daisy is a perfect little democracy, so it's the highest of flowers, hence its charm.' 'No', she cried, 'no - never. It isn't democratic.' 'No', he admitted. 'It's the golden mob of the proletariat surrounded by a showy white fence of the idle rich.' 'How hateful - your hateful social orders!' she cried. 'Quite! It's a daisy - we'll leave it alone.'3
MEDICINE In early British medicine, doctors used the daisy to tell whether a patient would live or die. "Take the flower of the daisy and pound it well with wine, giving it to the patient to drink; if he vomits it he will die of the disease, if not he will live and this has been proven."4 The daisy has a long history of medicinal use. In his Herball [1597], Gerard states that "daisies do mitigate all kinde of paines, but especially in the joints, and gout, if they be stamped with new butter unsalted, and applied upon the pained place." Various local names refer to its reputation in healing broken bones: Bonewort ["it helps bones to knyt agayne", says William Turner], Beinwell and Knochenheil [German folk names, meaning 'bone healer'], Consaude [old French name, derived from L. consolida, to unite]. Other medicinal applications include its internal use for coughs and catarrh, and externally for ruptures, varicose veins, minor wounds, and sore eyes. The first three daisies that one ate in spring were said to prevent one from having toothache, fever or eye complaints for the rest of the year! Its use in the treatment of apoplexy led to its name Herba Paralysios. Due to its alleged abortifacient properties, Bellis perennis was in 17th century Germany banned as an herb and attempts were made to destroy all species. Recent research has shown that triterpenoid glycosides obtained from Bellis perennis inhibit the growth of human-pathogenic yeasts [Candida and Cryptococcus species]. 5
LIGHT "The crimson petal tips contain anthocyanin which is able to convert light rays into heat rays. When the daisy is closed these central tips are concentrated and form a dome over the central disc, thereby concentrating the sun's rays directly and producing heat. When the sun is high the petals open, since the heat concentration is no longer necessary."6
PROVINGS Introduced into homoeopathic medicine by Compton Burnett.
•• [1] Compton Burnett - 1 prover, 1880; method: 1-3 times daily 10-15 drops of tincture for 24 days.
•• [2] Hinsdale - 6 provers [2 females, 4 males], 1915; method: daily doses of tincture for 23 days.
•• [3] Mezger and Haehl - 21 provers, 1937; method: daily doses of tincture, 2x, or 6x, for periods ranging from 6 to 10 weeks.
•• [4] Deacon and Ribot-Smith - 13 provers [9 females, 4 males], 1995; method: 30c and 200c, 'not to be taken for more than 3 doses a day for two days [six tablets maximum].'
[1] McIntyre, Flower Power. [2] Vickery, Oxford Dictionary of Plant-Lore. [3] D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love. [4] Buckner Hollingsworth, Flower Chronicles. [5] Bader et al., The antifungal action of polygalacic acid glycosides, Pharmazie July 1990. [6] Stephenson, A Materia Medica and Repertory.
Affinity
Blood vessels; capillaries. Nerves. Spleen. Female organs. Joints. * Left side.
Modalities
Worse: INJURY. Sprains. TOUCH. Cold baths or drinks. Wet. Becoming chilled when hot. Warm bed.
Better: [Continued] motion. Open air. After eating.
Main symptoms
M Great irritability. [5 provers]*
Irritated persons that think slowly; often dream of anger and revenge. [Mangialavori]
M Detached and disconnected whilst feeling alert, vital, at peace or all right.
Delusion daughter was dead, with unconcerned feeling.
Presentiment of own death with lack of concern about this.
• "In my experience of this trauma was an out of body withdrawn state which felt all right though disconnected. This is one of the mind symptoms which emerged most strongly in this proving; the feeling of being all right with a lack of real connection. ... These two states of Bellis perennis may be paralleled to the way the daisy responds to light. In sunlight the flower heads open and bask in the sunshine whilst in darkness the flower is closed. These are the two states of Bellis perennis, one is feeling open and expansive, vital and at peace with the world combined with the alternative feeling of being depressed, exhausted and disconnected often simultaneously present. ... The central mental theme of this proving has been the state of detachment and disconnection with a contradictory simultaneous feeling of being at peace, all right, calmness or tranquillity. This seems to reflect an out of body state. The provers would report they were all right and peaceful and calm yet actually what had been happening or being experienced was far from this ideal state. It was a state that was difficult for both provers and supervisors to grasp exactly what was happening and it was sometimes a subtle state that the prover was unaware of. On the one hand the feeling of being all right combined with cerebral stasis which resulted in the person being disinclined to talk or go to work. On further questioning it seemed that difficulties in relationships and life's ups and downs were just passing them by or going over their heads. In this sense it was a state of positive indifference [though positive only to the prover and not those around] and a state in which the person felt more objective and less caught up in emotional reactions with the resulting effect of being better able to function without this. However to the provers' families and loved ones the state of indifference led to extreme marital strain. The polarity of this was also expressed in the sphere of family and close friends, in the need to contact the family, feeling the marriage was over, the relationship not working, and dreams of reconciliation. There was a lack of awareness by the prover of their own indifference since they felt just fine, in fact more tranquil and at peace with themselves than usual."1
• "I lost my cheerfulness, there is no feeling accompanying my experience. It makes me restless: things happen as things, except when it is a strong stimulus. I strive for the extremes, because that makes me feel at least something, otherwise I am not present in the here and now. ... I feel like a child that is beaten repeatedly and waits for the next blow. I have no energy to play with my children or chat with my friends, but on the other hand have lots of energy to clean the house. I don't even hear my children, they put me out and bring me out of balance."2
c Friends with everybody.
Compton Burnett's prover - a male adult in sound health - compares the effects of Bellis with those of alcohol. He suffers from all sorts of physical complaints, e.g. his splenic region is 'tight as a drum', but his spirits remain continually good.
• "Brain getting muddled, in excellent spirits, but is repeatedly told that he is under the influence of 'something stronger than tea.' ... In letter written to Dr. Burnett he described his mind as getting confused, his memory weak, thoughts jumbled, talk incoherent; and states that the splenic region has become large, the false ribs as it were forced out, with stitches there. ... Is laughed at for asking one question ever so often. ... He described himself while under influence of Bellis as 'happy as a king, feeling he was doing strange things, but could not help it; friends with everybody." [Hughes]
c Clinical experience of Karl-Josef Müller with Bellis perennis confirms the idea of friendliness. Bellis wants to appear nice, smile, and make a nice thing of every problem. In addition, they want to be surrounded by nice people; a nice, friendly, superficial kind of company. They love me, they love me not, etc.
G INJURIES / VULNERARY.
Recent and remote effects of blows, falls, accidents, straining.
• "Bellis is pre-eminently indicated in sprains. Arnica takes better care of contusions. But the sprains of Bellis are bruised and both the soft and ligamentous tissues are involved. Bellis achieves results when the sprain comes from a heavy impact. Rhus-t. is indicated in simple sprains. ... I never overlook Bellis in fractures which are near joints; such injuries nearly always result from falls. Once more, Bellis is nearly a specific for falls on the coccyx. Have we not all heard a patient say that they have never felt well since a certain fall years before? I believe that many of the 'cures' of crooked, painful spines reported by the Osteopaths might be checkmated by a dose or two of Bellis."3
c Deep trauma or septic wounds; esp. abdominal, pelvic, etc.
c Injury when swelling remains after treatment with Arn.
c Railway spine.
c Persons who have done hard physical work, travelled much.
• "Another indication for Bellis is: neuralgia after running out into the cold when overheated, and after effects of cold or iced drinks when heated. Labourers or gardeners, drinking large draughts of cold cider or cold water, while perspiring profusely, may develop dyspepsia or rheumatism. Have you noticed how often you see old men hobbling along county lanes? They have been stooping over garden beds or in the fields, hoeing and weeding, sowing and planting, all through their lives. As a result of their labours, the prolonged bruising of their muscles, overuse of their spinal muscles, along with imbibing cold drinks when hot, they are bent almost double. Give Bellis perennis in the early stages to these gardeners and farm labourers, and you would save many a poor old chap from such crippling rheumatism and stiffness of back, spondylitis, slipped disc and the rest."4
c Fall on coccyx.
c Bearing down with labour-like pain after parturition.
c [Cancerous] induration of mammae after contusion.
c Lymphoedema after mamma amputation.
G Exhaustion and tiredness.
And Inner nervousness, making one move around, which >.
G < Cold; > heat.
But headache < heat, > cold.
G Increased appetite; must even eat at night.
• "Seldom is there loss of appetite. There is a desire for appetite-stimulating foods such as vinegar, onions, wurst, and a great thirst."*
Appetite increased after eating # loss of appetite.
Desire for vinegar and raw onions. [considered characteristic by Mangialavori]
G Thirst increased or constantly thirsty during both day and night.
Desire for cold water. [Observed in provings of Mezger and of Deacon.]
G Sleeplessness after 3 a.m.
• "I made a slight proving of Bellis perennis. I had seven persons take Bellis perennis 30. I obtained symptoms from one prover only unless a state of well-being in the other six could be called a symptom. This one prover after sleeping very well would awake at 3 a.m. and not be able to go asleep again. There was marked desire for company and unusual energy of feeling. There was loquacity and cheerfulness, abdominal and rectal flatus. There was lameness of the knees for six days and then it passed off."5
• "When given at night Bellis is apt to cause the patient to wake up very early in the morning, hence I order it by preference to be taken not too late in the day. I have often cured with it the symptom, 'Wakes up too early in the morning and cannot get off again', and here the higher dilutions act much more decidedly and lastingly."6
This symptom also occurs, in one prover, in the proving by Deacon and Ribot-Smith.
• "I was extremely restless during the night, esp. after 3 a.m. I woke up repeatedly and had lots to drink. ... Looking back, I see that for several nights I have woken about 3 a.m. like clockwork, and never got properly back to sleep after."
G Desire for motion [esp. in open air] which >.
Motion > flatulence in stomach and abdomen, and cardiac arrhythmia.
Continued motion > rheumatoid pains [also > massage].
• "Rheumatic pains all over the body, < morning, > motion. Soreness in the muscles." [Hinsdale]
G Bruised soreness; sometimes > motion, > rubbing.
P Dysmenorrhoea.
Pain in uterus as if squeezed.
Pain extending down the anterior surface of the thighs.
And Dizziness; < rising, > lying down.
Strong bearing down pains [labour-like] and backache.
P Inability to walk during pregnancy [from straining abdominal muscles, or internal bruising of uterus by kicking or violent motions of foetus, or mechanical pressure on groins due to heaviness of foetus].
P SKIN.
c Three of Hinsdale's provers developed skin symptoms.
Itching on the back and along the flexor surfaces of the thighs.
< Heat [bed; bath]; > cold.
c During an experiment on himself - 20 drop doses of the pure tincture for 14 days - Dr. Thomas developed boils.
• "In two weeks after leaving it off, for the first time in my life I had a large boil on the back of my neck [r. side]. ... Three days after this boil got well another made its appearance, but yielded speedily. ... As at no other time in my life have I suffered from boils, I am inclined to think that these were due to the use of the daisy." [Hughes]
c Compton Burnett's prover reported that "several pimples are coming out on face and neck, which is unprecedented with him."
c Dr. Lloyd Tuckey arrived at the following conclusion:
• "I have myself twice made short provings of Bellis, but have lost my notes. It acted laxatively with me, and produced many little boils with mattery heads." [Hughes]
c Of Mezger's provers, 14 reported skin effects.
• "The changes demonstrated all signs of dermatitis with itching and burning, from erythema, wheals, urticaria, vesicles, herpes labialis and nasalis, weeping eczema, to the formation of furuncles and carbuncles. One prover reported a dry skin, chapped and cracked fingertips with rhagades. Three provers reported a real furuncle, and the fourth a carbuncle."*
* Mezger, Gesichtete Homöopathische Arzneimittellehre. [English translation by Whitmont and Stephenson in: Journal of American Institute of Hom., 1965 vol. 58 no. 1-2.]
This translation is far from accurate! It contains inexplicable mistakes, some of which ended up in the repertories. For example: five of Mezger's provers reportmarked irritability, to the extent that the surroundings of the five provers notice it. The translation, however, is: "Extraordinary excitability so that he becomes confused about his surroundings [five provers]." The symptom ends up in the repertory as Confusion of mind, of surroundings [1/1]. A similar odd translation regards the skin symptoms. Whereas Mezger states that many skin symptoms were recorded, ranging from erythema to weeping eczema and, even, boils, the translators turn this into: "The changes demonstrated all phases of erythema, ... and weeping eczema leading to boils." One of the provers experiences arrhythmia with a feeling of weakness about the heart. This irregularity of the heart disappears entirely during a walk. In the translation the "irregularity migrates around until it completely disappears." In addition, the translators state that "Two other provers reported palpitation during heart pain." It should have been: "In two other provers there occurred palpitation of the heart and pain in the heart, respectively." "Marked feeling of hunger, so that one even has to eat at night", in the translation becomes: "Insatiable hunger, so that one must eat again immediately." According to the translators there is a "strong pulling upward in the uterus associated with a backache", - a symptom eligible for a high grade of peculiarity - whereas actually it reads "strong bearing down feeling". The word translated as "upward" apparently was chosen in imitation of the sound of the German word, "abwärts", although it means the opposite, "downward". The "strong clotted menorrhagia" of one prover was not caused by the fact that "during this time she was moving her house", as the translators state, but came after physical exertion. Under "Bleeding" the reaction of one particularly sensitive patient to Bellis perennis 6x is misinterpreted as strong headaches "followed by strong nosebleeds which lasted several hours and relieved the headache." Fortunately, not the nosebleeds lasted for several hours, but the headache improved for several hours after a bleeding from the nose.
[1] Deacon and Ribot-Smith, Bellis perennis: A Proving. [2] Jansen, When feelings are neglected by those responsible; HL 1/99. [3] Krichbaum, Bellis perennis; Intern. Hahn. Ass. 1911-12. [4] Shepherd, A Physician's Posy. [5] Hutchinson, cited in Krichbaum's article. [6] Compton Burnett, Change of Life in Women.
Rubrics
Mind
Cheerful when it thunders and lightens [1]. Confusion regarding other people's identity [1D]; mistakes strangers for familiar people [1D]. Delusion of being friendless [1]; of hearing noises, of telephone ringing [1D]. Detached, distant from partner without being aware of it [1D]; as if head under water [1D]; as if mind buffered [1D]. Fastidious [1]. Desire to go home and see the family [1D]. Loquacity [1]. Sadness, aversion to company, desire for solitude [1D], with heaviness of body [1D], with weeping [1D]. Taciturn, indisposed to talk [1D].
Vertigo
During painful menses [1H], > lying down [1H], < rising [1H]. From motion [1D]. With nausea [1D]. On seeing an expanse of white floor [1D].
Head
As if head were a solid lump [1D].
Eye
Desire to close eyes, with heaviness of lids [1D]. Pain, aching and burning, < moving the head [1D].
Vision
Colours, pulsating white light [1D]; kaleidoscope of bright colours [1D]. Sensation as if looking through ripples of water [1D].
Hearing
Noises and voices seem distant [1D].
Nose
Feeling of coldness of nose [1D]. Coryza with acrid, excoriating discharge [2M], watery [2M]. Obstruction, wakes him at night [1]. Sneezing [1D]; sensation as if going to sneeze [1D].
Face
Eruptions, acne, with irregular menses [1]. Sensation of swelling of lips [1D].
Mouth
Sensation of swelling of tongue [1D].
Teeth
Sensation of elongation [1M]. Pain, > warmth [1M].
Stomach
Appetite increased at night [1M]. Fulness and pressure in epigastrium after fat pastry [1M]. Pain, > bending double [1M], > eating [1M], while lying [1], > pressure [1M].
Abdomen
Feeling of a knotted ball in central upper abdomen [1D]. Inflammation of appendix [1M]. Rumbling, and flatulence, > motion [1M].
Stool
Odour, offensive diarrhoea, stool sour smelling [1D].
Male
Disposition to masturbation [2], in children [1].
Female
Ailments from coitus interruptus [1]. Disposition to masturbation [1]. Menses, clotted [1], copious < exertion [1], scanty with acne on face [1]. Pain, uterus, extending down anterior surface of thighs [1M]; bearing down, and backache in lumbar region [1H]; uterus, as if squeezed [1H].
Chest
Cancer, mammae, from contusion [2; Con.]. Induration, mammae, after contusion [2; Con.]. Sensitive nodules in mammae, in [2]. Palpitation after exertion [1D], > walking in open air [1M]. Feeling of weakness about the heart [1M].
Back
Injuries of spine, coccyx [1]. Pain, while lying on abdomen [1].
Limbs
Heat in legs and desire to put legs out of bed [1D]. Pain, rheumatic, < beginning motion [1M], > continued motion [1M], > rubbing [1M]; in right shoulder [deltoid muscle], awakening him at night [1M], > rubbing and movement [1M]. Weakness after gout [1/1].
Sleep
Position, sleeps on abdomen [2]. Sleepiness during the day with extreme tiredness [1D]. Waking at 3 a.m. , unable to sleep again [2], at 3 a.m. from thirst [1D].
Dreams
Danger [2D]. Hoses, pipes, tubes [symbols of the umbilical cord] [1D]. Difficult journeys [2D].
Skin
Eruptions, boils slow to form and slow to heal [1D]. Itching > cold [1H], < heat [1H].
Repertory additions. D = Deacon and Ribot-Smith; H = Hinsdale; M = Mezger and Haehl.
Food
Desire: [1]: Chocolate [D]; meat; onions; pickled food; vinegar.
Worse: [1]: Apples [= vomiting]; cold food or drinks when overheated; fat pastry [= pressure and fulness in epigastrium].

