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CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN<br />
HOMŒOPATHY<br />
CONTINUING HOMŒOPATHIC MEDICAL EDUCATION<br />
SERVICES<br />
QUARTERLY HOMŒOPATHIC DIGEST<br />
© Centre For Excellence In Homœopathy<br />
VOL. XXII, <strong>2005</strong><br />
Lead me from Untruth to Truth<br />
Lead me from Darkness to Light<br />
Lead me from Death to Immortality<br />
Adyaya I Brahmana 3 Mantra 28<br />
(This service is only for private circulation. Part I of the journal lists the Current<br />
literature in Homœopathy drawn from the well-known homœopathic journals published<br />
world-over - India, England, Germany, France, Belgium, Brazil, USA, etc., disciplinewise,<br />
with brief abstracts/extracts. Readers may refer to the original articles for detailed<br />
study. The full names and addresses of the journals covered by this compilation are<br />
given at the end.)<br />
Compilation, translation, publication by<br />
Dr.K.S.Srinivasan,<br />
1253, 66th Street,<br />
Korattur,<br />
Chennai - 600 080, India.<br />
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INDEX<br />
S.No Topic Page. No.<br />
1 <strong>QHD</strong>, VOL. XXII, 1, <strong>2005</strong> 3<br />
2 <strong>QHD</strong>, VOL. XXII, 2, <strong>2005</strong> 53<br />
3 <strong>QHD</strong>, VOL. XXII, 3, <strong>2005</strong> 105<br />
4 <strong>QHD</strong>, VOL. XXII, 4, <strong>2005</strong> 169<br />
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CONTINUING HOMŒOPATHIC MEDICAL EDUCATION SERVICES<br />
QUARTERLY HOMŒOPATHIC DIGEST<br />
© Centre For Excellence In Homœopathy<br />
VOL. XXII, 1, <strong>2005</strong><br />
Part I Current Literature Listing<br />
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Part I of the journal lists the current literature in Homœopathy drawn from the well-known homœopathic<br />
journals published world-over – India, England, Germany, France, Brazil, USA, etc., - discipline-wise, with<br />
brief abstracts/extracts. Readers may refer to the original articles for detailed study. The full names and<br />
addresses of the journals covered by this compilation are given at the end of Part I. Part II contains selected<br />
essays/articles/extracts, while Part III carries original articles for this journal, Book Reviews, etc.<br />
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I. PHILOSOPHY<br />
1. The Role of JUNG’s Concept of Shadow in<br />
Homœopathic Treatment<br />
CICCHETTI, Jane (AJHM. 97, 1/2004)<br />
Using Carl JUNG’s concept of the shadow, the<br />
author describes its relevance to homœopathic case<br />
analysis and prescribing. This darker, repressed<br />
side of an individual is often revealed in dreams.<br />
The proper analysis of dreams, which should be<br />
based primarily upon the dreamer’s own sense of<br />
their meaning, often reveal core psychological<br />
issues that can be critical to identifying the<br />
homœopathic simillimum.<br />
2. The Fundamentalist Controversy:<br />
An issue That won’t Go Away<br />
MOSKOWITZ, Richard (AJHM. 97, 1/2004)<br />
The author provides a comprehensive overview<br />
of the current controversy between what Dr.<br />
MOSKOWITZ terms the “Fundamentalists” and<br />
the “Innovators” in Homœopathy, flavored with his<br />
own viewpoint on the matter, one acknowledges<br />
much of the recent innovations for their value in<br />
effective case analysis and remedy selection.<br />
Clearly, in Dr. MOSKOWITZ’s view, the<br />
arguments of both sides have merit; thus, rather<br />
than attack each other and further divide<br />
homœopaths, he recommends that everyone<br />
respectfully agree to disagree.<br />
[This article is very interesting and scholarly.<br />
However, it says ‘live’ and ‘let live’ to so-called<br />
“Fundamentalists” and the “Innovators”. We agree.<br />
It is not a quarrel that anyone should mediate. It is<br />
only about ‘what is right’ = KSS].<br />
3. The Evolution of Homœopathy<br />
PITT, Richard (AJHM. 97, 1/2004)<br />
Homœopathy, like all living things, is in a<br />
constant state of evolution. This evolutionary<br />
impulse is part of the natural development of all<br />
systems and it requires the ability to evaluate the<br />
impact of these changes on the philosophy and<br />
practice of Homœopathy. The very boundaries of<br />
the definitions of homœopathic practice will<br />
inevitably be challenged as part of this evolutionary<br />
shift, one that requires both flexibility and rigidity.<br />
This article seeks to explore some of the<br />
underlying dynamics and patterns of this<br />
evolutionary change and at the same time to put<br />
Homœopathy into a broader philosophical, social<br />
and cultural framework. The premise of the article<br />
is that Homœopathy is but one system of thinking,<br />
which is connected to and impacted by much<br />
broader evolutionary dynamics, and which, through<br />
their exploration, can help us understand our own<br />
struggles and debates within Homœopathy.<br />
The article seeks to put forward a proposition<br />
that as part of the evolution of Homœopathy itself<br />
the onus is on those practicing the homœopathic art,<br />
that the consciousness of Homœopathy will evolve<br />
through those practicing it. It seeks to put<br />
Homœopathy into a wider framework of thinking,<br />
one that can reveal the implications of the holistic<br />
philosophy and practice of Homœopathy and<br />
identify it with other similar modes of thinking.<br />
4. Health: An Integral Approach<br />
SHARMA, Arati (CCR. 11, 1/2004)<br />
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This brief article puts succinctly the ideas of<br />
The Mother which is totally in agreement with the<br />
homœopathic Philosophy.<br />
The ‘integral’ healing is the ideal. “An illness<br />
of the body is always the outer expression and<br />
translation of a disorder, a disharmony in the inner<br />
being; unless this inner disorder is healed, the outer<br />
cure cannot be total and permanent.” Healing<br />
means to rediscover and restore communication<br />
with our inner self.<br />
5. Linear versus non-linear systems<br />
WANSBROUGH, Charles (HL. 16, 2/2003)<br />
This is a thought-provoking essay. In the<br />
opening paragraphs Paul DAVIES is quoted<br />
extensively to explain the expressions ‘linear’,<br />
‘non-linear’. The author goes on to explain that<br />
homœopathic principles and philosophy fall under<br />
‘non-linear System’.<br />
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II. MATERIA MEDICA<br />
1. A Proving of Larrea tridentata<br />
MESSER, Stephen; CAGE, Arlan; OKSMAN,<br />
Linda; BEDELL, Sarah; ELLER, Dawn and<br />
AUSTIN, Jane (SIM. XVII, 1/2004)<br />
The Proving was conducted at The Southwest<br />
College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health<br />
Sciences, Tempe, AZ in October 2002, using 30<br />
potency, t.d.s. for 7 days or until valid symptoms<br />
appear, by 11 provers in a double blind study.<br />
The most common medicinal uses include:<br />
G.I.Complaints, Genito-Urinary tract conditions,<br />
PMS, Dysmenorrhoea, Arthritis, Auto Immune<br />
conditions, Wounds and Skin Infections and<br />
possibly as both an abortifacient and to promote<br />
fertility.<br />
The Proving symptoms are given and<br />
concluded that reproving will verify the symptoms<br />
as well as generate new ones and will help to speed<br />
up the introduction of this remedy into clinical use.<br />
2. Arzneimittelselbsterfahrung mit Taxus baccata<br />
(Remedy Proving on self with Taxus baccata)<br />
ABERMANN, Christoph and<br />
PUSCHKAREKI, Mathias (ZKH. 48, 1/2004)<br />
Taxus baccata was selected for the Proving<br />
because it was a known remedy but with a poor<br />
record of provings. This Proving was conducted in<br />
1998 in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, in<br />
which 19 persons participated. The central themes<br />
that emerged were symptoms of Depression in<br />
combination with feelings of Forsakenness;<br />
awareness of social responsibility with a desire to<br />
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help where help is needed, as well as a feeling of<br />
helplessness when helping was not possible. The<br />
most salient physical symptoms were localized<br />
sensations of heat and redness, fatigue and throat<br />
symptoms.<br />
3. Bryonia<br />
LAPY, Benoit (RBH. XXXVIIIb, 3/2003)<br />
A thorough study of the remedy Bryonia with<br />
reference to the Repertory, Provings. Although it<br />
was Bryonia alba which was proved, recently<br />
Bryonia dioica is being sold by the Pharmacies.<br />
This study includes Bryonia dioica.<br />
4. Pulsatilla<br />
FLOUR, Agnès (RBH. XXXVIIIb, 3/2003)<br />
This is an extensive study of Pulsatilla<br />
pratensis, including the miasmatic aspects.<br />
5. Juglans regia<br />
(CCRH. 26, 1/2004)<br />
The first Proving of Walnut – Juglans regia<br />
was by Cloter MÜLLER in association with his<br />
father Moritz MÜLLER, in 1846 and 155<br />
symptoms were reported.<br />
The CCRH has carried out ‘Clinical<br />
verification’ of this remedy and tabulated the<br />
results. It is seen from this that it has been<br />
prescribed in much more cases of skin eruptions,<br />
with good results. Seven females with leucorrhoea<br />
were prescribed this remedy and all of them were<br />
relieved.<br />
A ‘drug picture’ and ‘Prescribing Symptoms’<br />
on the basis of the ‘Clinical verifications’ have<br />
been drawn, which we may note for further<br />
verification.<br />
Drug picture:<br />
• Occipital sharp headache < in evening and<br />
after dinner<br />
• Pain above the eyes < motion, shaking head,<br />
moving eyes<br />
• Otorrhoea, yellowish pus like discharge with<br />
pain<br />
• Pustular eruptions behind the ear with sticky<br />
discharge<br />
• Stye with redness and swelling, recurrent<br />
• Pimples over face with itching, with redness,<br />
recurrent in nature<br />
• Acne or pimples on forehead, face<br />
• Small red with suppuration with itching and<br />
pain oozing, pus like discharge<br />
• Face oily<br />
• Face dry with black pigmentation, cracks on<br />
face<br />
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• Acne on face with itching<br />
• Pimples with itching < cold application<br />
• Dryness of mouth after dinner with excessive<br />
thirst<br />
• White coated tongue<br />
• Pain in hollow teeth < in bed<br />
• Appetite diminished<br />
• Desire for sweet<br />
• Constipation – hard, difficult, scanty stool<br />
• Bleeding piles<br />
• Obstinate constipation, soreness in anus with<br />
itching after stool<br />
• Vesicular eruptions on upper part of chest with<br />
itching < night<br />
• Frequent micturition day and night, yellowish<br />
urine<br />
• Small reddish papular eruption with itching<br />
< changing clothes<br />
• Eczematous eruptions with itching<br />
• Small reddish papular eruptions, with itching<br />
on scalp<br />
• Axillary glands swollen, painful, indurated,<br />
suppurated.<br />
Conclusion<br />
Clinical conditions: Headache, Sty, Acne,<br />
Toothache, Constipation, Bleeding piles, Eczema.<br />
Prescribing Symptoms:<br />
• Occipital sharp headache, agg. in evening and<br />
after dinner<br />
• Pain above the eyes, agg. motion, shaking<br />
head, moving eyes<br />
• Pustular eruptions behind the ear with sticky<br />
discharge<br />
• Sty with redness and swelling, recurrent in<br />
nature<br />
• Ache on face with itching<br />
• Pimples on forehead and face with itching, agg.<br />
cold application<br />
• Axillary glands swollen, painful, indurated,<br />
suppurated<br />
• Small reddish papular eruptions with itching on<br />
scalp, agg. changing clothes<br />
• Vesicular eruption on upper part of chest with<br />
itching, agg. night<br />
• Eczematous eruption with itching<br />
6. The Toxicology of Latrodectus<br />
tredecimguttatus: the Mediterranean Black<br />
Widow Spider<br />
BONNET M.S. (HOMEOPATHY, 93, 1/2004)<br />
The symptomatology of envenomation by the<br />
Mediterranean Black Widow Spider, Latrodectus<br />
tredecimguttatus, is reviewed. The results confirm<br />
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the hypothesis that the homœopathic remedy,<br />
Tarentula hispanica, is derived from this Spider,<br />
not from the Wolf Spider, Lycosa tarentula.<br />
Mind<br />
Agitation, psychomotor: incidence 17-33%<br />
Amnesia/disturbance of memory.<br />
Anxiety and agitation: 26% of cases, about<br />
death (child).<br />
Confusional state, acute disorientation in time,<br />
person and place with desperation.<br />
Aphonia.<br />
Consciousness normal; mental clarity; lucid<br />
with anxiety sensation regarding gravity of illness.<br />
Delirium. With hallucinations, visual.<br />
Psychotic state of mind.<br />
Mental disturbances with dyspnea and a<br />
precordial oppression and anxiety; patient<br />
repeatedly putting hand onto chest.<br />
Depression and deep sadness with sighing and<br />
crying, even grown men, terrified by feelings of<br />
their impending death.<br />
Obnubilation 8.33% of cases, persistent for<br />
days with intermittent lucid periods, gradually<br />
increasing in frequency.<br />
Pavor mortis and pronounced restlessness.<br />
Psychic picture, dramatic.<br />
Restlessness, impulsive, with desire to get up<br />
and go away, to leave (more rarely, to jump out of<br />
window).<br />
Rolling in bed, pulling and tearing bed sheet.<br />
Shouting, yelling, screaming, rolling on floor<br />
with haphazard convulsive movements, uttering<br />
incomprehensible words and terrorized by anybody<br />
approaching, reacting with desire to stand up, to run<br />
away, to escape.<br />
Speak, incapable of, using gestures to<br />
communicate.<br />
Torpor, general, profound, with all movements<br />
becoming slow, almost fatigued, with intense<br />
asthenia, early symptom. Weep, desire to,<br />
inexplicable, sudden, abandoning activity before<br />
crying desperately without apparent reason and<br />
without answering questions, even from close<br />
relatives.<br />
Worry, anxiety, concern; psychomotor: 50% of<br />
cases.<br />
Central nervous system<br />
Clonic movements.<br />
Convulsions, worsening on second day, with<br />
tremors of whole body.<br />
Fainting; coma.<br />
Meningism: negative on first day; slight, with<br />
headache and vomiting on second.<br />
Motor incoordination.<br />
Paraesthesia.<br />
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Paralysis, flaccid: rarely.<br />
Psychomotor excitation, mornings.<br />
CSF pressure increased, clear.<br />
Abdominal reflexes feeble.<br />
Hyperreflexia particularly upper limbs.<br />
Patellar pseudoclonus, bilateral.<br />
Tendon reflexes increased, brisk (child),<br />
constant symptom.<br />
Sensation to touch, pinprick, vibration and<br />
position.<br />
Hyperaesthesia.<br />
Pinprick sensation diminished, local.<br />
Head pain<br />
Cephalgia: 33% of cases, frontal, intense in child.<br />
Eye<br />
Blepharoconjunctivitis.<br />
Conjunctivitis, with congestion, more or less<br />
pronounced in all patients.<br />
Lachrymation.<br />
Miosis moderate.<br />
Mydriasis, some cases.<br />
Pupils constricted and not reacting to light.<br />
Changes in the fundus of the eye, some cases,<br />
marked.<br />
Fundal veins full.<br />
Vision<br />
Accommodation difficulties with blurred, hazy<br />
vision.<br />
Nose<br />
Rhinitis.<br />
Face<br />
Angioedema, facial; congested facies, fixed (child)<br />
and swollen, with facial hyperhidrosis and flushing.<br />
Eyelids oedematous and loose tissue below the<br />
eyes, hyperaemic.<br />
Facial expression of indescribable terror with<br />
facial congestion and eyelids oedematous with pink<br />
edges.<br />
Pale, anxious.<br />
‘Facies Latrodectismica’: facial congestion,<br />
trismus, rhinitis, blepharoconjunctivitis, mydriasis<br />
and cheilitis: 6.6% of cases.<br />
Hyperaemia of skin in face and head, giving<br />
characteristic appearance.<br />
Mouth<br />
Salivation, excessive profuse (up to 1.51 in 24h) or<br />
dry mouth.<br />
Sialorrhoea: 41.67% of cases.<br />
Thirst, intense.<br />
Tongue, oedematous.<br />
Paraesthesia, dental.<br />
Stomach<br />
Anorexia and constipation.<br />
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Heartburn despite normal gastric acidity or<br />
even hypoacidic on gastric juice analysis.<br />
Dysphagia.<br />
Nausea and vomiting: of 13-25% of cases, after<br />
about 1h after start of illness.<br />
Vomiting, very frequent.<br />
Abdomen<br />
Abdomen distended, slightly.<br />
Abdominal contractions; 83.33% of cases,<br />
marked for several hours, guarding 50% of cases;<br />
tense, very tender and tympanitic.<br />
Abdominal musculature rigid disappearance of<br />
abdominal reflexes.<br />
Abdominal pains, colicky, with abdomen tight<br />
and sensitive to touch and pains radiating to lower<br />
limbs: 93.3% of cases<br />
Abdominal pains with contractures in spasms:<br />
66% of cases.<br />
Liver, pronounced increase in size, liver edge<br />
palpable and sensitive to pressure. Subicterus:<br />
15.38% of cases.<br />
Abdominal X-ray: normal.<br />
Rectum<br />
Diarrhoea.<br />
Urinary system<br />
Dysuria.<br />
Oliguria even with full bladder, sometimes<br />
deteriorating to anuria and retention.<br />
Albuminuria.<br />
Increased urobilinogen.<br />
Erythrocytes and leucocytes in urine.<br />
Glycosuria, rare (child).<br />
Granular and cylindrical casts.<br />
Proteinuria: 25% of cases.<br />
Male genitalia<br />
Priapism with involuntary ejaculation, occasionally.<br />
Chest and respiration.<br />
Dyspnea (child): 13% of cases.<br />
Tachypnea (25/min): 33.33% of cases and<br />
superficial breathing.<br />
Heartburn and violent precordialgia, violent.<br />
Sensation of heaviness/oppression/pressure in<br />
the chest (with fear of death) and thoracic pains.<br />
Chest X-ray: normal.<br />
Cardio-vascular system<br />
Tachycardia 33.33% of cases, with extrasystoly;<br />
moderate, early, frequently followed by bradycardia<br />
(adrenergic).<br />
Blood vessles spasm.<br />
Arterial hypertension: 41.67% of cases; usually<br />
transitory.<br />
Hypotension 7%.<br />
Blood pressure rise to 200/125 (adult); 150/110<br />
(child).<br />
Pulse: 72-130 beats/min ‘small’ and slow.<br />
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ECG: Abnormalities in 36% of patients.<br />
Bradycardia, sinus: 42/min, P-wave high in<br />
lead II& III. QT-interval prolonged: 0.48s, STsegment<br />
depressed.<br />
Tachycardia, sinus in 33%; initial and<br />
subsequent ECG’s (day 1). Tall T-waves in leads<br />
V2-V5 with ST-segment depression in leads V3-<br />
V5; initial ECG (day 1). Subsequent ECG (3h<br />
later) shows negative T-waves in leads V1-V6 with<br />
elevation of ST-segment. T-wave very low in lead<br />
I; flattened in lead II; negative in lead III.<br />
Echocardiography. Initially: dyskinesia of<br />
interventricular septum and reduced systolic<br />
function. On day 5: antero-septal hypokinesia with<br />
ejection fraction of 0.45. On day 8: septum and left<br />
ventricular anterior wall normokinetic with ejection<br />
fraction of 0.54.<br />
Musculo-skeletal system<br />
Local erythematous oedema is followed in a few<br />
minutes by muscular spasms in the trunk and the<br />
face, accompanied by violent abdominal pains and<br />
neuropsychic signs.<br />
Affected limb, unable to use.<br />
Arthralgias.<br />
Hypertonia with muscular contractions.<br />
Contractions, spastic with diffuse pains.<br />
Myalgia, paroxysmal, becoming diffuse and<br />
intolerable, particularly abdominal, thoracic and<br />
lumbar.<br />
Rigidity of the musculature, tetany with<br />
tremors and contractures.<br />
Back<br />
Dorso-lumbar pains/contractions, violent: 40% of<br />
cases, may radiate to lower limbs.<br />
Upper back pain, along scapular line.<br />
Extremities<br />
Contractures in extremities: 50% of cases.<br />
Extremities cold and cyanosed.<br />
Pain in extremities radiating first from knee to<br />
groin; followed by increased intensity involving<br />
abdomen and chest.<br />
Paraesthesia of extremities.<br />
Lymphadenopathy, painful.<br />
Stiffness of small joints, especially wrists.<br />
Hyperthermia and paraesthesia (formication) in<br />
upper limbs. 33.3-50%<br />
Palmar numbing.<br />
Heaviness, sudden, throughout legs (first<br />
sensation).<br />
Marbling of the knees.<br />
Moving legs, irregular choreiform.<br />
Pains in lower extremities and plantar<br />
burning/stinging sensation.<br />
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Paraesthesia and burning in feet especially in<br />
the soles.<br />
Unable to stand upright, incapable, frozen as if<br />
had lumbago.<br />
Walking difficulties; tabetic gait, ataxic,<br />
hypotonia.<br />
Sleep<br />
Insomnia, night after night consecutively, with<br />
intermittent weeping bouts.<br />
Insomnia, with sensation of being cold all<br />
night.<br />
Fever<br />
Shivers accompanied by profuse sweats: 100% of<br />
cases.<br />
Afebrile (child).<br />
Fever oscillating between 37 0 C and 37.8 0 C,<br />
‘anarchic’: 23% of cases.<br />
Fever, slight: 33% of cases; warmth and<br />
feeling ‘as if he could burst’.<br />
Perspiration<br />
Hyperhidrosis: 23-67% of cases, local with<br />
excitation of erectores pilorum.<br />
Sweating, profuse, cold, diffuse.<br />
Skin<br />
The bite site may be erythematous with oedema or<br />
flat urticoidal, warm and hypoaesthetic, or<br />
hyperaesthetic.<br />
Anaesthesia dolorosa.<br />
Cyanosis.<br />
Erythema, local: 83% of cases with urticaria.<br />
Erythema, generalized, diffuse (child),<br />
appearing at 24-48 h: 17% of cases.<br />
Necrosis: 20% of cases.<br />
Oedema, local: 43% of cases, soon spreading<br />
regionally.<br />
Urticaria, generalized/diffuse, erupting on<br />
second day; ceased progressively 2 days later.<br />
Scarlatinoid, morbiliform, papular, or vesicular<br />
rash, may be generalized, or localized on abdomen,<br />
chest or regional, commonly followed by pruritus.<br />
Maculopapular rash on thorax and abdomen,<br />
third day.<br />
Plaques, red, surrounded by urticarial halo,<br />
extending rapidly and extensively.<br />
Purpura involving the trunk and lower limbs:<br />
17% of cases.<br />
Tumefaction, or slight swelling, reddish, with a<br />
tiny hard and blackish tip and intense pruritus.<br />
Pain<br />
The whole syndrome starts with pain, at first<br />
regionally, rapidly spreading to resemble an acute<br />
abdomen; evolving into spasms, involving the<br />
lumbar region and legs with plantar burning<br />
paraesthesia and ‘formication’ in the upper limbs.<br />
At start of illness, pains in abdomen and lumbar<br />
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egion; on second and third days, the pains are<br />
greater in lower extremities affecting mostly soles<br />
of feet with sharp burning sensations.<br />
Pain: burning, local, soon radiating to regional<br />
lymph nodes with swelling.<br />
Pain: acute, severe, especially in the loins,<br />
abdomen, and extremities.<br />
Pain: mostly in muscles and bones; as if<br />
‘somebody was tearing the flesh with tongs’.<br />
Pain: constrictive; compressive.<br />
Pain: lancinating initially, diminishing<br />
gradually over a few hours, reappearing at later<br />
intervals. Progressively encompassing whole body.<br />
Pain: local in 37-67% of cases.<br />
Pain: loins especially, pressing and cutting.<br />
Pain: lumbar, violent, exacerbated by pressure<br />
on vertebral spines (especially L2-L3), radiating<br />
into lower limbs.<br />
Pain: radiating to groin, abdomen, lumbar<br />
region and thorax, becoming paroxysmal.<br />
Haematology<br />
Usually fall in eosinophil and lymphocyte count,<br />
with a neutrophil leucocytosis.<br />
Haematocrit (Hct): (normal: m-0.41-0.50; f-<br />
0.35-0.46)<br />
Haemoconcentration with a haemoglobin of<br />
19.7 g/dl (normal: m-13-16g/dl; f-12-15g/dl).<br />
Leucocytosis: 14,600-24,100/µl in 33.33% of<br />
cases (normal: 4,000-10,800/µl).<br />
White blood cell count (WBC): 15,700-<br />
39,200/mm 3 (93% neutrophils) initially, rising to<br />
41,800/mm 3 (73% neutrophils) (normal: 4800-<br />
10,000/mm 3 ).<br />
Lymphopenia.<br />
BioChemistry<br />
Amylase (serum): 254 U/l (normal: 30-170 U/l).<br />
Aspartate aminotransferase (AST): 100 U/l<br />
(normal: ≤ 42 U/l).<br />
Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH): 395-828 U/l<br />
(normal: ≤ 270 U/l).<br />
Blood urea nitrogen (BUN): 72mg/dl (normal:<br />
7-30 mg/dl).<br />
Cardiac enzymes initially normal.<br />
Creatinine phosphokinase (CPK): 590-999 IU/l<br />
(adult); child: 201IU/l (normal
vision, retinoscopy study, ophthalmoscopic<br />
examination of the fundus and slit-lamp<br />
examination of fundus stereoscopically under high<br />
magnification.<br />
Physostigma venenosum is a climbing plant<br />
found near the bank of Niger river of South Africa.<br />
It belongs to the family Leguminosae. Common<br />
name Calabar bean. The alcoholic tincture is<br />
prepared from pulverized bean and triturations are<br />
made from whole bean.<br />
Physostigma was prescribed on the basis of<br />
homœopathic philosophy only to those patients<br />
who had the symptomatology.<br />
Placebo group 20 patients.<br />
Physostigma group 55 patients.<br />
Much improvement of vision in 74.5%.<br />
Slight improvement of vision in 19.05%.<br />
No improvement of vision in 6.3%.<br />
In placebo group, no improvement observed in<br />
12.5%. Gradual loss in vision in 87.5% cases.<br />
Dr. BASU has shown a relation of Myopia<br />
with Glaucoma in his paper ‘Role of Physostigma<br />
in Simple Myopia’. The Progressive Myopia was<br />
due to long-continued over-use with symptoms of<br />
irritability, dull pain after using the eyes, muscae<br />
volitantes, flashes of light, twitching of lids, etc.,<br />
and Physostigma venenosum is one of the important<br />
drugs which can give good and favorable result.<br />
8. Variolinum, Vaccininum and Malandrinum –<br />
The Powerful Smallpox Nosodes and their<br />
therapeutic use<br />
SCHEIWILLER-MURALT, Erika<br />
(HL. 16, 2/2003)<br />
Ten years ago, Dr.Erika SCHEIWILLER-<br />
MURALT found that Smallpox Nosodes such as<br />
Variolinum, Vaccininum and Malandrinum are able<br />
to cure deep-rooted disorders in cases where wellchosen<br />
homœopathic remedies have failed. These<br />
Nosodes are most powerful, and their effects are<br />
deep, long lasting and surprisingly fast.<br />
The whole of mankind has been in contact with<br />
Smallpox, leaving a deep-rooted disorder in later<br />
generations. The powerful healing effects of the<br />
Smallpox Nosodes are demonstrated in a case study<br />
with 120 patients, taking Variolinum as an example.<br />
The differentiation between Variolinum,<br />
Vaccininum and Malandrinum are mentioned. As<br />
the symptoms and modalities of the three Nosodes<br />
are very similar to each other, it is the intensity and<br />
frequency of a complaint that makes the difference<br />
between them.<br />
Finally, the author presents, on the basis of her<br />
practical experience, a table she has developed over<br />
ten years of research. This table is easy to<br />
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comprehend and will help a great deal in choosing<br />
the Nosode which will be most beneficial.<br />
9. The Toxicology of Psilocybe semilanceata –<br />
The Liberty Cap<br />
BONNET M.S.; DAWSON & BONNET D.L.<br />
(HL. 16, 2/2003)<br />
Dr. M.S. BONNET has, in the past, contributed<br />
‘toxicology’ of several creatures. In this paper, he<br />
examines the biological, medical and toxicological<br />
aspects of the mushroom, Psilocybe semilanceata,<br />
the Liberty Cap. It is placed taxonomically and<br />
examined in regard to its structure, distribution and<br />
toxic/hallucinogenic components, for which this<br />
fungus has been used in social rites for thousands of<br />
years. The Materia Medica based on human and<br />
animal intoxication is enumerated in detail,<br />
following the order of classical homœopathic<br />
repertories. Laboratory values of affected victims<br />
are compared to normal values.<br />
The Synthesis Repertory refers to ‘Psil.’ for<br />
‘Psilocybe caerulescens’ which is a different<br />
species with several varieties.<br />
All experimental signs and symptoms are from<br />
mammal experiments only; apes, cats, dogs, guinea<br />
pigs, mice, monkeys, rabbits, rats, etc.<br />
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III. THERAPEUTICS<br />
1. Lyssin: A Rabid remedy for Rage<br />
ULLMAN, Robert (SIM. XVII, 1/2004)<br />
Case 1: Kevin, 11, since 3 years of age began<br />
his assaultive tantrums. After the tantrum, he felt<br />
bad and would often apologize. He was also<br />
destructive. He did not like being teased. Scared of<br />
dark. Loved dogs and hated cats. Threatened<br />
people with knives. He had history of<br />
Streptococcal Tonsillitis, Otitis Media and<br />
Enuresis.<br />
First dose was Lyssin M and 12 daily. Had an<br />
initial aggravation for 2 weeks and then began to<br />
improve. He was less destructive and calmed<br />
down. Now he was intensely afraid of the dark and<br />
being alone at night. Stramonium 200. After 5<br />
months another dose of Lyssin M and 12 daily –<br />
because of relapse.<br />
Mother thought he was better when he took<br />
Lyssin 12c regularly. He hated swimming and<br />
would not get in the pool for anything. Followed<br />
up for 18 months. His teacher said “he’s not the<br />
same boy.”<br />
Case 2: Todd, 6, would go into a blind rage<br />
when angry or frustrated. His anger was often<br />
turned inward (self-torture) and was also<br />
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destructive. Sensitive to loud noises. Had facial<br />
tics and involuntary jerking movements of his arms<br />
and legs. He drooled and spat constantly.<br />
Lyssin 200 single dose. 3 weeks of<br />
aggravation and then began to improve. Relapse<br />
after 6 weeks Lyssin 200. He was worse. Lyssin<br />
1M. Improved. Lyssin 10M. A month later relapse<br />
with another dose improved for 3 months. The next<br />
dose held for 10 months without any rage.<br />
Case 3: Christopher, 5, was aggressive since<br />
weaning. Scratching, biting, kicking, spitting and<br />
hitting. Very sensitive to teasing and liked<br />
chocolates. Had URI in winter followed by<br />
asthmatic cough and increased aggression.<br />
Lyssin 200 and 12 daily. 2 months later better.<br />
Another dose improved his ability to handle<br />
frustration. His mother felt the action of medicine<br />
was shorter and weaker than the earlier ones. So<br />
Lyssin 1M was given, followed by an aggravation<br />
for a month and then much better.<br />
2. Help for hot flashes<br />
DOOLEY, Timothy R. (HT. 23, 3/2003)<br />
Indications of Lachesis, Sulphur, Sepia,<br />
Glonoine and Sanguinaria in this common<br />
menopausal complaint is discussed.<br />
3. Three different experiences of Menopause<br />
ALLEN, Karen (HT. 23, 3/2003)<br />
Case 1: Caroline, 52, developed high Blood<br />
Pressure through menopause and hot flashes.<br />
Feeling of pressure in ears, pain above right eye,<br />
symptoms worse in mid afternoon and aversion to<br />
company.<br />
Belladonna 12 daily. As her symptoms<br />
improved, she took less and less frequent and after<br />
8 weeks back to her usual life.<br />
Case 2: Nancy, 49, started having anxiety<br />
attacks on waking, could not remember what she<br />
has read, perspiration on face with hot flashes and<br />
rumbling of gas in abdomen, as if there were snakes<br />
inside her. After several doses of Lachesis 30. She<br />
made it comfortably through the transition.<br />
Case 3: Barbara, 56, copious menstrual flow<br />
with hot flashes and recurrent pain in right shoulder<br />
and to smell things no one else could smell.<br />
Sanguinaria 200 one dose. Menstrual cycle<br />
stopped completely. Pain right shoulder gradually<br />
faded over 6 weeks and imaginary smell<br />
disappeared.<br />
4. Menopause: A terrible/terrific transition<br />
CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 23, 3/2003)<br />
The emotional symptoms, hot flashes, and<br />
general symptoms of fifteen remedies indicated in<br />
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Menopause are presented in a tabular format and<br />
prescribing guidelines are given.<br />
5. Six remedies and rubrics used in Menopause:<br />
Psychological profiles<br />
MASTER, Farokh (HT. 23, 3/2003)<br />
Indifference, apathy – Cyclamen<br />
Estranged – Asterias rubens<br />
Anxiety with fear – Androctonus<br />
Anxiety – Amylenum nitrosum and Trillium.<br />
Fear of insanity - Cimicifuga<br />
Other mental symptoms of the above remedies<br />
in Menopause are also discussed.<br />
6. Pain-free after Surgery<br />
ROTENBERG, Bonnie (HT. 23, 3/2003)<br />
The author was diagnosed with Uterine Cancer<br />
in June 2002. Advised by Catherine COULTER,<br />
she began a course of Carcinosin 200 and Aurum<br />
muriaticum natronatum 200. After few months<br />
neither increase nor decrease in the size of tumor<br />
and so agreed for hysterectomy. She took Arnica<br />
30 a day before the surgery and gave instructions<br />
for Arnica 200 to be given after the surgery at<br />
frequent intervals and a dose of Phosphorus 30 for<br />
nausea.<br />
On day two, Staphysagria 200, as pain<br />
transitioned from soreness to slight stabbing pain.<br />
The level of pain never exceeded a ‘2’ on a scale of<br />
1 to 10. No painkillers were used. Insomnia and<br />
extreme restlessness each night after the surgery<br />
disappeared with Bellis perennis 30.<br />
7. What to expect when old symptoms return<br />
HYDE, Rosemary C. (HT. 23, 3/2003)<br />
A series of old symptoms can occur at different<br />
times during a longer course of homœopathic<br />
treatment. These symptoms are generally shortlived<br />
and significantly less uncomfortable than one<br />
might expect. Knowing what to expect can<br />
reassure people that a return of old symptoms can<br />
be a good sign, especially if it is accompanied with<br />
general feeling of improvement. Two case<br />
examples are given.<br />
8. Accident: Three remedies to use<br />
DOOLEY, Timothy R. (HT. 23, 4/2003)<br />
The use of Aconite, Arnica and Calendula in<br />
skating accident involving his son is described.<br />
9. An epidemic of Autism<br />
How Homœopathy can help?<br />
REICHENBERG-ULLMAN, Judyth<br />
(HT. 23, 4/2003)<br />
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The various presentations of Autism are<br />
discussed and the increase of the cases is suspected<br />
with large number of vaccines being administered.<br />
The progress under homœopathic care depends<br />
on where the child falls on the autistic spectrum to<br />
begin with, how clear an understanding the<br />
homœopath can attain of the child and how well the<br />
homœopathic remedy fits the child.<br />
The author has discussed his approach and how<br />
parents can support the treatment.<br />