apoplexy and homeopathy

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Mrs. G. (page 62, case book T.) consulted me. She had great mental trouble three years previously, and since then she had not been well. She had had violent headache since childhood, but since the painful circumstances referred to, three years since, her sufferings have been intense.
Her principal suffering is in her head; she experiences - Symptom 1. A dreadful pressure on the head.
Symptom 2. Her eyes are suffused, and exhibit that peculiar appearance which is present in cerebral oppression.
Symptom 3. Her head is hot.

Symptom 4. Her cheeks are flushed, and present, as does the forehead also, the peculiar appearance like extravasation, following a fit of epilepsy.
Symptom 5. Has beating in head, which is always worse after taking medicine, which she continually takes, because
Symptom 6. Her bowels are always confined.
Symptom 7. She has palpitation of the heart, and she feels her heart beat at the left side of head.
Symptom 8. She has constant "dreadful" confusion in her head.
Symptom 9. The pressure on the head is worse on walking and on lying down.
Symptom 10. She has pain at the bottom of back on stooping.
Symptom 11. She feels as if she had a heavy load on her hips.
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Symptom 11a Her water is very clear and pale.
Symptom 12. Her feet are constantly cold and dry.
Symptom 13. While the feet are externally cold they internally burn, especially at the ankle.
Symptom 14. She has a relish for nothing, but is not thirsty.
Symptom 15. Her spirits are depressed.
Symptom 16. Her sleep is restless.
Ordered aconite three quarters of a globule one four hours, and lachesis three quarters of a globule the next four hours, and so on till eight globules of each were taken; then the same quantity and number, but the doses at six hours interval, and so till eight globules were taken; then, in a similar way, eight more globules at eight hours; and then eight more at ten hours.
This was on April 11.
On May 2 I saw the patient, and she looked quite a different being: the head was wonderfully relieved: her countenance has lost that peculiar appearance: in fact she could smile.
At this improvement she was astonished, because her bowels had not acted scarcely more than once in the week.
This fact is worthy of notice. The lady being so much better I congratulated her, and told her, now that she seemed to be out of danger, that I was afraid of apoplexy when she was with me: she had symptoms so strikingly indicative. She mentioned in reply to my remark, that she had felt great expectation of the same; that her mother had died at 39 of apoplexy, after having had 22 children; and that two of her sisters had died of this disease.
What would the allopathic practitioner say to this case? He would declare that to have neglected brisk purging would be worthy the aid of Mr. Membury Wakley, to hold an inquest: that blistering, and bleeding, and mustard poulticing, were essential. But the fact here occurs - the patient gained decided relief without any such means, (she had had these means used and all in vain,) and she had her head relieved without any action of the bowels.

A peculiar affection of finger (trigger finger homeopathy)

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Susan Savage, consulted me Feb. 11, , for a peculiar affection of the fore finger and thumb: she has a numbness in the fore finger and thumb directly any metal touches either: steel affects most, and the brighter the steel the worse is the sensation: bright steel causes the sensation to strike up the arm: so certain is the effect produced by metal, that she is obliged when using a needle to put on a finger stall: this has been the case about four months. If persevering in using any metal she feels tenderness at the thumb: in the morning the thumb is numb and painful, but these sensations are relieved by exercise.
Ordered rhus toxicodendron.

I did not see this patient again till March 9, when she mentioned she had a cut at the wrist six or seven years ago. Believing that this cut at the wrist might have induced some modification of the nerves going to the finger and the thumb, I ordered arnica.
March 30. - The thumb and the finger which used to be numb and dead in the morning has ceased to be so: the numbness still occurs on holding a needle: she stated that the arnica medicine did her good directly. She has now a rash, the least touch of which causes it to itch; the rash stings like as if the part had been stung with a nettle.
Ordered arsenicum and arnica, two thirds of a globule, in alternation.

April 6. - Numbness is rather better: she can hold the needle now: the itching has ceased. Feet dry.
Ordered arnica and silicea in alternation.
April 13. - She is much better; the tenderness is still felt. Ordered arnica and silicea.
May 17. - The finger and the thumb are well: she states the poultices (arnica) did the parts much good.
Ordered arnica and silicea.
The patient became quite well.
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Disease of nail, with inflamed glands under arm pit nails affections and homeopathy

2011-10-22T03:20:00.000-07:00

Mary A. Hiff, (p. 668, case book 1998,) consulted me Dec. 17, 1998.
She had stuck by accident a needle under her nail: the pain produced was sharp shooting: the nail was surrounded with a hardened elevation covered with ichor.
Ordered hepar sulphuris, one globule every six hours, and the application of a poultice with drops of the first dilution of hepar sulphuris.
Dec. 21. - The hand is now much inflamed, swollen, and red; the glands under the arm-pit are swollen, and the pains in hand and at arm-pit are intense; the thumb has a livid tint.

Ordered lachesis and hepar sulphuris in alternation.
Dec. 28. - The thumb is almost well: the swelling of the hand has almost ceased: the pain in the arm-pit has ceased.
The bowels are regular but she feels dizzy: her monthly period has stopped two years.
From some cause or other the finger became worse; hepar sulphuris effected the cure.
This case is presented not as very remarkable, because numerous cases occur almost daily; but principally with the view of exhibiting what long experience has demonstrated, first, the value of the tincture of the hepar sulphuris as an external application, and second, the conditions under which the alternation of the use of lachesis and of hepar sulphuris can beneficially take place.
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Gastric affection with dysmenorrhoea homeopathy medicine

2011-10-22T03:11:00.000-07:00

Gastric affection with dysmenorrhoea homeopathy medicine

Maria Penny, (p. 1300, case book 1849,) aged 20, single.
Her symptoms are, No. 1. Violent headache. No. 2. Daily hysterical faintings. No. 3. Unconscious at times. No. 4. Stupor and lies still. No. 5. The natural period is too seldom, the discharge dark with pain. No. 6. White discharge. No. 7. Tongue is furred. No. 8. Breath offensive. No. 9. Food lies heavy. No. 10. Spirits are depressed, she cries much.
She has had great grief, her relative being given to drink.
Ordered pulsatilla, four globules.

Dec. 17. - No. 1. Head pain better, but severe the two last days. No. 2. Two attacks last Wednesday, with stupor. No. 6. No white discharge. Nos. 7, 8, 9. Tongue cleaner, breath less offensive, and food lies lighter. Spirits are better.
Ordered pulsatilla, three globules.
Dec. 24. - No. 1. Head a little better. No. 5. She was taken last night with the natural period, had a fainting fit, and appeared as quite dead; the pain was and is severe.
Ordered chamomilla, one globule every four to six hours.
Dec. 28. - No. 1. Head bad yesterday. No. 2. No attack. A scab has appeared on the lip.
Ordered sulphur.
Jan. 4, 1850. - No. 1. Head painful at forehead. No. 2. No faintings since last Sunday. Nos. 7, 8. The tongue and the breath are better. No. 9. She vomits food.
Ordered pulsatilla, four globules.
Jan. 11. - No. 1. Forehead better, no hysterical faintings. Still vomits food but is better.
Pulsatilla, three globules.
Jan. 18. - No. 1. Forehead better. Not vomited food.
Ordered pulsatilla, two globules.
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Jan. 25. - No. 1. Has had pain again in the forehead, but sickness remains better.
Ordered aconite, four globules, in preference to nux, because the stomach is better.
Feb. 8. - Pain in forehead and the sickness are better.
Ordered aconite, three globules.
Feb. 15. - Pain in forehead and sickness still better.
Ordered aconite, two globules.
Feb. 22. - Pain in forehead and sickness better.
Ordered aconite, one globule.
March 8. - She has another kind of pain now in her forehead. Food lies rather heavy.
Ordered nux vomica, 4/12.
March 15. - New pain much better. The food lies easy.
Ordered nux vomica, 4/30.
March 19. - The patient has been purged since Saturday: has passed blood and slime, attended with very violent pains, accompanied with flushes and thirst.
Ordered mercurius corrosivus and veratrum in alternation, a globule after each purging.
March 20. - Was better during the day, but returned at night, and was sick: her prostration is excessive.
Ordered aeidum phosphoricum, mercurius corrosivus, acidum phosphoricum, and veratrum, in alternation.
March 22. - Purging has ceased: pain has ceased: feels, as may be supposed, very low and weak. Had three fainting fits last night: her head is better: her natural period more regular.
Ordered baryta carbonica, three quarters of a globule every six hours.
March 25. - Feels better altogether. No faintings since Thursday. Her aunt stated that she fully expected to have lost her.
Baryta carbonica, three quarters of a globule every eight hours.
March 28. - She is much better.
Baryta carbonica in smaller doses.
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April 1. - Head still better, notwithstanding the natural period had passed the time.
Baryta carbonica, half a globule every ten hours.
April 8. - Head better: natural period has come on.
Baryta carbonica.
April 15. - Head still improving.
Baryta carbonica, half a globule every twelve hours.
April 22. - Headache almost ceased: feels better,
Baryta carbonica, half a globule once a-day.
Cured.
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understanding homeopathy remedy Asarum Europaeum a drug picture

2011-10-17T02:56:00.000-07:00

CLASSIFICATION The genus Asarum comprises 75 species of perennial herbs, distributed throughout northern temperate areas of the world. Along with 7 other genera, it belongs to the Aristolochiaceae, a family of mostly warm-temperate to tropical herbs, shrubs and lianas.
FEATURES Most of them are shade-loving plants, forming dense ground cover in summer, particularly in leafy soil underneath tall trees and shrubs. Dried or cooked with sugar, the aromatic rootstock makes a spicy substitute for Ginger. The shining dark-green [evergreen] leaves of A. europaeum are
kidney-shaped; the bell-shaped drooping flowers, hidden beneath the leaves, are purplish brown and bear stumpy appendages; the rhizomes are spreading and frequently bunched up above the soil. Its "odd unlovely flower seeks protection beneath its long-stemmed fuzzy leaves, and hides its head upon the ground as if unwilling to challenge comparison with its more brilliant brethren."1 The plant's posture is for mundane reasons rather than eschewing competition, for the ground is the source of insects that visit and pollinate it.
CONSTITUENTS Asarum contains aristolochic acid, geraniol, limonene, methyl-eugenol, and asarone [also known as asarum camphor or asarabacca camphor]. The ash is rich in potassium. Chemically and pharmacologically, asarone is similar to reserpine [found in Rauwolfia and used as an antihypertensive and tranquilizer] and chlorpromazine [used as an antiemetic, antipsychotic and tranquilizer]. In experiments on rats, cats and rabbits in a wide range of tests, a Russian study was conducted of the biological properties of alpha-asarone, isolated from the roots of Asarum europaeum. The preparation turned out to have quite diverse biological activity: tranquilizing, sedative, antiulcer, spasmolytic and antisclerosing. According to Evans Schultes, asarone shows a structural resemblance to mescaline. Their pharmacological properties, however, are somewhat opposite, and hallucinogenic properties have never been associated with asarone. According to other pharmacological studies, asarone is similar to papaverin. Roth states that high doses of asarone induce visual hallucinations and psychedelic effects similar to those of LSD.
USES The plant has been used as a purgative and as an ingredient for snuff. "The dried and powdered leaves of Asarabacca are used in the preparation of cephalic snuffs, exciting sneezing and giving relief to headache and weak eyes."2 "It has been used as a substitute for Ipecac for producing vomiting; the French use it for this purpose after drinking too much wine. ... Although the leaves are used as an emetic, human experiments have shown that the effect is not as pronounced as that of other, more effective drugs. On the other hand, the expectorant properties of infusions and decoctions of both the roots and leaves of A. europaeum are quite good, based on experiments on humans."3 North American Indians a decoction of the boiled root and rhizome of Asarum canadense as a oral contraceptive to induce temporary sterility.
MEDICINE Asarum canadense has virtually the same pharmacological properties as A. europaeum; morphologically it differs from it in having heart-shaped leaves instead of the reniform ones of its European brother. The powdered root was widely used in North America as a flavouring substitute for real ginger in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Among the Meskwaki Indians the root was chewed and "the fisherman uses the spittle on the bait, it enables him to catch catfish. ... A good many mud catfish are caught in the Iowa River which flows through their reservation and the use of wild ginger in cooking them destroys the mud taste and renders them palatable. It is also used to cook some animal that has died, such as a hog or a cow, and has been given them by some farmer. When used in this way, they claim there is no danger of ptomaine poisoning."4 In its topical use by the Meskwakis for external ear infections, wild ginger owes its activity to aristolochic acid, which is known to have antimicrobial properties. The leaves of various Asarum species reportedly cause dermatitis.
PROVINGS •• [1] Hahnemann - 5 provers; method: unknown.
•• [2] Mezger - 18 provers [16 males, 2 females], 1950; method: 1x, 2x, or 6x, three times daily 5 drops for periods ranging from 13 to 46 days.
[1] Sanders, Hedgemaids and Fairy Candles. [2] Grieve, A Modern Herbal. [3] Weiner's Herbal. [4] Erichsen-Brown, Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants.
Affinity
NERVES. Mucous membranes. Female organs. * LEFT SIDE.
Modalities
Worse: PENETRATING SOUNDS. Dry, cold weather; icy cold or clear fine weather. Emotions.
Better: Cold bathing; of face; eyes. Damp, wet weather. Open air.
Main symptoms
M EXCESSIVE NERVOUSNESS.
Lightness, as if floating. Sense of levitation.
NERVOUS SENSIBILITY; scratching on silk, rattle of paper, etc. is unbearable.
OVEREXCITABILITY of SENSES [hearing, smell, eyes].
Sensibility increased, even from mere imagination.
Starting from sudden noises.
Tremendous erethism; NERVES ON EDGE.
Overworked women.
Mental breakdown from stress [= dulness].
And Nervous deafness and asthenopia.
And Feeling as if parts were pressed together.
And Tension and contractive sensations.
• "Very competitive, 'pressure-cooker' education for gifted children. Brilliant yet brittle, like a crystal glass that eventually shatters." [Vithoulkas]
• "Several years ago I attempted to prove the effect of the A. canadense on some women students, but the daily records were not properly written up, and the following fragmentary observations are all I have. ... During the proving [which was continued over a period of about two months] most of the experimenters were excessively nervous, with dull stupid feeling during day, and restless sleep at night. After a few days they suffered much from chilliness, as if insufficiently clothed, but did not seem to have any fever or any unusual thirst. There was muscular twitching in various parts of the body, as if cramps were setting in; but this did not occasion much inconvenience." [Winterburn, cited in Hughes]
M Wrings hands. Involuntary motions of the hands.
Very sensitive to violence.
Cold shivers from any emotion, noise.
M Mental DULNESS and sluggishness.
• "Mental condition as if just falling asleep; a gradual vanishing of the thought."
• "Thoughts so overstrained that they vanish completely." [Hahnemann]
And Pressing frontal headache.
M Aversion to COITION [as strong as in Sep.], kissing and embracing.
• "In some cases total revulsion to sex, even in thoughts and speech. Will leave the room when a sex joke is being told. Aversion to a kiss from grandparents, child will go and wash his mouth." [Vithoulkas]
G Of use in abuse of alcohol and psychotropic drugs where a hysterical reaction sets in.
G Ailments and great faintness and constant yawning.
G Weakness; exhaustion.
< Warm room; > open air.
G CHILLY persons who are worse in cold, dry weather and feel better in damp wet weather [Caust.]; ALWAYS FEEL COLD.
Chilliness and cold feeling after eating or drinking.
G Unconquerable LONGING for ALCOHOL.
G Desire for refreshing things [sour; salads; fruits].
Aversion to meat and cooked food.
In particular during gastritis.
G Pain: PRESSING TOGETHER.
P Darting pain in eyes after operations.
Eye troubles > bathing eyes in COLD water.
• "When reading, sensation in eyes as if they would be pressed asunder or outward, > bathing them in cold water." [Mathur]
Sunshine, light and wind are intolerable.
P PAINFULLY SENSITIVE HEARING.
Pain in teeth or vertigo from noise.
P The scars of life do not show on the Asarum face. They may have a harrowing emotional history but present a smooth, young complexion. [Springer]
P Asthmatic breathing < odours or cold.
Rubrics
Mind
Aversion to everything [2]. Cheerful, alternating with sadness [1]; with taciturnity [1/1]. Confusion in morning after rising [1]. Delusions, as if she didn't touch the bed when lying [1]; one would die from weakness [1]; floating in air while walking [1/1]. Deficiency of ideas > vomiting [1/1]. Desire for light [1]. Sensitive to slightest noise [3]. Starting from sudden noise in the street [1*]. Vanishing of thoughts on mental exertion [2].
Vertigo
During anxiety [1]. From noise [1].
Head
Sensation of being headless [1]. Pain, in dry, cold weather, [2]; pressing in temples when shaking head [2; Chin.].
Eye
Lachrymation during headache [1]. Pain, from strong light [2].
Vision
Dim, > cold bathing [1], during headache [1], < sunlight [1].
Face
Desire to wash face in cold water [2].
Stomach
Eructations, like spoiled eggs, after eating [1*]. Nausea from mental exertion [1], from pressure on abdomen [1].
Abdomen
Sensation of fulness during hunger [1/1].
Rectum
Diarrhoea, > damp weather [1], during dry weather [1].
Larynx
Constriction larynx > during cough [1/1].
Chest
Constriction lungs as with a wire [1/1]. Sour smelling perspiration in axillae [1].
Back
Pain as if dislocated, cervical region, extending over head and shoulders [1/1]; pressing, as from a tight collar, cervical region [1/1]. Sensation as if cool wind were blowing on back [1].
Limbs
Coldness of hands, knees, feet, in hottest weather [2/1]. Pain lower limbs, sciatica, < cold [1], > wet weather [1/1]; needle-like stitches in fingertips [1*]. Weakness upper limbs, > hanging down [1/1].
Sleep
Sleeplessness from slight noise [2].
Dreams
Of humiliation [2].
Generals
Bathing affected part > [3], cold bathing > [2], bathing face > [2].
* Repertory additions [Mezger].
Food
Aversion: [1]: Cooked food; fat; fish; garlic; meat; onions; smoking.
Desire: [3]: Alcohol. [1]: Beer; fruit; milk; nuts; salads [*]; sour [*]; tobacco; vinegar.
Worse: [3]: Alcohol. [2]: Hot food.
Better: [2]: Cold drinks [during heat]; cold water; vinegar. [1]: Warm food.
* Repertory additions [Mezger].

understanding homeopathy remedy Asa foetida a drug picture

2011-10-17T02:54:00.001-07:00

Ferula assafoetida. Ferula foetida. Devil's Dung. Asafoetida. Narthex. N.O. Umbelliferae.
CLASSIFICATION Ferula is one of the 428 genera of the Umbelliferae, the carrot and hemlock family. The family is widespread and consists almost exclusively of herbs. The genus Ferula comprises 172 species of perennial herbs with a substantial rootstock, much-divided leaves, and a compound umbel of yellow flowers. The genus is also known as Giant Fennel genus, a name given to it by Pliny, the Roman naturalist.

DISTRIBUTION The plant, growing up to 2m high, is native to Iran, Afghanistan and Turkestan where it is eaten with relish by native people and sheep alike. It grows on high plains - from 700 to 1300m above sea level - which are arid in winter but are thickly covered in summer with a luxuriant growth of giant fennels.
NAME Ferula derives from ferire, to strike - the stems were formerly used for punishment; asa derives from the Persian aza, mastic, a pale yellow gum; foetida, foetid, refers to its overwhelming odour which has given rise to its popular name, Devil's Dung.
RESIN Incision of the green matured roots [just before flowering] yields a milky sap that hardens into gum resin. This takes five to six weeks, during which time the root is shaded from the sun. Several species of Ferula yield Asafoetida. The oldest plants are most productive, yielding up to 2 lbs. of gum resin. Plants less than four years are considered virtually worthless. The major biochemical agents responsible for its characteristic odour are three sulphur-containing compounds, two of which have pesticidal properties. These compounds are very similar to the essential oil of garlic, for which it is commonly substituted in food preparations.
USES Asafoetida occurs in commerce in three forms: soft mass, paste and tears. "The tears can retain the original colour for years and gradually darken to a reddish brown colour. The tears are commercially sold in Chinese pharmacies and characteristically may have fragments of root and earth. The paste may also contain extraneous matter. As a condiment for cooking beans and an ingredient in curry, flavouring for sauces and pickles and a substitute for garlic it is commonly powdered and adulterated [to increase the weight] with various substances such as gum arabic, other gum resins, gypsum, red clay, chalk, barley or wheat flour, slices of powdered dried potatoes, etc."1 It is an ingredient of Worcestershire sauce. A 2% suspension is used as a repellent against dogs, cats, rabbits, and deer. In veterinary practice it has been used as a carminative, and externally to prevent bandage chewing by dogs. 50-100 mg resin reportedly caused convulsions in nervous people.
FLAVOUR "This is a highly interesting flavour when used in minute quantities. It flavours many of the Eastern dishes most attractive to visitors and is part of the delicious distinction of many Hindu vegetable dishes. The ancient Romans knew it and used such quantities that their source, the silphium plant from Cyrenaica, was already extinct by Pliny's time and known to us only by an image on a coin, which suggests it is another member of the giant fennel family."2 Silphium is here mistaken for silphion. Though the names are similar, Silphium, also called Compass-plant, belongs to the Compositae, while Silphion is an umbellifer. The correct botanical name of Silphion is Thapsia garganica. "The plant was well known to the Ancients who gave it its peculiar name, believing it to be obtained originally from the Isle of Thapsus. ... The root is a strong purgative. Thapsia silphion is thought to be identical with Thapsia garganica. It is found on the mountains near the site of Ancient Cyrene, and is said to have yielded the gum resin to the Ancients as Laser cyrenaicum or Asa dulces, the Greek name being Silphion."3 Its original site explains the specific name cyrenaicum.
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION "It stimulates the circulation by raising the arterial tension, increasing the power of the cardiac motor ganglia, and relaxing the inhibition. It also stimulates the brain, even to a very pleasant intoxication, and produces a subjective sensation of warmth without any rise of the body temperature. It stimulates the secretions and excretions, the general nervous system, the menstrual flow and the sexual appetite."4
EFFECTS The volatile oil is rapidly excreted and can be detected in the urine, milk and sweat, imparting a garlic-like odour. Intoxication symptoms may include swollen lips, gastric burning, garlicky eructations, flatulence, diarrhoea, burning during urination, headaches, dizziness, and even convulsions. Since it is reputed to affect the menstrual cycle and to be an abortifacient, its use in pregnancy and lactation is to be avoided. [However, it is also drunk as a herbal tea to increase milk production in lactating women.]
MEDICINE In traditional Chinese medicine it is employed for food stagnation, weak digestion, intestinal parasites and flatulence as well as asthma and chronic bronchitis. "According to Indian Materia Medica by Nadkarani in Ayurvedic medicine, it is regarded as a valuable condiment and spice and "a valuable remedy for hysteria, nervous disorders of women and children, flatulence, flatulent colic and spasmodic affections of the bowels especially when connected with hysteria, in fainting and emotional states, nervous palpitations, hypochondriasis and other affections due to hysteria, in the spasmodic, and the obstinate coughs of childhood remaining after attacks of inflammation and also in the advanced stages of whooping cough, pneumonia and bronchitis of children, in the chronic bronchitis and asthma of adults."5 Because of "its unpleasant taste, which causes a psychological effect it is occasionally given to quiet hysterical patients," claims Blumgarten in his Materia Medica for Nurses.
HOMOEOPATHY Asafoetida belongs to the Umbelliferae, a plant family widely used in homoeopathy with some 40 remedies. The family can be roughly divided into four categories, [1] poisonous, [2] medicinal, [3] aromatic or foodstuff, and [4] resiniferous. The first category - the [deadly] poisonous umbellifers - comprises Aethusa, Cicuta, Conium, Oenanthe, Phellandrium, Sium, and Thaspium [Zizia]. The medicinal group comprises Aegopodium [Goutweed], Ammi visnaga, Angelica, Athamantha [Peucedanum], Eryngium, Heracleum, Hydrocotyle, Pimpinella saxifraga, and Sanicula europaea. Of the umbellifers of group 3 mainly the [oily] seeds are used as condiments; of some species the roots or leaves are eaten. The group includes Anethum [Dill], Apium [Celery], Carum [Caraway], Coriandrum [Coriander], Daucus [Carrot], Foeniculum [Fennel], Levisticum [Lovage], Myrrhis [Sweet Cicely], Pastinaca [Parsnip], Petrosilinum [Parsley], and Pimpinella anisum [Anise]. The resiniferous umbellifers include Ammoniacum [Dorema], Asafoetida [Ferula], Ferula glauca, Sumbul [Ferula], and Silphion [Thapsia garganica].
PROVINGS •• [1] Franz, Stapf, Gross, Gutmann, Hahnemann; method: unknown.
•• [2] Jörg - 10 provers [9 males, 1 female], 1824; method: crude drug in repeated doses of 1-15 grains, effects observed for a couple of days.
•• [3] Lembke - self-experimentation, 1868; method: crude drug in doses increasing from 5 grains to 1/2 dram, 2-3 times daily for 14 days.
[1] Tierra, Asafoetida: for digestive weakness, food allergies and candida. [2] Walter, Hints and Pinches. [3] Grieve, A Modern Herbal. [4] Potter, A Compend of Materia Medica. [5] Grieve, ibid.
Affinity
NERVES. Mind. Gullet. Digestive tract. Periosteum [ears; nose; tibia]. * LEFT SIDE.
Modalities
Worse: Night. In room. Rest. After eating. Suppression. Mercury. Noise. Sitting. Warm wraps. TOUCH. Cough.
Better: Motion in open air. Pressure.
Main symptoms
M EXTREME NERVOUSNESS and OVERSENSITIVITY.
• "Like most substances of strong taste and penetrating odour, the pathogenesis is dominated by mental and nervous phenomena. ... First of all, we note hypersensitiveness to external impressions. Noise, touch, mental excitement are sources of aggravation."1
M CRAVES SYMPATHY.
• "Magnifies her symptoms." [Boger]
• "The hysterical nature of the patient is revealed in the telling of symptoms. Things of little consequence are magnified; he fears paralysis or softening of the brain, is restless, unable to concentrate on any one thing; low spirited, irritable, and if a woman, there is alternate laughing and crying."2
M Irritable, yet indifferent to everything.
G HYSTERICAL PATIENTS; faint easily in a closed room from excitement; globus hystericus.
Faintness in a crowded street.
• "Hysterical women: disposed to miscarriages, haemorrhages; breasts filled up with milk when not pregnant; deficiency of milk a few days after delivery." [Mathur]
G PUFFED, venous, fat, flabby patients with a PURPLE face;
purple when out in the cold, purple when excited.
• "They get no sympathy when sick because they look so well." [Kent]
• "The remedy has done excellent work in thin, pale, sickly individuals also. External appearance must take second place as compared with subjective symptoms."3
G Children with digestive troubles [loud rumbling and explosive belching, difficult stool] that are constantly CHEWING, as if ruminating.
G Faintness in a closed room - on excitement.
G BONES + PERIOSTEUM [pains, caries, swelling].
G PRESSING pains - from within outward.
G TOUCH < or >.
• "It is a sensitiveness comparable only with that of Lachesis - and, like the latter there is the apparent contradiction in painful ailments where the surface remains unbroken, namely, relief from pressure. Instances of this are found in neuralgic pain in the head, eyes, legs, colic, etc. Pains in the eyes, head and elsewhere, cease when the part is touched and appear somewhere else. Even convulsive symptoms may be allayed by the touch of another person."4
G Eating <.
Eating is followed by heat of face, anguish, mental depression, pulsations and diarrhoea.
G Internal sensation of TENSION.
G Stitching pains, from within outward.
G Pain and numbness.
G Wandering [drawing] pain, quickly jumping from one place to another.
G Offensiveness.
P REVERSED PERISTALSIS.
• "Flatus does not pass downward but always upward."
• "Everything presses toward throat." [Boger]
• "Enormous accumulation of flatulence all pressing upwards." [Mathur]
• "Flatulence is nearly always a prominent feature of the case, and tends to press upwards, sometimes with such vehemence as to cause gasping for breath, and reflexly, occipital headache, vertigo, fainting, twitching of muscles, trembling, etc."5
P Extremely offensive diarrhoea and meteorism and regurgitation of food.
[1-5] Harvey Farrington, Asafoetida, International Hahnemannian Association No. 20.
Rubrics
Mind
Anxiety alternating with gouty pain in joints [1/1]. Confusion while sitting [1]. Consolation > [1]. Intolerant of contradiction [1]. Exaggerating her symptoms [1]. Excitement after suppressed leucorrhoea [1/1]. Fear arising from abdomen [1/1]. Hysteria after suppression of discharges [3; Lach.]. Irresolution > open air [1/1]. Joy with excessive laughing [1; Verb.].
Vertigo
With sensation of ascending [2]. As if turning in a circle [1].
Head
Bubbling sensation in head [1]. Empty, hollow sensation [1]. Pain, > motion [1], > touch [1]; as from a plug, peg or wedge in sides [2]; in occiput while pressing at stool [1], > stool [1/1]. Waving sensation in head as from water [1].
Eye
Numbness around eyes [3/1]. Pulsation in eyes at night [3].
Vision
Dim during vertigo [1]. Exertion of vision < [1]. Lost during vertigo [1].
Face
Chewing motion of jaw in chorea [1/1]. Eruption on tip of nose [1].
Throat
Reversed peristaltic action of oesophagus [2/1]. Constant disposition to swallow in evening [2/1], from lump in throat [2]. Sensation of vapour, fume rising in throat [1].
Stomach
Ravenous appetite with diarrhoea [2]. Distension on waking at night [1]. Eructations, foul after fat or rich food [3], like garlic [3]. Sensation of fulness during hunger [1]. Pulsation visible in pit of stomach [1/1].
Abdomen
Coldness after drinking [1]. Heaviness, as from a load after drinking [2/1]. Pain in region of umbilicus after sour food [1/1].
Rectum
Diarrhoea after the slightest indiscretion in eating [2].
Female
Menses scanty [2], too short [2].
Respiration
Asthmatic after every satisfying meal [1/1].
Chest
Milk, non-pregnant women [2]. Pain in heart at night, when lying on back [1/1]; sensation of bursting in heart, when lying on back at night, > sitting up [1/1]. Palpitation during deep inspiration [1], while sitting [3]. Sensation of swelling of heart [2].
Back
Pain cervical region > stool [1/1].
Limbs
Burning pain in roots of toe nails [2/1].
Dreams
Merry, of company and feasting [1*].
Skin
Cicatrices black [1], blue [1], break open [1], become painful [1].
Generals
Convulsions from suppressed discharges [2].
* Repertory addition [Hughes].
Food
Aversion: [1]: Beer.
Desire: [1]: Cold drinks; wine.
Worse: [2]: Fat. [1]: Beer; butter; pork; sour.