10. A beautiful mind<br />
ULLMAN, Robert (HT. 23, 4/2003)<br />
Sam, 5 years diagnosed with Semantic<br />
Pragmatic Disorder, a serious deficit in thought and<br />
language processing, poor social skills and<br />
behavioral problems. He had special aptitude for<br />
Mathematics and could calculate cube roots in the<br />
head. He started talking late. Inclined to make<br />
noises. Sam had history of a severe reaction to<br />
Amoxycillin and later, a high fever induced by the<br />
MMR vaccine potentially correlated with his<br />
Autism. Very reserved.<br />
Many homœopathic prescriptions given and no<br />
lasting benefit. With the experience of treating 2<br />
other cases of similar nature, Silica 200 was given<br />
which also covered the totality.<br />
After a month, he was doing considerably<br />
better. He enjoyed playing with other children.<br />
Over 18 months he was given 3 doses of Silica 200<br />
and a dose of 1M. He is more interactive, language<br />
is now age-appropriate. He has calmed down. No<br />
echolalia.<br />
11. A case of Attention Deficit Disorder<br />
MESSER, Stephen (HT. 23, 4/2003)<br />
Michael’s main problem is an inability to focus<br />
his attention. This delays his homework. Always<br />
hungry. He is happy when getting attention from<br />
others. Perspires easily and profusely. His joints<br />
are hyperflexible. Gets restless in tight clothing.<br />
He is very concerned about his reputation so that he<br />
can be very popular.<br />
Veratrum album 6 once a day. 2 months later<br />
improved in all aspects. Veratrum album 30, once<br />
a week. 6 months later, relapse and so Veratrum<br />
album 200, once a day for a week. Since then<br />
improving.<br />
12. Using Homœopathy to heal after circumcision<br />
FEDER, Lauren (HT. 23, 4/2003)<br />
Indications of Arnica, Hypericum and<br />
Calendula are given. For healing the inflammation<br />
Apis and Cinnabaris.<br />
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Aconite to be given if the baby is in shock after<br />
surgery. Staphysagria for babies who look<br />
resentful. Stramonium for shock when Aconite did<br />
not help.<br />
13. Three cases of Chicken pox<br />
GRILL, Yolande (HT. 23, 4/2003)<br />
Case 1: Eruption first appeared on Monica’s<br />
genitals. Vesicles, inflamed, itchy and burning.<br />
Bathing gives temporary relief. Refused to eat.<br />
Much worse at night. Mercurius 30. 3 doses in 24<br />
hours. Improvement was immediate.<br />
Case 2: Paul, 8 years, ran a high fever, soon<br />
after the appearance of eruptions. Restless and<br />
delirious. Intense itching. Aconite 200. He calmed<br />
down, fever and delirium disappeared.<br />
Case 3: Alan, 6 years, complained pain in his<br />
back, joints of arms and hands at the onset of<br />
eruptions. Refused to take baths. Photophobia,<br />
severe itching and restlessness. Rhus tox 30 and his<br />
pains never returned.<br />
Indications of Aconite, Antimonium crudum,<br />
Antimonium tartaricum, Belladonna, Mercurius,<br />
Pulsatilla, Rhus tox and Sulphur in the treatment of<br />
Chicken pox are given.<br />
14. A case of Chronic fatigue and Fibromyalgia<br />
FLEISHER, Mitchell A. (HT. 23, 4/2003)<br />
The author describes Dr. Divya CHHABRA’s<br />
‘free association’ and ‘circle analysis’ method of<br />
case taking, which enables the homœopath to reach<br />
through the subconscious level of dreams to the<br />
deep seated core delusion, which manifests as the<br />
symptoms of imbalance and illness.<br />
This is illustrated with a case of a 56-year-old<br />
female with Chronic fatigue and Fibromyalgia.<br />
Translating her symptoms into rubrics of mind:<br />
Ambition, increased; Competitive; Loquacity;<br />
Jealousy; Suspicious; Malicious; Censorius;<br />
Mocking; Sarcasm. Dream rubrics: Falling and<br />
Spiders, hairy. Clairvoyance and External throat,<br />
Clothing aggravates.<br />
Crotalus cascavella 1M. 3 months later, 80%<br />
better. Feeling less annoyed by women and feeling<br />
relaxed.<br />
15. The Restoration of Health: a Physician’s High<br />
and Only Mission – Evaluation of a Patient<br />
Presenting with a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia<br />
HOOVER, Todd A. (AJHM. 97, 1/2004)<br />
35-year-old man, with long history of<br />
Schizophrenia. Intense guilt as if he had done<br />
something that is unforgivable. Delusion he was<br />
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persecuted by devils; deserving of divine<br />
retribution. Agitated, restless legs, tremulous,<br />
anxiety from reprimands. Violence, striking<br />
himself, striking walls. Waking 2-4 a.m.<br />
Kali bromatum 200, single dose.<br />
Two months later, significantly better. Had<br />
developed very itchy groin rash. Two months later,<br />
rash worse and it cleared only after antifungal<br />
medication. Ten months later, picture changed.<br />
Now fright, hypervigilance, impulse for violence<br />
and childish hiding. Stramonium 200, single dose.<br />
Two months later, significantly better, with<br />
more energy and less anxiety. Relapse seven<br />
months later and no response to repetition of the<br />
remedy.<br />
A thorough re-examination was made:<br />
1. Fear of reprimand; of something happening,<br />
catastrophes.<br />
2. General detachment from others; living in a<br />
world of his own creation practicing pure<br />
mathematics.<br />
3. Unique ability for dates.<br />
4. Childish quality, unable to care for himself.<br />
5. Guilty feelings, delusion he was a failure.<br />
6. Picking at himself, striking himself, biting his<br />
nails, reproaching himself, eccentricity.<br />
Bufo rana was given and seven year follow-up,<br />
with repetition in high potency about 6 times with<br />
decreasing frequency.<br />
This led to an increasing restoration of health.<br />
The author opines the first two remedies acted<br />
palliatively. They definitely halted the decline and<br />
deterioration of the case, but did not restore health.<br />
16. A Case of Tourette’s Syndrome<br />
LEVATIN, Janet (AJHM. 97, 1/2004)<br />
BC, ten-year-old girl had some vocal sounds<br />
and some motor tics from three year age. Dislike of<br />
school and homework and showing an undercurrent<br />
of anger that’s never been there before. Fears dark<br />
room. Tics and vocal sound became worse.<br />
History of Psoriasis on head. Cradle cap as infant.<br />
Occasional Otitis Media. Mild to moderate hearing<br />
loss diagnosed at 3 years.<br />
Agaricus 200.<br />
Over the next 16 months, potency was raised to<br />
1M and 10M after relapses, and no further<br />
improvement. So Coca 200 was given based on the<br />
fact that her father was a cocaine addict.<br />
Over the next year, she improved gradually and<br />
having hard time with Psoriasis on her scalp.<br />
She would need one more remedy, probably<br />
Cocaine.<br />
17. Die begleitende Behandlung von Karies und<br />
Mineralisationsstörungen<br />
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(The treatment of Consequences of Caries and<br />
affections due to mineralisation)<br />
FELDHAUS, Heinz-Werner<br />
(AHZ. 249, 1/2004)<br />
Caries is not only the result of sugar<br />
consumption and the infestation by bacteria, but has<br />
to be considered rather as a disorder of the whole<br />
organism. Therefore it can only be regarded as a<br />
local symptom, which can be used by the<br />
homœopathic practitioner and dental practitioner in<br />
the process of finding the simile. This article<br />
presents the holistic approach and some main<br />
remedies on the basis of their local symptoms.<br />
(Kreosotum, Staphysagria, Thuja occidentalis,<br />
Silicea - Acidum silicicum, Sepia, Natrum<br />
muriaticum, Natrum carbonicum, Calcium<br />
carbonicum/phosphoricum/fluoratum).<br />
18. Zahnmedizinische Problematik in der<br />
Homöopathie (Dental Medicine problems in<br />
Homœopathy)<br />
HÖR, Klaus Roman (AHZ. 249, 1/2004)<br />
Homœopathic treatment of problems during<br />
dentition in the background of hereditary taint are<br />
described with Syphilinum, Medorrhinum and<br />
Tuberculinum and their following remedies.<br />
Frequently indicated remedies as well as acute<br />
remedies are described.<br />
The morphological peculiarities are classified:<br />
1. Teeth, stunted, in children: Syph., Staph., Med.,<br />
Calc-f.<br />
2. Teeth, notched, indented: Bac., Lach., Med.,<br />
Plb., Syph., Tub.<br />
3. Eruption of Teeth, distorted: Syph.<br />
4. Irregular form: Bac., Chlorpr., Phenob., Phos.,<br />
Syph., Tub.<br />
5. V-formed teeth: Kreos., Syph.<br />
19. Homöopathie bei Infektionen im Zahn- und<br />
Kieferbereich (Homœopathy in infections of<br />
Teeth and mandibular region)<br />
KREBS, Johannes (AHZ. 249, 1/2004)<br />
This article describes the often used<br />
homœopathic remedies in cases of dental and<br />
mandibular/maxillary infections. As far as they are<br />
caused dentally, gingival infections are discussed as<br />
well.<br />
20. Homöopathie bei Infektionskrankheiten im<br />
Mund und Rachen (Homœopathy in Infectious<br />
Diseases of Mouth and Throat)<br />
FRIESE, Karl-Heinz (AHZ. 249, 1/2004)<br />
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All infectious diseases of the mouth and throat<br />
can be well treated by Homœopathy because this<br />
part of the body is easy to be observed and<br />
remedies can be given by the colour of the mucous<br />
membranes. Regularly the diseases are treated<br />
quicker by homœopathic remedies than by<br />
conventional medicine which is able to treat viral<br />
diseases only symptomatically not causally. This is<br />
the difference of Homœopathy. The most common<br />
remedies in mouth and throat diseases are<br />
Belladonna, Apis, Mercurius solubilis, Hepar<br />
sulphuris, Borax, Kali bichromicum and Kali<br />
iodatum.<br />
21. Zahnungsbeschwerden – Klinisches Stichwort<br />
(Dental complaints – Clinical Keywords)<br />
BLEUL, Gerhard (AHZ. 249, 1/2004)<br />
The tenth section of this series gives the rubrics<br />
from different repertories for affections during<br />
dentition. The main remedies are briefly described.<br />
22. Chorea minor und rezidivierende<br />
Atemwegsinfekte (Chorea minor and recurring<br />
airway region)<br />
LORZ, Thomas (AHZ. 249, 2/2004)<br />
Course of treatment of a six-year-old boy with<br />
Sydenham’s Chorea after a Streptococcal infection.<br />
With daily Penicillin prophylaxis, infections of the<br />
upper respiratory system with increased choreic<br />
movements recurring several times per month came<br />
on. A substantial improvement of hyperkinetic<br />
movements disorder was reached with<br />
homœopathic treatment. Also recurrent infections<br />
lessened and general state improved.<br />
23. Homöopathische Behandlung an der<br />
Kinderonkologie in LKH Klagenfurt<br />
(Homœopathic treatment in Children’s<br />
Oncology Department of the Klagenfurt<br />
Hospital, Austria)<br />
PICHLER, Erfried (AHZ. 249, 2/2004)<br />
Establishing Homœopathy in public hospitals<br />
of Austria is difficult because acknowledgement is<br />
lacking. Nevertheless some homœopathic<br />
outpatient departments have been founded in the<br />
last years.<br />
Since last 5 years, it has been possible to treat<br />
children in the Children’s Oncologic Department of<br />
Klagenfurt’s Hospital, with Homœopathy in<br />
addition to conventional therapy. Radar Computer<br />
Programme or the Synthesis in book form is used.<br />
Generally one remedy is given and in exceptional<br />
cases two and in very rare circumstances three in a<br />
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day. Potencies D12, C12, LM6 are mostly used in<br />
the beginning.<br />
Two cases show the homœopathic course of<br />
treatment.<br />
24. Akute diffuse nummuläre Ekzeme (Acute<br />
diffuse nummular Eczema)<br />
EICHLER, Roland (AHZ. 249, 2/2004)<br />
13-year-old boy with an acute nummular<br />
Eczema. During mid 1990 he had been treated by<br />
me successfully with Tuberculinum koch for<br />
Neurodermatitis. He was free from the disease upto<br />
now (2003). In 1998 he came to me for an acute<br />
Condylomata in anus, treated with Syphilinum,<br />
successfully. He has not been seen again for 5<br />
years until now.<br />
In the face, arms, right leg and in the upper left<br />
half of the buttock as also on the knuckles, palm,<br />
coin-like vesiculo-papular, very red Eczema spots.<br />
Sporadic itching, lesser in open air, worse if<br />
sitting long in closed room.<br />
Tuberculinum XM.<br />
25. Homöopathische Behandlung von Notfällen –<br />
Anaphylaktischer Schock (Homœopathic<br />
Treatment of Emergencies)<br />
BÜNDNER, Martin (AHZ. 249, 2/2004)<br />
There is, in the mind of som, that Homœopathy<br />
can be applied only in Chronic or harmless acute<br />
diseases. Homœopathic treatment also can show<br />
best results in very acute and life-threatening<br />
diseases. In this case a baby got an anaphylactic<br />
shock after eating chicken protein and is treated<br />
with Belladonna.<br />
26. Mercurius solubulis und die Beweglichkeit<br />
(Mercurius solubulis and mobility)<br />
MEYER-KÖNIG, Peter (AHZ. 249, 2/2004)<br />
In 1994, the parent of a twin children reported<br />
that the cough of his two children who had been<br />
given Mercurius solubilis had slowly gone away.<br />
But there was also a surprising effect. The children<br />
could crawl better after the Mercurius solubilis.<br />
A group of 25 infants in robbing age between<br />
11 upto 18 months gained a perfect ability for<br />
crawling within a few days after Mercurius<br />
solubulis.<br />
The pathology of this disorder is also<br />
explained.<br />
In regard to this article Dr. Heinz PSCHEIDL<br />
writes in the Letter to the Editor, AHZ. 249,<br />
4/2004: All symptoms which Mercurius can heal,<br />
Quicksilver (e.g. Amalgam) must be able to<br />
produce. I have the mothers to do away with<br />
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Amalgam fillings, in appropriate cases – at time of<br />
becoming pregnant (ref § 7, 67 FN). Many<br />
Quicksilver intoxicated patient react to Mercurius<br />
with severe aggravation. Others develop follow-up<br />
ailments.<br />
In further response Dr. MEYER-KÖNIG<br />
discusses the aggravations and other adverse effects<br />
of Mercury-dental Amalgam.<br />
27. Warzen – eine Chronische Erkrankung (Warts<br />
– a Chronic Disease)<br />
TOST, Katharina (ZKH. 48, 1/2004)<br />
The importance of Warts as a sign of a Chronic<br />
Disease as well as the therapeutic instructions of<br />
HAHNEMANN are presented by means of the<br />
Organon. The therapy of Warts is described in<br />
three cases in which homœopathic remedies are<br />
chosen according to the totality of the symptoms.<br />
28. Akuter Myokardinfarkt (Acute Myocardial<br />
Infarction)<br />
BÜNDNER, Martin (ZKH. 48, 1/2004)<br />
An acute Myocardial Infarction is diagnosed<br />
by laboratory and electrocardiography. An<br />
echocardiography confirms Hypokinesia which is<br />
associated with infarction of heart muscle. After<br />
homœopathic treatment a coronary angiography<br />
was carried out in the following but there was no<br />
Coronary Stenosis or other indications for<br />
Myocardial Lesion.<br />
29. Uterine Fibroids: A Clinical Study with USG<br />
Follow-up<br />
GUPTA, Girish; GUPTA, Naveen; SINGH,<br />
Vijay and BISHT, Deepa (NJH. 5, 3/2003)<br />
A total of 217 cases of Uterine Fibroids (Single<br />
and Multiple) were registered and available for<br />
proper follow-up treatment. Analysis was made to<br />
assess the percent response in each case following<br />
treatment with homœopathic remedies at Gaurang<br />
Clinic and Centre for Homœopathic Research,<br />
Lucknow till December 31, 2002. Timely<br />
diagnosis by Ultrasonography followed by<br />
homœopathic treatment showed excellent response<br />
in significant number of cases avoiding surgery<br />
which has been the lone option in Allopathy.<br />
After homœopathic treatment, 74 patients were<br />
cured, 21 were best improving showing more than<br />
50% reduction in the size of fibroid, 64 patients<br />
showed significant improvement, 31 maintained<br />
status quo and 21 patients did not improve, 4 cases<br />
could not be reliably evaluated due to confusing<br />
Ultrasonography reports. Two cases were<br />
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Nabothian Cysts and both were cured. The overall<br />
results of this study is encouraging.<br />
30. Knowing the Mind in Homœopathic Practice<br />
DHAWALE K.M. (NJH. 5, 3/2003)<br />
This is a brief extract from Dr. DHAWALE’s<br />
article in the Journal of the Institute of Clinical<br />
Research, Vol.1, 3/1991. The mental symptom,<br />
mental state and disposition are differentiated.<br />
31. Cancer<br />
DHAR, Bansi and BHATNAGAR, Pankaj<br />
(NJH. 5, 3/2003)<br />
The authors have written with much feeling<br />
that despite a good record in palliation/cure of<br />
Cancer by Homœopathy, the general medical world<br />
tend to criticize adversely.<br />
Cases have been mentioned briefly.<br />
The ‘Seven Warning Signals’ of Cancer:<br />
1. Change in bowel or bladder habits.<br />
2. A sore that does not heal.<br />
3. Unusual bleeding or discharge.<br />
4. Thickening or lump in breast or elsewhere.<br />
5. Indigestion or difficulty in swallowing.<br />
6. Obvious change in Wart or Mole.<br />
7. Nagging cough or hoarseness.<br />
Trauma as a causative factor is also<br />
highlighted.<br />
Copious quotes from different authors are<br />
given.<br />
32. Leucoderma – Vitiligo<br />
PATEL, Mukesh (NJH. 5, 3/2003)<br />
A brief write-up on this subject.<br />
33. Miasm and its Therapeutic Implications<br />
PUROHIT, Hitesh G. (NJH. 5, 3/2003)<br />
Three cases treated with particular attention to<br />
the underlying Miasm, are given.<br />
34. A Case of Inferior and Right Ventricular<br />
Infarction<br />
CHIMTHANAWALA, Adil (NJH. 5, 3/2003)<br />
This is a very interesting case treated<br />
homœopathically through and through. The patient<br />
is 22-year-old with sudden onset on chest painretrosternal,<br />
prostration, cold sweat, anxious,<br />
restless, averse to being covered even though hands<br />
and feet cold.<br />
Camphora was the remedy.<br />
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35. A Case of Osteosarcoma<br />
KHAN L.M. (NJH. 5, 3/2003)<br />
14-year-old girl, thin, limping gait with pain<br />
and swelling right leg just below the knee since 2½<br />
years. Diagnosed Osteosarcoma of right upper<br />
Tibia. Pain was constant, worse exertion. Very<br />
fond of dancing, fast paced music. Very irritable<br />
and rude behavior, dominating. Craving sweets.<br />
Mother suffered throughout the nine months of<br />
pregnancy, nausea and vomiting until delivery time.<br />
X-ray: multiple fractures in the affected bone.<br />
Thyroidinum 30 t.d.s, for three days, followed<br />
by placebo.<br />
36. Quick Short Cases<br />
KANOJIA, Satish (NJH. 5, 3/2003)<br />
Case 1: 20-year-old man bent double with pain<br />
abdomen, diarrhoea, vomiting. Colocynth 200 and<br />
in 15 minutes pain subsided. Two more doses<br />
given to be taken same evening and next morning.<br />
Remains well. [When one dose Colocynth 200<br />
relieved why two more doses, same potency? =<br />
KSS]<br />
Case 2: 25-year-old man with diarrhoea,<br />
undigested particles. Oleander 30.<br />
Case 3: 47-year-old female, obese, burning<br />
micturition, frequent. Cantharis 200.<br />
Case 4: 28-year-old man, epigastric pain and<br />
heaviness chest; had drank beer previous day.<br />
Green discharge from right eye, thready. Kali<br />
bichromicum 200. Next day passed 3-4 loose<br />
stools, felt better. Discharge from right eye also<br />
relieved.<br />
Case 5: 25-year-old female, vomiting since<br />
night after eating ‘Pulao’. Pulsatilla 200.<br />
Case 6: 25-year-old man vomiting since night.<br />
5-6 bouts of vomiting. Previous night alcohol. Nux<br />
vomica 200.<br />
Case 7: 13-year-old girl, throat pain. Feared<br />
glands. Anxious look. Aconite 200.<br />
Case 8: 11-month-old, fever; body cold except<br />
head, which was very hot. Belladonna 200.<br />
Case 9: 18-year-old man, fever since 7-8 days,<br />
urine yellow, desired salted rice. Natrum<br />
muriaticum 200.<br />
Case 10: 35-year-old female. Vomited since 2<br />
days. D &C done two days ago under anaesthesia.<br />
Phosphorus 200.<br />
37. Multiple Personality Disorder Syndrome?<br />
BAIG, Mirza Anwar (NJH. 5, 3/2003)<br />
This is an interesting article on the mental<br />
disease ‘Multiple Personality Disorder Syndrome’.<br />
Two cases treated by the author are narrated.<br />
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38. Mixed Cases<br />
MISHRA S.C. (NJH. 5, 3/2003)<br />
Case 1: 54-year-old man lost his wife in road<br />
accident after which he suffered from sleeplessness,<br />
severe body jerks when falling asleep. Ignatia 200,<br />
without relief. Then Arsenicum album M also<br />
without relief. Again Ignatia M, without benefit.<br />
Repertorization (Mental shock, jerking head during<br />
sleep, flatulence) Arnica M gave good relief.<br />
Case 2: 2-year-old boy, passes stool, soils his<br />
underwear, involuntarily, itching of penis, lying on<br />
abdomen and rubs his penis by body movement.<br />
Dominating. Stands only by leaning on someone.<br />
Thuja 200 did not >. Repertorisation .. Lachesis M<br />
(4 doses one daily) with some improvement;<br />
Lachesis XM (4 doses one daily); marked<br />
improvement. Thuja XM (4 doses b.d.); some pale<br />
spots on face. No further relief. Lachesis XM (3<br />
doses o.d.) [June 2001 to August 2001: M, four<br />
doses; XM, eleven doses – whatever medicine – to<br />
2-year-old child is baffling. This is an<br />
assault=KSS]<br />
Case 3: 70-year-old male, pain of many years,<br />
right knee. Big hard tumor in the popliteal fossa of<br />
the right knee causing pain when rising and sitting<br />
down. Attacks of sneezing morning and evening.<br />
Thirstless, Insomnia whole night. Irritable, very<br />
short-tempered. Nux vomica 30/1 dr., t.d.s.<br />
Growth of popliteal fossa reduced, pain has<br />
gone down to leg. Overall better. Nux vomica 30<br />
for a month more. The tumor has become very soft<br />
and reduced in size. Pain leg still. Sleep well,<br />
appetite good, no irritability. Medicine continued<br />
until the tumor vanished.<br />
Case 4: 30-year-old female with two children;<br />
severe persistent nausea early morning after getting<br />
up. Sight of food also brings on nausea. Total<br />
anorexia. Thirstless. Horripilation when she thinks<br />
that she will get the disease which the other person<br />
whom she saw, has. Delusion of being mad.<br />
Hopelessness of cure. History of recurrent coryza.<br />
Natrum muriaticum 200/4 o.d. No>. Sepia M four<br />
doses o.d. S.L. 10 o.d. Sepia XM two o.d. No<br />
depression.<br />
Case 5: 28-year-old male, a Trade Union<br />
leader and Social Worker. Since sometime feeling<br />
sick with crawling sensation on scalp and heaviness<br />
in head with Vertigo. Palpitation before sleep.<br />
Tension and restlessness in the brain. Tongue gets<br />
stiff making difficult to talk. Bloated abdomen<br />
with loud eructations. Better in general when<br />
occupied. Sensation of heat emanating from palm.<br />
Quick and hasty, impatient. History of Jaundice.<br />
History of Multiple injury in legs and forehead.<br />
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Nux vomica 200 for six days o.d. No change<br />
Nux vomica M/2o.d. Slightly better. Repeat Nux<br />
vomica M/4 o.d. , then Sac Lac 7 o.d. and then<br />
Sulphur 200/4 doses o.d.<br />
Case 6: 53-year-old Electrical Engineer,<br />
sedentary job. Pain heel, Hypertension, Piles and<br />
sexual weakness. Zingiberis 30/one dram pills<br />
t.d.s. for 7 days. Same repeated for another 7 days.<br />
Heel pain better. During this period he got chest<br />
pain. Zincum metallicum 30 b.d. Repeated 8 doses<br />
b.d.<br />
75% relief heel pain. For high cholesterol<br />
Allium sativa Q1oz 10 gtt. b.d.<br />
He developed some ulceration in cheek.<br />
Natrum muriaticum 200, three powders as his<br />
cheek was sensitive to hot food/drink. A week later<br />
cheek ulcer slight relief. Repeat Natrum<br />
muriaticum 200/3 o.d.<br />
A week later, no improvement: Lycopodium<br />
200/4 b.d.<br />
12 days later: erection still poor, early<br />
ejaculation ++, Nitric acid 30/1dram pills t.d.s.<br />
Three weeks later: No > in any respect.<br />
Graphites 200/4 doses. Only ulcer amel. after 8<br />
days. Allium sativa Q again. About two weeks<br />
later cheek ulcer again flared up. To stop Allium<br />
sativa and Graphites M/4 doses. About 20 days<br />
after, Graphites XM/3 powders at 15 minute<br />
interval.<br />
Cheek ulceration much improved. All other<br />
complaints remained.<br />
It is interesting to note that Allium sativa<br />
caused cheek ulcer in him. But his Cholesterol<br />
came down.<br />
[I feel bewildered; 30 potency repeated for<br />
days together; 200, 1M, 10M too repeated. What is<br />
the justification for Natrum muriaticum 200–three<br />
powders? And Lycopodium 200-four powders!<br />
Graphites M four doses and XM every 15 minutes<br />
three doses!! Why 15 minutes? Why not 10<br />
minutes or 20 minutes or for that matter every 5<br />
minutes. What are the rules for these games? Or<br />
are there no rules? And it is all a rule of the thumb?<br />
Pardon me please=KSS]<br />
39. My Learning Curve<br />
SHAH, Bhavani (NJH. 5, 3/2003)<br />
20-year-old student of Engineering with<br />
complaints of frontal headache since 1984, after vomiting, agg. 2-4 p.m., 6-7<br />
p.m. 4 stones, obese, nail biting, desires sweets,<br />
salt, meat.<br />
Thuja occidentalis 200/7 doses (!) at intervals<br />
of about two weeks, then Thuja M/10 doses (!!!) at<br />
intervals of 15-20 days. Cured. USG confirmed.<br />
[We see no reason or rationale for so many doses of<br />
high potency Thuja. Has not HAHNEMANN said<br />
that the same potency should not be repeated? =<br />
KSS]<br />
41. A Case of Prolapse of Inter-vertebral Discs<br />
KAPSE, Anand (NJH. 5, 4/2003)<br />
70-year-old female, three children. Pain left<br />
lumbo-sacral joint, sudden onset, amel. traction,<br />
raising the leg up. Burning soles, fingers, since 7-8<br />
years; amel. cold water, left thigh, right thigh<br />
occasional pains > cold application on head, agg.<br />
night. Throbbing pain, knees since 20 years. No<br />
swelling, agg. sitting/flexing knees, amel. hot<br />
fomentations. Maculo-Papular eruptions, watery<br />
discharge, exertional dyspnoea. X-ray: mild to<br />
moderate Osteoarthritis of the left knee joint.<br />
Sepia 200 repeated daily for 10 days. Then<br />
Thuja 200 and Sepia 200 again for six days. Frozen<br />
shoulder also relieved.<br />
42. Homœopathic Approach to Osteoarthritis<br />
KAPSE, Anand; PHANSE, Anagha &<br />
DATEY, Sonali (NJH. 5, 4/2003)<br />
5 cases of Osteoarthritis successfully treated<br />
homœopathically. Most of the cases needed Thuja<br />
as intercurrent. In some patients Osteoarthritic<br />
Nosode 30 was also used.<br />
43. Homœopathic Management of Disorders of<br />
Lumbar Inter-vertebral Discs<br />
RASAL, Prasad (NJH. 5, 4/2003)<br />
Degenerative disc disease wide spread, severe<br />
lumbar canal stenosis. Was on traction for long.<br />
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Homœopathic treatment: Lachesis 200 one dose, on<br />
next day Bryonia XM t.d.s. for ten days. Also<br />
Calcarea fluorica 6x t.d.s. for ten days. Patient<br />
improved and could walk a km. Continued with<br />
Calcarea fluorica 6x b.d. for a month and then o.d.<br />
for two months. One dose Tuberculinum M<br />
(antimiasmatic). [Such prescriptions are really<br />
bewildering. It would appear that Calcarea<br />
fluorica really did more benefit than the Bryonia<br />
XM t.d.s. for 10 days=KSS]<br />
44. The Man who slipped on every occasion<br />
PARTHASARATHY V. (NJH. 5, 4/2003)<br />
A man 42 years, with complaints of calf pain<br />
and numbness after slipped disc L4-5 an year ago.<br />
Cervical spondylosis. D12-L1 stiff as hardboard.<br />
MRI showed mild degenerative changes D9-10,<br />
D10-11 and D11-12 facet joints.<br />
Nux vomica 30, 200, Kali carbonicum 200, 10<br />
doses over a period. Thuja 200, M as ‘intercurrent.’<br />
45. Homœopathy handles Pneumonitis<br />
JUNAGADE, Sachin and PAWASKAR, Navin<br />
(NJH. 5, 4/2003)<br />
25-year-old lady with complaints of cough and<br />
high grade fever. Couldn’t walk by herself. Her<br />
complaints began 12 days ago after drinking cold<br />
water. Developed coryza. 5 days later wetted and<br />
in two hours high grade fever with chilliness.<br />
Needed blanket in the peak summer. On 7 th day<br />
cough, chest pain < coughing, deep breathing.<br />
Thirst increased, one glass every 10 minutes.<br />
Loose stools since 2-3 days. Urine albumin ++++,<br />
X-ray: Right upper lobar Pneumonia with loculated<br />
effusion.<br />
Bryonia M – 4 hourly and afebrile in 24 hours.<br />
In 72 hours normal. Bryonia M continued to<br />
‘restore’ pathology. Complete radiological<br />
clearance on day 10. Calcarea carbonica 200, 1<br />
dose ‘Constitutional follow-through’.<br />
46. Cancer<br />
BHATNAGAR, Pankaj (NJH. 5, 4/2003)<br />
Dr. BHATNAGAR lists the ‘Indian’ Drugs and<br />
their indications used by him in homœopathic<br />
potencies, and also as mother tinctures – 38 herbs.<br />
He also lists over 100 remedies from the<br />
homœopathic Pharmacopoeia.<br />
47. Post-vaccination Syndrome<br />
SMITS, Tinus (NAMAH. 11, 4/2004)<br />
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Homœopathic practice has recognized that<br />
chronic complaints can develop following<br />
vaccination, ever since general introduction of the<br />
Smallpox vaccination in the 19 th century. For many<br />
years, Thuja was acknowledged by homœopaths as<br />
proven remedy for these complaints, whose<br />
treatment appeared to be less than satisfactory.<br />
Vaccines appear to have more side-effects than has<br />
hitherto been accepted. These vaccinations can be<br />
responsible for both acute and chronic health<br />
problems.<br />
A large number of these symptom are<br />
frequently cited in the literature as post-vaccination<br />
symptoms: other symptoms are own observations.<br />
In this context any symptom that manifests itself<br />
after treatment with potentised vaccine is deduced<br />
as caused by the vaccine concerned. It must be<br />
accepted that each vaccine can be responsible for<br />
several symptoms like loss of eye contact,<br />
squinting, inflammation of the middle ear,<br />
Bronchitis, etc., Diabetes, etc., lack of<br />
concentration, etc., behavioral problems etc. If a<br />
vaccine is the cause of an ailment, the same vaccine<br />
in a homœopathic potentised dilution is the<br />
perfectly corresponding remedy. Basic description<br />
of the ‘post vaccination syndrome’:<br />
The homœopathic method, general principle<br />
and treatment, prevention, injury to the general<br />
defence mechanism, misconduct, changes in mood,<br />
implied obstacles to the acceptance of the postvaccination<br />
syndrome, Research,<br />
Recommendations are cited by Dr. Tinus SMITS.<br />
48. Genèse du Cancer – La Cellule Cancéreuse:<br />
Son Origine, sa signification (Genesis of<br />
Cancer – The Cancer Cells, their Origin, its<br />
significance)<br />
FLOUR, Agnès (RBH. XXXVIIIb, 3/2003)<br />
Summary:<br />
1 – Introduction<br />
2 – Cancer and the remedy Carcinosinum<br />
2-1 Etymology and significance of the word<br />
‘Cancer’<br />
2-2 Cancerisation and Cancerogenesis<br />
2-3 Characteristics of the Cancer cells<br />
2-4 The homœopathic remedy Carcinosinum<br />
2-4-1 Recall of doctrine of HAHNEMANN’s<br />
Homœopathy<br />
2-4-2 Nature and origin of the remedy<br />
Carcinosinum<br />
2-4-3 Mental and Physical symptomatology of<br />
Carcinosinum<br />
2-4-4 Themes and Words key to the<br />
symptomatology of Carcinosinum<br />
2-5 Common elements of Cancerology and the<br />
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emedy Carcinosinum<br />
3 – Homœopathic concept of Primary Psora<br />
3-1 Theory of Dr. MASI<br />
3-2 Example: Phosphorus<br />
4 – Hypothesis of Primary Psora for Carcinosinum<br />
5 – The Force<br />
5-1 Etymology and definitions of the word ‘Force’<br />
5-2 The symbols of the ‘Force’<br />
5-3 The ‘Virtue of Force’.<br />
6 – Study of Relations between the two Elements<br />
Analysis, one part the Cancer/Carcinosinum,<br />
the other part – the Force<br />
6-1 Study of the relation between the words<br />
‘Cancer’ and ‘Force’ a level etymology and<br />
symbolism<br />
6-2 Relations between the words – Carcinosinum<br />
and the word ‘Force’<br />
6-3 Relations between the words – Carcinosinum<br />
and the different aspects of the ‘Force’<br />
7 – Psora primary of Carcinosinum<br />
7-1 Exposition of details of Psora primary of<br />
Carcinosinum<br />
7-2 Consequences of Psora primary of<br />
Carcinosinum<br />
8 – Contribution of Psora primary in<br />
comprehension of the Carcinogenesis<br />
9 – Laws no longer general<br />
10 – Conclusion<br />
49. A Case of Hyperprolactinaemia<br />
GUPTA, Girish (CCRH. 26, 1/2004)<br />
40-year-old lady with pain both breasts<br />
especially before menses with dark-colored<br />
discharge from both nipples for six months but<br />
previously similar pain for 16-17 years. Occasional<br />
vaginal discharge before menses. Suffered<br />
Depression in 1997 treated with allopathic drugs.<br />
Serum Prolactin level raised.<br />
Fear of ghost, fear of misfortune, consolation<br />
amel., anxious about health, fastidiousness, tearful<br />
mood, desire for sweet, etc. Pulsatilla M. Two<br />
months later repeated.<br />
No pain, almost no discharge from nipples.<br />
Prolactin level within normal limits.<br />
50. Homœopathy in Children’s Ailments<br />
PATWARDHAN, Prabha (CCR. 11, 1/2004)<br />
The author is a Paediatrician. She says that<br />
children are usually brought to the Paediatrician<br />
for:<br />
i. Mental ailments, e.g.:<br />
Excessive crying<br />
Hyperactivity<br />
Mental dullness/retardation<br />
School phobia<br />
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Examination phobia<br />
Phobia in general<br />
Dyslexia<br />
Aggressive behavior<br />
Excessive timidity<br />
Stammering<br />
Convulsion<br />
Tics<br />
Behavior disorders<br />
Bed wetting<br />
Masturbation<br />
ii. Physical ailments, e.g.:<br />
Respiratory problems<br />
Gastrointestinal tract/diarrhoea, constipation,<br />
worms<br />
Skin and hair<br />
Teeth problems<br />
Urinary infections, etc.<br />
However, in Homœopathy these divisions do<br />
not matter much.<br />
Twelve cases are discussed, all interesting and<br />
instructive.<br />
Dr. PATWARDHAN appends a ‘Note’ on<br />
DPT Vaccine.<br />
“It contains Formaldehyde, Mercury<br />
derivative, Alum phosphate and damages the<br />
immune and nervous system. Linked to Sudden<br />