homeopathic remedy for diabetes type 2

2011-10-14T01:45:00.000-07:00

This disease is often caused by excessive sugar intake and other dietary errors; it is frequently in remission as weight loss is accomplished and dietary changes become entrenched. The hormone insulin, produced by the beta-cells in the pancreas, facilitates the transference of sugar from the blood to the other tissues, especially to the muscles which need the valuable energy. In case of an overload with sugar through diet, the insulin production increases as well to accommodate the increased amount of sugar, while the insulin receptors on the target cells do not increase. The result is an increase in sugar and insulin that the body cannot utilize.

Again, failure to gain knowledge, carelessness, and refusal to heed advice have led to imbalances in physical functioning.
Examples of homeopathic remedies: Carbo vegetabilis, Calcarea carbonica, Capsicum annuum (see chapter 2:1 for these three remedies), Nitricum acidum, Nux vomica, Lycopodium clavatum (see chapter 1:2 for these three remedies), Kreosotum, Sulphur, Natrum phosphoricum (see chapter 2:2 for these three remedies), Helonias dioica, Apocynum cannabinum, Scilla maritima, Tarentula hispanica... (most of these remedies could also cover insulin-dependent diabetes, should the symptoms agree).
Helonias dioica is often indicated in the first stages of diabetes, accompanied by hysteria, moodiness, and irritability. It is typically indicated in females with hormonal troubles and consciousness of the uterus. The patients become enervated from thinking about their problems, from indolence and luxury, and they feel better when occupied, stimulated mentally, or exercising. The appetite vanishes; there are cramp-like pains in the stomach, eructations, and irritability and burning. Further symptoms are great fatigue, aching over kidneys, and numb feet while sitting.
Apocynum cannabinum is indicated in patients with edematous swelling of especially the legs, genitals, and abdomen, accompanied by a bewildered state of mind, a tendency to alcoholism, and profuse light-colored urine.
The stomach is marked by paralysis, a "hanging-down" sensation, great thirst yet aggravation from fluids. Liquids can be vomited immediately in extreme cases. There is a general inability of the body to process fluids; the kidneys are sore and locked-up. Food settles in the stomach, turns sour and causes pain.
Scilla maritima is marked by an aversion to all mental and bodily labor. There is an excessive flow of urine, and there exists a tendency to edematous swellings, especially around the chest. The appetite is increased; the patient longs for acids and thirsts for cold water. Yet, air hunger and oppression in the chest compel to drink slowly. Nausea is experienced, together with pressure pains in the stomach that are better from lying on the left side. Typically, the patient's eyes feel as if swimming in cold water; one eye can appear smaller than the other. The teeth darken and nails become brittle and split. This remedy is indicated in mild cases of diabetes, oftentimes the spleen is affected.
Tarentula hispanica is indicated in restless, intense, and hurried patients who show great emotional power and a love for rhythmic music and dancing. They can work at a fast pace, yet they also show disinclination to work, coupled with rebelliousness in the face of authority and heightened, distracting urges for intimate relationships. At times, they can become intensely impatient and resort to violence. Their tendency to disobedience may lead them into overindulgence in the wrong foods and drug abuse. They suffer from acidic stomach conditions, intense burning pains in stomach and esophagus, bloating, and diabetes.
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ARTICLE BY:DR.ANAND DHARSENDA
WOCKHARDT HOSPITALS (RAJKOT) INDIA

homeopathy stomach ulcer remedies and cures

2011-10-14T01:34:00.000-07:00

Excessive striving for power can also originate from a position of inferiority when one's present position in life cannot be tolerated, when there are feelings of humiliation and discontent. Ulcer formation more typically occurs in this group, as compared to the "more established" overachievers with heart complaints.
This group of gastric and duodenal ulcers shows two predominant types of patients with overambitiousness. Patients of the first group are marked by an urge to prove their personal worth in the struggle for recognition and tend to duodenal and gastric ulcers. Patients of the second group are hard-working people of lower socioeconomic standing who strive for a higher standard of
living and develop gastric or duodenal ulcers in the struggle for advancement. Gastric hypersecretion, the production of excessive stomach acids necessary for digestion, can lead to erosion and spasms not only in the stomach but also within the adjacent small intestine, the duodenum. The bowel lining is less robust than the thicker folds of the stomach and subject to ulceration, once damage and irritation of the bowel lining has occurred.
Patients of the first group suffering from this disease are marked by overambitiousness with the underlying desire to gain recognition, power, and prestige, and they are continuously out to prove themselves. On seeing others and their prestigious accomplishments, they tend to feel envious and inferior. The body expresses this "hunger" by hypersecretion of stomach digestive fluid and duodenal spasms, leading to ulceration over time. To have envy and feel empty-handed oneself resembles watching others eat while going hungry, and the duodenal spasms actually occur during the experience of envious feelings (refer to Zander quoted in Luban-Plozza et al.). To hunger for more "food" than necessary not only gives dissatisfaction in the mind, but it creates unbalanced digestive activity and leads to physical disease; the higher self is expressing the futility of such desires on all levels of the human being.
Bach remedies: Vervain, Holly, Larch, Walnut, (Vine)...
This dynamic calls for the remedies Vervain for overambitiousness and excessive drive, Holly for envy, Larch for feelings of inferiority, and Walnut for being too easily impressed with the other's advantage. The Vine tendency, though still present, now becomes overshadowed by frustration and feelings of being thwarted. It is still indicated if there is excessive abuse toward inferiors, although these urges now grow from a sense of irritability and frustration rather than from the urge to lead.
Examples of homeopathic remedies: Lycopodium clavatum, Staphisagria
(Delphinium staphisagria), Calcarea carbonica, Arsenicum album, Nux vomica, Nitricum acidum, Mezereum (Daphne mezereum), Medorrhinum... (in the homeopathic literature, these remedies refer to gastric or peptic ulcers mainly, although duodenal ulcers can be part of the symptom picture as well).
Lycopodium clavatum enjoys positions of power and prestige, often driven by a low self-image and competitively interested in building up his advantage. This patient feels easily undermined and may be impressed by other persons' position in life and achievements. The stomach is sensitive to cold drinks and is easily disordered by oysters, onions, cabbage; there are the symptoms of craving for sweets, increased appetite, bloated abdomen, sour eructations, ulcer formation, and a tendency to diabetes. (See also chapter 5:3 on gastric and duodenal ulcers - tyrannical patients.)
Staphisagria (Delphinium staphisagria) tends to feel easily "cut," the remedy also heals wounds of cuts from a knife, and is outraged about being disadvantaged. Anger may be suppressed and not voiced constructively. These patients can work very hard to bring up their standing and overcome feelings of inferiority. Their envy can be intense and give them motivating power. Stomach complaints center around pain after anger and ulcer formation. There is a craving for sweets, milk, and cigarettes.
Calcarea carbonica, hard-working and achievement-oriented, can experience feelings of envy and resentment, though the less overexerted patient is generally characterized by a jovial, care-free, even lethargic nature. The stomach is marked by heartburn and indigestion from milk and bread and by an aversion to meat, fat, and slimy food. There is a specific sensitivity to coffee and aspirin, in regard to the stomach region particularly after the formation of ulcers. Cold drinks are desired, though they may cause cramps in the stomach, while hot food is not found appealing. Generally, there is a craving for eggs and sweets; there are persistent sour eructations or sour vomiting, constipation, and a tendency to inflammation of the gallbladder. The patient flushes easily from overexertion.
Arsenicum album shows insecurity in regard to personal safety and finance and is often motivated by possessiveness. There are gastric ulcer formations and malignancies with burning sensations; acidic eructations excoriate the throat, yet acids and coffee are craved. The stomach is painfully sensitive as if raw. Pains are better from warm drinks, especially warm milk. Thirst can be intense, yet the patient takes only small sips at a time. There is a craving for fat and creamy food, for tart food, and for alcohol; vegetables and watery fruits, however, aggravate the condition. Nervousness, restlessness, apprehension in the stomach and bowels, dysentery, loathing of food from the mere sight or smell, an enlarged and painful liver and spleen are further symptoms. (See also chapter 5:3 on gastric and duodenal ulcers - tyrannical patients.)
Nux vomica is a highly achievement-oriented personality with irritability in face of difficulties and contradiction. There is great sensitivity to being offended or humiliated, and the patient may develop ulcers from such experiences and the additional strain from overwork. There is a typical craving for stimulants such as nicotine and alcohol; fats and spicy foods are desired. A tendency to diabetes exists. Stomach pains are worse from anger, tight clothing, and from exposure to cold; warm applications and warm drinks ameliorate. There is ineffectual urging for vomiting and stool, with reversed peristalsis. Generally, a spasmodic, irritable condition prevails throughout the organism. (See also chapter 5:3 on gastric and duodenal ulcers - tyrannical patients.)
Nitricum acidum tends to be dictatorial and demanding, the power being sought interpersonally rather than through achievement and professional ambition. Nitricum acidum is critical, hypochondriacal, and severely discontented, while constantly irritating others. These patients "eat themselves up" with acridity, and the mucous membranes, including the stomach membrane, suffer ulceration from corroding discharges and alterations in the cell structure. A major focus of ulceration is in those sites of the body where mucous membranes meet the skin; there, one finds typical splinter-like sensations. Nitricum acidum craves fat and salt, shows an aversion to eggs, bread, and cheese, and is nauseated by milk. There is also a tendency to diabetes. (See also chapter 5:3 on gastric and duodenal ulcers - tyrannical patient.)
Mezereum (Daphne mezereum) shows great anxiety in the stomach region, often connected with the need for recognition and a simultaneous state of being impressed with the power of others. (This dynamic has been observed in one of my cases.) The continued worry and anguish lead to peptic ulcer formation. Typically, there occur empty, extremely anguished feelings in the stomach and a craving for ham and ham fat. Other symptoms are eczema with itching and crust formation, pain in the bones and inflammation of the periosteum, and a general sensitivity to touch. (See also chapter 6:2a on gastric and duodenal ulcers - dependent patients.)
Medorrhinum is adventure-seeking and enjoys being part of a group. Patients have a high sex-drive and experience internal restlessness, at times even abusiveness. A bent to poetic, romantic expression counteracts the aggressive urges. Ulcer formation involves a sick, gnawing feeling in the stomach, vomiting of thick mucus and bile. After eating, there are cramps and a feeling of a lump in the stomach; this feeling is worse from drawing up the knees. At 2 a.m. , the patient is awakened by intense stomach pains. Further symptoms are a craving for orange juice, unripe fruit, ice, and an aversion to eggplant and slimy foods. Generally, one finds a tendency to rhinitis and sinusitis with greenish discharges, amelioration in the evening and at seaside, and a history of gonorrhea in the patient or the parents.
The second group is striving to partake in the norm of society and are referred to as 'normopathic patients' (refer to note 12). These patients, often from lower socioeconomic groups, strive for the normal standards of society and tend to work extra hard, while denying important needs for rest and healthful diversion. Continued stress, worry, and demands result in ulcer formation; the gastric area begins to "digest" itself. This may signal their struggle of working very hard without actually having enough "fat to chew on."
The Bach remedies suggested for the first group of patients may apply in this case as well. Additional Bach remedies: Oak, Olive, Agrimony...
The patient may need Oak for struggling unceasingly, while denying the need to rest, and Olive for exhaustion in psyche and body. Agrimony would address the tendency to deny conflicts and suppress vital needs, while exhibiting normal work-oriented behavior on the surface. This remedy also alleviates inner restlessness and the dissatisfied urge for improved recognition and a possible partnership if lacking. Agrimony helps to bring about happiness in the here and now and a more deeply resonating appreciation of the present treasures within one's life.
Examples of homeopathic remedies: Graphites, Anacardium orientale...
(these patients may need any of the remedies listed under the first group).
Graphites is a typical remedy for duodenal ulcers and often associated with people of lesser intellectual achievement and motivation. These patients are worried about their lack of financial welfare and feel compelled to achieve higher standards, while they actually feel stagnant and trapped in their present circumstances and have to make a great effort to further their work-output. The continued worrying, while progress is not forthcoming, leads to ulcer formation. Nausea and vomiting after meals can occur; yet, food, warm drinks, and lying down ameliorate the stomach pain. The stomach region feels pressured and constricted; any tight clothing has to be loosened. (See also chapter 6:2a on gastric and duodenal ulcers - dependent patients.)
Anacardium orientale as well is frequently found in lower socioeconomic groups. These patients feel undermined and have a low self-image, while craving to be recognized and establish their power within society. Due to a growing sense of futility, they may resort to cursing and cruelty, or their feelings of being undermined disturb their inner peace mainly and hide behind a work-oriented attitude. Anacardium orientale develops gastrointestinal ulcers and gastritis that are greatly eased by eating, especially by eating warm soup. There are also sensations of plugs or hoops in and around certain locations of the body. These patients are worse from stepping hard, having a general suppressed or bound physical condition. (See also chapter 5:3 on gastric and duodenal ulcers - tyrannical patients.)
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psorinum nosodes of homeopathy explained in treatment of varies disease