Infant Death Syndrome (SID), Brain damage,<br />
Autism, Blindness, Epilepsy, Learning disability,<br />
Hyperactivity and Dyslexia. Useful in delicate,<br />
sensitive children with weak, damaged or underdeveloped<br />
immune system. Children have frequent<br />
colds, cough and long continued coughing spells<br />
like Whooping cough, Asthma, Visual perception<br />
problems, Auditory processing deficit, Fine motor<br />
delay, Attention span deficit, Insomnia.<br />
Children are nervous, trembly and fearful,<br />
show sudden fear while playing. Hyperactive,<br />
explosive, out of control, unable to sit for more than<br />
a few minutes. Arch back while crying. Milk<br />
aggravation, Loss of appetite, Projectile vomiting,<br />
Chronic diarrhoea, sleep walking at night<br />
frequently, Scream for long periods for no apparent<br />
reason.<br />
When the parents link a particular ailment as<br />
having started after a shot of DPT vaccine, it is<br />
worthwhile giving a dose of DPT in potency,<br />
particularly if the child cried for a very long time<br />
and the site of injection was swollen, painful and<br />
inflamed for long time.<br />
Dr. Prabha PATWARDHAN has contributed<br />
32 case studies covering different disease states,<br />
both acute and chronic. Very interesting in all.<br />
51. A Case Report<br />
MISTRY D.E. (CCR. 11, 1/2004)<br />
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84-year-old lady with Numbness in the lower<br />
limbs, hearing loud noises in the head on waking in<br />
the morning, occasional vertigo with tendency to<br />
fall on right side, stickiness in mouth on waking at<br />
1 a.m.<br />
Ignatia XM because she had been treated of a<br />
toxic thyroid state many years ago, by her late<br />
husband Dr. NAGAVANSHI, a pioneer<br />
homœopath of Solapur.<br />
The patient was treated for nearly 2½ years at<br />
her home; various complications intervened<br />
including a fracture of the left hip, very anaemic,<br />
etc. Treatments according to the symptoms were<br />
continued until she passed away peacefully.<br />
52. Operated Case of Medulloblastoma<br />
MISTRY D.E. (CCR. 11, 1/2004)<br />
11-year-old girl operated for Medulloblastoma<br />
in March 2003. After operation she developed<br />
squint; vision good, mild bouts of vertigo and<br />
vomiting.<br />
She had ear discharges from both ears since<br />
childhood.<br />
Vertigo and vomiting began 1½ years ago, 9-<br />
12 in forenoon. Vertigo better after vomiting.<br />
CT scan revealed hypodense mass involving<br />
the vermis of the Cerebellum compressing the 4 th<br />
ventricle and dilatation of the 3 rd ventricle and the<br />
lateral ventricles with enhancement of brain sulci.<br />
Diagnosis Medullablastoma with dissemination of<br />
the pathology in the rest of the brain.<br />
Surgery was done on 26 March 2003.<br />
Radiotherapy was not done since prognosis was<br />
poor.<br />
She was averse to milk, eggs. Perspiration on<br />
head and neck only in summer while playing.<br />
Dreamt of death daily before her illness started;<br />
also dreamt of robbers. Eyes pain in sunlight, liked<br />
loose clothes always, liked to be alone, silent fears<br />
if scolded, better consolation, fastidious.<br />
Treatment was according to the method of Dr.<br />
A.U. RAMAKRISHNAN for Brain Cancer.<br />
Plumbum iodatum, Baryta carbonica, Aethusa<br />
cynapium, Baryta iodata and Zincum sulphuricum<br />
were given earlier.<br />
Baryta carbonica 30 by plussing and next<br />
week Carcinosin 30 plussing.<br />
Between 11 June 2003 and 10 January 2004<br />
several remedies were given. However, she went<br />
down and on 10 January 2004, she passed away<br />
peacefully.<br />
53. Trifolium pratense for breast disease: A case<br />
series<br />
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PARVU E. (HOMEOPATHY, 93, 1/2004)<br />
Modern studies confirm the antitumoral, antiinflammatory<br />
and oestrogenic effects of Trifolium<br />
pratense. A series of cases in which the remedy<br />
was used in breast disease with hyper-oestrogenic<br />
symptoms is reported. Several patients with Cystic<br />
Mastosis and Breast Cancer appeared to do well.<br />
Case 1: BG age 48. Female presented with<br />
general twitching, muscular cramps, persistent<br />
fatigue, memory impairment. Sluggish cognition<br />
and emotional lability, chilly and thin. Past history<br />
of Hepatitis B, Hypothyroidism,<br />
Hypoparathyroidism, Hyper-oestrogenaemia,<br />
Precocious puberty. Breast examination revealed a<br />
congested, painful left breast with palpable mass.<br />
Trifolium pratense 200. Within 24 hrs<br />
reduction in breast symptoms especially pain and<br />
tension. Lump smaller and in a few days no lump.<br />
Two months later Mammography normal and no<br />
relapse.<br />
Case 2: 80-year female, operated for Invasive<br />
Ductal Breast Carcinoma, optimistic and fastidious.<br />
Father and son died of Cancer. Visible retraction of<br />
left nipple.<br />
Trifolium pratense 12 daily for one month.<br />
She was sleeping well with good appetite and no<br />
pain. Lump reduced in size. Medicine continued<br />
again for a month and then 30 twice weekly for a<br />
month and followed up for nine more months.<br />
Case 3: 24-year female, operated for Invasive<br />
Papillary Carcinoma, axillary node invasion, large<br />
areas of necrosis with calcification. Emotional<br />
shock after the surgery. Father died of Multiple<br />
Sclerosis two years ago. In addition to her ongoing<br />
grief, she was worried about Oophorectomy and<br />
subsequent infertility.<br />
Arnica montana 7 for 2 weeks. Wound healed<br />
and pain alleviated. Trifolium pratense 200<br />
repetition after a month.<br />
Looking better and optimistic. Continuing<br />
conventional treatment. No relapse of breast<br />
symptoms after Chemotherapy. Twelve doses of<br />
Trifolium pratense over a period of 8 months.<br />
Case 4: 66-year-old female with the diagnosis<br />
of left Mammary Neoplasm stage III with<br />
lymphoedema of the left arm following Radical<br />
Mastectomy.<br />
Left arm hard with oedema of two months<br />
duration and discolored purplish-blue.<br />
Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy done. Easy<br />
emotional upsets. Sometimes hot flushes. Weepy,<br />
depressed, hopeless, yawning frequently.<br />
3 doses of Trifolium pratense 200 at 12 hour<br />
intervals. She felt better, more energetic and<br />
oedema less, and less weepy in the next two<br />
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months. Apis mellifica 7 daily one dose for a<br />
month. No change. Trifolium pratense 200 and<br />
Ignatia 30. Better sleep, more cheerful. No<br />
improvement of lymphoedema.<br />
Case 5: 45-year-old female treated by Radical<br />
Mammectomy, Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy<br />
after a relapse. It has spread further. Mother died<br />
of Breast Cancer, father of Cerebro-vascular<br />
accident. She associated the recent lump with<br />
injury from an elbow blow. Trifolium pratense 200<br />
once monthly. Conium maculatum 7 daily once for<br />
a month and Sepia officinalis 30 once weekly.<br />
A month later, mammography shows no<br />
evidence of lump and no sign of inflammation.<br />
There was no further homœopathic follow-up.<br />
Case 6: BC 35-year-old female with Cystic<br />
Mastopathy and Uterine Fibroma. Pulmonary<br />
Tuberculosis seven years ago. Acne with facial<br />
hirsutes. Uraemic with intense itching, breast<br />
tension and pain before menses. Menses painful,<br />
irregular. Unmarried, emotionally vulnerable.<br />
Unhappy love affair.<br />
Trifolium pratense 200 on the basis that it<br />
appears to be indicated in hyperoestrogenaemic<br />
states. No pain or tension in the breast. Cyst seems<br />
to be smaller. Acne >. No hair on her chin.<br />
Relapse with severe pain and milky secretion.<br />
Dose repeated and Tuberculinum 10M. Inspite of<br />
the symptomatology cyst size reduced.<br />
Case 7: 48-year-old female with Fibrocystic<br />
Mastitis and left ovarian cyst. Sensation of lump in<br />
stomach, bloated abdomen and heart burn after<br />
meals.<br />
2 years ago, Hysterectomy. Chilly, pessimistic<br />
and anxious. Aversion to milk. Strong fear of<br />
Cancer.<br />
Sepia officinalis 30, two doses, 200 single<br />
dose, Oophorinum 7 daily one dose. Two months<br />
later, ovarian cyst decreased in size.<br />
Mammography – homogenous lump. Trifolium<br />
pratense 200. 5 months later, amelioration of pain<br />
and breast tension. No important problems.<br />
Case 8: GE 25-year-old female with three<br />
months of amenorrhoea, anovulatory periods,<br />
hirsutism, cystic breasts. Strong sensation of heat<br />
with perspiration, headache after emotional stress.<br />
Frequent urinary infections. Irregular menses<br />
without pain. Thin, sensitive, introverted, serious,<br />
dislikes sympathy. Likes salt, dislikes fat, seaside.<br />
Natrum muriaticum 30, two doses, 200, single dose<br />
at 12h interval. Folliculinum 30, 3 doses at 24h<br />
interval, then Progesterone 7, daily for 7 days.<br />
Trifolium pratense 200 after 7 weeks.<br />
Menstruated on the second day, with great<br />
amelioration of the heat sensation and headache.<br />
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54. Elaps in advanced pathology – a case study<br />
ROSENBAUM P.; WAISSE-PRIVEN S.I. and<br />
SCHUNEMANN C. (HOMEOPATHY, 93,<br />
1/2004)<br />
IPGA, female 70-years, operated for Rectal<br />
Adenocarcinoma with several post-surgical<br />
complications. MRI- Multiple Uterine fibroids,<br />
bilateral renal cysts - pleural densities at the base of<br />
right lung.<br />
Minimum syndrome of maximum value:<br />
- Dreams of falling, fear of falling, falling into a pit<br />
- Desire of oranges.<br />
- Dreams/fear of snakes<br />
- General – Food and Drinks: Oranges - aversion,<br />
Oranges – desire<br />
Elaps corallinus 31K, 1 drop daily. Gradually<br />
increased to 35 then 60, then 90%, all 1 drop daily.<br />
The patient was followed up for one year.<br />
- Subjective feeling of well-being<br />
- More active life<br />
- Amelioration of anticipation<br />
- Improvement of sleep pattern<br />
Referred to a dietician for dietary advice.<br />
55. Heart and Homœopathy<br />
CHANDRAN A.P. (HH. 28, 10/2003)<br />
The moment we get a small pain in the chest<br />
area we fear about some heart disease and become<br />
panicky. Illustrates a case of 73-year-old man<br />
cured with Nux vomica M. This was repeated twice<br />
because he took Aspirin. Patient remains well.<br />
56. The successful homœopathic treatment of<br />
HIV/AIDS<br />
CHAPPELL, Peter (HL. 16, 2/2003)<br />
The author discusses his experience with<br />
treating HIV/AIDS in Africa in 2002, with<br />
Homœopathy. This work, he says, became the<br />
biggest experience in his life. “I had little support,<br />
financial or otherwise, and enormous challenges to<br />
face seemingly daily. I had to work intimately in<br />
the consulting room under trying circumstances and<br />
to think globally all the time. I also had to rethink<br />
Homœopathy. It was also harrowing. I had to<br />
attend funerals and the desperately sick in hospitals.<br />
I had to refuse dying patients where there was no<br />
alternative to offer. I had to be very compassionate<br />
and highly reflective. I had no mentors within<br />
reach by phone or in person. …. I ran out of money<br />
twice, down to the wire, the last $100, and my<br />
friends rescued me ….. My first observation is that<br />
if you are deeply inspired you can move mountains.<br />
My next observation is that when you really need<br />
funds for something that’s radical, incredibly<br />
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uncertain, amazing in potential, yet unbelievable,<br />
and Homœopathy, you don’t get it except from<br />
your own bank account and that of friends.” The<br />
author prepared his own HIV/AIDS medicine, after<br />
long observation. The method is as follows:<br />
Select the disease process,<br />
Reduce it to its essential core process,<br />
Create a magnetic analogue a fractal similarity<br />
to the disease process.<br />
Potentise this. [This is Homœopathy?! = KSS]<br />
57. My son needs Consciousness – A case of<br />
ADHD.<br />
FONTAINE, Pierre (HL. 16, 2/2003)<br />
An 8-year-old boy with Attention Deficit<br />
Hypertensive Disorder (ADHD). History of ear<br />
infections. Can’t stay on tasks or follow directions.<br />
A loner; usually hot. Has a cracked lower lip.<br />
Absolute inability to focus any kind of attention.<br />
Dreamt that he was “on a boat, the whole family<br />
gets off the boat and I go home but my parents are<br />
not at home. I pound on the door but the door is<br />
locked. I watch T.V., when it is almost time to go<br />
to bed a T-rex crashed through the ceiling. A<br />
helicopter chases me trying to kill me with water.<br />
The T-rex swats the helicopter and saves me. We<br />
then go to sleep.” Likes meat and sour.<br />
The mother’s state during pregnancy and her<br />
dreams are enquired into.<br />
Using Jan SCHOLTEN’s thematics the remedy<br />
Natrum iodatum 30 is given. Improvement. To<br />
clear an intervening cough, sneezing, sore throat,<br />
Phytolacca 30 given. The Natrum iodatum 30 is<br />
repeated. Two year follow-up. The boy is well.<br />
58. A Ditsy girl<br />
FONTAINE, Pierre (HL. 16, 2/2003)<br />
25-year-old woman with anxieties for the past<br />
two years. They started at the beginning of a<br />
relationship. Playing with fingers a lot. Wanted<br />
something for the anxiety and depression. Her<br />
story revealed that she lived superficially and for all<br />
that glitters.<br />
Using Jan SCHOLTEN’s thematics, Natrum<br />
fluoratum M is administered.<br />
One-year follow-up during which time this<br />
remedy is repeated four times.<br />
59. I am untouchable<br />
MANGIALAVORI, Massimo (HL. 16,<br />
2/2003)<br />
A 20-year-old young cadet of the Military<br />
Academy of Modena who had severe injuries while<br />
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horse-riding and developed backache and many<br />
other pains. His case is taken in detail and<br />
repertorized on the symptoms chosen from the<br />
totality. Arnica XM, repeated, then 50M. Followup<br />
one year. Well.<br />
This is a very interesting case and teaches<br />
choice of the rubrics from the whole story.<br />
60. A Case of Diabetes Mellitus, Type-II<br />
HOLIDA, Robert (HH. 29, 3/2004)<br />
A 52-year-old male high school teacher<br />
presents with polydipsia and polyuria. Glonoine<br />
200 was prescribed for Blood Pressure which had<br />
come down from 160/110 to 140/90 an year ago.<br />
Glonoine was alternated with Crataegus D1. On<br />
the basis Diabetes being preceded and being<br />
concomitant dyspepsia Uranium nitricum 6c was<br />
given. It was alternated with Olea europea D1, 20<br />
drops t.d.s. One week later improvement in<br />
micturition and polydipsia. The glycosuria was still<br />
evident. Olea europea 50 drops t.d.s., p.c. One<br />
month later improvement was so great that he did<br />
not feel he had disease anymore.<br />
3 months later Uranium nitricum 6c b.d. and<br />
Olea europea D1 b.d. Then his B.P. was stable at<br />
125/80 mm Hg.<br />
During the first consultation he was taken off<br />
his favourite foods like cakes, all sweet foods, his<br />
favourite juice etc. On the last two visits he had<br />
taken some cakes and concentrated drinks a day<br />
before. After a month B.P. was normal. He is still<br />
on Uranium nitricum.<br />
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IV. REPERTORY<br />
1. Korrektur einer Rubrik in Synthetischen<br />
Repertorium (Correction of a Rubric in the<br />
Synthetic Repertory)<br />
HOLZAPFEL, Klaus (ZKH. 48, 1/2004)<br />
The Rubric “Speech affected” has been<br />
translated incorrectly into German and French and<br />
therefore classed as a pure “Mind” Rubric.<br />
Correction and reference to the Repertories<br />
Synthesis and Complete also are mentioned.<br />
2. Korrekturen in Kents Repertorium und in<br />
Bönninghausens Therapeutishcen<br />
Taschenbuch (TBG) (Corrections in KENT’s<br />
Repertory and BŒNNINGHAUSEN’s<br />
Therapeutic Pocket Book)<br />
SEIPEL, Jürgen (ZKH. 48, 1/2004)<br />
Some corrections in the German Editions of<br />
KÜNZLI and KELLER’s Kent Repertory are<br />
pointed out with reference to the ‘source’.<br />
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The revised Therapeutic Pocket Book – in<br />
German – edited by GYPSER in 2000 (second<br />
edition in 2002) also has error which is pointed out.<br />
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V. PHARMACOLOGY<br />
1. Drug Classifications<br />
FRYE, Joyce (AJHM. 97, 1/2004)<br />
The 7 criteriae for a drug to be included in The<br />
Homœopathic Pharmacopœia of the United<br />
States are given.<br />
Criteria: To be eligible for inclusion in the HPUS,<br />
the drug must meet criteria 1, 2, 3, and at least one<br />
of 4, 5, 6, or 6 as set forth below:<br />
1. The HPCUS has determined that the drug is<br />
safe and effective.<br />
2. The drug must be prepared according to the<br />
specifications of the General Pharmacy and relevant<br />
sections of the Homœopathic Pharmacopœia of the<br />
United States.<br />
3. The submitted documentation must be in an<br />
approved format as set forth in the relevant sections<br />
of the Homœopathic Pharmacopœia of the United<br />
States, and must include any date relevant to<br />
toxicity.<br />
4. The therapeutic use of a new and non-official<br />
homœopathic drug is established by a homœopathic<br />
drug proving and clinical verification acceptable to<br />
the HPCUS. During the period of clinical<br />
verification the drug will be accepted for<br />
provisional review and should be available on a<br />
monitored basis. Refer to the guideline for<br />
Homœopathic Drug Provings and the guideline for<br />
Clinical Verification for further information.<br />
5. The therapeutic use of the drug is established<br />
through published documentation that the substance<br />
was in use prior to 1962. This documentation must<br />
include the symptom picture, including subjective<br />
and any available objective symptoms. Such use<br />
and documentation may include but are not limited<br />
to the medical literature of the following<br />
homœopathic authors: S. HAHNEMANN, C.<br />
HERING, T.F. ALLEN, H.C. ALLEN, J.H.<br />
CLARKE and J.T. KENT.<br />
6. The therapeutic use of the drug is established<br />
by at least two adequately controlled double blind<br />
clinical studies using the drug as the single<br />
intervention; the study is to be accompanied by<br />
adequate statistical analysis and adequate<br />
description of the symptom picture acceptable to<br />
the HPCUS which includes the subjective<br />
symptoms and, where appropriate, the objective<br />
symptomatology.<br />
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7. The therapeutic use of the drug is established<br />
by a) data gathered from clinical experience<br />
encompassing the symptom picture, pre- and posttreatment,<br />
including subjective and any available<br />
objective symptoms or b) data documented in the<br />
medical literature (all sources of medical literature<br />
may be considered on a case by case basis)<br />
subjected to further verification (statistical and/or<br />
other forms of verification).<br />
2. Remedia Homöopathie<br />
MÜNTZ, Robert (ZKH. 48, 1/2004)<br />
Remedia does not only manufacture remedies<br />
according to the German Homœopathic<br />
Pharmacopaeia but also special preparations<br />
according to Organon 5 and 6. The procedures of<br />
manual trituration, shaking and impregnating are<br />
illustrated. Q-potencies according to<br />
HAHNEMANN are compared to LM-potencies and<br />
differences regarding methodology and effects are<br />
pointed out. Moreover, Remedia’s fluxion and<br />
Korsakoff-potentisation facilities are described in<br />
detail and a list of the available series of potencies<br />
is provided.<br />
3. Standardisation of Homœopathic Drug:<br />
“Plumbago zeylanica linn.”: Physico-<br />
Chemical Perspective<br />
SUBRAMANIAN P. (CCRH. 26, 1/2004)<br />
This describes the methodology of<br />
standardization of the drug Plumbago for preparing<br />
the mother tincture for further use of potentisation.<br />
4. Provings – Planning and Protocol<br />
NAGPAUL V.M. (CCRH. 26, 1/2004)<br />
This is a reprint from the British<br />
Homœopathic Journal, 1987.<br />
Much of the cautions and double-blind<br />
techniques recommended are the ‘drug’ testing<br />
methodologies adopted by the allopathic discipline.<br />
HAHNEMANN’s directions are relevant for<br />
Homœopathy.<br />
5. Search for potential Anticancer Agents<br />
Characterization of some Anticancer<br />
Homœopathic Medicines<br />
DEBNATH, Bikash, TARAFDAR P.K., JHA<br />
T. & DE A.U. (HH. 29, 3/2004)<br />
In an attempt to search potential anticancer<br />
agents in traditional medicines, some homœopathic<br />
medicines like Thuja occidentalis, Apis mellifica,<br />
Lycopodium clavatum and Hydrastis canadensis<br />
were investigated and characterized. It was found<br />
that there was a discrepancy between the<br />
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specifications reported in Homœopathic<br />
Pharmacopoeia of India and practical observations<br />
in the laboratory.<br />
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VI. VETERINARY<br />
1. Cottontail rabbit survives a dog mauling<br />
CASEY, Shirley J. (HT. 23, 3/2003)<br />
Two-week-old rabbits were examined shortly<br />
after an attack by a dog. Their breathing were<br />
extremely rapid and eyes wide open. While one<br />
was alert, other seemed less responsive. He was<br />
cool to touch and seemed in shock. Aconitum 1M<br />
in water and a drop in the rabbits’ mouths.<br />
Within 15 minutes, they were placed in small<br />
warm cage. To address the trauma Arnica 1M<br />
diluted in water and given to both. After one hour,<br />
the second rabbit died and the remaining one<br />
seemed stronger and more alert. He refused to<br />
drink. The mind rubrics considered were<br />
Anxiety, fear with; Eating, refuses; and startled<br />
easily. Ignatia 1M dissolved in water was given.<br />
An hour later, he seemed much calmer and<br />
willingly ate. Over the next several weeks, he<br />
improved and was let into the wild again.<br />
As the rabbit was separated from his litter, a<br />
grief component, seemed possible and so Ignatia<br />
was given.<br />
2. Teething pets<br />
LAMPE, Kristy (HT. 23, 4/2003)<br />
The most common signs of teething distress<br />
include tenderness or soreness of the gums, fussing<br />
or irritability, loss of appetite, fever and possibly<br />
diarrhoea.<br />
Usually occurs around 5-9 weeks of age and<br />
again about 7 months of age.<br />
Indications of Chamomilla, Calcarea<br />
carbonica, Calcarea phosphorica, Rheum and<br />
Silica are given.<br />
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VII. RESEARCH<br />
1. Homœopathy: Science on the Brink of<br />
Revolution<br />
SAXENA R.K.; UPADHYAY R.P. & GUPTA<br />
V.K.<br />
(CCRH. 26, 1/2004)<br />
The authors refer to several researches over the<br />
years beginning with W. BOYD’s to Louis REY’s<br />
in 2003, and express hope that “The present Laws”<br />
(of Homœopathy) “seeming contradictory to a<br />
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natural phenomenon, observed as Homœopathy,<br />
will come out one day to be only rough<br />
approximations of some larger truth.” [Would that<br />
be a ‘salvation’ for Homœopathy? Would it make a<br />
difference in Practice of Homœopathy? Why<br />
should keep looking for acceptance. None of the<br />
researches referred to – there are 22 ‘references’ –<br />
have been of any use in the day to day practice of a<br />
homœopath nor a wee bit to homœopathic<br />
principles, Materia Medica, Therapeutics, or<br />
Repertory. I am afraid that our ‘researches’ have<br />
been of no relevance to Homœopathy as<br />
such=KSS]<br />
2. An Observational Study of Patients Receiving<br />
Homœopathic Treatment<br />
WASSENHOVEN, Van and IVES G.<br />
(HOMEOPATHY, 93, 1/2004)<br />
There is increasing interest in data collection as<br />
a valid research method. Part of the impetus arises<br />
form the need to demonstrate to decision-makers<br />
the economic advantages and benefits to patients,<br />
rather than the more traditional research motive of<br />
demonstrating the validity of Homœopathy to<br />
skeptical scientists.<br />
Background: Observational studies have<br />
recently contributed useful information to the<br />
debate about the utility of homœopathic treatment<br />
in everyday practice.<br />
Aim: To gather data about routine<br />
homœopathic general practice.<br />
Setting: Eighty general medical practices in<br />
Belgium where physicians were members of the<br />
Unio Homœopathica Belgica.<br />
Methods: All patients and their physicians<br />
visiting the practices on a specified day completed<br />
a questionnaire.<br />
Results: A total of 782 patients presented with<br />
diseases of all major organ systems which were of<br />
sufficient severity to interfere with daily living in<br />
78% of cases. Compared to previous conventional<br />
treatment, patients reported that consultations were<br />
much longer but costed less. One or more<br />
conventional drug treatments were discontinued in<br />
over half (52%) of the patients: CNS (including<br />
psychotropic) drugs (21%), drugs for respiratory<br />
conditions (16%) and antibiotics (16%).<br />
Conventional drugs were prescribed to about a<br />
quarter of patients (27%), mostly antibiotics and<br />
cardiovascular medication. The antibiotics were<br />
almost exclusively (95%) used to treat respiratory<br />
infections. Prescription costs (including<br />
conventional medicines) were one-third of the<br />
general practice average. Patients’ satisfaction with<br />
their homœopathic treatment was very high (95%<br />
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fairly or very satisfied), and ratings of their<br />
previous treatment was much lower (20%). The<br />
great majority (89%) said that Homœopathy had<br />
improved their physical condition; 8.5% said that it<br />
had made no difference, 2.4% said that<br />
Homœopathy had worsened their condition.<br />
Physicians’ ratings of improvement were similar.<br />
Previous conventional treatment had improved 13%<br />
of patients, made no difference to 32%, and had<br />
worsened the condition of over half (55%). A<br />
similar pattern was seen for psychological<br />
symptoms.<br />
Conclusions: Patients were very satisfied with<br />
their homœopathic treatment, both they and their<br />
physicians recorded significant improvement.<br />
Costs of homœopathic treatment were significantly<br />
lower than conventional treatment, and many<br />
previously prescribed drugs were discontinued.<br />
3. Action of Causticum in inflammatory models<br />
NETO, de Araújo Prado J.; PERAZZO F.F.;<br />
CARDOSO L.G.V.; BONAMIN L.V. and<br />
CARVALHO, Tavares J.C.<br />
(HOMEOPATHY, 93, 1/2004)<br />
The anti-inflammatory effect of Causticum was<br />
evaluated using acute and chronic inflammatory<br />
models in vivo. The administration of concentrated<br />
Causticum solution into the hind paw of rats<br />
produced an inflammatory reaction with oedema<br />
formation within the first hour, showing that<br />
Causticum acts as an oedematogenic agent.<br />
Carrageenin induced rat paw oedema was<br />
significantly inhibited (P
176 patients suffering from discolored patches<br />
on oral mucous membrane were registered for<br />
treatment.<br />
Oral mucous swabs of all the patients suffering<br />
from lesions of oral mucosa were examined under<br />
microscope in 10% KOH wet mount and cultured<br />
for the presence of pathogenic fungus, if any, in<br />
Medical Mycology laboratory of GCCHR.<br />
For isolation of the pathogenic fungi, the<br />
clinical material was cultured sabouraud’s Dextrose<br />
Agar with Chloramphenicol and incubated at 37 +<br />
1ºC for (15) days. Cream colored, smooth and<br />
pasty colonies appeared after (4) days of incubation<br />
Lacto-phenol cotton blue wet mount showed yeast<br />
cells and pseudohyphae.<br />
On examining a drop of suspension of Candida<br />
albicans in normal human serum under microscope<br />
the germ tubes were seen as long tube like<br />
projections extending from yeast cells for<br />
Chlamydospore formation. The isolated strain<br />
grown on corn meal and rice starch agar showed the<br />
formation of large, highly retractile, thick – walled,<br />
terminal Chlamydospores. This phenomenon was<br />
seen in about 60% of the clinical isolates of<br />
Candida albicans.<br />
All cases of oral mucosal lesions (oral<br />
candidiasis) were repertorised.<br />
4 Cases are shown<br />
Recurrent Oral Candidiasis is common in HIV<br />
patients. The most important method of prevention<br />
of Oral Candidiasis is strengthening the immune<br />
system.<br />
Candidiasis is among the commonest<br />
conditions in HIV positive patients. It is often the<br />
first illness and signals that HIV disease is<br />
progressing.<br />
Preventing and treating Oral Candidiasis, like<br />
forms of the infection, is important not only<br />
because it decreases discomfort caused by the<br />
condition, but it also prevents further damage to the<br />
immune system.<br />
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VIII. GENERAL<br />
1. Land of the ‘free’?<br />
The Drug Industry, Homeland security, and<br />
Vaccine-related injury<br />
DOOLEY, Timothy R. (HT. 23, 4/2003)<br />
The parents of Autistic children contend that<br />
the mercury injected into their children through<br />
multiple vaccines far exceeded the levels allowed<br />
by the Environmental Protection Agency and<br />
caused damage in the children’s developing<br />
nervous systems resulting in Autism.<br />
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The December 16, 2002 edition of The New<br />
Republic headlined an article by Arnold S.<br />
RELMAN and Marcia ANGELL, which explains<br />
how the drug industry distorts medicine and<br />
politics; how through their economic clout they<br />
garner favorable government policies, manipulate<br />
FDA regulations and ‘guide’ medical research.<br />
And with the complicity of the medical profession,<br />
this same drug industry exercises considerable<br />
influence over both the professional associations<br />
and educational institutions.<br />
2. Patient-Practitioner-Remedy (PPR)<br />
entanglement Part 4. Towards classification<br />
and unification of the different entanglement<br />
models for Homœopathy.<br />
MILOGRAM L. M. (HOMEOPATHY, 93,<br />
1/2004)<br />
The possibility of classifying and unifying<br />
some of the recent entanglement models for<br />
Homœopathy is discussed. Unification involves<br />
combining the previous GHZ/WQT-based<br />
entanglement model, itself a fusion of Greenberger-<br />
Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) three-particle entanglement<br />
and generalised version of quantum theory, called<br />
Weak Quantum Theory (WQT), with Walach”s<br />
semiotic model involving double entanglement.<br />
The new combined model invokes a ‘geometry’ of<br />
Patient- Practitioner-Remedy (PPR) entanglement<br />
embedded in a therapeutic state space.<br />
3. A Tale of Three Brothers<br />
RESNICK, Vera (HL. 16, 2/2003)<br />
This section in the HL., is titled ‘Materia<br />
Ludicra’. Some medicines in the homœopathic<br />
Materia Medica are pictured as laughable persons,<br />
e.g. King Aurum, Queen Pulsatilla, Lady Hyos etc.<br />
[Five pages wasted; probably there were no<br />
worthwhile contributions available to fill<br />
pages!=KSS]<br />
4. The Euglycaemic Status and Infections – A<br />
step to real Immunity<br />
MÉNDEZ, Juan Manuel Martínez (HL. 16,<br />
2/2003)<br />
This very interesting article discusses the<br />
disease states caused by wrong foods, and lack of<br />
nutrition. The tragedy of a rich few in contrast to<br />
the majority who do not have daily food is pointed<br />
out. This is the real cause for low immunity. Also<br />
food additives, the various vaccinations are a major<br />
cause.<br />
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Prof. Antoine BECHAMP (1816-1908) made<br />
landmark contribution with microzymes which<br />
started a real understanding of the symbiotic<br />
relationship between so-called germs and<br />
organisms, in this case, human beings.<br />
BECHAMP’s work also meant that a nonpathological<br />
activity becomes a pathogenic<br />
changing of form, but not function, into bacterias<br />
and fungi’. This is opposed to the dogma of<br />
monomorphism of unchangeable micro-organisms<br />
by PASTEUR.<br />
The process of Polio and various trigger factors<br />
for this disease is discussed.<br />
Proper nutrition, the avoidance of excessive<br />
sugar and smooth food, carbonated drinks and the<br />
need for physical movement, the follows of<br />
vaccinations etc. are also briefly but well pointed<br />
out.<br />
The Polio vaccine comes in for severe<br />
criticism. It is also pointed out that iatrogenics<br />
could be considered as one of the real causes of the<br />
degeneration of the human race.<br />
Looking into our past, we can find the answers<br />
for a better present and future.<br />
‘The best vaccine against common infectious<br />
diseases is an adequate diet.’ (WHO).<br />
Finally a quote from HIPPOCRATES: “Foods<br />
must be in the condition in which they are found in<br />
nature, or at least in a condition as close as possible<br />
to that found in Nature.”<br />
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XI. BOOKS<br />
1. Signatures, Miasms, AIDS: Spiritual<br />
Aspects of Homœopathy by NORLAND, Misha<br />
(with ROBINSON, Claire). Published by<br />
Yondercott press. 25.00 USD 2003. Review by<br />
Jay YASGUR (SIM. XVII, 1/2004):<br />
“There are 4 parts to this well produced<br />
monograph: Signature, Miasm and the Eternal<br />
Philosophy, Signature and Miasm in Polycrest<br />
Remedies, AIDS and Developmental Model of<br />
Miasms…..”<br />
“The Signature cuts through a remedy’s many<br />
seemingly disconnected physical and mental<br />
symptoms to reveal the main themes and essence.<br />
Even if we don’t accept the concept, they make<br />
excellent mnemonics to help us remember the<br />
‘shape’ of a remedy….”<br />
“…Viewing a case through a miasmatic<br />
looking glass reveals the overall trend of<br />
pathology”.<br />
“….This book is not for everyone, especially<br />
the beginner, as his points are deep, requiring<br />
reflection and penetrating thought. It is a book to<br />
be dipped into again and again…” [Going long way<br />
© Centre For Excellence In Homœopathy<br />
with ‘Signatures’ will only go into more and more<br />
‘speculation’ contrary to HAHNEMANN’s<br />
teaching of depending on ‘facts’=KSS]<br />
2. Emotional Healing with Homœopathy:<br />
Treating the effect of Trauma by CHAPPELL,<br />
Peter. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA.<br />
2003. (Paper back 315 pages) $19.95. Review by<br />
Neil TESSLER. (SIM. XVII, 1/2004)<br />
“Emotional Healing with Homœopathy, though<br />
full of interesting snippets of Peter’s thoughts, is<br />
less a book for the professional and more a book of<br />
pop-Homœopathy. It is in the anecdotal tradition<br />
and has lots of those digestible remedy bits that<br />
invite a more casual approach to Homœopathy.<br />
The actual trauma information is interesting but full<br />
of arguable assertions presented as established<br />
facts. The Materia Medica and reportorial sections<br />
are developed in a number of different formats and<br />
offer many keynotes. In some remedies, reliability<br />
is a question.”<br />
3. Clinical Observations of Children’s<br />
Remedies by Farokh J. MASTER. Second<br />
revised edition. Lutra, The Netherlands, 2003<br />
(Hard back, 724 pages) Review by Neil<br />
TESSLER. (SIM. XVII, 1/2004)<br />
“…There is a very useful discussion of normal<br />
childhood developmental stages as well as the<br />
indicators of abnormalities in development. There<br />
is a system survey detailing points to observe on<br />
physical examination, along with remedy<br />
considerations.”<br />
“As usual these days, we are left at the mercy<br />
of the writer in terms of the reliability of his<br />
information.”<br />
“I appreciated his compilation on the milk<br />
remedies, particularly for the fact that such a<br />
collection has been lacking. Similarly, a pediatric<br />
text of depth and breadth has been long overdue<br />
and will likely prove to be of immense value to<br />
clinicians.”<br />
4. Getting at the Root: Treating the Deepest<br />
Source of Disease by Andrew LANGE, ND.<br />
North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, CA, 2002,<br />
Paperback, 137 pages $ 16.95. ISBN 1-55643-<br />
395-6. Review by Francis TREUHERZ (HT. 23,<br />
4/2004)<br />
“This is an EXTRAORDINARY BOOK,<br />
which I find impossible to classify. It is a creative<br />
intellectual tome, written from the heart with a<br />
personal approach. It is what homœopaths term<br />
philosophy, but it is also biography, history and<br />
Materia Medica.<br />
I really enjoyed this book, but I had to<br />
consume it slowly, like a rich fruitcake, to avoid<br />
indigestion of the brain. It is a book of theories: of<br />
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health and disease, of Vitalism and the immune<br />
systems. The language is complex but very<br />
rewarding once I grasped the style.<br />
The book is generously proportioned with<br />
luxuriously artistic font and some well-chosen<br />
black and white illustrations and portraits.<br />
LANGE guides the reader away from so-called<br />
“New Age” myths and back into true healing based<br />
on evidence that should be recognized as going<br />
beyond the anecdotal. This book could usefully be<br />
read by any reader of this journal, lay or<br />
professional.”<br />
5. Colors in Homœopathy by Ulrich WELTE.<br />
Narayana Verlag: Kandern, Germany. 68<br />
pages. 58. ISBN 3-921383-90-0. www.narayanaverlag.de)<br />
Review by Markus KUNTOSCH.<br />
(AJHM. 97, 1/2004)<br />
“… The idea to use color preference of a<br />
patient in Homœopathy was first detected by the<br />
German homœopath Dr.H.V. MÜLLER from<br />
Cologne (1921-2001). Through comparing the<br />
color preference of successfully treated cases he<br />
defined about 450 remedies and their corresponding<br />
colors in a sort of Color Repertory. The book<br />
contains the essence of eighteen years of working<br />
with the color preferences obtained from cured<br />
cases ….”<br />
“…. Every homœopath can benefit from this<br />
work, if he is open minded enough to try it patiently<br />
and without prejudice.”<br />
6. Classical Homœopathy by Michael<br />
CARLSTON. Churchill Livingstone. 2003. The<br />
Curtis Center, Independence Square West.<br />
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ISBN: 0-443-06565-<br />
9. $49.95. Review by Timothy FIOR. (AJHM. 97,<br />
1/2004)<br />
“…. The target audience for this book is<br />
students in the health professions, health care<br />
providers with little understanding of Homœopathy<br />
and academicians.”<br />
7. Sacred Plants, Human Voices by Nancy<br />
HERRICK. Hahnemann Clinic Publishing.<br />
Grass Valley, CA. 551 Pages; Paperback.<br />
$39.95. ISBN 0-9635368-3-4. Review by George<br />
GUESS. (AJHM. 97, 1/2004)<br />
“…. In her introduction, Ms. HERRICK, lays<br />
out precisely the methodology employed in these<br />
provings as well as her procedure to identify the<br />
themes she ascribes to these new remedies….”<br />
“…. It’s my impression that the rubrics<br />
selected or created based upon the provings are<br />
accurate and valuable additions to our repertory.<br />
Additionally, Ms. HERRICK, endeavored to keep<br />
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the creation of new rubrics to a minimum. For each<br />
remedy she also identifies a corresponding Miasm,<br />
but offers no explanation….”<br />
“…. Despite its few flaws, it provides the<br />
homœopathic community with quite a large volume<br />
of valuable information about interesting new and<br />
some existing homœopathic remedies……”<br />
8. Compendium of Human Diseases and their<br />
Cure by Homœopathic Treatment by Shaik<br />
RAHMATHULLAH. 24, Garquhar Road,<br />
London SW 19 8DA, UK Hardbound. 1532<br />
pages. £64.95/$119. 2003. Review by George<br />
GUESS. (AJHM. 97, 1/2004)<br />
“…The book is a testament to the author’s<br />
industry and scholarship. It is a well-referenced,<br />
attractive volume that can serve a useful, though<br />
limited function for the homœopathic practitioner.<br />
It can afford the practitioner an immediate<br />
description of a remedy’s symptomatology as it<br />
pertains to a specific, isolated condition, although<br />
much of the information that makes a remedy<br />
recognizable is lacking”.<br />
9. Schlank und Suchtfrei durch Homöopathie<br />
Ursachenbehandlung für Körper, Geist und<br />
Seele. (Slim and addiction-free through<br />
Homœopathy. Treatment of the causes for<br />
Body, Mind and Soul) Peter RABA, 471 S. geb.,<br />
Andromeda-Verlag, Murnan, 2. Auflage 2002, Є<br />
75. (German) Review by Martin BÜNDNER<br />
(ZKH. 48, 1/2004)<br />
“…The author writes about the treatment of the<br />
fundamental problems of our society. Accordingly<br />
it is in chapters titled “Food”, “Fasting”,<br />
“Drinking”, “Smoking” as also the psychedelic and<br />
entheogene drugs and much other hallucinogenic<br />
effects. References are from KENT Repertory.<br />
The book has first class quality pictures, print<br />
and get up. The author’s writing is lyrical<br />
particular in a dry subject …. The book does not<br />
say anything new. In all it is an absorbingly and<br />
interestingly written book to read.”<br />
10. Hautkrankheiten homöopathisch behandelt<br />
(Skin diseases treated homœopathically) by<br />
Gabriele BENDAU, 135 S. geb., Sun-rise Verlag,<br />
Kirchzarten, verbesserte, New auflage 2003.<br />
Є105 (German) Review by Martin BÜNDNER<br />
(ZKH. 48, 1/2004):<br />
“… The book is adapted to very well impress<br />
in the mind the different characteristic skin<br />
conditions with its typical causative and healing<br />
remedies. An index is given remedy wise and<br />
catchword/keyword-wise… A very highly<br />
recommended book.<br />
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11. Warnings and Advices of J.T. KENT by<br />
S.K. RANA, pub. S.K. RANA, Amritsar Road,<br />
Facing Tehsil Office, Kapurthala (Pb). 121pp.<br />
Rs.200/- Review by Ajit KULKARNI (NJH. 5,<br />
4/2003):<br />
“… We now see Homœopathy blossoming in<br />
all dimensions ranging from intricate philosophy to<br />
complex practice. …a reader can tremendously<br />
benefit from the perusal of this book. The<br />
warnings, suggestions, brief teachings, some useful<br />
clinical tips, etc. amounting to 250 in number<br />
covering almost all aspects of homœopathic science<br />
and art under important headings. …. Full with<br />
suggestions, clinical guidelines and warnings, the<br />
book fulfills the need of every serious student of<br />
Homœopathy…”<br />
12. Tuesdays with Morrie – An old man, a<br />
young man and life’s greatest lesson by Mitch<br />
ALBOM, published by Doubleday Dell<br />
Publishing Group, inc. ISBN: 0-385-49649-4<br />
Review by D.E. MISTRY (CCR. 11, 1/2004):<br />
“This book is a deeply moving account of<br />
courage and wisdom shared by an inveterate<br />
teacher with one of his most favorite ex-student<br />
during the last year of his own life. …. Morrie was<br />
always more in touch with his insights than the rest<br />
of us … He was weary all the time, had trouble<br />
sleeping and dreamt that he was dying … Finally<br />
biopsy revealed he had ALS-amyotrophic lateral<br />
sclerosis, also called Lou Gehrig’s disease, a brutal,<br />
unforgiving illness of the neurological system.<br />
Morrie knew that there was no known cure and the<br />
rest of his life was quite short. Inspite of all these<br />
Morrie continued all his regular routine including<br />
his regular swims .. Morrie’s doctors gave him at<br />
best 2 years of his life. .. After the author left his<br />
graduation class he didn’t have any contact with his<br />
teacher, he took a degree in journalism and became<br />
a sports writer. His first encounter with death was<br />
when he saw his favorite uncle die of pancreatic<br />
Cancer at a very early age. To avoid facing this<br />
issue, Mitch buried himself in accomplishments<br />
thinking he would be in control of the things.<br />
Whatever Morrie had taught him in the class about<br />
“being human” and “relating to others” seemed to<br />
be so far in distance as from another life. .. Morrie<br />
passed away on a Saturday morning after being in<br />
Coma for two days. .. But when he passed away it<br />
was a time, where those whom he had loved, had<br />
just left the room for a moment and Morrie stopped<br />
breathing. Mitch believes Morrie died this way on<br />
purpose, with no witness to his last breath and that<br />
he wanted to go serenely and that is how he went.<br />
.. In the concluding chapters of his book Mitch<br />
rediscovered what his Professor had taught him…<br />
© Centre For Excellence In Homœopathy<br />
there is no such thing as “too late” in life. Morrie<br />
was changing all the time until the day he said<br />
goodbye. ………. This is a beautifully written<br />
book of great clarity and wisdom … It is a book of<br />
a deeply moving account of courage and wisdom,<br />
and an incredible treasure of an experience by a<br />
great teacher that provides us with profound<br />
wisdom and insight. ….”<br />
13. First Aid with Homœopathy, S.M.<br />
GUNAVANTE, B. Jain Publishers (P) Ltd.,<br />
ISBN 81-8056-159-5. Rs. 75/- Review by D.E.<br />
MISTRY (CCR. 11, 1/2004)<br />
“In a book of 122 pages Dr. GUNAVANTE<br />
has given a wonderful book on first aid especially<br />
directed towards a health worker working in a rural<br />
set up. … It is his contention that any village level<br />
health worker could be selected and trained for 2-3<br />
weeks in the use of this book in treating common<br />
ailments. This could lead to tremendous saving of<br />
cost to the Government, …. Having gone through<br />
this book very carefully, I feel its usefulness would<br />
be to all especially students preparing for their<br />
exams and also the busy practitioner who may need<br />
it as a ready reference in a day-to-day work….”<br />
14. Dynamic Materia Medica – Syphilis – A<br />
study of the Syphilitic Miasm through Remedies,<br />
by Jeremy Yaakov SHERR, Dynamis Books,<br />
Great Malvern, U.K. 2002, 280 pages ISBN: 1-<br />
901147-04-5. £26 or $45. Review by Francis<br />
TREUHERZ, U.K.:, also another Review by<br />
Andreas BJORNDAL, Norway (HL. 16, 2/2003):<br />
“Here is an exciting, challenging, essential and<br />
original book on one of the three traditional yet<br />
misunderstood Miasms. Take a look at your<br />
shelves … Ortega’s Notes on the Miasms<br />
translated from the Spanish by Harris COULTER<br />
… but few have ever finished it from cover to<br />
cover. We have grappled with HAHNEMANN’s<br />
‘Chronic Diseases’ in the 1896 Tafel translation<br />
and never seen the 1845 HEMPEL version, and we<br />
have been forced into studying dry Textbooks by<br />
ALLEN, KENT, CLOSE, ROBERTS or<br />
VITHOULKAS. ….. there has been nothing as<br />
deeply and firmly rooted in own history and in our<br />
classic methodologies as this. I was really absorbed<br />
while reading this book. ….. Another feature is<br />
clean artistic and symbolic diagrams. There are<br />
many more subtle and even hidden aspects, as<br />
subtle as our Materia Medica. .. Then there are<br />
Materia Medica chapters, relying on every<br />
homœopathic source imaginable from Provings<br />
through cases and toxicology, and always with blue<br />
pages and a dynamic summary. … Some of our<br />
Materia Medica books read like a railway<br />
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timetable; this one is a contribution to our literature.<br />
.. This is a work of maturity. JEREMY has<br />
transcended the more prosaic yet necessary<br />
methodology of Provings and the arduous work<br />
involved in creating published provings. He has<br />
begun a synthesis of the deeper possibilities of<br />
homœopathic healing. … this book will be the<br />
roots of the tree of life and knowledge.”<br />
Review by Andreas BJORNDAL: “.. within<br />
few minutes, I found myself reading the book from<br />
the first page. …. I enjoyed it. .. If somebody was<br />
not calling me back to this world I might have read<br />
the whole book that night. .. This is a ‘Proving’ or<br />
a voyage through the syphilitic Miasm. ….<br />
JEREMY writes about his way of perceiving the<br />
dynamic aspects of remedies. He parallels the<br />
static noun and the dynamic verb with the process<br />
of understanding the remedy on a more dynamic<br />
level. …. The last chapter, the conclusion,<br />
synthesizes all the information into the essentials of<br />
Syphilis. The two appendixes cover the syphilitic<br />
disease and a detailed bibliography. … This book is<br />
not just another Materia Medica but an example of<br />
Aude Sapere. …”<br />
15. Theory of Suppression, Prafull<br />
VIJAYAKAR. 143 pp. Theory of ACUTES, 160<br />
PP. Review by Alexander KOTOK, Russia (HL.<br />
16, 2/2003):<br />
“It has always been both a great pleasure and a<br />
rare success to write reviews on the books that are<br />
supposed to be no more and no less than a<br />
breakthrough in our understanding of homœopathic<br />
theory. … The author introduces the reader into his<br />
well-based theory of how diseases ‘behave’ in the<br />
human organism in their natural course, and<br />
consequently, how they should ‘behave’ under the<br />
right homœopathic treatment. …… I believe that<br />
the new theory proposed by Dr. VIJAYAKAR may<br />
be well added to the armory of all classical<br />
homœopaths who wish more clarity and more<br />
success in their practice. ….. The second book by<br />
the same author, “Theory of Acutes’ can also be<br />
considered as a beautiful assistant to the<br />
homœopathic practitioner but in another way. ….<br />
In fact Dr. VIJAYAKAR proposes here nothing<br />
revolutionary but tries to reflect his huge<br />
experience with thousands of acute patients seen<br />
through his practice and thus introduce more order<br />
and simplicity in managing acute cases. He<br />
suggests that three main peculiarities of every acute<br />
patient have to be taken into consideration in order<br />
to base the treatment upon them: activity (decreased<br />
or increased), thermal (hot or chilly) and thirst<br />
(thirsty or thirstless). …… The book also contains<br />
various especially helpful hints that are supposed to<br />
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warn homœopathic brethren from doing the wrong<br />
steps in managing acutes.”<br />
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XII. NEWS & NOTES<br />
I. Editorial: TESSLER, Neil. (SIM. XVII,<br />
1/2004) Paul HERSCU’s two volume Provings is a<br />
thorough and systematic presentation. The<br />
Anthology of essays on Provings comprises parts of<br />
first volume and the majority of the second. He<br />
goes on to discuss problems and requirements for<br />
effective Provings. Highlights include the errors<br />
that can arise from heightened introspection, the<br />
importance of first establishing a baseline of the<br />
individual prover’s symptoms, the need to identify<br />
the provers who are truly sensitive to the remedy,<br />
the dangers of including symptoms from provers<br />
who do not really show much overall sensitivity.<br />
HERSCU points out that each symptom must<br />
be understood fully by the homœopath supervising<br />
the prover. In fact, this should be a case taking<br />
process. Just as we delve deeply to understand the<br />
expressions of the clinical patient, so it should be in<br />
a proving.<br />
…… Dr.HERSCU is very critical of modern<br />
Doctrine of Signature proponents. He states that<br />
reference to Doctrine of Signatures “is a refutation<br />
and a rejection of the Sprit of Homœopathy”.<br />
Quoting 2 nd Aphorism, the Editor writes that<br />
the perception of the “shortest” may vary, the<br />
understanding of “whole extent” may vary, the<br />
level at which practitioners are working varies, so it<br />
is sure that our criteria for evaluating cure also<br />
varies. Symptoms, analysis and results can exist at<br />
differing levels of depth and value.<br />
In defence of Provings with too many<br />
mental/emotional symptoms, Editor quotes<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN’s “Characteristic Value of<br />
Symptoms” (Lesser Writings p.107). “As a matter<br />
of course, the personality, the individuality of the<br />
patient, must stand at the head of the image of the<br />
disease, for the natural disposition rest on it… we<br />
have all the more cause to fathom these states with<br />
all possible exactness, as in them frequently the<br />
bodily ailments recede to the background, and for<br />
this very reason offer but few point for our<br />
grasp…” “…Every man presents an individual<br />
nature different from every other one, and …every<br />
medicine must be exactly adapted to this<br />
individuality, in agreement with the symptoms,<br />
which it able to produce in the total man ...A great<br />
many medicines are thrust aside, just because they<br />
do not correspond to the personality of the patient”.<br />
II. BŒNNINGHAUSEN’s inductive method.<br />
Interview with Karl ROBINSON by Neil<br />
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TESSLER. (SIM. XVII, 1/2004) Karl ROBINSON<br />
expresses his concern about the current trend in<br />
giving importance to mental/emotional symptoms.<br />
The rubrics of Mind overlap each other. Primal<br />
emotional states such as anger, fear, grief each lies<br />
on a continuum, makes the task of fathoming the<br />
‘State’ of the patient complicated. In the<br />
determination of this, the prejudice of the<br />
homœopath plays a greater role.<br />
He is of the opinion that more than one<br />
medicine can be effective in any given case. i.e.<br />
Few use unusual remedies and others use mostly<br />
Polycrests, as different homœopaths use different<br />
criteriae as they evaluate their patient’s outcome.<br />
He is using The BÖNNINGHAUSEN<br />
Repertory (TBR) with great success.<br />
He comments about the very high percentages<br />
of mental and emotional symptoms in the Provings<br />
of the last 15 years.<br />
Mental and emotional symptoms can provide a<br />
clue to the remedy when chosen judiciously.<br />
III. From the president. Shadow remedies and<br />
hero remedies. ROWE, Todd (HT. 23, 3/2003).<br />
Often a prejudice influences a practitioner so subtly<br />
that they may not even be aware of it. Carl JUNG<br />
describes that our ‘shadow’ aspects are those that<br />
we strongly dislike and do not see, but see these<br />
qualities that we don’t like in others. Through<br />
careful self-observation, it is possible to reduce<br />
errors of judgement and prejudice.<br />
IV. Council for Homœopathic Certification<br />
(CHC) revises exam. CROCE, Ann Jerome (HT.<br />
23, 3/2003) The CHC process reflects an<br />
appropriately high standard in knowledge, skills<br />
and ethical behavior. Candidates for certification<br />
submit their own cases, take an objective exam and<br />
an essay exam and have a personal interview.<br />
V. New project to train health professionals in<br />
Homœopathy. (HT. 23, 3/2003) Members of the<br />
American Institute of Homœopathy (AIH), the<br />
nation’s oldest medical organization, have put into<br />
a motion a project to train licensed health care<br />
professionals in Primary Care Homœopathy (PCH).<br />
So far, two 30-hour certification courses have<br />
been held.<br />
VI. Effectiveness of Smallpox vaccine<br />
questioned (HT. 23, 3/2003) Citing Todd<br />
HOOVER’s article on Smallpox in January 2003<br />
issue, Randall NEUSTAEDTER opines that the<br />
effectiveness of Smallpox vaccination has never<br />
been proven. There is abundant evidence that<br />
vaccination does not prevent Smallpox.<br />
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To this Todd HOOVER replies: Studies<br />
suggest that Vaccination given earlier after<br />
exposure and revaccination have the greatest effect<br />
in decreasing the likelihood of contracting<br />
Smallpox.<br />
He agrees to the point that overall effect of<br />
Smallpox vaccine is of limited duration.<br />
VII. Homœopathic clinic in Sarajevo needs<br />
support. BENNETT, Margaret. (HT. 23, 3/2003) 5<br />
years ago, the London International School for<br />
Classical Homœopathy conducted homœopathic<br />
training in Sarajevo, for the people affected by the<br />
war. Funds are lacking for the clinic. Donations<br />
are sought, payable to Julian JONAS, with memo<br />
of “Sarajevo clinic” and sent to: Saxton’s River<br />
Natural Health Care, POB 515, 26 Main Street<br />
Saxton’s River, VT 05156.<br />
VIII. A homœopathic practice laboratory.<br />
SACHETTI, Dor. (HT. 23, 4/2003). William<br />
SHEVIN is a director of Homœopathic<br />
Pharmacopœia Convention of the U.S. He<br />
conducts seminar with the aim to help practitioners<br />
move toward more effective prescribing. He<br />
stresses the importance of recognizing the mistakes<br />
and understand the case, when the prescription was<br />
in error. Philosophy and repertorization are not<br />
taught but rather applied during the practice work<br />
on cases.<br />
IX. The Zeitschrift für klassische Homöopathie<br />
(German) has opened a new series of articles on<br />
Pharmacology/Pharmaceutical subject.<br />
Manufacturers of homœopathic remedies will<br />
furnish all information about their sources,<br />
methodology of preparation of different potencies,<br />
hand made potencies availability, etc. There will<br />
be thus transparency in the manufacture of<br />
homœopathic pharmaceutical products. (ZKH. 48,<br />
1/2004)<br />
X. Of late there has been great resurgence in<br />
the works of von BŒNNINGHAUSEN. In 2000<br />
Dr. K-H. GYPSER edited a thoroughly revised<br />
version of the Therapeutic Pocket Book (PB).<br />
Various sources available in certain Archives like<br />
the Robert Bosch Institute for History of Medicine,<br />
have been carefully gone through for this<br />
publication. For colleagues who study the PB<br />
carefully and discuss amongst themselves a<br />
consistent Nomenclature of the different editions<br />
has been proposed.<br />
In so far as the English language version is<br />
concerned these are:<br />
1. ‘Anonymous’ Publication in 1846 (Münster:<br />
Coppenrath) TPi<br />
2. Publication Hempel of 1847 (New York: Radde<br />
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& London: Bailliere) TPH<br />
3. Publication Okie of 1847 (Boston: Clapp.) TPO<br />
4. Publication Laurie of 1847 (London: Leath)<br />
TPL<br />
5. Publication Allen of 1891 (Philadelphia:<br />
Hahnemann Publ.) TPA<br />
6. The Bœnninghausen Repertoy - Therapeutic<br />
Pocket Book Me thou by Dimitriadis, 2000<br />
(Sydney: Hahnemann Institute) TBR<br />
(ZKH. 48, 1/2004)<br />
XI. The ZKH has brought out ‘Special Edition’<br />
– a supplement to – of their journal – ZKH. 48,<br />
S-1/2004. This special edition introduces a<br />
selection of important and interesting homœopathic<br />
webpages. Pages from the German speaking<br />
countries have been investigated in more detail and<br />
structured into several parts (e.g. Institutions,<br />
Education, Research, Free and Commercial<br />
information, Manufacturers, Hospitals). Some<br />
important and/or interesting International sites in<br />
English are also portrayed.<br />
We have 65 pages covering all these and we<br />
have before us such a treasure of information – a<br />
comprehensive Library.<br />
XII. Penta-C Agnosis: Fivefold Blindness in<br />
Clinicians: Manu KOTHARI and Lopa MEHTA<br />
(NJH. 5, 3/2003) say that “akin to the six blind men<br />
of Hindusthan we are clinicians grouping with<br />
unrecognized handicaps in five major areas of the<br />
day to day grind of medical practice, be it<br />
Homœopathy, Allopathy or any other pathy.” The<br />
five ‘C’s are the Concept (definition of the disease),<br />
Cause of the Disease, Course of it, Cure for it and<br />
the Complications of the disease as well as the<br />
therapy. Our continuing ignorance in these five<br />
areas has been abbreviated by us as Penta-C-<br />
Agnosis. The ignorance is more of the so-called<br />
‘killer diseases’. How many of us know of the fact<br />
that the magical figure of 120/80 as the ideal BP<br />
has been foisted on medical world and hence on<br />
mankind by American Insurance Companies with<br />
the sole idea of reaping huge profits? Sir George<br />
PICKERING, a leading British Authority on BP<br />
cried hoarse all his life that nobody has defined<br />
until today, normality of BP. CAD, Cancer, CVD<br />
have not been defined as yet and so are Diabetes<br />
Mellitus or Arthritis. This should teach humility.<br />
XIII. In the Question & Answer Section of<br />
NJH. 5, 3/2003, a reader asks “What do you mean<br />
by Polka Dot? What is its clinical significance?”<br />
and Dr. Kasim CHIMTHANAWALA answers<br />
“Polka Dot is an erythematous papule, usually<br />
single, without any itching or burning on the chest<br />
or abdomen. According to Dr. J.H. ALLEN it is “a<br />
© Centre For Excellence In Homœopathy<br />
surest sign of malignancy.” Even Dr. FOUBISTER<br />
has referred this peculiar clinical expression in the<br />
Chapter to Carcinosin.”<br />
XIV. VIJAYAKAR Seminar: August 2003,<br />
Mumbai. Treating Incurable Cases with<br />
Homœopathy: The Seminar was attended by 1000<br />
students and homœopaths.<br />
First day focussed on importance of Miasms.<br />
Illustrated with audio-visual case presentations,<br />
VIJAYAKAR says that Miasm is the defense an<br />
individual adopts in a particular illness. There are<br />
only three Miasms – Psora, Sycosis, Syphilis.<br />
Psora is manifested as Irritability, Sensitivity,<br />
Anxiety at the mental level and as inflammatory<br />
process at physical.<br />
Sycosis: Sycosis excess, Sycosis shallow.<br />
Excess: Extravagance, display, facade,<br />
haughtiness at the mental level and induration,<br />
accumulation, hyper pigmentation at physical level.<br />
Sycosis shallow: Timid, bashful and<br />
unintelligent at mental level and hypo functioning,<br />
hypo pigmentation at physical level.<br />
Syphilic Miasm: “Out of control” – emotions<br />
out of control. Distorted, perverted and ugly. All<br />
destructive processes. Two types of Syphilitic<br />
Miasm – Apolysis, Necrosis<br />
The first one auto-immune diseases; anxiety of<br />
conscience, as if guilty of crime. The latter one<br />
destruction of a particular part. Violent towards<br />
others.<br />
Cancer belongs to syphilitic Miasm where<br />
there is no control over cell division and growth.<br />
Even so-called incurable diseases when treated<br />
with Homœopathy show (a) HERING’s Law or (b)<br />
Compensatory cure, that is Cancer goes away and<br />
Diabetes comes.<br />
Reasons for failure: not finding the right<br />
simillimum, not understanding HERING’s Law.<br />
Eleven cases are narrated. Very educative and<br />
interesting. (NJH. 5, 4/2003)<br />
XV. Mandragora. COHN P. 20-year-old had<br />
worked in a humanitarian mission in a Sub-saharan<br />
Africa, where she had encountered a lot of poverty<br />
and death. Nightmares of murders.<br />
Mandragora 30 cured. (L’ Homeopathie<br />
Europeenne 2003; in HOMEOPATHY, 93,<br />
1/2004)<br />
XVI. Rajan SANKARAN on the Umbelliferae<br />
and Compositae families: a review by<br />
BURLEY V. Ms. BURLEY, who writes a<br />
Homœopathy column for The Daily Mirror and is<br />
a registered member of the Society of<br />
Homœopaths (SOH), reviews a Seminar given by<br />
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SANKARAN. This seminar presented his<br />
philosophy and latest insights – that of ‘sensation’ –<br />
which links the remedies within a particular plant<br />
family. Previously he had concentrated on delusion<br />
as a focal point.<br />
‘Consider the Loganiaceae family, where the<br />
main sensation is shock. The way in which this<br />
shock is perceived and experienced will determine<br />
which member of the family is indicated. Nux<br />
vomica perceives the shock as something that must<br />
be recovered from as quickly as possible (hence<br />
symptoms such as ‘Anger from interruption’). This<br />
attitude represents the Typhoid Miasm. So we find<br />
that Nux vomica is the typhoid remedy of the<br />
Loganiaceae. Gelsemium, on the other hand,<br />
perceives shock as something that must be avoided,<br />
so we have symptoms such as ‘Ailments from<br />
anticipation’. In this case, the qualities of<br />
avoidance and acceptance belong to the Sycotic<br />
Miasm. Whereas Ignatia perceives shock as<br />
something that must be controlled – a reaction<br />
typical of the Cancer Miasm. This is an example of<br />
how the various plant families can be differentiated<br />
according to the quality of sensation (level 5),<br />
rather than according to their delusion.’<br />
Four cases are presented and Case 3 is<br />
summarized as follows:<br />
‘She talked repeatedly of accident and injury,<br />
which suggests the Compositae family. The<br />
sensation for the family is of being injured, hurt or<br />
insulted, with a fear of being touched, hurt or<br />
approached. The remedy of the acute Miasm in the<br />
Compositae family is Arnica. Her experience was<br />
at level 4 (delusion), so the potency given was 1M.’<br />
A fascinating article which provides insight<br />
into a great homœopath’s mind. See also ‘The<br />
Depth of HOMŒOPATHY’. (R. SANKARAN,<br />
Homoeopathic Links, 16:3, pp 165-167) in which<br />
SANKARAN explains his thought. (The<br />
Homeopath 2003; in HOMEOPATHY, 93,<br />
1/2004)<br />
XVII. Zirconium sulphuricum: a case by ALEX<br />
P. The author, who has recently been working in<br />
Torgau in the very building in which<br />
HAHNEMANN lived and worked from 1805 to<br />
1811, presents a case handled by a synthetic<br />
remedy based on SCHOLTEN’s work.<br />
This article is noteworthy because the patient is<br />
profusely quoted and because of ALEX’s thoughts<br />
on the chosen remedy, Zirconium sulphur. This<br />
remedy is presented in Homœopathy and the<br />
Elements (SCHOLTEN) but only as a short Dream<br />
Proving. ALEX nicely justifies his thought and<br />
remedy selection. (The Homeopath 2003; in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 1/2004)<br />
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XVIII. Bluebell: a proving DEEKS S. The<br />
British homeopath presents a proving of Agraphis<br />
nutans 30 and 200 (Bluebell) on eight volunteers.<br />
Though certainly incomplete the Proving: ‘….<br />
Seemed to bring out images of sadness and grief,<br />
along with a strong sense of fear and foreboding.<br />
There was also an identification of trust as an<br />
important theme in Agraphis nutans. In terms of<br />
opposition or polarity, we can see a tension<br />
between fear and trust; also between agitation and a<br />
sense of calmness.’ ‘The general state of the<br />
remedy is indicated by a desire to withdraw, and to<br />
hide (Cooper’s amelioration from shelter). There is<br />
a dislike of consolation or attention.’ (The<br />
Homeopath 2003; in HOMEOPATHY 93, 1/2004)<br />
XIX. Homœopathy and the quantum world –<br />
why bother? MILGROM L. Some will argue<br />
‘Why Bother?’, but the author shows us why he<br />
does by creating associations between<br />
Homœopathy and quantum models. He discusses<br />
the memory of water linking it to cellular memory.<br />
He helps in understanding the concept of nonlocality;<br />
‘….everything in the universe is<br />
inextricably and instantaneously linked to<br />
everything else in a vast matter-energy network that<br />
transcends ordinary notions of space and time. This<br />
fundamentally new view of the world is called<br />
‘entanglement’ or, more simply, ‘non-locality’.’<br />
He talks of ‘complementarity’, mathematical<br />
operations, weak quantum theory and suggests a<br />
number of quantum metaphors for homeopathy:<br />
‘By replacing the two entangled particles with the<br />
patient and practitioner, the ‘handshake’ between<br />
them results in the remedy. Through this metaphor,<br />
I was able to develop quantum-theroretical<br />
interpretations of such homœopathic phenomena as<br />
aggravation (as incomplete entanglement), the<br />
treatment of animals (as being ‘entangled’ with<br />
their owners), and a concept of Miasms as<br />
atemporal entities initiating and affecting dis-ease<br />
processes in time. Thus, the concept of treating<br />
Miasms could involve the strange notion of healing<br />
in the past and the future, as well as in the present.’<br />
Several of the 22 reference citings are<br />
noteworthy, eg The Interpretation of Nature and<br />
the Psyche (Jung and Pauli), The Non-Local<br />
Universe: The New Physics and Matters of the<br />
Mind (1999, Nadeau and Kafatos), and The<br />
Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos<br />
(1994, Waldrop). (The Homeopath 2003; in<br />
HOMEOPATHY 93, 1/2004)<br />
XX. The Fluorine Civilisation DAMONTE J.<br />
This short treat is reprinted from a 1979 issue of<br />
The Homeopath in which the influential British<br />