2011-10-13T04:15:00.000-07:00

Acne rosacea on nose
Acrid secretions from eyes
Awakes at night with pain head as from blow
Asthma with dyspnoea
Asthma worse sitting up, better lying down and keeping the arms spread apart
Better from heat, warm clothing, even in summer
Brain feels too large
Blepharitis
Cough in winter
Cough after suppressed eruption
Chronic catarrh
Cough returns every winter, from suppressed eruption

Cardiac weakness
Chronic otorrhoea
Chronic headache
Chronic ophthalmia
Constipation of infants, in pale, sickly, scrofulous children
Crusty eruption all over
Coffee aggravates
Change of weather aggravation
Dry lustreless rough hair
Dropsies long-standing
Dry hard cough with weakness in chest
Despairs of recovery
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Debility independent of any organic disease
Debility during corivalescence after acute diseases
Dull, pressive pain in occiput
Dry coryza with stoppage of nose
Dropsy in corvsequnce of suppressed eruption
Dread of least cold air or draft
Dropping from posterior nares
Enlarged glands
Extreme sensitivity to cold
Eyes agglutinated
Easy perspiration when walking or on slight movement
Ear, red oozing scabs around
Edges of eyelids red, with acrid secretion
Eructation like bad eggs
Eradicates tendency to quinsy
Eruption around finger nails
Eczema behind ears with offensive discharge
Easily starts in sleep
Feeling of ulceration under sternum
Fetid foot sweats
For immunity from cold catching
Hungry during headache
Hungry always, must get up and eat at night
Hopeless
Humid eruption on scalp or face
Hammering pain in head
Hair matted and dry

Hard, difficult stool, with blood from rectum and burning piles
Herpes from temples over ears to cheeks
Hawking up of cheesy, pea-like balls of disgusting smell and taste
Hay fever returning every year
Herpetic eruptions especially on scalps and bends of joints with itching
Intolerable itching of skin and ears Itching worse from warmth of bed
Indolent ulcers, slow to heal
Lack of reaction, well selected remedies fail to act
Leucorrhoea, fetid, lumpy, with much backache and debility
Melancholy, deep and persistent
Most fetid pus from ears, brownish, offensive
Mammae swollen and painful
Nausea, vomiting of pregnancy
Night sweat
Oily skin
Obstinate rhagades at corners of mouth
Pustules near finger nails
Profuse offensive perspiration in fever
Painful swallowing with pain in ears
Profuse offensive saliva
Pale, delicate face
Pain in abdomen after eating
Pain in chest, better lying down
Recurring quinsy
Recurring attacks of dry, scaly eruptions and asthma

Religious
Sleepless from intolerable itching
Scrofulous patients
Secretions have a filthy smell
Sensitive to cold draft of air
Syphilis inherited and tertiary
Skin symptoms very prominent
Suicidal tendency
Sore pain behind ears
Swelling of upper lip
Sickly face
Stool mucous, bloody, excessively fetid, dark fluid
Skin dirty, dingy
Sebaceous glands secrete excessively
Tongue and gums ulcerated
Tonsils greatly swollen
Tough mucus of foul taste adheres to soft palate
Tough mucus in throat
Urticaria after every exertion
Vertigo
Wants head kept warm
Worse in head in change of weather
Weakness of joints, as if they would not hold together
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Medorrhinum uses in homeopathy for varies treatment

2011-10-13T04:09:00.000-07:00

Aching in eyeballs
As if sticks in eye
Acne and blotches of reddish color on face
Asthma after suppression of gonorrhea
Approach of storm aggravates
Burning pain in brain; worse in occiput
Breasts cold, sore and sensitive
Blisters in inner surface of lips and cheeks
Better clutching hands

Chronic ailments due to suppressed gonorrhea

Craves fresh air
Coldness of tip of nose
Children dwarfed and stunted
Cough, better lying on stomach
Catarrhal condition chronic in children
Copper colored spots
Cannot speak without weeping
Chills up and down the back in fever
Constantly lose the thread of conversation
Concentration difficult
Coldness of legs, hands and forearms in fever
Chronic nasal and pharyngeal catarrhs
Canker sore in mouth
Coppery taste and eructations of sulphuretted hydrogen
Craving for liquor, salt and sweets
Craving for warm drinks
Can pass stool only on leaning very far back
Daylight to sunlight aggravation
Dropsy of serous sacs
Disseminated sclerosis
Dyspnoea; cannot exhale
Dysmenorrhoea Eyeballs ache
Eyelids irritation
Eyes as if stared at everything
Enlarged and painful prostate with frequent and painful urination
Forgetfulness extreme. Forgets even his own name

Fears going insane
Feels better on lying on face and protruding tongue
Flashes of heat in face and neck in fever
Feels as if sticks in eyes Fear in the dark
Favus
Feels someone behind her
Finger joints enlarged, puffy
4 p.m. aggravation
Fiery red rash about anus in babies
Great hurry
Great disturbance and irritability of nervous system
Gouty concretions
Gout, rheumatism, asthma which can be traced to sycosis
Gleet in males
History of sycosis
Hopeless of recovery
He is in a great hurry
Hoarse while reading
Headache from jarring of cars, exhaustion, or hard work
Haemoptysis
Heels and balls of feet tender
Head heavy, and drawn backward
Headache from hard work
Hair dry crispy
Intense itching of nose
Itching of scalp; dandruff
Intense itching of anus

Itching worse night and when thinking of it
Intense pruritus vulva
Intense menstrual colic
Impotence
Incessant dry night cough
Incipient consumption
Knees painful
Large puffy finger joints
Lips thickened from mouth breathing
Lying on abdomen ameliorates
Leucorrhoea, thin, acrid, excoriating; fishy odour
Larynx feels sore
Menses offensive, profuse, dark, clotted
Memory weak
Menses stain clothes, difficult to wash out
Melancholy with suicidal thoughts
Metrorrhagia
Nerves quiver arid tingle
Night sweat and hectic temperature
Nose dirty
Nervous, restless
Nose, posterior nares obstructed
Nocturnal enuresis
Nocturnal emission in male followed by great weakness
Numbness and aching in knee joints
Ovarian pain worse left side, or from ovary to ovary
Ovarian neuralgia

Oppression of breathing
Oedema of limbs
Oozing of fetid moisture from anus
Ovarian pain worse left side
Pains intolerable, tensive
Pallor of face
Pelvic disorder, chronic
Pulsation in ears
Partial deafness
Posterior nares obstructed
Pernicious vomiting of pregnancy
Pass stool only by leaning very far back
Painful tenesmus when urinating
Painful lump sensation on posterior surface of sphincter
Pain and soreness through chest and mammae
Pain in back with burning heat
Quick, darting pain in right ear
Restores suppressed gonorrhoeal discharge
Rheumatism chronic
Rests more comfortably lying on abdomen
Ravenous hunger soon after eating
Restless
Renal colic
Respiratory trouble better lying on stomach
Rainy season, worse
Skin yellow and incessant itching
Skin cold, yet throws off all coverings

Skin bathed with cold perspiration
Sleeps in knee chest position
Small boils break out on face during menses
Sole of feet sore and swelled
State of collapse and trembling all over
Sea shore and damp weather improve
Sycotic warts on genitals of females Sterility '
Sensitive spot near os uteri
Sensibility exalted
Thunderstorm aggravates
Tonsils enlarged
Tumors and abnormal growths
Thick yellow mucus from nostrils
Trembling all over
Time passes too slowly
Tongue coated brown, thick, blistered
Tickling in throat with cough
Urine flows very slowly
Urethritis
Urinate frequently during menses
Violent pain in liver and spleen
Very thirsty
Weight and pressure on vertex
Whole urethra feels sore in males
Wants to stretch leg, which does not relieve pain
Women with chronic pelvic disorders
Wants to be fanned all the time in fever
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homeopathic ointment for acne

2011-10-12T12:51:00.000-07:00

Calendula officinalis
The homeopathic antiseptic homeopathic ointment for acne
The marigold that grows in our gardens is the primary homeopathic antiseptic, usually employed in the form of a mother tincture (M.T. ). A few drops in a little boiled water can be used to wash a wound or as a gargle for the throat, for example. It also used locally in the form of soap or ointment (at 4% strength) in cases of acne, for example, and as an eyewash to clean the eyes in cases of conjunctivitis. We can also give globules in the lower potencies (5 to 7 CH) in cases of wounds to the mouth, for example. Thanks to this remedy, homeopaths
can easily "weed out" local infections.*

homeopathy 4x homoeopathic community journal and Baryta iodata explained

2011-10-12T12:47:00.000-07:00

In your studies of the old remedies you will remember the recommendation given for the Carbonate of Baryta, namely: "Scrofulosis: swelling and induration of the glands, especially the cervical glands, even after suppuration has set in." Of the Muriate, it is said to be the best remedy for "stone-like induration of the glands," and a "tendency to tonsillitis." This last recommendation has been verified by a great many practitioners who are enthusiastic in its praises, not only as a preventive, but as the best remedy in acute quinsy, which it is said to arrest in the forming stage, preventing suppuration.