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lay practitioner and teacher notes the theme of<br />
Fluorine to be one of instability and representative<br />
of the times. ‘This pathology, which is really only<br />
the modern extension of the syphilitic Miasm,<br />
especially deserves the name of Fluorism …’ He<br />
covers the keynotes and constitution of Fluorine as<br />
well as the salient points of the Syphilitic Miasm.<br />
‘Owing to aggravations of all kinds – vaccinations,<br />
medicaments, operations, food and atmosphere –<br />
there is a rapid transformation to a Sycosis which is<br />
very often different from the well-known carbonic<br />
Sycosis of Natrum sulphuricum and Thuja. The<br />
latter is a dry, thin, nervous Sycosis which is<br />
difficult to detect and to treat, and which generally<br />
justifies Silica and Causticum.’<br />
There are many delightful quotes leaving the<br />
reader with much to chew on. (The Homeopath<br />
2003; in HOMEOPATHY, 93, 1/2004).<br />
XXI. Alternative vaccine methods<br />
NEUSTAEDTER R. This article is extracted from<br />
the author’s book The Vaccine Guide: Risks and<br />
Benefits for Adults and Children (2002). In four<br />
brief pages much information is presented<br />
including: Belladonna as a Scarlet fever<br />
preventative, prevention during epidemics, longterm<br />
prevention, the Schick test, GRIMMER’s<br />
protocol for Polio prevention, PATERSON and<br />
BOYD, etc. ‘Unlike conventional vaccines, the<br />
homœopathic alternative does not rely on antibody<br />
formation.’ He postulates that ‘Homœopathic<br />
remedies reduce the patient’s sensitivity to the<br />
dynamic stimulus of the virus or bacteria, thus<br />
lessening the patient’s predisposition to being<br />
overcome by this stimulus.’ (Golden, 1998)<br />
It is quite interesting reading but citations are<br />
not referenced nor explained as footnotes. This is<br />
not helpful to the reader and references should, of<br />
course, be included even though this is a direct<br />
excerpt from the book. Nevertheless, this article<br />
contains fascinating information and should help to<br />
increase sales of NEUSTAEDTER’s important<br />
work. (The Homeopath 2003; 90: in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 1/2004).<br />
XXII. A Correspondant, BARBARA, from<br />
Sarajevo in Bosnia writes (HL. 16, 2/2003) about<br />
the state of Homœopathy in that country. She has<br />
been in projects for children and adults.<br />
Homœopathy was introduced in Bosnia only four<br />
years (report dt. 2002-2003) ago by Colleges of<br />
Homœopathy in Britain and Netherlands. There is<br />
a Sarajevan Homœopathic Society, which is<br />
working to place homœopaths into law. Most<br />
Bosnians do not have money for homœopathic<br />
treatment. Dina Manko, is one of the seven full<br />
time practicing homœopaths in Bosnia. This is<br />
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seven out of forty who were trained in Bosnia.<br />
Nearly 60% of her patients Dina treats free. There<br />
is severe shortage of funds. She works with people<br />
who suffer in greater or lesser degree the<br />
consequences of the war. Contributions for helping<br />
Dina are urgently called for.<br />
XXIII. Another correspondant from Zagreb in<br />
Croatia writes (HL. 16, 2/2003) giving a brief<br />
history of Homœopathy in Croatia. The most well<br />
known homœopaths of Croatia are Lord Josip<br />
ZLATAROVIC (1807-1874), and Joseph<br />
ATTOMYR (1807-1856). ATTOMYR suffered<br />
from Consumption and he cured himself with<br />
Sepia. [“In this situation his good genius led him in<br />
reading the ‘Chronic Diseases’, to Sepia. It was<br />
especially symptom 717 which led him to select<br />
this especial remedy. He took one dose, and this<br />
gradually effected his cure. ….” Pioneers of<br />
Homœopathy, T.L. BRADFORD, Boericke &<br />
Tafel, 1897, =KSS]<br />
Today Croatia has more than a hundred<br />
qualified homœopaths who acquired their knowhow<br />
at many European and World Schools of<br />
Homœopathy. Approximately half of them are<br />
physicians.<br />
XXIV. Dr. Joel SHEPPERD, USA criticizes<br />
(HL. 16, 2/2003) the trend since nearly a decade to<br />
bring in ‘innovations’ in homœopathic therapeutics.<br />
These ‘innovations’ or ‘new trends’ include study<br />
of remedies according to their ‘signatures’, or<br />
‘periodic table’, weave themes. We also have been<br />
reading of ‘depth psychology’, ‘Jungian<br />
Archetypes’, ‘Kingdoms’ ‘Dream Provings’, ‘Paper<br />
remedies’, etc. We also read of ‘Core’ of the<br />
disease state ‘deep healing’, etc. None of these<br />
words could be found in the works of our Masters<br />
whose books alone have been our ‘sources’ and<br />
with which homœopaths have carried out great<br />
cures.<br />
Additions to the Repertories are many fold;<br />
most of the references for these are unavailable to<br />
the user of the Repertory for verification.<br />
Joel SHEPPERD therefore calls for ‘cessation’<br />
of all such activities in the name Homœopathy.<br />
The Editors have responded by recalling the<br />
‘slogan’ aude sapere which the neo-homœopaths<br />
claim to follow.<br />
XXV. Second dose to keep pox at bay. (The<br />
Hindu, Chennai, Thursday, August 12/2004).<br />
“In an ever-changing world of medical<br />
developments the micro-organisms seem to have<br />
the last laugh. Almost. There is mounting evidence<br />
that Vaccination against Chicken pox is no longer<br />
foolproof and that children and adults are still<br />
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vulnerable to fresh attacks. Many medical journals<br />
now reveal an ever-increasing trend in Chicken pox<br />
reinfection. A recent issue of the Journal of<br />
Infectious Diseases reports a whopping 25% of<br />
vaccinated children getting reinfected during the<br />
Chickenpox outbreak in Minnesota, U.S. in the fall<br />
of 2002. Another recent paper in the Journal of<br />
American Medical Association cites a study that<br />
showed that 15.1% of the vaccinated got reinfected.<br />
The effectiveness of Chicken pox vaccine is 56%.<br />
The journal Pediatrics clearly states that<br />
reinfections from varicella virus may occur more<br />
commonly than previously thought. A booster<br />
vaccination deserves additional consideration. The<br />
company (Biologicals Worldwide Medical, Glaxo<br />
Smithkline Biologicals, Belgium) is already on the<br />
job and come next year, it plans to launch the twodose<br />
schedule as a combination vaccine by<br />
combining it with the already prevailing MMR<br />
vaccine. Both doses will be given in the second<br />
year of life of the baby.” [After few years we may<br />
need three doses, later four like the Polio vaccines<br />
with its boosters, Pulse Polio drops etc. The virus<br />
sustains ultimately! = KSS]<br />
XXVI. Clinical case of Sulphuric acid GODET<br />
P. 35-year-old woman with diarrhoea for 23 years.<br />
Exhausted, wanted to work quickly and was always<br />
anxious, as if anticipating a disaster. Sulphuricum<br />
acidum was prescribed with success.<br />
Previous history of accidents, hurrying. (Les<br />
Echos du Centre Liegeois d’Homeopathie 2003;<br />
in HOMEOPATHY, 93, 1/2004)<br />
XXVII. Clinical case of Conium LOUVEAU F. A<br />
Young girl had recurrent urinary infections.<br />
Belonged to a family with lot of sexual secrets and<br />
indiscretions. Repertorization led to Conium,<br />
which cured this girl. (Les Echos du Centre<br />
Liegeois d’Homeopathie 2003; in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 1/2004)<br />
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LIST OF JOURNALS<br />
© Centre For Excellence In Homœopathy<br />
Full addresses of the Journals covered by this Quarterly<br />
Homœopathic Digest are given below:<br />
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1. AHZ: Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung, Karl F. Haug<br />
Verlag, Hüthig GmbH, im Weiher 10, 69121,<br />
HEIDELBERG, GERMANY.<br />
2. AJHM: American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine,<br />
formerly Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy<br />
(JAIH). 801 N. Fairfax Street, Suite 306 Alexandria, VA<br />
22314.<br />
3. CCR: Homoeopathic Clinical Case Recorder, Dr. Subhash<br />
Meher, Near Hotel Chanakya, Anandrishiji Marg,<br />
Burudgaon Road, AHMEDNAGAR-414001.<br />
4. CCRH: Central Council for Research in Homœopathy,<br />
JLN Bhartiya Chikitsa avum Homœopathic Anusandhan<br />
Bhawan, 61-65, Institutional Area, Opp. D-Block,<br />
Janakpuri, New Delhi – 110 058.<br />
5. THE HINDU: Newspaper, Chennai–600 002.<br />
6. HH: Homœopathic Heritage, B. Jain Publishers Overseas,<br />
1920, Street No.10, Chuna Mandi, Paharganj, Post Box<br />
5775, New Delhi - 110 055.<br />
7. HL: Homœopathic Links, Homœopathic Research &<br />
Charities, F/s, Saraswat Colony, Linking Road, Santacruz<br />
(W), Mumbai 400054.<br />
8. HOMEOPATHY: Formerly British Homeopathic Journal<br />
(BHJ), Homeopathy, Faculty of Homeopathy, 29 Park<br />
Street West, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU13BE, UK.<br />
9. HT: Homeopathy Today, National Center for<br />
Homeopathy, 801, North Fairfax Street, Suite 306,<br />
ALEXANDRIA, VA. 22314, USA.<br />
10. NAMAH: New Approches to Medicine and Health, Sri<br />
Aurobindo Society, PONDICHERRY – 605 001.<br />
11. NJH: National Journal of Homœopathy, 71B Saraswati<br />
Road, Near Gokul Icecream,, Santacruz (W), MUMBAI –<br />
400 054.<br />
12. RBH: Revue Belge D’Homœopathie, Avenue Cardinal<br />
Micara, 7, B-1160, Bruxelles, BELGIUM.<br />
13. S&C: Science and Culture, Indian Science News<br />
Association, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road,<br />
KOLKATA – 700 009.<br />
14. SIM: Simillimum, The Journal of the Homeopathic<br />
Academy of Naturopathic Physicians, P.O. Box 8341,<br />
Covington, WA 98042, USA.<br />
15. ZKH: Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie, Karl F.<br />
Haug Verlag, Hüthig GmbH, Im Weiher 10, D-69121<br />
HEIDELBERG, GERMANY.<br />
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PART II<br />
(This section contains abstracts/extracts from selected articles; even the entire article in some cases)<br />
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1. Non Inutilis Vixi<br />
(I have not lived in vain)<br />
BRADFORD, Thomas Lindsley<br />
The Torch of Homœopathy (Vol.VIII, No.3,<br />
July, 1966)<br />
[This article is republished in celebration of the 250 th<br />
Birthday of Samuel Hahnemann. Hail Hahnemann]<br />
Samuel Christian Frederick HAHNEMANN<br />
was born on the night of April 10, 1755, at<br />
Meissen, Saxony, the son of a porcelain painter. It<br />
is related that the father gave his son, when the<br />
latter was five years old, lessons in thinking,<br />
devoting a certain time each day to that instruction.<br />
The good father during these hours would advise<br />
the boy to prove all things and to hold fast to that<br />
which was good. Early in life he was placed in the<br />
village schools, and it was habit of his boyhood to<br />
wander over the beautiful hills of Meissen. He<br />
loved to study the plants and made a herbarium; he<br />
was fond of natural history. So apt was he that<br />
when twelve years old, the good master MULLER<br />
entrusted to him to teach the rudiments of Greek to<br />
the other pupils. About this time the frugal father<br />
wished to take him from school and, after the way<br />
of German fathers, set him to work, but Magister<br />
MULLER, the principal, entreated the father and<br />
offered to remit the tuition, upon which the bright,<br />
studious lad was allowed to remain at his books. At<br />
sixteen he entered the Meissen private school.<br />
Several times the father took his son from school<br />
only to be persuaded to allow him to return. Once<br />
he apprenticed him to a grocer at Leipsic, but the<br />
lad ran away and returned home, where his mother<br />
concealed him for several days until the father’s<br />
heart was softened. It is also related that the father<br />
objected to the waste of lighting fluid needed for<br />
midnight study, upon which the son fashioned a<br />
rude clay lamp and hid himself with his books at<br />
night in a retired nook in the rambling old Eckhouse<br />
where he lived.<br />
There was a wonderful native force within the<br />
boy impelling him to study, to store his mind with<br />
useful knowledge, and that despite paternal frowns<br />
and other difficulties. He had to learn – it was<br />
destiny – and the father at last began to realize that<br />
there was something in this country-bred lad of<br />
twenty years; this eccentric son, who already knew<br />
somewhat of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, History and<br />
Physics, and whom nothing in the way of<br />
opposition could deter from knowing; and that he<br />
ought no longer attempt to curb. And so when<br />
Samuel was twenty years old in 1775, and when the<br />
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Easter bells were ringing, HAHNEMANN, the<br />
student, received from his father about twenty<br />
dollars, with permission to journey, to Leipsic, the<br />
University town, and win his own manner.<br />
He began student life in Leipsic, by attending<br />
lectures during the day and devoting the nights to<br />
translations from the English into German, and he<br />
also taught German and French to a rich young<br />
Greek. A generous citizen of Meissen had<br />
presented him with free tickets to the medical<br />
lectures, but his literary occupations were such as to<br />
prevent him from attending them regularly; but he<br />
studied hard and saved his money that he might<br />
sooner go to the more advantageous schools of<br />
Vienna. Soon after he went to Leipsic, he was<br />
defrauded of his savings, and for nine months was<br />
obliged to live on a little more than sixty-eight<br />
florins, and then to seek a self-supporting position.<br />
But the way was provided in the person of Dr. Von<br />
QUARIN, who was physician to Maria Theresa and<br />
Emperor Joseph. He assisted this young Saxon<br />
scholar, who thus spoke of his benefactor many<br />
years afterwards: “He respected, loved and<br />
instructed me as if I had been the first of his pupils,<br />
and even more than this, and he did it all without<br />
expecting any compensation from me. To him I am<br />
indebted for my calling as a physician. I had his<br />
friendship and I may almost say his love, and I was<br />
the only one of my age whom he took with him to<br />
visit his private patients.”<br />
Von QUARIN secured for HAHNEMANN the<br />
position of private physician and librarian to the<br />
Baron von BRUCKENTHAL, who was Governor<br />
of Siebenburgen and lived in the city of<br />
Hermannstadt. For a year and nine months he<br />
remained in the delightful seclusion of von<br />
BRUCKENTHAL’s great library, filled with<br />
priceless books and manuscripts. He catalogued his<br />
collections of rare coins and also the books, and<br />
arranged them. And he studied them. He was<br />
always studying making ready for the future and<br />
that as yet he dreamed not of, and was impelled<br />
always by an unknown inward force to gain new<br />
and varied knowledge. When HAHNEMANN left<br />
Hermannstadt he was Master of Greek, Latin,<br />
English, Hebrew, Italian, Syriac, Arabic, Spanish,<br />
German, and had besides a little knowledge of<br />
Chaldaic. And then he was only twenty-four years<br />
of age.<br />
This is the man who has been called “that<br />
ignorant German fanatic.” He bade the good Baron<br />
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farewell in the Spring of 1779, and went to the<br />
University of Erlangen to take his degree as Doctor<br />
of Medicine, choosing Erlangen because the fees<br />
were less than at Vienna. At this place on August<br />
10, 1779, he successfully defended his thesis, and<br />
received his diploma. From the time of graduation<br />
in August until sometime in the year 1780, it is<br />
probable that HAHNEMANN travelled about in the<br />
towns of Lower Hungary. In the summer of 1780 a<br />
home longing overcame him and he returned to<br />
Saxony, at his home located in the little town of<br />
Hettstadt in a copper mining country, where he<br />
found little to do but study the mining. He<br />
remained there nine months, going thence in the<br />
spring-time of 1781 to Dessau, where he first<br />
turned his attention to Chemistry, of which he<br />
afterwards became one of the most able exponents<br />
and experimentalists of the time. Here also he<br />
gained much knowledge of practical mining and<br />
smelting, which he afterwards utilized in writing<br />
upon those subjects; and, as he so quaintly said: “I<br />
filled the dormer windows of my mind.”<br />
In Dessau HAHNEMANN met Johanna<br />
Henrietta Leopoldine KUCHLER, daughter of<br />
apothecary Kuchler, who became his life<br />
companion. They were married on December 1,<br />
1782. He was twenty-seven and she nineteen years<br />
old. He had a short time previous taken the post of<br />
parish doctor at Gommern, a small town not far<br />
from Magdeburg. They went there and he at once<br />
began regularly to practise his profession.<br />
HAHNEMANN said that there had previously been<br />
no physician at this place, and that the inhabitants<br />
had no desire for any such person. Here he<br />
remained two years and nine months. While there,<br />
he made some important translations and published<br />
his first original book “On the Treatment of Old<br />
Sores and Ulcers.” In this work he gave the results<br />
of his experience in Transylvania, and said that the<br />
patients probably would have done quite as well<br />
without him. And in writing of his treatment of a<br />
case of caries of the metatarsal bone he said: “I<br />
scraped the carious bone clean out and removed all<br />
the dead part, dressed it with alcohol and watched<br />
the result,” (not a bad method of treatment for the<br />
surgery of the present day, and that was in 1784).<br />
The matter of hygiene was mentioned in his book,<br />
although at that time it was very little understood.<br />
Even then the master was teaching in advance of<br />
his time.<br />
He now began, as he says, to taste the delights<br />
of home; he was contented; his books and his<br />
official position supported him; but the rude and<br />
barbarous medical methods of the day disturbed his<br />
logical and educated mind, which was trained to<br />
expect definite results; and he disliked to give<br />
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compounds whose effects on patient he was<br />
ignorant of. He could not accept the loose ways<br />
and methods of the existing medical schools. In the<br />
celebrated letter to HUFELAND, the Nestor of<br />
German Medicine, on the “Necessity of a<br />
Regeneration in Medicine”, published sometime<br />
afterward, HAHNEMANN fully explained his<br />
feelings at that period of his life, and his reasons for<br />
giving up the old practice of medicine hampered by<br />
dogmas of doubt. He resigned his position at<br />
Gommern in the autumn of 1784 and entirely gave<br />
up practice that (in his own words) “I might no<br />
longer incur the risk of doing injury, and I engaged<br />
exclusively in Chemistry and in literary<br />
occupations.” His mind was now reaching out<br />
toward his ideal. As he once said to HUFELAND,<br />
he could not understand a God who had not<br />
provided some certain method of contemplating<br />
diseases from their own aspect and of curing them<br />
with certainty. “But why has this method not been<br />
discovered during the twenty-five or thirty<br />
centuries in which men have called themselves<br />
physicians? Because it is too near us, and too easy;<br />
because to attain it there is no need of brilliant<br />
sophisms or seducing hypothesis.” Impelled by a<br />
something within him to seek, HAHNEMANN<br />
gave up the old practice of medicine and reduced<br />
himself and family to comparative poverty for<br />
conscience’s sake, and in the fulfillment of the<br />
immutable law in his nature that he was powerless<br />
to overcome. From Gommern he removed to<br />
brilliant Dresden, then the home of arts and<br />
sciences and devoted his time to translations and<br />
the study of Chemistry. He also studied medical<br />
jurisprudence with Dr. WAGNER, the town<br />
physician or Health Officer, who became his friend<br />
and gave him charge of the hospitals of the town<br />
for a year. At this time HAHNEMANN was well<br />
known in Germany as a scholarly translator of<br />
scientific books, and a daring and successful<br />
experimentalist in Chemistry. He was received<br />
with warm welcome by the distinguished scholars<br />
who resided in Dresden - ADELUNG, who had<br />
made a compilation in five volumes of the history<br />
of all known languages and dialects and who was<br />
perhaps the foremost philologist in the world;<br />
DASDORF, the librarian of the great Electoral<br />
library – himself a ripe scholar; BLUMENBACH,<br />
the naturalist; and LAVOSIER, the ill-fated<br />
chemist, a victim of the reign of terror. Such was<br />
the company HAHNEMANN enjoyed, scholar in<br />
scholarly atmosphere and in the companionship of<br />
men of wisdom. This life continued four pleasant<br />
years. Up to this time all the translations of<br />
scientific works and the original books he had<br />
written were of such a nature as to render more fit<br />
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for the great discoveries he was soon destined to<br />
make.<br />
In September, 1789, HAHNEMANN removed<br />
to Leipsic and continued his literary work. Before<br />
this it is probable that he had no idea that he was to<br />
be a medical reformer. There is nothing in his<br />
writings to indicate such a thought.<br />
He was simply a learned physician and<br />
chemist, too honest to bleed and purge and dose his<br />
fellow men and vaguely seeking in his own mind<br />
for some more reasonable and safe method of cure.<br />
Soon after his arrival at Leipsic and while he was<br />
translating from the English the Materia Medica of<br />
the great Scotch physician, William CULLEN, he<br />
was led by certain statements in the book to make<br />
some original experiments upon himself regarding<br />
the effects of Peruvian bark. As a result he added a<br />
footnote to the second volume of his translation in<br />
which he said: “I took by way of experiment, twice<br />
a day, four drachms of good China. My feet, finger<br />
tips, & c., at first became cold; I grew languid and<br />
drowsy; then my heart began to palpitate, and my<br />
pulse grew hard and small; intolerable anxiety,<br />
trembling (but without cold rigor), prostration<br />
throughout all my limbs; then pulsation in my head,<br />
redness of my cheeks, thirst, and in short all those<br />
symptoms which are ordinarily characteristic of<br />
Intermittent Fever, made their appearance, one after<br />
another, yet without the peculiar chilly rigor. This<br />
paroxysm lasted two or three hours each time, and<br />
recurred, if I repeated the dose, not otherwise. I<br />
discontinued it and was in good health”. This<br />
discovery led to experiment; analysis led to<br />
synthesis.<br />
HAHNEMANN passed six years in noting the<br />
effects of different drugs and poisons on healthy<br />
persons and in studying old volumes of recorded<br />
experiments in Materia Medica. His family was<br />
pressed into the service and friends also assisted<br />
him. Each was tried in various doses and in every<br />
possible variety of circumstance, that the real effect<br />
might be clearly understood. All the time he could<br />
spare from his translations was devoted to these<br />
provings and to chemical research.<br />
He then had several children and was so poor<br />
that the whole family lived in a single room, while<br />
the father pursued his work in one corner, separated<br />
from the others only by curtain. It was his custom<br />
to sit up every other night translating in order to<br />
gain more time for his experiments. In 1791<br />
poverty compelled him to go to the little village of<br />
Stötteritz, where he could live still more cheaply.<br />
While there he helped in the work of the house,<br />
wore the garments and the heavy wooden clogs of<br />
the poor German, and even kneaded the bread with<br />
his own hands - sickness befell his family. He had<br />
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lost faith in medicine. Of this period he writes:<br />
“Where shall I look for aid, sure aid?” sighed the<br />
disconsolate father on hearing the moaning of his<br />
dear, inexpressibly sick children. “The darkness of<br />
the night and the dreariness of the desert all around<br />
me; no prospect of relief for my oppressed paternal<br />
heart.” Yet always he had in mind the<br />
determination to continue his experiments, to<br />
elaborate the new law that he had begun to make<br />
practicable.<br />
Previous to this time HAHNEMANN had no<br />
opportunity of testing on the sick the result of the<br />
drug provings on the healthy but now it came. A<br />
certain influential man, Herr KLOCKENBRING,<br />
had by ridicule been rendered violently insane, and<br />
his wife, having heard of HAHNEMANN, was<br />
induced to request him to attend her husband.<br />
Through her influence the Duke of Gotha gave up<br />
to HAHNEMANN for the experiment, a wing in his<br />
old hunting castle at Georgenthal at the foot of the<br />
Thuringian mountains, nine miles from his own<br />
capital of Gotha. He caused it to be properly<br />
arranged for the reception of the maniac and his<br />
keepers. He was taken with the madness in the<br />
winter of the 1791-92. It probably was in the<br />
spring of 1792 that HAHNEMANN was first called<br />
to the case, and during that summer went to<br />
Georgenthal. It was a case of acute mania and<br />
KLOCKENBRING was very violent, requiring<br />
several keepers. HAHNEMANN says that for two<br />
weeks he watched him without giving him any<br />
medicine. It was the fashion then to treat insane<br />
person with great severity, chaining, beating and<br />
placing them in dark dungeons. HAHNEMANN<br />
did not approve of this and treated his distinguished<br />
patient with great gentleness. It has been claimed<br />
that HAHNEMANN was in advance of the<br />
celebrated scientist PINEL in this plan of treating<br />
the insane. It was during this same year of 1792<br />
that PINEL first unchained the maniacs in the<br />
hospital of Bicetre at Paris. In 1793<br />
KLOCKENBRING returned to Hanover<br />
completely cured.<br />
HAHNEMANN left Georgenthal in May 1793,<br />
going then to Molschleben, a small village near<br />
Gotha. From letters written at this time by him to a<br />
patient and what have been published, we are able<br />
to determine his whereabouts very correctly. He<br />
went from Molschleben to Pyrmont, and from there<br />
in 1796 to Wolfenbüttel, and thence to<br />
Konigslutter, where he remained until 1799, when<br />
he went to Hamburg. The life at Konigslutter is<br />
memorable because while living there he published,<br />
in 1796 in “The journal for Practising<br />
Physicians,” edited by his friend HUFELAND, and<br />
which was the most important medical journal of<br />
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that time, his celebrated essay on a “New Principle<br />
for Ascertaining the Curative powers of Drugs.”<br />
In this he gave to the world for the first time his<br />
principle – Similia Similibus Curentur, explaining<br />
how he had experimented and the result. It was<br />
only after six years of constant trial and study that<br />
he had shared his wonderful secret with the medical<br />
world.<br />
During the last year of the life at Konigslutter<br />
an epidemic of Scarlet fever occurred, and<br />
HAHNEMANN found his new found knowledge to<br />
the proof, and declared that Belladonna, in as much<br />
as it would produce a similar drug condition would<br />
cure Scarlet fever, - and it did; and because he first<br />
tested the cure on the sick and did not reveal its<br />
name until he was sure of its effect, his enemies<br />
even to the present day, have accused him of<br />
dealing in secret remedies and nostrums.<br />
But in prescribing with his own medicines for<br />
these patients he had offended against the Law, and<br />
the jealous apothecaries of Konigslutter hounded<br />
him forth to fresh wanderings. In the autumn of<br />
1799 he packed all his goods and his family into a<br />
large wagon, some sunshine, and started on the<br />
road to Hamburg. On the journey over a<br />
precipitous part of the way the wagon was<br />
overturned; the driver was thrown from the seat;<br />
HAHNEMANN himself was injured; a daughter’s<br />
leg was broken; an infant son ERNST was so hurt<br />
that he soon died, and his property was damaged by<br />
falling into a stream. At the nearest village of<br />
Muhlhausen he was obliged to remain six weeks at<br />
a considerable expense.<br />
He settled after this at Altona and did not go to<br />
Hamburg until 1800. It was in this year that<br />
FLEISCHER, the Leipsic publisher, gave to<br />
HAHNEMANN to translate an English book<br />
containing medical prescriptions. He translated the<br />
text into good German, but added an original<br />
preface in which he so ridiculed and satirized and<br />
belittled the compound prescriptions of the great<br />
lights of the English medical world that it put an<br />
end to his employment by that publisher. His only<br />
further translation was the Von HALLER Materia<br />
Medica from the Latin, which was published in<br />
1806. At this period he wrote several articles for<br />
Hufeland’s journal. In 1802 he went from<br />
Hamburg to Mollen in the Duchy Lauenburg, and<br />
from there journeyed to Eilenburg in beloved<br />
Saxony. He was not allowed to remain there<br />
however, as the Health Officer ordered him away.<br />
From thence he went to Machern, a village five<br />
miles from Leipsic, where poverty again distressed<br />
him. It is related that after toiling all day at<br />
translating (at the Haller Materia Medica) he often<br />
assisted his wife to wash the family clothing at<br />
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night, and as they could not purchase soap, they<br />
employed raw potatoes instead. The portion of<br />
bread allowed to each was small that he was<br />
accustomed to weigh it out in equal proportion.<br />
From Machern he went to Wittenburg, departing<br />
soon after for Dessau, where he lived for two years.<br />
HAHNEMANN left Hamburg about the<br />
beginning of 1802. He could not have remained<br />
long in one place. He was poor and persecuted,<br />
driven from town to town. He passed about two<br />
years at Dessau, and, according to a letter written<br />
by him, he was in June, 1805 domiciled at Torgau,<br />
where he remained until 1811, when he went to<br />
Leipsic. As his essays in the medical journals only<br />
brought him into condemnation he afterwards<br />
published his articles in the “General German<br />
Gazette of Literature and Science.”<br />
HAHNEMANN’s first collections of provings<br />
– ‘Fragmenta de Viribus’ was published in Latin<br />
while he was at Torgau, in 1805. Five years later<br />
the first edition of the Organon appeared. In this<br />
he gave to the world a careful explanation of his<br />
new medical discoveries and beliefs. It contained<br />
everything relating to the new medical method and<br />
in it he for the first time mentioned the name<br />
“HOMŒOPATHY”. [HAHNEMANN has used<br />
the term ‘Homœopathy’ for the first time in 1807 in<br />
the penultimate paragraph of his article<br />
“Indications of the Homœopathic Employment<br />
of Medicines in Ordinary Practice” = KSS.] The<br />
work appeared in 1810, from the press of his friend<br />
and patient, ARNOLD. The book consists of an<br />
Introduction and the Organon itself. The<br />
Introduction is entitled “Review of the<br />
Medication, allopathy and palliative treatments”<br />
that have prevailed to the present time in the old<br />
school of medicine and comprise the first one<br />
hundred pages of the Organon.<br />
HAHNEMANN here presents the curious story<br />
of the efforts of mankind to conquer disease……<br />
HAHNEMANN devoted about sixty pages to<br />
quotations from the writings of old physicians from<br />
HIPPOCRATES to SYDENHAM, describing cures<br />
effected according to the Dotrine of Similars. Each<br />
cure is plainly stated with a reference in each case<br />
to the medical writer responsible for the statement.<br />
The book itself is devoted to instructions in<br />
practical Homœopathy. HAHNEMANN never<br />
claimed to discover the Law of Simili, but he did<br />
claim that he was the first person to make any<br />
practical demonstration of that Law.<br />
It is needless to say that the propositions<br />
advanced in the Organon brought down upon the<br />
head of the reformer an avalanche of abuse. He had<br />
raised his hand against the traditions of years and<br />
he was attacked by the medical journals of the day.<br />
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Books and pamphlets were fulminated against him.<br />
The reviews were so virulent that even the better of<br />
HAHNEMANN’s enemies condemned them. He<br />
was called a charlatan, a quack, an ignormus. In<br />
1811, his son published a refutation, which it is<br />
believed HAHNEMANN himself wrote. All this<br />
storm of abuse he answered in no other way. He<br />
gave his answer in a better way, in 1811, when he<br />
presented to the world the first volume of the<br />
“Materia Medica Pura”.<br />
But the grand impulse was strong within him.<br />
He felt that he must find a wider platform from<br />
which to shout his glad tidings to sick and suffering<br />
humanity, and in the year 1811, he transferred his<br />
“Lares and Penates” to his old home in Leipsic, the<br />
place he had first entered as an enthusiastic and<br />
scholarly lad of twenty. Since then – Vienna,<br />
Hermanstadt, Erlangen, Dessau, Gommern,<br />
Dresden, Georgenthal, the wander years, and<br />
afterwards Torgau, with its literary results. Trials,<br />
malevolence, privation, and false accusation, all<br />
had followed him like furies, and yet impelled by a<br />
strange force, the genius of right and justice, he had<br />
ever and steadily gone on towards the future of<br />
whose brightness even yet he did not know.<br />
It now became impressed upon<br />
HAHNEMANN’s mind that he must teach this<br />
Doctrine of Medicine publicly to men; and he went<br />
to Leipsic and began to lecture on the principles of<br />
Homœopathy. In December 1811, he inserted a<br />
notice of his “Medical Institute” in a journal of the<br />