Allopathic authorities, especially the older writers, claim that Baryta "resolves and liquifies abnormal accumulations wherever found." It is eminently a glandular remedy, and possesses specific power over the absorbents equal if not superior to Iodine and others of that class. Its use, except by homoeopathists, has been greatly neglected until of late Dr. Hammond has recommended the muriate in sclerosis of the posterior columns of the spinal cord, a condition better known as "locomotor ataxia," the morbid anatomy of which consists of an atrophy of the cord, with hypertrophy of the connective tissues. This same pathological condition may occur in the brain. It is then known as cerebral sclerosis or atrophy of the brain. For these conditions, Hammond recommends the Chloride of Barium in doses of one-half or two-third grains three times a day.
If you will refer to Hahnemann's recommendation for Baryta, you will find that he mentions many of the symptoms caused by cerebral and spinal atrophy, such as the diseases of old age, imbecility, paralysis, loss of coordination of motion, etc.
It appears to me that Hammond has hit upon the pathological key-note for the use of Baryta, namely: an hypertrophy of connective tissue. The atrophy of nerves substance is a necessary result of such a condition.
The difference between Iodine and Baryta appears to be this, that whereas the former is curative in soft hypertrophy of glandular or connective tissues, the latter is useful in hard induration. In this respect it is analogous to Conium.
Several years ago, it occurred to me that the chemical union of Iodine and Baryta would form a medicine whose effects would be just what we desire in the treatment of cases of glandular enlargement with a tendency to induration. I therefore procured some freshly-prepared Iodide of Baryta, and prescribed it in hypertrophy of the tonsils. The result was very gratifying. It effected a rapid diminution in the size of the glands, even when they had been indurated for some years.
In one case it not only had this effect, but it greatly relieved the symptoms arising from an enlargement of the prostate gland, with which the patient had suffered for some time.
It will not act as well as the Muriate or Carbonate in acute tonsillitis, but it is better adapted to the resulting hypertrophy with induration.
I would strongly urge you to test its power in enlarged and indurated testicles and ovaries, also in goitre. In one case indurated testicles, it diminished their size quite notably. In another, it evidently aided the action of the galvanic current in reducing the hypertrophy.
I would also advise its use in enlargement of the mesenteric glands in scrofulous children. It may prove useful in some case of mammary hypertrophy.
Dr. Liebold, of New York, a celebrated oculist of our school, has been successful in its use for certain diseases of the eye. You will find his paper in the Transactions of the American Institute, 1873.
In the N.Y. Transactions for 1973-4, you will also find a paper by our Professor of Ophthalmology Dr. Woodyatt, on its use in syphilitic keratitis interstitial. He reports a case complicated with enlarged cervical glands, which was cured by this remedy. He advises it in suppurative inflammation of the middle ear, phlyctenular conjunctivitis and scrofulous ulcers. He does not give the dose. I usually ;pre the 2x or 4x trit. several times a day.

homeopathy for eczema a homeopathy treatment for it

2011-10-11T11:45:00.000-07:00

A married lady, 30 years of age mother of two children, was brought to me by her husband on December 4 1891, with pretty severe homeopathy for eczema that had been bad during the past eight months, and being specially bad in the bends of arms and on the face, and worst of all around the mouth; most distressing of an evening. Her lips are dry cracked, "for ever peeling." Patient's condition was so bad, her general state so debilitated, her appearance so old, worn, and weary, that I felt it to be imperative to better her blood life and pull her together, so to speak, before setting about a scientific cure of the case, so I put her on Lerico o for a
few weeks, and then upon Bellis perennis o for a month, when patient would not come any more, even to please her husband, remarking, "oh ! I'm getting on nicely now; I do not want the doctor." homeopathy for eczema

homeopathy for eczema

2011-10-11T11:42:00.000-07:00

A woman, 26 years old:
homeopathy for eczema on the palms of her hands. The skin was suppurating and oozing with yellow discharge. The skin was wet, swollen and sensitive to touch. "My skin is getting worse, and now I am in a desperate situation. I cannot use my hands anymore," she said. She was sitting in front of me with her hands raised, palms facing outwards, which she then crossed, turning inwards, covering up her chest. She was wearing white gloves in order to avoid any contact between the fingers. "I don't know why I have got such terrible eczema. I think I have been chosen to suffer," she said.

Her husband had always had affairs. She was weeping and angry about this at the same time.
When she is away from home she phones her husband many times, even if she has just left him a few hours before. She said: "I need to have contact with him all the time. It is not just my husband -I even phone my mother twice a day. I couldn't live one day without having contacted her."
As her homeopathy for eczema had become so much worse in the last months, I asked what had happened recently in her life. "In the last months, a lot of young people died in my little village, and this worries me. It is not that I think I could die, but you can see how easily one can die, even if we are quite young."
Rubrics:
Delusion, inconsolable over fancied misfortune.
Confirmation:
"I am chosen to suffer," and "One can die easily."
Mind:
Jealousy.
Confirmation:
Her husband's affairs; even her mother has the story of an unfaithful husband.
Mind:
Lamenting because she is not appreciated: Calc-sulph.
Confirmation:
She is lamenting all the time by frequently phoning her mother and her husband all the time. She needs the feeling that someone cares for her, that's why she is phoning them all the time.
The oozing skin is characteristic of Calc-sulph. With its prescription the eruptions disappeared. From this remedy and the insights she gained from it, combined with our consultation, she became stronger in her life. She no longer felt the need to phone all the time. homeopathy for eczema
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homeopathy for thyroid

2011-10-10T05:07:00.000-07:00

Homeopathic remedies often do not heal thyroid diseases, but act on the hormonal reactive mode.
The tuberculinic are the most sensitive to thyroid conditions.
Hyperthyroidism (homeopathy for thyroid)
Trace elements
• one dose, daily :
morning : ZINC NICKEL COBALT
evening : IODINE
Organotherapy
• 20 drops, in the evening : THYROIDINUM 7C
Satellites
• alternate every other day, 3 granules :
CONIUM 5C, or LAPIS ALBUS 5C
Polychrests

• alternate every other week, one dose :
BROMUM 9C, or NATRUM MURIATICUM 9C
Hypothyroidism
Trace elements,
• one dose, daily :
morning : MANGANESE COPPER
evening : IODINE
Organotherapy
• alternate every other evening, 40 drops :
HYPOTHALAMUS 4C, or THYROIDINUM 4C
Polychrest (homeopathy for thyroid)
• one dose, weekly : BARYTA CARBONICA 9C
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homeopathy for adhd and Fluoricum acidum

2011-10-10T04:54:00.000-07:00

Signs
Hydrofluoric Acid.
CLASSIFICATION Fluorine is the lightest member of the halogen group of elements [group 17 of the periodic table, formerly group VIIa], along with bromine, chlorine, iodine, and astatine. It is so active that it is not found free in nature, but in the combined state. It occurs chiefly in minerals as fluorspar
[calcium fluoride], fluorapatite, and cryolite [sodium fluoroaluminate], but is rather widely distributed in very small quantities in various rocks. Fluorine also occurs as fluorides in seawater, rivers, and mineral springs. It is the 17th element in order of abundance in the crust of the earth. The relative abundance of fluorine in interstellar space may be linked to processes initiated by supernova explosions.