city. But before he was permitted to lecture he was<br />
compelled to defend a thesis before the Faculty of<br />
Medicine. This he did on June 26, 1812. Its title<br />
was “A Dissertation on the Helleborism of the<br />
Ancients,” and it was such a marvel of erudition<br />
that no one attempted to dispute it. In its pages<br />
containing quotations from the Hebrew, Latin,<br />
Greek, Arabic, Italian, French, English and German<br />
there was evidence of profound knowledge. It<br />
seemed an echo from the great libraries of<br />
Hermanstadt and Dresden.<br />
HAHNEMANN now began lecturing<br />
Wednesday and Saturday afternoons from 2 to 3<br />
o’clock. The lectures were continued seminally<br />
during his entire stay at Leipsic, and soon attracted<br />
hearers from the medical and law students and the<br />
younger of the Leipsic physicians. The fame of his<br />
learning and desire to see the man who taught such<br />
medical “heresies” attracted many to him. Soon<br />
from the audiences he gathered a circle of young<br />
men under his direction who began to make<br />
provings on themselves. The result was the<br />
“Materia Medica Pura”. These faithful disciples<br />
lived near HAHNEMANN’s house and were<br />
almost constantly with him. Each had his duty to<br />
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perform, and HAHNEMANN, after collecting the<br />
symptoms, verified them, subjecting them to the<br />
finest scrutiny and with the most scrupulous<br />
exactitude analyzed them. The plants were<br />
collected, the preparations according to the formula<br />
of the master were made, and results noted. They<br />
who sat at the feet of the teacher, afterwards carried<br />
the new doctrine into many places. Fortunately, the<br />
story has been told by some among the number so<br />
that it is known how the reformer lived at this time.<br />
He was fully occupied with his lectures and the<br />
receptions of his patients at his home. He did not<br />
visit them at their houses. Daily with his wife and<br />
daughters he walked in one of the public gardens of<br />
the city. After the day’s labour he was accustomed<br />
to sit among his students in the evening, and with<br />
the mug of “ghose” at his side and the long German<br />
pipe in his hand, he would tell his disciples of the<br />
curious actions and ways of the older physicians at<br />
the sick bed, or relate circumstances of his former<br />
life; and then he would become lost to the<br />
surroundings, his pipe would go out, and one of his<br />
daughters would at once be called to relight it.<br />
But persecution came. The students were<br />
accustomed to prescribe for patients and<br />
HAHNEMANN’s reception room was thronged<br />
daily; both master and students gave medicine.<br />
This practice was contrary to the law of that time,<br />
and the apothecaries whose privileges were<br />
supposed to be encroached upon appealed to the<br />
courts against HAHNEMANN, and he was cited to<br />
appear. He did so, and also addressed a letter to the<br />
authorities in which he argued that he did not give<br />
compound prescriptions but only simple remedies<br />
in such minute doses, and of whose preparation the<br />
apothecaries knew nothing, that they could not put<br />
up these medicines; that their exclusive right was<br />
only to make up compound prescriptions and that<br />
Homœopathy did not compound or dispense. He<br />
was soon notified that he would be fined twenty<br />
thalers for every dispensation afterwards.<br />
In 1820 a celebrated general Prince von<br />
SCHWARZENBERG, who had been a leader of<br />
the allied armies against Napoleon, applied to<br />
HAHNEMANN for treatment, asking that he attend<br />
him at Vienna. HAHNEMANN replied that if he<br />
wished his services he must come to Leipsic as he<br />
was too busy to go to Vienna. So desirous was the<br />
Prince to consult HAHNEMANN that he came to<br />
Leipsic and established himself in a suburb of the<br />
city. His case was incurable, and he died about six<br />
months afterwards of Apoplexy. His death was the<br />
cause of renewed attacks on HAHNEMANN, and<br />
the legal persecutions, that during the treatment had<br />
been prevented by Saxon government on account of<br />
his illustrious patient, were resumed with redoubled<br />
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vigour. HAHNEMANN’s students were arrested,<br />
fined, and even imprisoned. He himself was so<br />
persecuted that he must either give up practice or<br />
resume his journeying in quest of another abiding<br />
place. Of a truth it may be said:<br />
“His life was like a battle or a march,<br />
And like the wind’s blast, never resting,<br />
homeless,<br />
He stormed across the war-convulsed earth”.<br />
Not far from Leipsic was one of the many little<br />
principalities of which at that time Germany was<br />
composed. It was the duchy of Anhalt-Coethen.<br />
One of its notables, the Grand Duke Frederick, had<br />
heard of HAHNEMANN’s wonderful cures and<br />
was, besides, a lover of justice. He offered an<br />
asylum to the persecuted old teacher, appointed him<br />
his privy physician with the title of Hofrath, and by<br />
edict gave him permission to dispense and prescribe<br />
within the limits of his kingdom. Early in May,<br />
1821, HAHNEMANN shook the dust of<br />
inhospitable Leipsic with his faithful students<br />
accompanying him on the road set out for Coethen.<br />
It was a delightful place, nestled in the valley<br />
of a small river and in its quiet the master passed<br />
fifteen years of his eventful life. In a summerhouse<br />
at the end of a paved garden he studied and wrote<br />
and meditated, formulating, completing, and<br />
perfecting his life work. His “Chronic Diseases”<br />
was written at Coethen, the last four editions of the<br />
Organon, and the last two editions of Materia<br />
Medica Pura.<br />
The year 1829 was memorable because on<br />
August 10, HAHNEMANN celebrated the fiftieth<br />
anniversary of his graduation at Erlangen. His<br />
disciples came to him bringing gifts. The old<br />
Savant’s portrait was done in oil, his bust was<br />
modelled. STAPF, his favorite pupil, had collected<br />
the fugitive essays he had written, and brought the<br />
first copy from the printer as his token.<br />
ALBRECHT, the Dresden friend and after-time<br />
biographer, delivered a poem in his praise.<br />
RUMMEL presented the honorary diploma from<br />
his alma mater. The scholarly MUHLENBRING<br />
made a Latin oration, giving a sketch of his life and<br />
labors. The good Duke and Duchess remembered<br />
their beloved physician. Afterwards there was a<br />
grand dinner. The disciples came from all parts of<br />
the country, and those who could not come sent<br />
letters of amity. This occasion resulted in the form<br />
of the German Central Homœopathic Union.<br />
Soon afterward, however, a great sorrow came,<br />
and the wings of ashen gray were unfolded over the<br />
good housewife. For years she had devoted herself<br />
to the cares of life that her husband might be free to<br />
pursue his studies. At the time of her illness<br />
HAHNEMANN also was ill, but he kept himself at<br />
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her bedside and comforted her. After her death his<br />
daughters continued to care for the household, and<br />
there was little real change in his domestic life.<br />
The Cholera year of 1832 came, and although<br />
HAHNEMANN never had seen a case of that<br />
character his knowledge of the effects of medicines<br />
upon the system enabled him to suggest the<br />
remedies that would be found useful. His opinion<br />
proved correct, because it was founded upon a law.<br />
Now the years passed peacefully and happily; the<br />
wanderer at last had come home. Homœopathy<br />
was known and men of ability, physicians and<br />
laymen journeyed to the little village, to hear the<br />
old sage talk and to learn more of the new and<br />
rational method of healing. Coethen became the<br />
school house of Homœopathy from whence went<br />
willing disciples to carry the teachings to all parts<br />
of the world.<br />
HAHNEMANN always was a very industrious<br />
man; he never was idle. He proved about ninety<br />
medicines himself; he wrote about seventy original<br />
works on Chemistry and Medicine, some of them in<br />
several volumes; he translated fifteen large medical<br />
and scientific works from the English, six from the<br />
French, one from the Italian and one from Latin.<br />
These translations were not alone on Medicine, but<br />
Chemistry, Agriculture and general Literature.<br />
Among them was “History of the Lives of<br />
Abelard and Heloise” which was considered a<br />
remarkable work from a literary standpoint.<br />
Besides this was the labor of attending to a very<br />
large practice a great part of which was by letters.<br />
He was not only a physician, reformer and chemist,<br />
but he was an accomplished classical scholar and<br />
critic, well versed in Astronomy and Meteorology<br />
fond of Geography. In the days at Coethen he was<br />
at seventy-five, interesting himself in the habits of<br />
spiders, still studying Chemistry, and keeping<br />
himself by letter en rapport with his followers in<br />
different parts of the world.<br />
In stature HAHNEMANN was a small man,<br />
inclined to stoutness; his carriage was upright and<br />
his work dignified; his step was firm and all his<br />
motions active; his forehead was very high, arched,<br />
and bore the impress of thought. In early life he<br />
wore a queue; later on he became bald on the top of<br />
his head, and locks of curling white hair fell over<br />
each temple. His eyes were particularly piercing<br />
and brilliant, as though a great soul looked over<br />
defiantly upon the noisy world. He seldom smiled;<br />
life had been too real for much laughter, yet he<br />
enjoyed the pleasure of others. In early life he wore<br />
small clothes, knee breeches and shoes with<br />
buckles, and later on the long trousers; his coat was<br />
dark. In his home life a gaily figured dressing<br />
gown with long skirts, wadded slippers and always<br />
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a black velvet cap on his head, completed his attire.<br />
In Paris it was said that he wore his hair in curl<br />
paper at night. In food he was abstemious; he was<br />
fond of sweets and preferred a simple cake to bread.<br />
His vegetables were cabbage, new beans and<br />
spinach. He usually took a nap after eating. Daily<br />
he took exercise in the open air, and worked until<br />
late at night. His usual companion was a little pet<br />
dog that lay near his chair. HAHNEMANN had<br />
eleven children.<br />
In January, 1833, a fond wish of the great<br />
teacher was realized. A homœopathic hospital was<br />
formally opened at Leipsic. He visited it later on<br />
and had the satisfaction of knowing that there was<br />
at least one institution pledged to a fair trial of his<br />
doctrines. There were differences afterward<br />
between the physicians and himself, but he<br />
continued his interest in the hospital as long as he<br />
remained in Germany.<br />
In 1835 this old man who had for some time<br />
thought that according to the law of nature he might<br />
finish his pilgrimage at any time, renewed his lease<br />
upon life. He married a French lady of thirty-five<br />
years, one Marie MELANIE D’HERVILLY<br />
GOHIER, daughter of a painter who had been<br />
adopted by a prominent Frenchman. She had heard<br />
of HAHNEMANN, and on visiting him they were<br />
mutually attracted. He made a will giving his<br />
children most of his property, and on January 28,<br />
1835, he married; and on the first day of<br />
Whitsuntide of the same year he departed from<br />
Coethen with his bride. His children and<br />
grandchildren dined with them at Halle, and the<br />
doctor and his wife went on to Paris. Madame<br />
HAHNEMANN was a woman of ability, an artist<br />
and poetess, and she soon became also a physician.<br />
She was of good family and the life became a gay<br />
and busy one. They lived in style in a fashionable<br />
part of the city. Soon HAHNEMANN, though it<br />
was supposed that he intended to rest from his<br />
labors at Paris, was engaged in a larger and more<br />
exacting practice than he ever before had, and<br />
contrary to the old custom he now made visits,<br />
driving about in his carriage after the manner of<br />
other city physicians. His clientage constantly<br />
increased, and although he had given away most of<br />
his property on leaving Germany, it is said that<br />
during the eight years of his life in Paris he earned<br />
4,000,000 francs. The French Homœopathic<br />
Society honored him by making him their Honorary<br />
President, and his every birthday was made the<br />
occasion of a festival in his honor. Many<br />
distinguished strangers called on and recognized<br />
him as the founder of a new and successful school<br />
of medicine. His home life was happy; he enjoyed<br />
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the opera and public receptions, but he did no more<br />
literary work.<br />
Death came at last to take away the great man,<br />
and calmly, trustingly, uncomplainingly, although<br />
at the last he suffered much, he passed away early<br />
in the morning of Sunday, July 2, 1843, gently<br />
whispering “I have not lived in vain.”<br />
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2. Mandragora Officinalis E Radice<br />
Julius MEZGER<br />
(Torch of Homœopathy, April 1966)<br />
We made provings on thirty persons. Eight<br />
were women of whom seven were of a mature age.<br />
Twenty-two were, disregarding small<br />
deviations in the physiological balance of their<br />
functions, adequate to the requirements which were<br />
necessary for a healthy pharmacological prover.<br />
Most of the provers began the provings with the<br />
D4; a smaller group with the D6. These potencies<br />
were taken for fourteen days, five drops three time<br />
daily. Then a placebo of 45% alcohol was taken for<br />
fourteen days and after that the D2 was taken for<br />
fourteen days.<br />
Intellect and Emotions: These were<br />
characterized by apathy, irritability, loss of interest<br />
in work, mental fatigue, poor concentration and loss<br />
of memory; or the nervous irritability was<br />
expressed primarily by hypersensitivity to noises.<br />
In contrast to this depression, euphoria with a love<br />
of work occurred before the depression. After the<br />
depression, enuresis occurred. Some of the provers<br />
were tired during the day despite a good night’s<br />
sleep, and also noted vertigo. Some of the provers<br />
had disturbing dreams and woke between 3.00 and<br />
5.00 A.M. One prover felt as though he had<br />
scopalamine and noted numbness of the hands from<br />
D4. One prover noticed anaesthesia of the mouth,<br />
and Stomatitis. He also lost tactile sensation. In<br />
contrast to this feeling of anaesthesia, another<br />
prover noted hypersensitivity of the skin to touch<br />
and to pressure.<br />
Eyes: No changes in the pupils were noted<br />
with the second potency. However, after placing a<br />
decoction of Mandragora into the lachrymal sac,<br />
there occurred a strong, even a maximal, dilation of<br />
the pupil on that side. One prover who took, in all,<br />
forty-one drops of the D1 over a period of six days,<br />
noticed darkening of the visual field and for several<br />
weeks saw only stripes. On the outer rim of the<br />
eyes were Styes. Also conjunctival irritation was<br />
noted.<br />
Ears: One prover noted noises in the ear<br />
during the whole proving period and even after it<br />
was finished.<br />
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Lungs: Catarrh of the nose occurred with<br />
frequent sneezing, associated with a dry, raw throat;<br />
also a cough from tickling in the throat followed by<br />
frequent mucous expectoration and rales and<br />
hoarseness.<br />
Heart and Blood circulation: At least nine<br />
out of twenty-nine provers noted heart trouble with<br />
palpitation. The heart pains increased in intensity,<br />
becoming pinching pains in the chest during the<br />
day, extending to the left shoulder at night, causing<br />
wakefulness. Anxiety was associated with the<br />
anginal pains in the chest, as well as a sensation in<br />
the heart as though an iron ring were contracting<br />
around it. Movement and stress aggravated the<br />
complaints but rest, warmth and lying down<br />
ameliorated them. The reactive phase was<br />
recognized by symptoms of collapse, such as<br />
balancing of the face, loss of the peripheral pulse,<br />
cold sweat on the forehead and a feeling of pressure<br />
on the heart.<br />
In one of the provers one had the impression<br />
that gastric symptoms underlay the heart symptoms.<br />
For instance, the heart symptoms improved after<br />
diarrhoea and the distension associated with the<br />
heart trouble improved after motion, which caused<br />
expulsion of gas, with relief.<br />
The action in the head is characterized by<br />
congestion of blood in the head causing a facial<br />
congestion obvious to the observer, similar to that<br />
of Belladonna but without hallucinations or<br />
delirium. These effects lasted a long time, even<br />
several weeks after the proving was finished. One<br />
prover noticed pains in the head associated with<br />
noises in the ears during the proving period and for<br />
several weeks thereafter. The headache was<br />
characterized by heat and fullness relieved by cold<br />
applications. It was aggravated by stooping<br />
forward, from alcohol, tobacco, sunbathing and<br />
physical activities. A light touch was disagreeable<br />
but a strong touch brought relief. The site of the<br />
headache was in the forehead, the temples and the<br />
occiput radiating forwards. Associated with the<br />
headache were cold hands and feet, even in a warm<br />
room, the hands so cold that they became white and<br />
contracted, the blanching extending up the arms to<br />
the axilla. This was associated with abdominal<br />
fullness increased by digestion and by gas. The<br />
female noted before her period a foul discharge,<br />
with increased flow during the period. Both men<br />
and women noted congestion of Haemorrhoids and<br />
Varices in the legs.<br />
Digestive system: Some provers noted<br />
inflammation in the mouth and burns on the tongue<br />
as if burned with hot water or pepper, as well as<br />
aphthae on the tongue and on the lining of the<br />
mouth. Also the tongue has a whitish-yellow coat.<br />
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One of the provers, who was particularly sensitive,<br />
noted Stomatitis of the mouth with oedematous<br />
swelling and a fur-like feeling in the whole mouth.<br />
The feeling of dryness in the mouth was not as<br />
strong as that experienced under Belladonna,<br />
Hyoscyamus and Stramonium. Sometimes they<br />
also noticed excessive salivation. The feeling of<br />
burning is typical of Mandragora and is similar to<br />
that of Capsicum.<br />
In the region of the pharynx one noticed an<br />
increased tendency to a rasp and to dryness in the<br />
mouth and throat. Three provers noticed a pain and<br />
catarrh in the throat. One of the provers had a<br />
severe angina lacunaris with pus and fever up to<br />
104 for two days. This prover was susceptible to<br />
throat infections but in this case it was felt to result<br />
from the Mandragora. Another prover noticed<br />
aggravation of a chronic Tonsillitis to such an<br />
extent that they had to be removed.<br />
The intestinal symptoms are characterized by<br />
spasticity, meteorism and fatty-food dyscrasia.<br />
Seventeen of the twentynine provers noticed<br />
increased gas with pressure and fullness of the<br />
stomach, relieved by eating, and also eructations,<br />
even on an empty stomach. Distention was noticed<br />
particularly in the right lower quadrant. Some had<br />
little or no relief from eructations or flatus, and<br />
some were markedly relieved. The stomach<br />
discomfort came immediately after eating, reaching<br />
a peak one to two hours later. In spite of a<br />
ravenous appetite, because of the stomach<br />
distention, they were full after two or three bites<br />
and actually had a dislike for solid food. One<br />
prover noted more gas dispelled after liquids than<br />
after solids. Two provers had pains from an empty<br />
stomach, associated with great emptiness and<br />
nausea, all relieved after eating. The same provers<br />
were ameliorated by stretching and bending<br />
backwards.<br />
Nausea and burning for thirty minutes, and<br />
hiccups are noteworthy. These give a picture of the<br />
disturbing influence of Mandragora on the<br />
persistalsis – a hint as to the usefulness of the drug<br />
in motion sickness.<br />
In connection with the stomach symptoms<br />
occurred a disturbance in the secretion and<br />
excretion of gall and in the function of the gall<br />
bladder. In four provers there was aversion to<br />
greasy foods, with vomiting followed by diarrhoea.<br />
Altogether there were seven provers who showed<br />
marked symptoms of gall-bladder and liver<br />
disturbance, with piercing pains in the region of the<br />
gall-bladder. There were light yellow to grey stools<br />
(in four of these seven provers), showing<br />
involvement of the gall-bladder and liver system.<br />
Coffee was not tolerated by two provers, a<br />
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symptom which can be taken in this connection,<br />
again, as a symptom of gall-bladder dysfunction.<br />
Three provers showed a desire for spicy foods such<br />
as meat, fish and cheese, although one was a<br />
vegetarian. Two provers noted improvement of a<br />
hangover from the Mandragora. Intolerance to<br />
sweets was shown by two provers, in spite of their<br />
craving for them.<br />
Other changes in the need for food were as<br />
follows: Craving for butter and sour milk, for rice<br />
dishes, and an aversion to solid food in one prover.<br />
In the intestines there was repeated distention.<br />
Radish, through its high cellulose content, caused<br />
distention and colic. Dyskinesis of the intestinal<br />
movements were seen during excretion. The stool<br />
was hard and bulky and could only be excreted<br />
after long sitting and pressure. After the stool was<br />
passed there was the sensation of incompleteness.<br />
The stool appeared in little balls, like sheep dung.<br />
Diarrhoea followed the colicky pains. After<br />
excretion, tenesmus followed. The stools often had<br />
a bad odour and were light yellow or whitish,<br />
indicating poor gall secretion. This appeared<br />
particularly in the early morning, very often<br />
associated with severe colicky pains and diarrhoea.<br />
In the female prover colicky pains with distention<br />
appeared several times between 12.00P.M. and 2.00<br />
A.M. Particularly, the right side of the abdomen<br />
was distended, with pains radiating to the right<br />
shoulder. There was a painful burning in the gall<br />
bladder area and a strong urge for defecation. Once<br />
there was frequent watery diarrhoea. There was a<br />
complete picture of a gall-bladder colic. The<br />
hemorrhoids that occurred had an inclination to<br />
frequent bleedings and the burning sensation<br />
characteristic of Mandragora.<br />
To summarize the symptoms of the intestines,<br />
we can see deep-growing disturbances of the<br />
neurovegetative distribution of these organs,<br />
particularly of the parasympathetic parts. You can<br />
classify them in the following way.<br />
1. The disturbance of peristalsis with severe<br />
spasm and other functional disturbances.<br />
2. Disturbance of secretory and fermentative<br />
processes.<br />
3. The inflammation of the mouth with stomatitis,<br />
gastritis and enteritis.<br />
4. The abdominal plethora with meteorism,<br />
hemorrhoids and bloody excretion.<br />
Urinary Organs: All the functions of the<br />
bladder present the same difficulties; stranguary of<br />
the bladder, interference with urinary excretion, so<br />
that the last portion must be pressed out, and also<br />
urinary incontinence in bed at night.<br />
Sexual Organs. One of the provers noted a<br />
loss of libido which lasted some time after he<br />
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stopped taking the medicine. This is an interesting<br />
observation because in ancient times the medicine<br />
was given as an aphrodisiac.<br />
In women it gave dysmenorrhoea and<br />
discontinuation of the menses after it had started<br />
symptoms of the uterine musculature. During the<br />
congestion in the lower part of the abdomen there<br />
was a tendency to Hemorrhage. Also, we saw a<br />
white discharge with a bad odour, before the<br />
period.<br />
The Limbs, Muscles and Peripheral Nerves:<br />
The complaints with regard to the limbs,<br />
musculature and peripheral nerves show a<br />
heaviness and aching in the muscles as after<br />
exercise or after the grippe. At the same time there<br />
was a clear improvement of the motor function.<br />
As far as the joints and the muscle segments<br />
are concerned, all the regions of the body were<br />
affected – the joints of the arms and the legs as well<br />
as the joints of the vertebral column. A pain in the<br />
right shoulder was often noted, connected with<br />
discomfort in the gall-bladder as well as a<br />
predilection for the muscles of the thighs,<br />
particularly the quadriceps femoris of both thighs in<br />
which the muscle pains were like a “charleyhorse.”<br />
There were two well pronounced sciatic illness, in<br />
both cases in the right leg, interfering with the<br />
movement of the innervation of the sciatic nerve.<br />
A third prover indicated difficulty in the sciatic<br />
nerve of the left leg.<br />
The two first mentioned provers were free of<br />
pain in the legs. The course was similar in both<br />
cases; beginning in the morning. There was pain<br />
from pressure on the nerve where it had been laid<br />
upon, relieved by motion. Therefore, the provers<br />
were forced to get up several times and move<br />
around. After moving around, however, such an<br />
improvement occurred that pain became tolerable.<br />
Warm applications were very helpful. In one of the<br />
provers there was a necessity for treatment in the<br />
hospital for three weeks, with his legs elevated by<br />
suspension. It is interesting that this pain was<br />
induced after an unsuccessful try with Arsenicum<br />
D12.<br />
All the pain in the muscles and in the joints<br />
improved with motion. I think it is correct to<br />
assume that improvement from motion is typical of<br />
Mandragora. One of the provers who had a<br />
sprained ankle believed that after using the drug he<br />
had a fast improvement.<br />
Skin: The skin shows an inflammatory<br />
reaction with vesicular eruptions, itching of face,<br />
Herpes simples labialis, and Furunculosis with<br />
Styes. In Furunculosis, again the sensation of<br />
burning was mentioned.<br />
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The skin of the face and neck appeared greasy<br />
and unclean, even the neck of the shirt; and the hair<br />
was dirty and uncouth. There is a noticeable<br />
tendency to perspiration which appears after mild<br />
stress or at night. It very often had a bad odour.<br />
The perspiration is sometimes cold, for instance, in<br />
connection with pressure on the heart. On the<br />
palms of the hands it is sticky.<br />
Temperature Regulation: There seems to be,<br />
due to the excitement of the circulatory system, a<br />
connection with a fever reaction with an increased<br />
sensation of warmth and very rarely a chilliness.<br />
Modalities: Colitis in stomach and gallbladder<br />
system at 12.00 P.M. to 2.00 A.M. and for<br />
a few hours after. Insomnia occurs between 3.30<br />
and 5.00 A.M. Pain in the joints and Sciatica at<br />
7.00 A.M. Hangover is in the morning in<br />
particular. Most complaints increase from 12.00<br />
P.M. to the morning with a high point at 5.00 to<br />
8.00 A.M. Fullness and distention after the first<br />
bite, most severe one to two hours later.<br />
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3. Miscellaneous Hits<br />
Royal E.S. Hayes<br />
(Homœopathic Bulletin, Jan. 1949)<br />
Whatever of interest there may be in these few<br />
reports might come out better in the reading than in<br />
the reciting. They are simply a few of those rather<br />
spectacular cures that result occasionally from a<br />
combination of lucky prescribing and responsive<br />
patient some of those that remain in the memory<br />
and encourage us while performing more tedious or<br />
more ordinary work.<br />
I Boy æt 10, Chorea; abject and helpless, unable to<br />
rise from bed six weeks; complete amnesia; head<br />
lies always to the left; loud mitral murmur, pulse<br />
60; crack in center of lower lip; gnashing of teeth<br />
during sleep; craving sweets, marked emaciation<br />
though eating well: Eczema suppressed when a<br />
baby. Sepia 10M. Fincke.<br />
Three weeks later he could talk, threw himself<br />
on the floor and crept like a baby. From then on he<br />
improved so well that I did not see him until three<br />
years later when he needed another administration<br />
for a slight return of twitching.<br />
II Woman, æt. 67. Had fallen four years<br />
previously and hurt her back at the right sacral<br />
region and had been incapacitated for work since.<br />
She could not rise alone and could walk but little<br />
and that with much difficulty and assistance<br />
because of continued soreness. She complained of<br />
soreness and a dislocated sensation, hurting with<br />
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every step, ameliorated while lying with the thigh<br />
flexed, ameliorated by warmth, aggravated by first<br />
motion and relieved by continued motion but<br />
aggravated by osteopathy, aggravated by stormy or<br />
damp weather, severe catching pain when<br />
attempting to move while lying but relieved by<br />
change of position.<br />
After four years of this she was brought to the<br />
office with a cane on one side and her daughter on<br />
the other, scarcely able to lift the feet from the<br />
floor. Calcarea fluorica 12 th was taken every 4<br />
hours for five weeks. Three months later she could<br />
do everything and even run when necessary.<br />
III Boy aged 11; Acute encephalitis lethargica.<br />
Headache relieved by cold; liked to have the head<br />
drawn backward; fidgety legs; general tossing from<br />
12 to 4 or 5 a.m. Talked complainingly of work;<br />
answers often irrelevant; grateful for cold drinks;<br />
noise annoyed him. The characteristic facies very<br />
marked.<br />
Phosphorus 10M. Skinner’s, was given. His<br />
countenance was brighter the next day, the<br />
following day he spoke of his own incentive. As he<br />
improved copious drooling appeared while asleep.<br />
He was sitting up in a week and in two weeks<br />
walked about the house.<br />
IV Girl æt 4, Throat specialist said Adenoids, the<br />
writer’s humble digit concurred; also large tonsils,<br />
nasal intonation, etc. She was pale, blinking,<br />
always fretty, tiring easily, no appetite; history of<br />
many colds and bilious vomiting. Psorinum 50M,<br />
Skinner’s.<br />
Twelve weeks later she was taken to the<br />
specialist; Wrong diagnosis; “it must have been<br />
something else.”<br />
V Woman aged 49, Gallstones out fifteen years<br />
previously, malarial chills five years before that.<br />
Having distressing colic again, always after eating.<br />
The X-ray showed an adhesive band from the<br />
stomach to the liver.<br />
Bryonia relieved enough for two weeks to<br />
rouse hopes and three meals were digested without<br />
any pain. The pain is referred to the site of the gall<br />
bladder, much worse after eating, like a weight<br />
pulling across the abdomen and stinging aggravated<br />
by deep inspiration, conscious of ‘motions about<br />
the gall bladder,’ aggravated in evening; full<br />
smothered sensation after eating. Sharp pains up<br />
chest. Chilly sensation inside the stomach and<br />
empty, gone sensation in stomach. Sensitive to<br />
cold and dampness. She came to the homœopath<br />
hoping to escape the needle and operation.<br />
Four administrations of Carbo veg. during nine<br />
months cured most of the pain. Then the malaria<br />
returned and was gone after Natrum muriaticum.<br />
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Calcarea ost. cleared up the few remaining<br />
discomforts. Nothing worth mentioning the last<br />
three years.<br />
VI Girl of three, Diphtheria; tonsils and adenoids<br />
cut six months previously; marked stiffness,<br />
swelling and pain of the neck, so that she had to<br />
turn the whole body to get the head round; feet and<br />
hands cold; sopor; craving cold drinks but vomits<br />
them. Averse to noise or any disturbance but wants<br />
company. Very restless at night. Transparent<br />
pinkish pallor (observed clinically in some<br />
Phosphorus conditions.)<br />
This cure was not spectacular for having<br />
noticed BOGER’s admonition as to aggravations<br />
from the 1000 th of Phosphorus in some patients, it<br />
was tested and it made a rather exciting case out of<br />
an apparently simple one. At first she was much<br />
worse all day and night, then the expected<br />
improvement came. But it lasted only three days<br />
when an alarming relapse occurred. Phosphorus<br />
10M improved at once and for six days, then<br />
another relapse. The 10M again improved but<br />
glandular swelling and stiff neck was still present<br />
four days later when Calcarea carbonica came to<br />
the rescue two weeks from the first prescription, at<br />
least a week longer than it should have taken, it<br />
seemed. Although the culture remained negative<br />
after the first week some membrane persisted up to<br />
the end of the third week – in fact I became tired of<br />
watching it and dismissed myself from the case.<br />
VII Young married woman, sudden attack of<br />
grippe. Aching relieved by change of position;<br />
Headache severe, with some modality. Had had<br />
chill at 3 a.m. Thirst for cold. Rhus tox. was<br />
prescribed in the morning, but she continued worse<br />
and had another chill in the evening, then came an<br />
urgent call at 11 p.m.<br />
More symptoms. Intense heat, intense aching.<br />
Had become decidedly worse at 4 p.m. Lying<br />
dozing with a peculiar moaning sound interrupted<br />
by active delirium – men on the wall, some obstacle<br />
preventing her getting away, screaming and<br />
fighting to free herself. Throbbing headache<br />
relieved by cold applications; shivering after cold<br />
drink.<br />
A trip to look at the Repertory was necessary to<br />
select the correct remedy Eupatorium purpureum,<br />
the 900 th , was used. She was asleep in a half hour<br />
and very bright indeed the next morning.<br />
VIII Robust girl æt. 10. Icthyosis nigricans,<br />
congenital of course, with itching from the middle<br />
of the torso to the middle of the thighs. Mosquitoes<br />
poison her more than the average person; large<br />
tonsils; craving milk; averse to fish; flushed and<br />
uncomfortable in warm room.<br />
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Ars. iod. 20M, Fincke. As she improved a<br />
peculiar odor as of fermentation followed her. In<br />
less than two months the skin has become perfectly<br />
normal. Whether it will continue so may be a<br />
question.<br />
IX High school girl minus tonsils and history of<br />
Diphtheria. Recently had toxin-antitoxin followed<br />
immediately by “grippe”. Remained very pale,<br />
white and exhausted, unable to attend school. The<br />
exhaustion was especially sensed in hands which<br />
were also numb. Cramps in the hands when<br />
washing them or whenever flexing the fingers;<br />
could not lift anything. Constantly spitting mucus<br />
from the throat; easy perspiration.<br />
Anthracinum CM, Fincke, acted exceedingly<br />
well.<br />
X Illustrating Echinacea: Farmer of 24, History<br />
of Meningitis at 14 with three weeks of Coma and<br />
Strabismus; he remembers the intense headaches;<br />
never strong since.<br />
Having impetiginous appearing sores on scalp<br />
with red crusts, faint stomach and morning<br />
tiredness. Sulphur 200 th was given without much<br />
benefit and he went from one doctor to another<br />
until he landed in the office again three years later.<br />
The ulcers had spread to the face, neck and arms,<br />
they still had the red crusts, were rather deep. Very<br />
irregular in outline, itching, turning blue when in<br />
water; a red Cellulitis process was spreading across<br />
the face, not sore but followed up by the steadily<br />
encroaching ulcers. One wing of his nose was<br />
already gone. A sister and a visitor of the family<br />
had also contracted the disease.<br />
He slept badly, tossing until midnight;<br />
“nervous pain in the heart as if he had been running<br />
fast.”<br />
He acted and walked like an old man, walking<br />
or standing with knees bent, he turned around<br />
slowly as if thinking about it, lifted the feet but<br />
little while walking. Mental processes slow and<br />
simple, slow to answer. He kept his eye on one as<br />
though he saw something amusing. He was quite<br />
sceptical as to the doctor but was always looking<br />
for one to perform a miracle. He was possessed, in<br />
addition to all the other qualifications, of a constant<br />
extension and flexion of the left thigh, day and<br />
night.<br />
Dr. Gorton’s “double dosage” was tried,<br />
Echinacea 200 th one day and the 1000 th the next.<br />
Three months later the sores were all healing and<br />
there were no new ones. Did not see him again<br />
until 11 months from the date of the prescription.<br />
He was then bright, erect, strong and the wing of<br />
his nose had grown out; but a concave ulcer was<br />
now appearing on his neck. The prescription was<br />
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epeated but we heard some months that he still had<br />
a few sores and was still searching for a miracle.<br />
XI A young married woman, with Epilepsy<br />
gravior since appendectomy five years previous;<br />
frequent attacks, sometimes three in a day; delayed<br />
and painful menstruation, no morning appetite,<br />
faint stomach at 11 a.m. Pounding headaches every<br />
8-9 days; weeping spells. Fincke’s Sulphur5M.<br />
A month later, no headaches; hungry but too<br />
“full” to eat, cannot eat until 10 a.m. Urgent thirst<br />
for cold and craving for ice cream and sour things<br />
but aversion to sweets Phos. 200 th , Dunham’s.<br />
No attacks for a month, then one Phos. 200.<br />
No attacks for five months, then three. Sulphur<br />
10M, Skinner’s. No attacks during the last thirteen<br />
years. But she threw out boils, a rectal abscess and<br />
had two attacks of Psoriasis, meanwhile having<br />
Sulphur again, then Calcarea. Eczema then came<br />
out which was cured with Nitric acid.<br />
XII Girl, 16. Goitre five years. Obese, moustache;<br />
much perspiration clammy cold feet, easy<br />
dyspnoea. Calcarea carb. 200 th cured.<br />
A year half later a ringworm about the size of a<br />
fifty cent piece appeared on the face. It was<br />
surrounded by smaller ones, the whole in strikingly<br />
circular arrangement. They were much aggravated<br />
by all the applications that had been attempted.<br />
We think of Echinacea in very irregular<br />
eruptions but the 1M of Calc. carb wiped out this<br />
also.<br />
XIII Miss of 23, Goitre 2 years. The gland was<br />
moderately but distressingly enlarged and not hard.<br />
She was always tired, which was aggravated by<br />
even moderate exercise, tired expression, always<br />
sleepy, fantastic dreams, talking and striking during<br />
sleep. Headaches in left temple beginning in mid<br />
afternoon and relieved by open air and by cold<br />
applications. Easily excited and irritable and the<br />
office nurse says her pulse runs to 133 when<br />
excited. Cough while asleep only; canine appetite;<br />
thirstless; prefers cold food; averse to salt; nausea<br />
and distress in epigastrium; eructations of rotten<br />
egg flavor; menses five weeks apart and protracted;<br />
heat is exhausting; palms perspire when excited.<br />
Calcarea iodata 30 th , one administration. Six<br />
weeks later the size of the thyroid was normal and<br />
of course there was striking general improvement;<br />
but a small cystic lump remains.<br />
XIV Man fifty-one, Goitre several years; had<br />
reduced it some with iodine and thought he was<br />
feeling some better. Continual cough and colds<br />
several years. Coughs regularly in the morning<br />
until he has had his hot drink, relieved in the open<br />
air. Tired easily and sweating easily. General<br />
amelioration in the open air and after eating;<br />
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aggravated in warm room, canine appetite.<br />
Drowsiness. Face often flushed.<br />
Calc. iod. 6x every two hours for five days. In<br />
three months the Goitre, to all appearances, and the<br />
accompanying symptoms, were gone.<br />
-The Homœopathic Recorder<br />
(Read before the I.H.A. Bureau of Clinical<br />
Medicine, June, 1939.)<br />
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4. The Value of Old Symptoms<br />
BAUR, Jacques (HH. 29, 2/2004)<br />
(Translated from the Groupement<br />
Hahnemannien de Lyon, 11 th series, No. 5,<br />
1974)<br />
When the Little Prince said goodbye to the Fox<br />
the latter told him a secret. “The most important<br />
thing,” he confided, “is invisible to the eyes. Men<br />
have forgotten this truth.”<br />
That is a fact. If men have not exactly<br />
forgotten this truth, many of them accept it more<br />
than they really know it. And yet, is there any<br />
domain of human activity, religious, philosophical,<br />
or scientific, that is not concerned with<br />
investigating the invisible?<br />
Medicine, which is the study and the science of<br />
man, is no exception to this rule. How many times<br />
haven’t we heard it said that the most important<br />
thing about man is not what one finds in his coffin!<br />
Because if we study living man in his illnesses and<br />
in his physiological balance, it is life itself which<br />
concerns us, and not the passing form which it<br />
borrows in order to manifest itself. In that invisible<br />
side of things which escapes all our efforts to<br />
understand it, the philosopher seeks the causes of<br />
all concrete, material, tangible manifestation; the<br />
mystic sees it as the seat of the soul; the doctor,<br />
who may be scientifically, mystically, or<br />
philosophically inclined, seeks in the invisible that<br />
which is infinitely small, vibrations of the vital<br />
force, emotions and thoughts.<br />
More than any other medical doctrine<br />
Homœopathy pursues this study, this search after<br />
the invisible in human beings. In the profusion of<br />
modern medical doctrines which only recognize<br />
manifestations of life that are accessible to the<br />
sensory organs of the observer, only Homœopathy<br />
has established its foundations on principles and<br />
laws, feeling that these non-visible phenomena are<br />
in essence nearer to truth than the simple data of the<br />
sensory world. Perhaps we may accept this<br />
statement in theory without fully realizing all its<br />
implications. Although we agree on proclaiming<br />
the fundamental errors on which the medical<br />
theories of the Allopathy school are founded, we<br />
are nevertheless not above using their terminology<br />
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and their classification of diseases. How can<br />
Homœopathy, which claims to be an exact medical<br />
science, fit into artificial structures of disease<br />
classifications; how can it use a vocabulary which<br />
was designed to describe disease entities and other<br />
concepts which we all recognize to be false?<br />
Since it was discovered and formulated by<br />
HAHNAMANN, Homœopathy has been<br />
proclaiming that the mission of the physician is to<br />
study the patient and not the illness. It tells us to<br />
cure the patient and to base our medical<br />
prescription on his symptoms, and not only on<br />
pathological results. Can we possibly be in<br />
agreement with these principle if we think in terms<br />
of particular remedies that correspond to such and<br />
such a nosological entity described by the official<br />
school?<br />
On the one hand we categorically state that the<br />
human being bears within him from birth that seed<br />
of imbalance which will take him through the gates<br />
of death after an evolution of variable length; and in<br />
our practice we prove every day that the single<br />
remedy which corresponds to the patient in the<br />
totality of his symptoms will help him for the rest<br />
of his life to negotiate all the trials of health which<br />
he may meet: one being, one patient, one remedy.<br />
And on the other hand we try to cut this<br />
individual into slices – when the meaning of that<br />
word, if nothing else, should tell us that he cannot<br />
be so divided. Exactly like the allopaths we study<br />
the child, the adolescent, the adult, and the aged,<br />
using a three-dimensional system of reference<br />
which even our materialistic science of today has<br />
long since discarded!<br />
During his evolution in space and time the<br />
human being is objectified by a series of<br />
manifestations which all have their roots in the<br />
depths of his most secret being. When the outer<br />
manifestations disappear these roots continue to<br />
live, just as much as before. Appearances are no<br />
longer there, but the essential reality remains the<br />
same. And HERING’s Law, which states that old<br />
symptoms return during a cure as a patient retraces<br />
in the opposite direction all the steps along which<br />
his illness progressed, shows us how much these<br />
roots have remained alive and are ready to repeat<br />
old pathological manifestations which one thought<br />
were forever extinguished.<br />
Now if that which is invisible is the most<br />
important factor in a human being, where are we to<br />
look for it, what tracks must we follow towards it?<br />
Since we have to work as doctors we must speak<br />
the language of symptoms and limit ourselves to<br />
seeking those manifestations which are useful in<br />
prescribing the remedy. First of all, we must<br />
distinguish several degrees which lead<br />
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progressively to the most tangible and material<br />
manifestations. They are as follows:<br />
1. The pathological symptoms that the patient has<br />
never presented, and which are not directly his. We<br />
will have to pass over this question rapidly but it<br />
deserves a long development.<br />
2. The pathological symptoms that the patient<br />
presented in the past but no longer presents today.<br />
This is the chapter which will be the object of this<br />
study.<br />
3. Present pathological symptoms – physical,<br />
emotional, and intellectual symptoms. This section<br />
is sufficiently well-known and we will not concern<br />
ourselves with it here.<br />
1. THE SYMPTOMS WHICH THE<br />
PATIENT HAS NEVER PRESENTED<br />
The manifestations which most escape our<br />
efforts to understand them, pathological symptoms<br />
which seem most deeply imbedded in the intimate<br />
life of our patient, are without any doubt those<br />
symptoms which he never had himself, those which<br />
existed even before he was conceived and which<br />
nevertheless have profoundly left their mark on<br />
him. We are speaking of hereditary tendencies,<br />
deep morbid impregnations of forebears. And we<br />
have all proved to ourselves in our practice that<br />
prescribing Nosode – Tuberculinum, for example,<br />
simply because there has been some Tuberculosis<br />
in the family, can prove to be extremely beneficial<br />
to our patient.<br />
We also know that hereditary symptoms<br />
generally cross over, so that those of the father can<br />
help us to find the remedy of his daughter; for boys<br />
it can be good to know the symptoms and the<br />
remedy of their mother. Is there any greater<br />
mystery than these bonds which invisibly unite<br />
successive generations?<br />
There is a great deal one could say about this<br />
aspect of homœopathic medicine. One could also<br />
write at length about the symptoms that the mother<br />
may have presented during her pregnancy – for<br />
instance, emotions which may have shaken her so<br />
much that they left a deep pathological imprint on<br />
her child, and could therefore indicate the saving<br />
remedy to restore the balance of his health. In the<br />
same way we must take into accountancy<br />
therapeutic influences which she may have been<br />
subjected to. For instance, there are hormonal<br />
treatments which are more and more common and<br />
are used to terminate pregnancies that are in any<br />
way threatened. Such treatments are also used<br />
preventively for women who have a tendency to<br />
abort. We must also note any irradiation which<br />
may have been suffered by the foetus in utero when<br />
the mother underwent abdominal radiography: we<br />
know for a fact that the incidence of Leukemia is<br />
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twice as high in these infants. We have to unearth<br />
all these things as much as we can, not merely<br />
because they are interesting to speculate about, but<br />
because they throw light on the means of cure.<br />
2. OLD SYMPTOMS<br />
We do not wish to dwell upon the preceding<br />
matters, but simply to insist that it is necessary to<br />
seek out, study, and evaluate all the symptoms of an<br />
adult, and particularly those which he had at the<br />
beginning of his life. Of course it is true that<br />
present symptoms are most frequently the ones<br />
which lead us to the right remedy. But the<br />
simillimum remedy exists throughout the life of the<br />
patient, and in certain cases it is the study of his old<br />
symptoms which can help us find it.<br />
ETIOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS<br />
We will mention first of all the etiological<br />
symptoms, that is the totality of outer influence<br />
which may have been determining factors in a<br />
health crisis. These are the symptoms which<br />
HAHNEMANN mention in paragraph 93 of his<br />
Organon.<br />
The most simple case, and the one we find<br />
most often, is that of an old infection which deeply<br />
marked the patient’s organism. There are cases of<br />
measles, mumps, whooping cough and scarlet fever<br />
which developed later into real chronic sicknesses,<br />
as HAHNEMANN defines them in paragraph 73 of<br />
the Organon. And even if these developments<br />
seem through the years to have diminished to the<br />
point of disappearance, it remains true that our<br />
patient presented a disturbance which left a deep<br />
imprint on him. We are often surprised to find<br />
patients who have obstinate symptoms many years<br />
after such illness-symptoms that refuse to respond<br />
to well-chosen remedies-but instantly recover as<br />
soon as we prescribe the correct Nosode. After one<br />
dose of the 200 th potency the constitutional remedy<br />
which didn’t act before can play its role. If the<br />
Nosode gives a very good result it will be a good<br />
idea to repeat the dose at intervals until its action<br />
has ceased and there is no more result. One should<br />
read the masterly pages written by Margaret<br />
TYLER on this subject, in a chapter devoted to<br />
Morbillinum in her Homœopathic Drug Pictures.<br />
Yesterday two out-patients appeared<br />
opportunely to emphasize the above last words.<br />
For each the prescription had been<br />
Streptococcinum, and the report was<br />
“No better, worse!”<br />
“In what way?”<br />
“I’ve been having pains again in my fingers.”<br />
“But how are you yourself?”<br />
“Oh I’m better! My heart” (in the one case)<br />
“My stomach” (in the other) “is much better.”<br />
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It is well to ask in what way are you worse?<br />
Because here the Homœopathic Philosophy comes<br />
in. “Parts worse yet patient better” or again the<br />
direction of cure “from within, out,” demand<br />
always that we keep our hands off, and give the<br />
patient a chance.<br />
Etiological symptoms are a very vast field and<br />
include such things as the result of vaccinations.<br />
Since BURNETT’s wonderful writing on the<br />
indications of Thuja for the result of vaccination,<br />
we often use this remedy successfully many long<br />
years after the initial vaccination.<br />
In the same way a former traumatism or a<br />
series of traumatism can be an etiological symptom<br />
justifying the use of Cicuta, Arnica, Natrium<br />
sulfuricum, or other remedies. Our homœopathic<br />
repertories are very rich in indications on this<br />
subject, and the locality of a traumatism, or the<br />
results it leaves behind it, correspond to different<br />
remedies. That is why we would be wrong to<br />
neglect these indications.<br />
We must also look for etiological factors of an<br />
emotional order-the results of fear, sadness,<br />
jealousy, anger, or indignation…for which we have<br />
a rich spectrum of remedies.<br />
Looking for the etiological factor can be very<br />
rewarding, yet we must always remember that the<br />
etiological factor we are looking for is not the real<br />
cause of our patient’s trouble. In reality it is only<br />
the opportunity which the patient uses to reveal to<br />
us his initial disorder which, deeply hidden, existed<br />
before any exterior etiological factor triggered it<br />
off-his own inborn predisposition.<br />
In his Aphorisms and Precepts KENT says,<br />
“Susceptibility is prior to all contagion. If an<br />
individual is not susceptible to Smallpox he cannot<br />
take it and will not receive it though he goes near<br />
the worst cases or eats a Smallpox curst.”<br />
What KENT says about Smallpox can also be<br />
said about a traumatic shock, or any emotional<br />
shock. The original idiosyncrasy is really the<br />
trouble throughout life and will express itself by<br />
various pathological manifestations. One can find<br />
its exact image in the symptoms which it<br />
exteriorizes throughout life, and particularly in the<br />
first years of life. Of course it is true that other<br />
manifestations appear later on, and analyzing them<br />
will lead us to the right remedy which is the same<br />
as the remedy indicated by the symptoms in youth.<br />
But there are cases where the analysis of present<br />
symptoms in an adult does not succeed in leading<br />
us to a clear image of the remedy, and sometimes in<br />
these cases old symptoms which are more precise<br />
will make it possible for us to find the simillimum.<br />
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CASE HISTORY NO. 1<br />
Madam Camille C., 68, came for a consultation<br />
in June 1960 with Glossitis and Gingivitis which<br />
had troubled her for the last four years<br />
intermittently. She complained especially of the left<br />
side of her tongue, which was purple and looked<br />
varnished and had stabbing pains. The present<br />
aggravation had been going on for more than a<br />
month. She also had stitches in the left lower side<br />
of her gums when she ate and sometimes when she<br />
spoke. These pains were attributed to an irritation<br />
caused by her dentures which she had been using<br />
since the age of 50, but nobody told her why they<br />
should hurt her on the left side and not on the right<br />
side.<br />
Her medical history was quite extensive.<br />
There was a congenital atrophy of the left upper<br />
extremity. There were the usual infectious illness<br />
of infancy-measles, scarlet fever, whooping coughwhich<br />
had no after-effects and evolved in the<br />
normal period of time; and in addition she had<br />
Ascariasis when she was 12, and at 13, paratyphoid<br />
that left headaches several months later. At 22 she<br />
had an acute bronchitis and since then caught cold<br />
every winter; these colds lasted the whole of the<br />
cold season and manifested as a copious green<br />
discharge especially from the left nostril. At 26 she<br />
had the Spanish flue without complications; at 35<br />
cystitis; at 40 double-pneumonia which kept her in<br />
bed for a month.<br />
She was naturally expansive, confident, loved<br />
sympathy and consolation. She remembered that<br />
she had had terrible attacks of anxiety accompanied<br />
by a feeling of suffocation in the dark, especially<br />
when she went through tunnels, from the time of<br />
her infancy until she was 40. During her<br />
adolescence, at about 13 or 14, every night for<br />
about a year, she was afraid to go to bed because<br />
she had such a strong impression at that moment<br />
that she would die during the night! She had lost<br />
her husband three years before her visit and since<br />
then had been unable to weep any more.<br />
She suffered from an excess of body heat,<br />
couldn’t stand the heat of summer, of the sun, or<br />
artificial heat. She loved the open air but avoided<br />
drafts which she didn’t like. She didn’t like<br />
standing and if she had to she felt as if she would<br />
be overcome by weakness.<br />
Her puberty came at the age of 12 and the<br />
menopause at 45. Her periods were regular, from<br />
26 to 27 days, lasted 8 days, were abundant,<br />
especially every second month. When she was<br />
upset her periods became black, had clots, and felt<br />
weight in the hypogastric region. She had pain in<br />
the breasts which were hard, and she felt chilly and<br />
irritable.<br />
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Married at 25, she remained sterile. At 45, at<br />
the time of the menopause, she had a large<br />
carbuncle in the right nostril, and hot flushes which<br />
had continued; flushes without sweat, which started<br />
in the back and came up to her face. Since the<br />
menopause she had suffered from varicose veins<br />
which had already started a few years before that in<br />
the left leg.<br />
She slept well, from 10:30 to 5’oclock in the<br />
morning, and got out of bed feeling rested at 7’0<br />
clock. She slept on the right side, because if she<br />
slept on the left side she felt palpitations. She often<br />
felt pains in her big toes, which made her uncover<br />
her feet at night, and cramps in the calves, which<br />
would wake her up. She had nightmares if she fell<br />
asleep again after waking in the morning, and often<br />
she used to talk in her sleep.<br />
She perspired easily, especially on the head, as<br />
a result of effort or heat and had photophobia-light<br />
made her eyes burn.<br />
Excellent appetite, could eat even when she<br />
had fever, and digested everything except milk,<br />
which always gave her diarrhea. She drank a lot<br />
half a litre of liquid or more at every meal to make<br />
the food go down!<br />
In winter, she caught cold frequently in the left<br />
nostril, and the cold made her voice hoarse.<br />
For years now she was suffering from<br />
rheumatic pains in the big toes which were worse in<br />
the heat of the bed and worse before the snow.<br />
Every winter she suffered from cracks in the ends<br />
of her fingers, and her skin was chapped on the<br />
back of the hands.<br />
On examining her, one saw that the patient was<br />
robust, weighed 65 kilos, was 1 meter 65 in height,<br />
had a blood pressure of 17/9. She had big varicose<br />
veins on the whole of the left lower extremity.<br />
Sharp pain on pressure in the right hypochondrium,<br />
but the liver could not be felt. On the left side of<br />
the tongue, and on the lower edge of the gum, the<br />
mucous membrane was violent and looked<br />
varnished.<br />
This was a case in which the symptoms seemed<br />
over-abundant, and one could feel perplexed in the<br />
beginning, trying to choose the leading one, but we<br />
were struck by two former symptoms:<br />
- The fear of never waking up once she fell asleep.<br />
- Anxiety and respiratory trouble when she was in<br />
the dark.<br />
These two symptoms, which are to be found in<br />
KENT’s Repertory on pp. 47, 6, and 769, pointed<br />
to Aethusa, which made us study this remedy in<br />
HERING’s Guiding Symptoms. A rapid<br />
inspection of the Materia Medica revealed that this<br />
remedy felt worse in the heat - the heat of summer,<br />
the heat of the bed: and that standing made this<br />
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patient feel weak. And the Repertory also indicated<br />
it for diarrhea after milk. We concluded that there<br />
were enough symptoms to indicate this remedy,<br />
which was not extensively developed in any<br />
Materia Medica. Our patient had mental<br />
symptoms, general symptoms, and local symptoms;<br />
therefore, we prescribed a dose of Aethusa 10M,<br />
accompanied by different kinds of Placebo.<br />
We saw this patient again 8 weeks later. She<br />
came to tell us that everything had improved<br />
rapidly; her stomatitis, the pains in her tongue, her<br />
hot flushes, her nightly muscular cramps. And<br />
interestingly enough, for the last eight days, she had<br />
pains in her left knee, a tearing pain when she got<br />
up from a sitting position or when she sat...and this<br />
was the same pain which she had felt after a fall<br />
sustained several months earlier. Since she had a<br />
return of the trouble in her tongue the last ten days<br />
before her visit we advised a second dose of<br />
Aethusa 10M, and have never again seen her!<br />
CASE HISTORY NO. 2<br />
Madame Agate G. was a stout, red-faced<br />
loquacious woman-fat dark red lips-who smelt<br />
strongly of alcohol when she came to consult me in<br />
December of 1954. She told me with passion a<br />
story that I found confused. Finally, I understood<br />
that she thought her stomach was too big and she<br />
suffered from nervous crises which brought on<br />
weeping attacks without any reason. In addition,<br />
she complained of digestive trouble at night, which<br />
came on when she went back to bed after getting<br />
up, and she felt a sensation of suffocation and<br />
dislocation in the region of the stomach; this had<br />
been going on for the last 2 years, and these attacks<br />
made such an impression on her that she thought<br />
she might be going to die, and kept the light on all<br />
night! For the last twenty years she had been<br />
suffering from pains in the lumbar region-it was<br />
like dogs gnawing away at her flesh or like a knife<br />
cutting between the skin and the flesh!<br />
It was hard to take her case history. I learned<br />
that after an emotion when she was 7, she had<br />
Chorea (St. Vitus’ Dance) and that she had a son<br />
when she was 31.<br />
She was a laundry-woman by profession, had<br />
always loved wine, and didn’t deprive herself of it.<br />
In fact, she used to get up at night to drink because<br />
she always was thirsty, and at present, she said, she<br />
was limiting herself to 2 litres of liquid a day, water<br />
wine or beer, and at least one of these two was a<br />
litre of wine, and before that, it was much worse<br />
still! She had an excellent appetite, was very fond<br />
of food, accustomed to good cooking and<br />
particularly liked anything that was difficult to<br />
digest: fatty foods, brains, sweat-breads, anything<br />
greasy, cold milk without sugar, salt and meat.<br />
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Very constipated, she had to take at least 5 or 6<br />
Carter’s pills every evening in order to go to stool!<br />
Her puberty came at 11, and the menopause at 52<br />
without any trouble. She had her period every 21 days,<br />
they lasted 3 days, of normal quantity. Before the<br />
periods, there was itching and swelling of the breasts, and<br />
especially there was an increase in her desire for wine,<br />
which never seemed to her as good at any other time of<br />
the month! It was only during her pregnancy that she<br />
didn’t drink, because wine disgusted her then.<br />
She went to bed at 9, got up at 7, in spite of<br />
difficulty getting up. She slept on the right side and<br />
uncovered the top of her body, window open. She<br />
had dreadful dreams, dreams of animals that<br />
frightened her and even made her cry out! At night,<br />
when she undressed, or at night in bed, general<br />
itching without eruption.<br />
Breatheless going up the stairs.<br />
Medical examination in addition to obvious<br />
signs of ethylic impregnation revealed obesity. She<br />
weighted 71 kilos, was 1 meter 60 tall and had high<br />
blood pressure at 22/12.<br />
When we saw this set of symptoms, we<br />
thought that alcoholism was the dominant<br />
symptom, and that it had a very particular modality<br />
which was an increased desire for alcoholic drinks<br />
before her periods. This symptom to be found in<br />
KENT’s Repertory on page 484, and only one<br />
remedy indicated: Selenium, and this symptom is<br />
indicated in the 3 rd degree.<br />
Of course it is always dangerous to prescribe<br />
on only one symptom; you do that, it can soon turn<br />
into a bad habit. So we studied the case again and<br />
looked up her symptoms is ALLEN’s<br />
Encyclopedia on one hand, and KENT’s<br />
Repertory on the other hand. In fact, our patient<br />
had several symptoms that were clearly indicated in<br />
Selenium:<br />
- loquacity<br />
- aversion to salt<br />
- increased appetite<br />
- sleep that is not restful<br />
- constipation<br />
So we were much more confident of the future<br />
of our prescription and advised one dose of<br />
Selenium 10M.<br />
A month later the woman who came back to<br />
see us was transformed. She spoke of a miracle,<br />
and couldn’t stop covering us with praises. The<br />
improvement came in a few days, almost<br />
immediately. She didn’t feel in any way the same.<br />
She felt much more energetic, had no more pains in<br />
her kidneys, no more epigastric troubles at night, no<br />
more crying fits! Her head was more orderlypreviously<br />
she was always mixing up the linen<br />
which she washed for her clients, until finally she<br />
didn’t know what was what as she surrounded by<br />
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her dirty linen. . . . She slept well, no longer needed<br />
a light at night and had no more nightmares. She<br />
was much less thirsty and had less desire for wine.<br />
She reduced her ration without difficulty whilst six<br />
years before had been very unhappy when her<br />
doctor had forbidden her to drink wine.<br />
On the fifteenth day of treatment, and for the<br />
next fifteen days, she noticed every night, from 11<br />
to 3 the next morning, a generalized eruption with<br />
small red very itchy spots. Her face had become a<br />
normal color, but she was still very constipated and<br />
her blood pressure was 20/12. We gave her one<br />
dose of Sacch lac. In March 1955, and again in<br />
January 1957. Since then, we haven’t seen her<br />
again.<br />
3. COUNTER-INDICATIONS IN CHOOSING<br />
OLD SYMPTOMS<br />
The homoeopathic doctor should not neglect<br />
anything in seeking out symptoms. All his efforts<br />
must go towards obtaining the most precise image<br />
of his patient in the expression of his symptoms. If<br />
it is true that in acute conditions the doctor can take<br />
the over-all symptoms of the moment-we mean the<br />
most recent-in chronic cases on the other hand he<br />
must seek out the totality, that is, all the symptoms<br />
present and past. In this numerical totality of the<br />
symptoms the doctor will choose the symptom<br />
complex which truly gives a picture of the patient<br />
and forms the base on which to prescribe. This<br />
symptoms complex doesn’t only represent the<br />
numerical totality of symptoms, but is the small<br />
number of symptoms that have maximum<br />
importance, and finding them, choosing them,<br />
grouping them in their order of importance needs a<br />
particular technique.<br />
ACUTE ILLNESS<br />
But, there are cases in which we must not base<br />
our remedy on symptoms, but, in conformity with<br />
the advice in paragraphs 221 and 243 of the<br />
Organon, make a “symptomatic disjunction.”<br />
Whilst in chronic illnesses we must try to prescribe<br />
antipsoric remedies and base them on the symptoms<br />
complex, in acute illness on the other hand we must<br />
prescribe apsoric remedies and base our<br />
prescription instead on the totality of the<br />
symptoms of the moment. In this case there is no<br />
need to note that the patient walked only when he<br />
was three or had a bad whooping cough during his<br />
childhood. When you have a patient with toothache<br />
or Pneumonia, for the moment you must put aside<br />
the fact that his father or mother was syphilitic.<br />
You must give him the remedy of the moment,<br />
which is indicated by the present symptoms, and<br />
which is an apsoric remedy.<br />
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IRREVERSIBLE CHRONIC LESIONS<br />
In the same way we must take into account any<br />
lesions which the patient may have. A patient who<br />