PROPERTIES Fluorine is the most electronegative and reactive of all elements. It is a pale yellow, corrosive gas, which reacts with practically all organic and inorganic substances. At room temperature, finely divided metal, glass, ceramics, carbon, and even water burn in fluorine with a bright flame. Upon cooling, fluorine becomes a yellow liquid. Its boiling point lies at -188o C, its melting point at -219.62o C. Fluorine combines rapidly and violently with whatever it touches except its own compounds. Treating material to form a tight surface coating of fluoride solved the problem of containing it. Fluorine is difficult to isolate from its compounds, and in fact it is impossible to free it by chemical means. No other element is powerful enough, as an oxidizing agent, to replace it.
USES Until World War II, there was no commercial production of elemental fluorine. The atom bomb project and nuclear energy applications, however, made it necessary to produce large quantities. Fluorine and its compounds are used in producing uranium [from the hexafluoride] and more than 100 commercial fluorochemicals, including many well-known high-temperature plastics. Elemental fluorine has been studied as a rocket propellant as it has an exceptionally high specific impulse value. The fluorine industry is intimately related to the production of aluminium. Aluminium is made by electrolysis of bauxite [aluminium oxide] in a bath of molten cryolite, either artificial or the natural mineral.
COMPOUNDS Hydrofluoric acid is extremely corrosive and must be preserved in lead or steel containers. It is extensively used for cleaning metals and for polishing, frosting, and etching glass. Hydrofluoric acid has the property of dissolving glass; this property is used in a common test for the presence of a fluoride. The chlorofluorocarbons [CFCs], odourless and non-poisonous liquids or gases such as Freon, are used as a dispersing agent in aerosol sprays and as a refrigerant. The discovery that CFCs reach the stratosphere and destroy the earth's ozone layer has led, after 1995, to a ban on the manufacture and use of CFCs in North America and many European countries. Elemental fluorine, often diluted with nitrogen, reacts with hydrocarbons to form corresponding fluorocarbons in which some or all hydrogen has been replaced by fluorine. Great stability, chemical inertness, high electrical resistance, and other valuable physical and chemical properties usually characterize the resulting compounds. Liquid fluorinated hydrocarbons, derived from petroleum, are useful as highly stable lubricating oils. Useful plastics with non-sticking qualities, such as Teflon, are made from unsaturated fluorocarbons. Teflon is very resistant to most chemical action; it is widely used to make such products as motor gaskets and dashboard accessories in the automobile industry. It is also used as a coating on the inner surface of frying pans and other kitchen utensils to reduce the need for fat in cooking. Boron trifluoride is used as a catalyst in making benzene for detergents and polymers for adhesives. Sodium fluoride is a paint preservative, gives enamels an opaque colour, and is used in primary metal and ceramic industries. Also, it is used as a water treatment agent, sterilant, and an insecticide.
FLUORIDATION An important use of fluorine in some countries is in the fluoridation of drinking water in the interest of dental health. The presence of fluorine as a soluble fluoride in drinking water to the extent of 2 ppm may cause mottled enamel in teeth, when used by children acquiring permanent teeth; in smaller amounts it is thought to prevent dental cavities. No public health-related issue will have raised such controversies as fluoridation has done and still does. Both sides seem to exaggerate the effects. Proponents come out with studies documenting positive effects of fluorides, claiming, in the process, greater benefits than are justified by the current data. Opponents present as many studies documenting hazardous effects of fluorides, sometimes putting it rather boldly. Of the latter, Dr. Exner contends "that industrial pollution of air and water with fluoride provided a strong motive for promoting fluoridation of water supplies" to get rid of the fluorides. He considers it a deliberate lie to make people believe "[a] that water is the chief source of fluorine; [b] that fluorine from other sources is unimportant; [c] that the body needs more fluorine than it can get without fluoridation; and [d] that the effects are governed by the concentrations of fluorine in the air or water rather than concentration in the tissues."1 Others do not believe in a "conspiracy in the usual sense of the word" but rather consider fluoridation "a colossal blunder." "Some fifty years after the United States began adding fluoride to public water supplies to reduce cavities in children's teeth, declassified government documents are shedding new light on the roots of that still controversial public health measure, revealing a surprising connection between fluoride and the dawning of the nuclear age. ... Fluoride was the key chemical in atomic bomb production. Massive quantities of fluoride - millions of tons - were essential for the manufacture of bomb-grade uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons throughout the Cold War. One of the most toxic chemicals known, fluoride rapidly emerged as the leading chemical health hazard of the U.S. atomic bomb program - both for workers and for nearby communities. ... Much of the original proof that fluoride is safe for humans in low doses was generated by A-bomb program scientists, who had been secretly ordered to provide 'evidence useful in litigation' against defence contractors for fluoride injury to citizens. The first lawsuit against the U.S. A-bomb program were not over radiation, but over fluoride. ... Human exposure to fluoride has mushroomed since World War II, due not only to fluoridated water and toothpaste, but also to environmental pollution by major industries from aluminium to pesticides. Fluoride is a critical industrial chemical. ... Much of the proof of fluoride's safety in low doses rests on the post-war work performed by the University of Rochester, in anticipation of lawsuits against the bomb program for human injury. ... This marriage of military secrecy and medical science bore deformed offspring. ... The bomb program needed human studies, as they had needed human studies for plutonium, and adding fluoride to public water supplies provided one opportunity. ... Of the original classified version of a fluoride safety study by bomb program scientists, a censored version was later published in the August 1948 Journal of the American Dental Association. Comparison of the secret with the published version indicates that the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission did censor damaging information on fluoride, to the point of tragicomedy. This was a study of the dental and physical health of workers in a factory producing fluoride for the A-bomb program, conducted by a team of dentists from the Manhattan Project. The secret version reports that most of the men had no teeth left. The published version reports only that the men had fewer cavities. The secret version says the men had to wear rubber boots because the fluoride fumes disintegrated the nails in their shoes. The published version does not mention this. The secret version says the fluoride may have acted similarly on the men's teeth, contributing to their toothlessness. The published version omits this statement. The published version concludes that 'the men were unusually healthy, judged from both a medical and dental point of view'."2
POLLUTION Pollution of air and countryside with fluorine fumes and fall-out is an industrial hazard in the manufacture of aluminium, steel, copper, uranium, and superphosphate. Additional sources of fluorine emissions are the production of fertilizer, glass, ceramics, and bricks, as well as beryllium, antimony and petroleum industries, and power stations using brown coal for energy production. After the compounds of nitrogen and sulphur, the compounds of fluoride rank third among the air pollutants. The American 'Toxicological Profile for Fluorides, Hydrogen Fluoride and Fluorine' states that "According to the Toxic Release Inventory, an estimated total of 12,934,848 pounds of hydrogen fluoride were released into the environment from manufacturing and processing facilities in the United States in 1987 ... not all facilities that have reported release data have done so ... the TRI does not list sodium fluoride. Fluoride can also enter the atmosphere from the manufacture and use of pesticides such as sodium fluoride, sodium fluorosilicate, barium fluorosilicate, and cryolite particularized in the form of dusts and sprays." [see below]
PHYSIOLOGY As fluoride, fluorine is known to be present in trace amounts in the bones, teeth, thyroid gland, and skin of animal and human tissues. Functions of fluoride are not known with certainty. The skeletal tissue retains about 60-80% or more of the ingested fluorine. The remaining fraction of fluorine is distributed in other tissues including teeth and soft tissues or is excreted. The body retains more fluoride during childhood than in the adult state. Adult males excrete more fluorine than females. A fraction of the ingested fluorine is excreted daily. The principal route of fluoride excretion is via the urine. Some excretion takes place through sweat and faeces, and fluoride also appears in saliva. Fluoride crosses the placenta; it rarely seems to be excreted in milk to any significant extent.
FOOD Fluoride-rich foods include tea, gelatine, cereals, skin of chicken, and kidneys. Tea leaves accumulate more fluoride [from pollution of soil and air] than any other edible plant. Ocean fish, such as mackerel, salmon, sardines, and codfish, contain fluoride concentrations that range from about 6 to 27 ppm. "Fluoride contaminated phosphate is used as fertilizer, as a supplement in pet food, and as ingredient or additive in foods and vitamins. ... Current intake [of fluoride] is approaching 8 mg/day - not just from tap water, but toothpaste and other dental products, beverages, processed foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, pharmaceuticals, Teflon coated cookware, vitamin and mineral supplements, teas, air [from contamination by many industries], etc. etc."3
TOXICOLOGY Because of their high activity elemental fluorine and the fluoride ion are highly toxic. The free element has a characteristic pungent odour, detectable in concentrations as low as 20 parts per billion, which is below the safe working level. Contact of liquid fluorine with skin causes irritation and damages similar to cold burns. Fluorine entering the body rapidly moves to the hard tissues. It is a cumulative bone-seeking mineral that causes progressive skeletal changes. According to the natural course of the disease, skeletal fluorosis may be classified into the following phases: preclinical, muscoskeletal, degenerative and destructive, crippling fluorosis, and complications. In addition, fluorine is known to bind calcium in the body, causing ionic calcium to decrease; this, in turn, causes secondary hyperparathyroidism. Renal stones, reported to be common in endemic fluorosis areas, are capable of accumulating considerable amounts of fluorine. Eye irritation is the first noticeable effect of hydrogen fluoride, e.g. in eye irritating smogs. Proctor and Gamble, toothpaste manufacturers, have acknowledged that a family size tube of fluoridated toothpaste "theoretically contains enough fluoride to kill a small child." [A poison warning is placed on all fluoride-containing toothpastes in the US.] Research by Moolenburgh in Holland found that up to 4% of people using fluoridated water experience health problems. These problems range from gastrointestinal disorders to mouth sores to rashes to headaches to forms of arthritis to more serious concerns such as cancers and neurological complaints. Studies dating back to the 1950s have shown links between Down's Syndrome and natural fluoridation. Rapaport4 also showed how the age of women bearing Down's Syndrome children decreased in direct relation to the increase of fluoride in the water supply. The more fluoride that was in the water, the younger the age of the women bearing Down's Syndrome children.
ACUTE POISONING Initial symptoms of acute poisoning, such as salivation, nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, are secondary to the local action of fluoride on the intestinal mucosa. Systemic symptoms are varied and severe. There is increased irritability of the nervous system, consistent with the calcium binding effect of fluoride, hypocalcemia, and hypoglycaemia. The blood pressure falls, owing to central vasomotor depression as well as direct cardiotoxicity. Respiration is first stimulated and later depressed. Death usually results from respiratory paralysis or cardiac failure. Practically all the organs and systems are affected in acute fluoride poisoning. The manifestations include vomiting [sometimes blood-stained], diffuse abdominal pain of spasmodic type, diarrhoea, cyanosis, severe weakness, dyspnoea, muscle spasms, pareses and paralyses, cardiovascular disorders, convulsions, and coma.
FLUOROSIS Fluorine compounds are added to toothpastes and mouth rinses; usually in the form of sodium fluoride, sometimes as calcium fluoride. Water may be fluoridated. The consumption of 10 to 45 mg of fluoride per day can cause a condition called fluorosis. The first sign of fluorosis is mottling of the teeth, caused when the chalky-white irregular patches on the surface of the enamel [mainly of the incisors of the upper jaw] become infiltrated by yellow or brown staining. Prolonged high intake of fluoride may result in skeletal fluorosis and calcification of muscle tissue and spinal ligaments. This shows that excess of fluoride elevates calcium absorption and deposition within the body. In addition, appetite decreases and nerve disturbances may occur as a result of the changes in the spinal column. Elevated fluoride levels are also found in the kidney and aorta. Recent studies indicate that fluoride may increase the rate of hip fractures in elderly men and women. In cattle and sheep grazing on land contaminated with fluoride-containing dust both teeth and skeleton are affected. Sometimes bony outgrows appear, as well as weakness and reduced milk yield. Calves exposed to fluoride were found to be stunted and lame.
OTHER EFFECTS The ill effects caused by fluoride were first recognized among aluminium workers in the 1930s by the Danish health officer Dr. Kaj Roholm. The reference work Fluoridation the Great Dilemma lists the following effects: chronic fatigue not relieved by extra sleep or rest; headaches; dryness of throat and excessive water consumption; frequent need to urinate and urinary tract irritation; arthritic aches and stiffness in muscles and bones; muscular weakness; involuntary twitching; tingling sensation in fingers [especially] and feet; gastrointestinal disturbances; pinkish-red or bluish-red spots [like bruised, but round or oval] on the skin that fade and clear up in 7-10 days; skin rash or itching, in particular after showers or bathing; mouth sores; loss of mental acuity and ability to concentrate; excessive nervousness; depression; dizziness; tendency to lose balance; visual disturbances, in particular temporary blind spots in field of vision and diminished ability to focus.
MEDICINE Fluoroquinolones are synthetic antibiotics, including the broad-spectrum agents ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, norfloxacin, acrosoxacin and pefloxacin, and the narrower-spectrum drug used in urinary tract infections, cinoxacin. The drugs concentrate in many tissues, particularly in the kidney, prostate and lung. Aluminium and magnesium antacids interfere with the absorption of fluoroquinolones. The main clinical uses of fluoroquinolones are: complicated urinary tract infections; gonorrhoea; bacterial prostatitis; cervicitis. Unwanted effects consist mainly of gastrointestinal disorders and skin rashes. Arthropathy has been reported in young individuals. CNS symptoms - headache, dizziness - have occurred and, less frequently, convulsions. Photosensitivity and hypersensitivity reactions have been seen, as have renal disorders. 5
CANCER Research done by Dr. Takeki Tsutui and co-workers, of the Nippon Dental College in 1984, documenting the mutagenic characteristics of fluoride, demonstrated that fluoride can transfer normal cells into cancerous ones. Fluorides have been linked to an increase in uterine cancer. From 1945 to 1972, when the Okinawa Island were under U.S. administration, fluoride was added to the drinking water supplies in most regions. A significant positive correlation was found between fluoride concentration in drinking water and uterine cancer mortality in 20 municipalities. In 1981, Dean Burk, for many decades head chemist at the National Cancer Institute, testified at congressional hearings, reporting that at least 40,000 cancer deaths in 1981 were attributed to fluoridation. 40,000 cases that could have been prevented simply by not putting industry waste into the public water supply. 6 The drug 5-fluorouracil is employed as an antineoplastic for gastrointestinal neoplasms and breast cancer; side-effects include alopecia, mucositis, myelosuppression, diarrhoea and vomiting, hyperpigmentation, and cardiac symptoms ranging from mild precordial pain to severe hypotension and atrial fibrillation.
THYROID In the 1930s, Leeser already suspected a possible link between fluorine and goitre - "the halogen nature in any case would give occasion for the attempt." In the 1940-50s Mezger substantiates this supposition; he points out that an increase of blood iodine levels, as in Basedow's disease, is accompanied by a decrease of blood fluoride levels, and vice versa. In addition, he indicates that his Calcarea fluorica proving evoked thyroid-related symptoms in provers. This fluorine-thyroid connection has been comprehensively confirmed by later research. "It is well known that [fluorine-containing] pesticides can be a cause for thyroid cancer. Cryolite is 54.30% fluorine and is found on apples, raisins, lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, peaches, as well as most berries. ... Other studies found an increase in thyroid follicular cell tumours as a result of increasing levels of fluoride in drinking water. ... Fluorides have been given specifically in the past to reduce thyroid action in hyperthyroid patients. In the 1930s authors in Germany reported having successfully treated 1,158 hyperthyroid patients within 6 years with either sodium fluoride or fluorothyrosine. ... The antagonistic relationships between fluorine and iodine, being at opposite ends in the halogen group, has been described in many studies, almost ever since Wagner von Jauregg began a mass iodine-supplementation program in Austrian areas endemic with goitre. It is also known that the effects of fluorides on the thyroid can differ from country to country. Gordonoff wrote already in 1964 that the effects are as such, citing research by Goldemberg and Eugster. He said that in certain areas no skeletal fluorosis can be seen while there are effects on the thyroid, but in other areas there are no thyroid effects, but there is skeletal fluorosis. ... Fluoride is not just 'briefly' picked up by the thyroid gland. Fluoride is also stored in the thyroid gland. Fluoride does interfere with thyroid function. ... Countless studies exist in the field of veterinary medicine on the effects of fluoride on the thyroid gland. ... Cattle afflicted with fluorosis developed hypothyroidism, anaemia, and eosinophilia of leukocytes. ... It is also known that fluorides can increase the uptake of radioactive iodine [I-131] especially when accompanied by iodine deficiency. In one study on 26 men in the former German Democratic Republic suffering from chronic fluorosis, the mean thyroidal uptake was significantly higher than in the controls, who already had a higher uptake due to a known prevailing iodine deficiency. ... The results from a 1985 study in Russia led to a conclusion that excess of fluorine in drinking water was a risk factor of more rapid development of thyroid pathology."7
homeopathy for adhd "Learning disorders such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [homeopathy for adhd] did not knowingly exist before the fluoridation of public water supplies began. In the 1950s homeopathy for adhd spread rapidly among school children and gained much exposure in the medical science and health literature. In 1963 the US PHS listed dozens of symptoms associated with hyperactivity and officially changed the name to 'minimal brain dysfunction'. By the 1970s some leading authorities noted that this disorder appeared to lie at the root of nearly every type of childhood behaviour problem, and had become the most commonly diagnosed illness by childhood counsellors. In 1987 the American Medical Association acknowledged that minimal brain damage had become the leading disability reported by elementary schools, and 'one of the most common referral problems to psychiatry outpatients clinics.' Many studies on thyroid hormones have shown that attention deficit and/or hyperactivity disorders in children are linked to changes in the levels of thyroid hormone in the blood, and that irritability and aggressive behaviour are linked to thyroid hormone levels and hypothyroidism. Behaviour disorders have been associated with thyroid function for over 100 years. In 1997 Aronson and Dodman wrote, 'the hypothyroid human patient has been reported to show a wider range of behavioural symptoms. Particularly in the early stages of the disease reduced cognitive function and concentration together with impaired short-term memory may be confused with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, and in one study 66% of patients diagnosed with homeopathy for adhd were found to be hypothyroid. Supplementing their thyroid levels was largely curative. Visual and auditory hallucinations may result from altered perception and have been misdiagnosed as schizophrenia or psychosis. Other behavioural symptoms have included fear - ranging from mild anxiety to frank paranoia, mood swings and aggression.' Many psychoactive drugs including Prozac, Paxil and Luvox [Littleton] are fluorinated medications. Rohypnol, the infamous date-rape drug, is fluorinated Valium, which is about 20-30 times more potent than Valium alone. In essence, these drugs effect enzyme functions in certain areas of the brain to achieve the desired effect. Thyroid hormone disorders may induce almost any psychiatric symptom or syndrome, including rage. A study published this year on endemic goitre occurrences in the absence of iodine deficiency again showed higher goitre rates in high-fluoride areas in South Africa. Could it be that the world-wide 'iodine deficiency' is actually fluoride excess? ... Another thyroid/fluoride connection can be seen in Jennifer Luke's data which has shown that fluoride accumulates in the pineal gland and inhibits its production of melatonin. Luke showed in test animals that this inhibition causes an earlier onset of sexual maturity, an effect already reported in humans as well in 1956, as part of the Kingston/Newburgh study. In fluoridated Newburgh, young girls experienced earlier onset of menstruation than girls in non-fluoridated Kingston."8
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM "Using an animal model developed for the study of dental fluorosis, we expected rats drinking fluoride-treated water would behave the same as matching controls. They did not. The scientific literature led us to believe that rats would easily tolerate 175 ppm fluoride in their drinking water. They did not. Reports in the literature indicated that fluoride would not cross the blood brain barrier. But it did. Prenatal exposure to fluoride was not supposed to permanently alter behavioural outcome. It did. Like walking into quicksand, our confidence that brain function was impervious to fluoride was sinking. Our 1995 paper in Neurotoxicology and Teratology was the first laboratory study to demonstrate in vivo that central nervous system function was vulnerable to fluoride, that the effects on behaviour depended on the age at exposure and that fluoride accumulated in brain tissues. The behavioural changes common to weanling and adult exposures were different from those after prenatal exposure. Whereas prenatal exposure dispersed many behaviours as seen in drug-induced hyperactivity, weanling and adult exposures led to behaviour-specific changes more related to cognitive deficits. Brain histology was not examined in this study, but we suggested that the effects on behaviour were consistent with interrupted hippocampal development [a brain region linked with memory]. ... Soon thereafter we learned of two epidemiological studies [Fluoride, 1995-1996] from China showing IQ deficits in children over-exposed to fluoride via drinking water or soot from burning coal. A recent review [International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 1994] listed case reports of CNS effects in humans excessively exposed to fluoride, information that spans almost 60 years. A common theme appeared in the reported effects: impaired memory and concentration, lethargy, headache, depression and confusion. The same theme was echoed in once classified reports about workers from the Manhattan Project. In all, our rat data seem to fit a consistent picture."9

PROZAC Halogens are psychoactive; compounds of bromine, chlorine, or fluorine have been used, or are still used, as psychoactive drugs. Bromides have a history of use as hypnotics to induce sleep and soothe. In the early 1900s bromide dependency became a problem; their use has now been largely abandoned. Chlorine's history as a neuroleptic continues to this very day. Chloroform was principally administered as an anaesthetic since its discovery in 1831; Queen Victoria took chloroform for the birth of Prince Leopold on 7 April 1853 and recorded in her journal that 'the effect was soothing, quieting and delightful beyond measure'. In 1869 chloral hydrate came into medical use as a sleeping potion, and chloral addicts became familiar sights in private nervous clinics. In the early 1950s chlorpromazine was synthesized; it soon became the treatment of choice for schizophrenia. In the 1960s, chlordiazepoxide, marketed as Librium in 1961, and the chemically related compound diazepam, introduced under the trade name Valium in 1963, became instant bestsellers as minor tranquillizers; Valium is still one of the most widely prescribed drugs in the world. Chlorpromazine became the prototype of a group of antipsychotic drugs, now numbering in the hundreds. A new class of drugs, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors [SSRI], has been introduced in recent years. SSRIs are used in a variety of psychiatric disorders, as well as in depression, including anxiety disorders, panic attacks, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The current SSRIs marketed in the USA include fluoxetine [Prozac], sertraline [Zoloft], paroxetine [Paxil], and fluvoxamine [Luvox]; all of these are fluorinated, except for sertraline, which is chlorinated. The best known of the fluorinated SSRIs is fluoxetine [Prozac]. Within five years of its introduction in 1987 eight million people had taken Prozac. The reason for its success seems that it supposedly makes people feel 'better than well'; the drug adds something extra - a general 'feel-good factor' which makes patients taking the drug assert that they have never felt better. Even healthy, non-depressed people have been taking Prozac to give them this 'sunny feeling'. The drug produces feelings of confidence and self-esteem, effects attributed to the fact that Prozac [and other SSRIs] compensate for a lower than normal amount of serotonin [5-hydroxytryptamine, or 5HT] in some areas of the brain. Although fluorine may not be the sole active principle of Prozac, it is still interesting to compare the therapeutic use of the drug and its unwanted effects with the homoeopathic drug picture of Fluoricum acidum, most notably regarding the buoyancy, self-esteem, dominance, and increased activity. The buoyancy is comparable to the 'feel-good factor' and 'sunny feelings', as is the following statement by Dr. Peter Kramer in his book Listening to Prozac: "Prozac seems to give social confidence to the habitually timid, to make the sensitive brash, to lend the introvert the social skills of a salesman. Prozac was transformative for patients in the way an inspirational minister or high-pressure group therapy can be - it made them want to talk about their experience." Prozac is a controversial drug. Stone and Darlington, for example, claim that it is a "relatively safe drug, even in large doses; there are cases of patients taking up to 100 times the recommended dose and surviving; the side effects are few and relatively mild in most people."10 Keltner and Folks, on the other hand, list a multitude of side effects, the most common being "behavioural activation, which is characterized by motor restlessness, insomnia, and disinhibition. Other side effects include abdominal pain, heartburn, diarrhoea, and decreased appetite. There have also been reports of suicidal ideation and self-injurious behaviour." The following side effects are mentioned: Central Nervous System: Anxiety [9.4%], nervousness [14.9%], insomnia [13.8%], drowsiness, headache [20.3%], tremor, dizziness, fatigue. Peripheral: Nausea [21.1%], diarrhoea [12.3%], dry mouth [9.5%], anorexia [8.7%], rash, pruritus, acne, alopecia, urticaria, infection [7.6%], nasal congestion, hot flashes [1.8%], palpitations, dysmenorrhoea [2%], ear or eye pain, photophobia, tinnitus, asthenia [4.4%], viral infection [3.4%]. 11 In a study on male monkeys living in a colony, two scientists at the Neuropsychitaric Institute of the University of California have tried to establish a correlation between dominance, 'feeling good', and Prozac. "They discovered that the dominant male had more 5HT [serotonin] in its brain than other monkeys, but that if the animal were displaced from its position of dominance, the level of 5HT fell and the animal's behaviour came to resemble that of a depressed human, with a subdued and withdrawn attitude, a slowing of movements and a loss of appetite. The researchers then found that if they removed the dominant male of a colony and administered Prozac to another animal, that monkey invariably became the new dominant one. These observations suggest that the ability to become dominant depends on the amount of 5HT in the brain. If we allow ourselves to extrapolate from monkey to Man, it is possible that the popularity of Prozac is due to its producing similar feelings of confidence and self-esteem in people."12
SILICA "Active fluorine in the form of fluoric acid, HF, has an extraordinary capacity for destroying silicates. This is due to the fact that the fluorine is charged negatively to such an extent that even hydrogen is withdrawn from firm compounds. Use of the destruction of silicates through fluorine is made technically in glass etching. It is the sole halogen hydrogen compound which also attacks the generally indifferent silicic acid compounds. Thereby is the possibility given for the mobilization of silicium in the organism through fluorine. This would show us the way to the first understanding of the extremely striking similarity of acidum fluoricum and calcium fluoricum with that of silicea. If the indicated silicea fails in its action, perhaps, because of overdosage, then according to homoeopathic experience the fluorine compounds render good service; one knows this type of therapeutic relationship in which two similar agents follow each other well, in homoeopathy as a complementary relation. But only extremely rarely are the numerous complementary drug relations chemically so well established as in this case."13
PROVINGS •• [1] Hering - 14 provers [13 males, 1 female], c. 1845; method: smelling at acid; potencies used: 1st to 5th dils., as well as 6th and 30th dils., manner not stated.
•• [2] Berridge - self-experimentation; method: one dose of 2000c.
[1] Exner, Waldbott and Porty, The American Fluoridation Experiment; New York, 1961. [2] Griffiths and Bryson, Fluoride, Teeth, and the Atomic Bomb; July 1997. [3] Andreas Schuld, The Thyroid Gland and Truth Decay; Salon Magazine, February 17, 1999. [4] I. Rapaport, Nouvelles recherches sur le mongolisme; Bull. Acad. Nat. Med. [Paris], 143, 1959. [5] Rang et al., Pharmacology. [6-7] Schuld, ibid. [8] Andreas Schuld, Green Tea, Fluoride, and the Thyroid; Parents of Fluoride Poisoned Children, Vancouver, BC, Canada. [9] Mullenix, Central Nervous System Damage from Fluorides; September 14, 1998 [webpage]. [10] Stone and Darlington, Pills, Potions and Poisons. [11] Keltner and Folks, Psychotropic Drugs. [12] Stone and Darlington, ibid. [13] Leeser, Textbook of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, Inorganic Medicinal Substances.
• Scientific data with respect to the issue of fluorides and fluoridation can be found in:
The United States Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 'Toxicological Profile for Fluorides, Hydrogen Fluoride and Fluorine,' TP-91/17, April 1993.
Affinity
FIBROUS TISSUES [VEINS; skin]. Bones. Mastoid. * Right side.
Modalities
Worse: HEAT [warm room, warm air, covering, warm food, warm drinks]. Night. Alcohol; wine; red wine. Sour food. Delayed micturition.
Better: COLD WASHING. Open air. Cool room. Rapid motion. Short sleep. Bending head backward. Eating. Micturition [> headache].
Main symptoms
M Uncommon BUOYANCY of MIND; fears nothing and is SELF-SATISFIED.
• "Feeling of perfect happiness. ... Feeling of an interior happy state, never experienced before, next morning after the remedy. ... Feeling of highly enjoying everything. ... All nature seems to smile, in the morning. ... Satisfaction, he desires no better state of things; all is right." [Allen]
• "Pleasant sensation as though the eyelids were opened wider, or eyes more prominent, whereby circle of vision became enlarged, the sight clearer and he feels a luxurious enjoyment in looking at the same things he is accustomed to see every day." [Allen]
M Can be DOMINANT; "tend to take over the interview".
Opinionated, strong-minded.
M LIBERTARIANISM [love of liberty, freedom], even LIBERTINISM [takes much liberties, esp. sexual].
Avoids COMMITMENT, shuns RESPONSIBILITIES.
Doesn't want to be restricted.
Delusion betrothal must be broken; must drive children out of house; must dissolve marriage; indifference to loved ones and animated to strangers; dreams of death of relatives, death of friends.
• "Great disposition, when alone, to repulsive fantastic imaginations, particularly with regard to persons with whom he stands in near relations, or with whom he is connected; it seems, for example, as though he must get rid of all the servants, children must go out of the house, a betrothal must be broken off, a marriage should be dissolved, etc." [Hering]
• [curative action] "A lame and imbecile old lady dismissed her nurse, without which she could not get along at all, quarrelled with her nieces, could not bear the sight of them, and tormented, without cause, the whole house. After two doses, 30th, evening and morning, she had a running from the eyes, and was immediately patient and cheerful, and remained so." [Hering]
No real or deep contact with other people. Superficial relationships.
• "Fickle Fluoric Acid. Casanova. A charming, fickle butterfly, the man about town who ogles women in the street, the 'one-night-stand' young man with a yen for variety and a great love of strangers. It is a male remedy, or one for mannish women, for the debauchee, trying to prove his manhood through lecherousness and variety. Elated, buoyant, gay, as Phosphorus or Tuberculinum can be, yet more vital than they. All his geese are swans. Compelled to move about energetically, to walk fast, fearless of misfortune, flickering like a fluorescent light. Compulsion for long walks to let off steam."1
or:
• "In the coped-up state, however, the effort and the struggle are in the direction of not letting the relationship break. ... The opposite pole of Fluoricum acidum shows a sense of responsibility and guilt, and also of caring for their loved ones." [Sankaran]
• "He dreams of the sudden death of his little son, and also of the son of one of his friends; thinks that in both cases he has been to blame, because he has neglected physical examination and mechanical remedies; reproaches himself very much and weeps bitterly, and on waking is very happy that it is not true." [Hering]
M Opportunistic.
• "Very irritable towards people, even to the greatest hatred, which he does not hesitate to give vent in words, but as soon as he sees them everything is forgotten and he has an entirely different opinion of them. This does not arise either from hypocrisy or cowardice, but it is a suddenly altered view." [Allen]
M Focused on MATERIAL world, not deeply interested in spiritual development.
• "A more difficult comprehension of philosophical works; on the other hand all facts appear clearer to him." [Hering]
M Fearless.
• "Sensation as if dangers menaced him, but without being afraid, particularly during the pressure in the occiput, the staggering, the pains in the bladder, etc." [Hering]
G Lots of ENERGY.
Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue.
Continued motion >; rapid motion >.
• "In summer, or in the cold of winter, he is able to perform with the greatest facility, his usual daily walk of several miles, which every day previously he thought very fatiguing and annoying; indeed he takes the same walk once again afterwards, and is still inclined to take exercise which is not at all required; he can use the same or other groups of muscles, as it may happen, without being at all fatigued, and without noticing it." [Allen]
G WARM-BLOODED. [One of the hottest remedies.]
Sensation of HEAT.
> COLD bathing.
Burning heat in palms and soles; sweaty hands and feet.
• "The first evening, and still more during the next morning, a sensation of greater warmth, with inclination to uncover; cold bathing is more than ordinarily agreeable, especially repeated washing behind the ears and on the nape of the neck." [Hering]
• "Sensation as if a burning vapour was emitted from the pores of the whole body." [Allen]
G Cannot bear the extremes of heat and cold in summer and winter.
< COLD and HEAT.
G Profuse perspiration; offensive odour.
Anxiety = perspiration.
• "A disposition to anxious ideas, frequently to such a degree that perspiration broke out." [Hering]
• "A perspiration in the palms of the hands, even in cold dry weather, and with the backs of the hands dry and cool, the palms being constantly so moist that everyone who shook hands with him observed it, which remained after Lobelia; disappeared on the fourth day of the Fluoric acid proving." [Allen]
G Desire for SPICY and PUNGENT food.
G > SHORT sleep.
• "A short sleep suffices and refreshes him." [Hering]
Afternoon nap >; short sleep >.
G Strong SEXUAL DESIRE, even libertinism. Frivolous, flamboyant.
G > WALKING in OPEN AIR.
G ACRID discharges, cause itching; acrid, eroding sweat, excites itching.
G Violent pains like streaks of lightning to a small spot.
P Rapid CARIES of teeth; < at roots. Thin enamel.
P Diarrhoea < warm drinks [e.g. coffee, tea].
P • "Varicose veins in women who have borne many children." [Mathur]
P Deformed nails.
P Roughness and harshness of skin, with great itching in spots.
< Warmth.
> Cold.
1 Wright Hubbard, Mental Portraits of Remedies Familiar and Unfamiliar; Homoeopathy, Jan.-Febr. 1984.
Rubrics
Mind
Anxiety, when walking rapidly, which makes him walk faster [1]. Aversion, to family members but talks pleasantly to others [1/1], to his wife [2]. Buoyancy [2]. Cheerful, when walking in open air and afterwards [1]. Desire for company [1], feels < when alone [2]. Delusions, betrothal must be broken [1/1], body is brittle [1], could walk forever [1/1]. Fancies, repulsive, when alone [1]. Fear, of suffering [1]. Fearless, in spite of danger [1/1]. Hatred, of absent persons, better on seeing them [1/1]. Desire to leave home [1]. Indifference, to loved ones, and animated to strangers [2/1]. Lascivious, looking at women on the street [1]. Mannish, women [1]. Mistakes, in localities [1]; in speaking, using wrong words, putting right for left or vice versa [2]. Optimistic [1]. Self-satisfied [1]. Sensitive, to noise, in morning [2/1]. Feels unfortunate [1].
Head
Hair, baldness [2], brittleness [1], dryness [2], falling, in spots [3], lustreless [1], tangles easily [2]. Heaviness, > profuse urination [1].
Eye
Sensation as if wide open [1].
Vision
Large field of vision [1]. Lightnings [1].
Hearing
Acute, in morning [2/1]. Impaired, > bending head backward [2/1], for the human voice [2].
Nose
Coryza, fluent in sleep [2/1], sudden attacks [1]. Sudden copious watery discharge from eyes, nose and mouth [3/1].
Face
Heat, fter talking [1], after wine [1]. Sensation, when looking in the mirror, as if his face had suddenly become old [1*].
Mouth
Taste, like ink, when chewing [1*].
Stomach
Clothing, tight clothes > [1/1]. Pain, > tightening clothes [1/1].
Abdomen
Emptiness, > tightening clothes [2/1]. Pain, > bandaging [1].
Rectum
Diarrhoea, after coffee [1], after eating salmon [2/1], < warm drinks [2].
Male
Coition, extreme enjoyment [2]. Erections, continued, at night [2]. Perspiration, pungent smell [2].
Respiration
Difficult, > bending backward [1], in a warm room [1].
Chest
Sensitive nodules in mammae during pregnancy [2/1].
Limbs
Heat, burning feet, uncovers them [1]. Nails, brittle, fingernails [2]; rapid growth [1]; stunted [1]; thick [1]; thin [1]. Numbness, upper limbs, side not lain on [1]. Perspiration, feet, excoriating [3].
Sleep
Sleepiness, sudden, after wine [1/1].
Skin
Cicatrices, itching [2], become painful, sore [2], become red [2], become red around edges [2/1], surrounded by vesicles [2/1]. Hard, like callosities [1].
Generals
Continued motion > [3]. Sensation of strength [2], of muscular strength [2]. Weakness, > walking in open air [2].
* Repertory additions [Hering].
Food
Aversion: [2]: Refreshing; sour. [1]: Coffee; pungent; spicy; wine.
Desire: [2]: Coffee; marinade; pungent; refreshing; sour; spicy. [1]: Alcohol; brandy; cold drinks; cold food; lemonade; whisky; wine.
Worse: [2]: Fish; peaches; wine. [1]: Chocolate; coffee; coffee, smell of; cold food; herring; melons; sardines; sour; stimulants; sweets; red wine; salmon; tea; warm drinks.
Better: [2]: Cold drinks. [1]: Coffee.