has many lesions, who has cavities or is in an<br />
advanced stage of cancer, must not receive<br />
remedies which act too deeply and strongly. The<br />
depth at which a remedy acts partly depends on the<br />
nature of the symptoms which have guided the<br />
physician to its choice. The patient’s reactions must<br />
proceed along natural lines: if the way is free, if<br />
there is no obstruction, everything will be<br />
according to plan, but if there are congestive<br />
conditions, fibroses, scleroses, tumors, any remedy<br />
which acts too deeply could cause real revolutions<br />
in the patient’s economy. In such cases one had to<br />
prescribe remedies that have a superficial action in<br />
low potencies or medium potencies, and above all<br />
one must not repeat them too often.<br />
In a note at the bottom of page 562 of his<br />
translation of Kent’s Lectures on Homoeopathic<br />
Philosophy Dr.Pierre SCHMIDT tells us that<br />
“KENT and his disciples always repeated a dose<br />
only in terminal incurable cases. We must study the<br />
image of the moment and base the remedy on that.<br />
We must particularly seek out the most personal<br />
symptoms of the patient, and above all give<br />
preference to nonpathognomonic symptoms if we<br />
can find them because these reveal the patient<br />
himself better than any others.”<br />
These are the considerations which inspired us to<br />
study old symptoms. Whatever our inner attitude to such<br />
problems, we must admit that they belong to a domain<br />
which is hidden from us and which we call “ the extra<br />
ordinary”. To see old symptoms returning according to<br />
the Law of HERING to see the return of manifestations<br />
that our every-day logic told us were long since cured,<br />
and to base a prescription on symptoms that the patient<br />
himself never had, or symptoms which appear to be long<br />
since cured, seems behavior which cannot be objectively<br />
and materially justified. And yet experience speaks for<br />
itself and tells us that such an attitude is based on, and<br />
leads to, tangible results, that nothing in man dies as long<br />
as he lives. Truly “ there are more things in heaven and<br />
earth than the human spirit can dream of.”<br />
COMMENTARIES OF DR. SCHMIDT<br />
First of all my congratulations to my colleague<br />
for this masterly presentation of a subject which is<br />
far from being common or easy and which demands<br />
study and reflection.<br />
May the rising generation know how to apply<br />
the recommendations and principles in this chapter<br />
because it is an essential subject in Homœopathy.<br />
The success of every practitioner depends on this<br />
knowledge. “Read it, read it once again, and polish<br />
it.” You will never come to the end of its benefits!<br />
Homoeotherapy, October 1974<br />
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PART III<br />
(While Part II features articles from other journals, Part III contains the editor’s own contributions and<br />
other original articles.)<br />
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BOOK SHELF:<br />
1. Medicinal Plants in Tropical Countries –<br />
Traditional use – Experience – Facts, by Markus<br />
S. MUELLER, M.D. and Ernst MECHLER, Ph.<br />
D., Thieme, Stuttgart, <strong>2005</strong>. pages VIII, 168.<br />
Nearly 80% of the World population is<br />
primarily reliant on traditional methods of healing<br />
which use empirical knowledge based on the use of<br />
medicinal plants. In the words of ‘Native Healers’<br />
there are no weeds; all are medicinal plants; only<br />
we should know their healing powers. Most of<br />
these plants grow in road borders, fences. These<br />
are not cultivated as such unless one does grow for<br />
business purposes.<br />
To bring these hundreds of plants under code<br />
and ensure that the correct plant in any<br />
family/species is used,<br />
pharmaceutical/pharmacological studies have been<br />
undertaken. Monographs of the like of the book<br />
under review will, it is hoped, satisfy the ‘evidencebased’<br />
medical world.<br />
The present book covers 25 plants, most of<br />
them used in Africa. However, several of them e.g.<br />
Allium sativum, Aloe, Capsicum, Carica papaya,<br />
Cassia senna, Curcuma longa, Eucalyptus, Jatropha<br />
curcas, Mangifera indica, Punica granatum,<br />
Rauwolfia serpentina, Ricinus communis, Zea,<br />
Zingiber – are all plants in India too and are well<br />
known in the Indian Folk Medicine as also in<br />
Ayurveda. More important, all these have been<br />
‘proved’ and are used in homœopathic medicine<br />
in day to day practice.<br />
The advantage in ‘traditional’ Medicine is that<br />
they can be procured locally and prepared and<br />
administered by ordinary people at low cost. It<br />
would be very advantageous if medically qualified<br />
physicians shed their white coats and reservations<br />
and accept the role of ‘traditional’ Medicine and<br />
encourage it.<br />
The first chapter in the book calls for<br />
colloboration between ‘Traditional Medicine’ and<br />
the so-called ‘Scientific Medicine’. However, since<br />
the pharmaceutical industry is behind the ‘medical<br />
doctors’ and profiteering is the only goal, the wish<br />
for colloboration may remain only as a wish.<br />
In the Chapter I the authors rightly say that the<br />
‘traditional’ healers are often specialists, e.g.<br />
bonesetters, obstetricians, and acute emergency<br />
handlers, etc.<br />
In SIEGERIST’s ‘History of Medicine’ he<br />
writes about a Jesuit priest witnessing a ‘caesarean’<br />
delivery of a fully pregnant woman in the deep<br />
Congo! This was done by a tribal medicine man!<br />
The period sometime in the 1700s!<br />
The Second Chapter discusses the possibility<br />
of integrating the ‘traditional’ medicine with the<br />
mainstream medicine. Whereas traditional<br />
medicine is ‘empirical’ the mainstream medicine is<br />
laboratory based. There is also the fear, justifiably,<br />
that ‘integration’ will erase totally the ‘traditional’<br />
medicine.<br />
From next Chapter “monographs” begin in<br />
alphabetical order beginning with Adansonia<br />
digitata, then Allium sativum, Aloe barbadensis and<br />
so on ending with Zingiber – 25 medicinal plants.<br />
Each monograph contains details of traditional<br />
uses, constitutional results of experimental studies,<br />
dosages etc., cautions and adverse effects and at the<br />
end a long list of reference literature.<br />
The monographs are succinct.<br />
There is a useful ‘subject index’ at the end.<br />
Well printed, hardbound with pictures – either<br />
photographs in black and white or line drawings –<br />
of each plant.<br />
A useful book for all healers and physicians.<br />
- K.S. SRINIVASAN<br />
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COMING EVENTS:<br />
1. April 6-12, <strong>2005</strong>, National Center for Homeopathy<br />
Celebrates 31 st Annual Meeting and Conference with special<br />
pre-and Post-Conference Seminars & Celebrating the 250 th<br />
Birthday of the Founder of Homeopathy – Samuel<br />
Hahnemann, MD at Wyndham Orlando Resort, Orlando,<br />
Florida<br />
For further details: National Center for Homeopathy, 801<br />
North Fairfax Street, Suite 306 Alexandria, VA 22314-1757<br />
2. A two day International Conference on 19-20 May<br />
<strong>2005</strong>. IMPROVING THE SUCCESS OF HOMEOPATHY<br />
5. A Global Perspective. Venue: Institute of Child Health,<br />
30 Guildford Street, London WC1N 1EH. For further details<br />
from:<br />
Mrs Amy Bowrin MBE – Academic Unit<br />
The Royal London Homœopathic Hospital<br />
Greenwell Street, London W1W 5BP United Kingdom<br />
Tel: +44 [0] 20 7391 8823<br />
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QUARTERLY HOMŒOPATHIC DIGEST<br />
VOL. XXII, 2, <strong>2005</strong><br />
Part I Current Literature Listing<br />
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Part I of the journal lists the current literature in Homœopathy drawn from the well-known homœopathic<br />
journals published world-over – India, England, Germany, France, Brazil, USA, etc., - discipline-wise, with<br />
brief abstracts/extracts. Readers may refer to the original articles for detailed study. The full names and<br />
addresses of the journals covered by this compilation are given at the end of Part I. Part II contains selected<br />
essays/articles/extracts, while Part III carries original articles for this journal, Book Reviews, etc.<br />
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I. PHILOSOPHY<br />
It is a quest into what is uniquely and<br />
holistically characteristic in each individual case<br />
1. The Mind in Homœopathy: Rhetoric vs Reality and a valuable aid in the homœopathic cure of<br />
TESSLER, Neil (SIM. XVII, 2/2004)<br />
many patients who might otherwise have never<br />
received help. [As long ago as 1832 both<br />
HAHNEMANN and BŒNNINGHAUSEN have<br />
agreed that the ‘spirit’ of the ailment and the ‘spirit’<br />
of the remedy must match for a quick, gentle cure:<br />
See HAHNEMANN’s letter dated 21/8/1832 to<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN. The quest of every<br />
homœopath is to ascertain the information –<br />
symptoms and signs – facts – which would point to<br />
the individual characteristics. It is not necessary<br />
that we must keep digging for ‘mental’ information:<br />
if we have other data which are clear and properly<br />
qualified with their modalities, aggravations and<br />
ameliorations we can certainly prescribe rightly.<br />
To say that HAHNEMANN, BŒNNINGHAUSEN,<br />
KENT, BOGER, were not ‘holistic’ compared to<br />
Rajan SANKARAN, Divya CHABRA and their<br />
followers is, to say the least, not right. About<br />
KENT’s observations of BŒNNINGHAUSEN’s<br />
concomitants, etc, that such ideas were “dangerous<br />
to Homœopathy”, we should remember that KENT<br />
himself did use Bœnninghausen’s Pocket Book<br />
before he compiled his Repertory = KSS].<br />
The intention of this presentation concerns<br />
with the characteristic symptoms coming through<br />
the mental/emotional sphere. As long as we lack<br />
full and complete understanding of each remedy or<br />
a sufficiently accurate knowledge of what is<br />
characteristic of the patient, there can be no straight<br />
path to the simillimum in every case.<br />
The author quotes § 211 of the Organon and<br />
the Essay “A Contribution to the Judgement<br />
Concerning the Characteristic Value of<br />
Symptoms” from Lesser Writings of<br />
Bœnninghausen to stress the value of mental<br />
symptoms. Neil TESSLER says that even though<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN and HAHNEMANN referred<br />
to the mental state strongly, this was not reflected<br />
in their cases.<br />
There is little evidence that these wonderful<br />
ideas translated into practice.<br />
KENT philosophized wonderfully about the<br />
innermost of man and wrote eloquently on the<br />
mental and emotional aspects of remedy and<br />
patient. Yet in his cases too, emotional points that<br />
come up are left with little development or context.<br />
Many teachers are delving more deeply into the<br />
fundamental characteristics of patient and remedy.<br />
The ability of homœopaths to access the inner<br />
world of the patient has certainly seen great<br />
advance. This also reflects in our ability to<br />
understand our remedies in new ways. Evolution in<br />
understanding and utilizing the mental, emotional<br />
realm was an inevitable natural development.<br />
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2. Miasm<br />
MORRISON, Roger (SIM. XVII, 2/2004)<br />
The author discusses about Miasm, which is<br />
staging a comeback.<br />
The author discusses briefly the history of<br />
Miasm that there has been almost no general<br />
agreement about the need for the miasmatic concept<br />
nor the characteristics of various Miasms. Relevant<br />
‘quotes’ from BŒNNINGHAUSEN, KENT and<br />
others are given.<br />
He refers to the Repertories of KENT,<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN and KNERR under the
ubrics Psora, Syphilis and Sycosis. The three<br />
concur only in about four antipsoric, four<br />
antisycotic and eight antisyphilitic remedies, and<br />
differ widely over other remedies.<br />
VITHOULKAS’ justification for Tubercular<br />
Miasm is also referred.<br />
The author finally speaks of the understanding<br />
of Miasms by Rajan SANKARAN.<br />
Brief descriptions about the ten Miasms of<br />
Rajan SANKARAN are given and the ‘known’<br />
remedies for that Miasm and the relevant Nosode<br />
are mentioned. [In the HL. 16, 2/2003, Erika<br />
SCHEIWILLER-MURALT has in a lengthy article<br />
suggests a ‘Small Pox Miasm’ = KSS]<br />
3. Symptoms : Totality :: Parts : Whole<br />
Sketch : Picture :: Phenomena : Gestalt<br />
SHEPPERD, Joel (AJHM. 97, 2/2004)<br />
Several different words and phrases in the<br />
Organon have been translated as “totality.” Each<br />
different word reveals a different perspective that is<br />
needed in the practical application of the<br />
homœopathic method. Some prescribers bring<br />
unstated assumptions to the meaning of Totality.<br />
One example is the wrong definition of Gestalt. In<br />
addition, there is a clash of meaning between the<br />
original definition of “symptoms” and modern<br />
usage of the word. The homœopathic definition of<br />
disease as untunement is contrasted with disease<br />
names and hyperphysical explanations of disease.<br />
A shared understanding of the phrase “totality of<br />
symptoms of the disease” no longer exists in the<br />
homœopathic community. [The title of the article<br />
makes it all clear. There can be no<br />
misunderstanding if that is understood = KSS].<br />
The study is interesting, scholarly.<br />
4. Chronic Diseases: What are they? How are<br />
they inherited?<br />
MONTFORT-CABELLO H.<br />
(HOMEOPATHY, 93, 2/2004)<br />
Background: Chronic Diseases (CD), Miasms<br />
or reactional modes, remain one of the darkest<br />
concepts of Homœopathy. They are supposed to be<br />
heritable and originate after suppression of other<br />
diseases. Besides this nothing is known about how<br />
they might produce the large number of diseases<br />
mentioned in homœopathic books. They have been<br />
described in a variety of terms, ranging from KENT<br />
and GATAK’s spiritual or metaphysic conception;<br />
the biological-allergic by PASCHERO, and,<br />
ROBERT’s materialist-nutritional point of view.<br />
FLORES-BEJAR et al have outlined an approach to<br />
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Chronic Diseases from a cellular and bioenergetic<br />
point of view.<br />
Results: Cellular pathology has led to an<br />
understanding of the basic repair mechanisms of<br />
every cell and tissue. These mechanisms exist in<br />
order to avoid necrosis or cell death. The main<br />
mechanisms are molecular repair, apoptosis and<br />
cell proliferation.<br />
Failure of these mechanisms leads to<br />
‘dysrepair’. Consequences of these ‘dysrepair’<br />
mechanisms resemble the homœopathic reactional<br />
modes or Miasms. These abnormal or ‘dysrepair’<br />
mechanisms are probably the basis of Miasms or<br />
reactional modes.<br />
A new interpretation of Miasms is proposed:<br />
Psora corresponds to the dysmolecular<br />
reactional mode.<br />
Syphilis corresponds to dysapoptotic reactional<br />
mode.<br />
Sycosis corresponds to dysproliferative<br />
reactional mode. [What is the role, if any, of the<br />
Vital force in this model? Does this throw out the<br />
concept of Vital Force? = KSS]<br />
5. Übertragungs – und Gegenübertragungs –<br />
phänomene in der homöopathischen Praxis<br />
(Transference and Counter-transference in<br />
homœopathic Practice)<br />
FOERSTER, Gisela (AHZ. 249, 3/2004)<br />
The concept of transference and countertransference<br />
as emotional access within the<br />
relationship between physician and patient is first<br />
of all discussed against the background of<br />
psychoanalytic thinking. The development from<br />
FREUD via Melanie KLEIN up to recent authors as<br />
well as the relationship between physician and<br />
patient in homœopathic literature, as it can be seen<br />
with HAHNEMANN, BŒNNINGHAUSEN and<br />
KENT, are reconstructed. The article concludes<br />
with reflections from the homœopathic practice of<br />
the author, which are intended as an encouragement<br />
to ask questions about the value of transference and<br />
counter-transference feelings for the choice of<br />
remedies.<br />
6. Die Rolle des vorurteilslosen (objektiven)<br />
Beobachters in der Homöopathie oder: Wie<br />
soll man die Technik der Sehgal-Methode<br />
beurtielen? (The role of the unprejudiced<br />
(objective) observer in Homœopathy or: How<br />
should one judge the technique of Sehgal<br />
method?)<br />
LANG, Gerhardus (AHZ. 249, 3/2004)
In the Sehgal-Method only the Mind is taken<br />
for treatment. Will the method suffer mistakes if<br />
the so called “objective symptoms” also are taken<br />
by the Sehgal method physician due to his own<br />
state of mind? What is the Art of Healing?<br />
7. Subjekt, Begehren, Synergie (Subject, Wish,<br />
Synergie) – Wider die Sehnsucht nach<br />
homöopathischer Monokultur (Against the<br />
longing for a homœopathic monoculture)<br />
GALLASCH, von Christian<br />
(AHZ. 249, 3/2004)<br />
Homœopathy is based on speaking, its inner<br />
rules and the structure of language itself. This will,<br />
within Homœopathy, exclude the paradigmata of<br />
Natural Science. “Similarity” as a historically yet<br />
newborn paradigm of perception and existence has<br />
to be developed and assimilated. Therefore<br />
homœopathic methodology has to be kept open<br />
critically. A result of this, the radical turn to the<br />
“Subject Patient”, is outlined. This leads to a<br />
concept of Homœopathy as a “subversive<br />
discourse”<br />
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II. MATERIA MEDICA<br />
1. Another View of Spider Remedies:<br />
Overachievers and the Olympian Archetype<br />
ALLEN, Karen (AJHM. 97, 2/2004)<br />
The author feels that the Spider remedies have<br />
a range as well. Most often we are prescribing for<br />
the more advanced end of the continuum, as the<br />
softer beginning of the state, the ‘healthier’ spider<br />
state, has not been documented in our Materia<br />
Medica.<br />
In her ten years of practice, she is able to add<br />
the features of relationship and sexual difficulties,<br />
lack of perception of fatigue, adventurous or risktaking<br />
behavior, competition, communication,<br />
pursuit of education, lack of play or joy, awareness<br />
of suffering and service work.<br />
The author presents this information as still<br />
somewhat theoretical and feels will certainly evolve<br />
further as our understanding deepens.<br />
These concepts are illustrated with cases.<br />
A table of Spiders of class Arachnida and their<br />
suborders and which are used in Homœopathy are<br />
given. [There is much of ‘signature’ in this article<br />
= KSS].<br />
2. A Case of Ginseng: Habitat in Homœopathy<br />
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UNGER, Kathrin (AJHM. 97, 2/2004)<br />
The author illustrates the central ‘themes’ of<br />
Ginseng by reporting the correlations between<br />
Ginseng’s characteristics and her own.<br />
Many of the Mind rubrics of Ginseng reported<br />
by Nancy HERRICK which suited the author are<br />
given.<br />
She also likes to ask the patients about their<br />
favorite environments and to note whether they<br />
match the natural habitats of their constitutional<br />
remedies. [Surely Homœopathic Materia Medica is<br />
not to be built with these information. I am afraid<br />
we are going too far from the basics = KSS.]<br />
3. The Toxicology of the Dermacentor<br />
Andersoni: The Rocky Mountain Wood Tick<br />
BONNET, Michael S. (AJHM. 97, 2/2004)<br />
Some aspects of the biology of this Tick,<br />
including its taxonomy, life cycle and its behavior<br />
are presented in order to familiarize the reader with<br />
the source of the toxin.<br />
Materia Medica based on Human<br />
envenomation is presented.<br />
Outline Review<br />
Flaccid, symmetrical paralysis of the ascending<br />
type, affecting the lower extremities first and the<br />
upper extremities next, progressing to a bulbar<br />
paralysis. Respiratory distress and difficulty<br />
swallowing and speaking.<br />
Mind<br />
Alert and active (humans & dogs)<br />
Anxious.<br />
Apprehension.<br />
“Cranky”, cross tempered, crotchety (child).<br />
Fully conscious and able to answer all questions<br />
(child).<br />
Intellectual performance unimpaired.<br />
Irritability, vague.<br />
Irritable (adult & child), more pronounced in<br />
mornings, vague initial symptom.<br />
“Just not himself.” (child).<br />
Restlessness: extreme, vague initial symptom.<br />
Sensorium: clear.<br />
Vertigo<br />
Vertigo.
Central Nervous System<br />
Amplitude of muscle-action potential reduced (0.8<br />
mV vs. normal 6.0-14.0).<br />
Ascending paralysis with bulbar involvement.<br />
Ascending quadriparesis, progressive.<br />
Balance loss.<br />
Clumsy (child).<br />
Cranial nerve function intact.<br />
Falls when trying to walk (child).<br />
Flaccid symmetrical paralysis (humans & dogs)<br />
within hours<br />
Feed self (child): unable, because of weakness and<br />
loss of coordination of arms and hands.<br />
Incoordination.<br />
Jerky movements of arms and head (child).<br />
Lower cranial nerves are paralyzed first, followed<br />
by involvement of the face and extraocular muscles<br />
and finally the respiratory muscles.<br />
Motor-nerve conduction velocity slowed (43.3<br />
M/sec. vs. normal 47.0-64.0).<br />
Myoclonic jerks, generalized.<br />
Numbness.<br />
Paresthesia.<br />
Paresis precedes paralysis.<br />
Staggering, bumping against obstacles and falling<br />
occasionally (child).<br />
Unable to get out of bed unassisted (child)<br />
Unable to move about in bed.<br />
Unable to support own weight at all. (dogs).<br />
Unable to stand unsupported (child & dog).<br />
Unsteady on feet (child): very.<br />
Cerebro-Spinal Fluid<br />
CSF pressure: normal.<br />
Reflexes<br />
Abdominal reflex absent.<br />
Areflexic quadriparesis, flaccid and marked.<br />
Cremasteric reflex absent.<br />
Deep tendon reflexes in upper and lower limbs<br />
markedly diminished or absent.<br />
Diminished or absent reflexes.<br />
Lower limb reflexes gone.<br />
Sensations to touch, pinprick & vibration, position<br />
unaltered.<br />
Head & Neck<br />
Alopecia. “Moth eaten” appearance with oval areas<br />
completely devoid of hair and follicles, affecting<br />
principally the occiput, without inflammation or<br />
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scales and superficially resembling alopecia of<br />
secondary syphilis.<br />
Nuchal rigidity.<br />
Eye<br />
Nystagmus to the right: transient.<br />
Reflexes normal.<br />
Wide-eyed look.<br />
Fundoscopy<br />
Small white area about left disk, but no<br />
papilledema, hemorrhage or exudates.<br />
Vision<br />
Photophobia.<br />
Face<br />
Flushed (adult & child).<br />
Mild weakness in upper & lower facial muscles.<br />
Mouth<br />
Drooling.<br />
Opening mouth voluntarily: considerable difficulty.<br />
Throat & Pharynx<br />
Difficulty with mucus in pharynx.<br />
Megaesophagus (dogs).<br />
Paralysis of muscles of deglutition.<br />
Paralysis of throat and tongue muscles resulting in<br />
difficulty swallowing and speaking.<br />
Posterior pharynx: signs of irritation and trauma.<br />
Swallowing: considerable difficulty.<br />
Stomach<br />
Anorexia.<br />
Appetite poor or none (child).<br />
Nausea.<br />
Vomiting.<br />
Abdomen<br />
Lower right quadrant abdominal pain.<br />
Tenderness just lateral to McBurney’s point.<br />
Rectum<br />
Diarrhea.<br />
Sphincter may or may not be involved in the<br />
ascending paralysis.
Bladder<br />
Sphincter may or may not be involved in the<br />
ascending paralysis.<br />
Urine<br />
Albuminuria. (normal: negative)<br />
Hyaline casts: many.<br />
Respiratory System<br />
Cyanosis not responding to Oxygen therapy.<br />
Larynx<br />
Speech indistinct.<br />
Respiration<br />
Respiratory distress: sudden and unexpected.<br />
Tachypnea.<br />
Cardio-Vascular System<br />
Tachycardia > 100bpm.<br />
Musculoskeletal System<br />
Ataxia, truncal, mild.<br />
Motor paralysis, flaccid, ascending and acute.<br />
Weakness throughout body (severe), especially<br />
legs.<br />
Neck<br />
Nuchal rigidity and tenderness.<br />
Pain on anteflexion of neck.<br />
Back<br />
Sudden onset of pain in lower back, persistent for<br />
days, then subsiding.<br />
Extremities<br />
Ataxia, marked.<br />
Incoordination and partial paralysis starting in<br />
lower extremities, and later involving upper limbs.<br />
Ascending flaccid paralysis.<br />
Numbness in hands and feet, early symptom,<br />
progressing to paralysis, initially of the legs, then<br />
moving up the body.<br />
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Jerky, involuntary movements.<br />
Paralysis of all four limbs (dogs).<br />
Upper limbs<br />
Coordination loss (child).<br />
Lift arms, cannot.<br />
Numbness of hands and arms usually following that<br />
of feet and legs.<br />
Paresis of arms: marked.<br />
Tone decreased.<br />
Weakness in both arms.<br />
Lower limbs<br />
Ankle jerks absent.<br />
Coordination loss.<br />
Flaccid paralysis.<br />
Knees buckle under patient (child).<br />
Knee jerks absent.<br />
Legs lift, cannot.<br />
Loss of use/control of legs (child).<br />
Muscle tone and strength diminished in both legs.<br />
Muscle tone normal.<br />
Numbness in feet and legs causing difficulty<br />
walking and standing.<br />
Paresthesia.<br />
Paralyzed.<br />
Stand, cannot, or only briefly before requiring<br />
assistance.<br />
Weakness in legs, severe, with progressive loss of<br />
locomotion.<br />
Gait<br />
Reluctant to walk.<br />
Staggering.<br />
Stumbling as if drunk.<br />
Stumbling walk before becoming fully paralyzed<br />
(dogs).<br />
Unsteady gait.<br />
Posture<br />
Difficulty standing.<br />
Reticuloendothelial System<br />
Regional adenopathy, but without systemic<br />
symptoms.<br />
Fever<br />
Afebrile.<br />
Little or no fever.<br />
Mild fever but near end of illness.
Perspiration<br />
Sweaty.<br />
Skin<br />
Cutaneous anesthesia: rare.<br />
Scarlet, irritable local patch.<br />
Paresthesia.<br />
Prickling, tingling, or creeping sensation on skin.<br />
Pain<br />
Pain, local, severe without signs of inflammation.<br />
Pain, little.<br />
Recovery & convalescence<br />
During recovery, the paralysis disappears in a<br />
descending order.<br />
Hematology<br />
Bleeding tendencies, local.<br />
Eosinophils: 1%. (normal:2-5% of total WBC<br />
count)<br />
Lymphocytes: 12%. (normal: 25-33% of total WBC<br />
count)<br />
Monocytes: 4% (normal: 3-7% of total WBC count)<br />
Polymorphonuclear cells: in 83% of WBC count.<br />
(normal: 25-33% of WBC count)<br />
White Blood Cells: 15,000/cu.mm. (normal: 4,800-<br />
10,000/cu.mm)<br />
Generals<br />
Acutely ill.<br />
Sudden onset.<br />
Tiredness.<br />
Weakness, lasting for days.<br />
Post-Mortem<br />
CNS: Congestion of brain and cord.<br />
Skin: Subcutaneous hemorrhage.<br />
Folklore<br />
Shoshone American Indians are said to have sent<br />
the women into tick infested areas to test the ‘evil<br />
spirits’ associated with the Rocky Mountain<br />
foothills. Otherwise men avoided these areas that<br />
were inhabited by evil spirits. When large numbers<br />
of domesticated animals were brought in by the<br />
European settlers, ticks and their diseases affected<br />
them and their settlements much more than they<br />
ever had the native nomadic population.<br />
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Differential Diagnosis<br />
Acute appendicitis.<br />
Anterior poliomyelitis.<br />
Botulism.<br />
Epidural ascending spinal paralysis.<br />
Infectious polyneuritis (Guillain-Barré syndrome).<br />
Myasthenia gravis.<br />
Syringomyelia.<br />
Toxicity due to organic and inorganic poisons.<br />
4. Abgezählte Sepia - Modalitäten – darf’s etwas<br />
mehr sein? (Enumerated Sepia – modalities –<br />
may be more?)<br />
WACKER, Andreas (ZKH. 48, 2/2004)<br />
In some earlier numbers of the ZKH Dr.<br />
HOLZAPFEL has pointed out several deviations<br />
and incongruences in the work of von<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN.<br />
In this essay Dr. Andreas WACKER points out<br />
further variations and discrepancies.<br />
The complete modalities of Sepia was drawn<br />
from HAHNEMANN’s Materia Medica Pura and<br />
compared with von BŒNNINGHAUSEN’s<br />
Therapeutic Pocket Book and many discrepancies<br />
were found. This raises the question whether von<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN integrated systematically<br />
HAHNEMANN’s Materia Medica.<br />
Many such discrepancies are listed. It is<br />
possible that such discrepancies were taken on in<br />
repertories which came later and drew liberally<br />
from the Therapeutic Pocket Book.<br />
The author has analysed Sulphur and Silicea<br />
also similarly and found the discrepancies as much<br />
as in the case of Sepia. This will appear in<br />
subsequent number of the ZKH.<br />
Jüngen SEIDEL, gives a detailed response to<br />
this article, in his letter to the Editor in the ZKH.<br />
48, 4/2004.<br />
5. Hura brasiliensis<br />
BAHEMANN, Alois (ZKH. 48, 2/2004)<br />
Hura brasiliensis is not prescribed often.<br />
Mrs. G.M. 47 years. Her main complaint: a<br />
chronic pain in the back almost the whole vertebral<br />
column. Also, considerable headaches since<br />
cerebral injury in 1971 extending to pelvis and also<br />
thrombosis of right leg. Since 1992 a Tinnitus,<br />
both sides, of a constant frequency. In the right<br />
knee there was a Baker cyst diagnosed some years<br />
ago, but it did not cause her any pain. In 1978 she<br />
had intervertebral prolapse in the L5-S1; the right
leg has been numb. Craving for sweets before<br />
menses.<br />
She worked as a paramedical helper. Her<br />
father was an autocrat. Her mother died of<br />
Intestinal Cancer and her father blamed her for it.<br />
She could not weep during her mother’s funeral.<br />
She used to bite her fingernails earlier and now<br />
she bites the skin around the nail.<br />
In 1993 her husband deserted her for another<br />
but he returned to her in 1995. She suffered deep<br />
grief and mortification and this is remembered by<br />
her often. Her husband does not give her any<br />
security. She felt that there was none who cared for<br />
her. Upto 2002 she had already had homœopathic<br />
medicines: Ignatia, Natrum muriaticum, Thuja,<br />
Aurum muriaticum, Calcium phosphoricum and<br />
Lycopodium – all these gave temporary relief.<br />
Rubrics:<br />
1. Mind, ailments from grief<br />
2. Mind, bites, nails<br />
3. Mind, reproaches herself<br />
4. Mind, death, thoughts of death<br />
5. Mind, unlucky, feels herself<br />
6. Mind, abandoned<br />
7. Delusion, she is alone, alone in the world<br />
8. Back, pain, lumbar region, lifting a weight,<br />
from<br />
Her feelings matched well what Rajan<br />
SANKARAN has written in his book The Soul of<br />
Remedies.<br />
The Encyclopaedia of T.F. ALLEN gives the<br />
words of the original Proving by Benoit MURE.<br />
Hura brasiliensis 200; after two months 1000,<br />
repeated once.<br />
Hura brasiliensis should be thought of in cases<br />
where Ignatia, Natrum muriaticum have not been<br />
helpful.<br />
6. Busy, Healing bees<br />
Amazing Apis mellifica<br />
CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 23, 7/2003)<br />
The general, emotional and physical symptoms<br />
of the remedy Apis mellifica are discussed.<br />
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III. THERAPEUTICS<br />
1. Psychosomatism in Homœopathy<br />
PASCHERO, Tomás Pablo<br />
(SIM. XVII, 2/2004)<br />
A lady, presented with dyspeptic disorders that<br />
persisted inspite of innumerable treatments and<br />
which she could endure no more. Careful analysis<br />
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revealed it was a simple case of Flatulent<br />
Dyspepsia with acid eructations, constipation and<br />
especially a painful sensation of fullness in the<br />
stomach shortly after the beginning of every meal.<br />
The author concluded that an underlying factor<br />
which she either ignored or tried to conceal was<br />
responsible for the alteration of her normal gastric<br />
functions.<br />
Direct and adequate enquiries as to her<br />
personal situation and private life, revealed the<br />
following facts.<br />
She is confronted with the impossibility of<br />
bearing a child and considering her incapacity as a<br />
sign of immaturity, due to the lack of normal<br />
psycho-hormonal development, for which her own<br />
thwarted childhood and dependence on her mother<br />
were responsible, reacted by developing an anxiety<br />
conflict.<br />
Rubrics selected:<br />
MIND; ANXIETY; salvation, about<br />
MIND; ANXIETY; walking; while; air; open, in;<br />
agg.<br />
GENERALITIES; HEATED, becoming; agg.;<br />
walking while.<br />
GENERALITIES; CLOTHING; intolerance of<br />
STOMACH; FULLNESS; eating; agg.; after; ever<br />
so little.<br />
Lycopodium.<br />
2. A Case of Internal Rage<br />
TESSLER, Neil (SIM. XVII, 2/2004)<br />
This is a case of 48-year-old female being seen<br />
by the author for 10 years. He was able to help in<br />
her very deep fatigue and chronic chest problem,<br />
but could not fundamentally offset her chronic<br />
pattern of anger, being scattered, mental fogginess<br />
and recurring bouts of deep fatigue.<br />
So SANKARAN’s method is followed.<br />
“Constantly suppressing anger” is the<br />
fundamental and central theme. She is absolutely<br />
feeling based and closely matched SANKARAN’s<br />
attributions of the plant family which show<br />
sensitivity and reactivity, emotional, sentimental<br />
and disorganized.<br />
The plant family characterized by rage,<br />
violence, panic and sluggishness is the Solanacea<br />
family.<br />
Her intense and incessant struggle with a<br />
desperate, chaotic feeling, the continual effort to<br />
exert control over her emotions, as well as Cancer<br />
in both parents indicates the Cancer Miasm as<br />
defined by SANKARAN and So Tabacum 1M is<br />
given.<br />
In nine months she was 90% better.
The author concludes that this remedy hardly<br />
would have been arrived at by ‘traditional’ means.<br />
Careful use of Dr. Rajan SANKARAN’s methods<br />
of analysis succeeded over traditional methods.<br />
[Where is the question of ‘insufficiency’ of the<br />
‘traditional’ method and the ‘superiority’ of ‘new<br />
method’. Perhaps the ‘traditional’ method might<br />
have indicated another remedy and it could have<br />
succeeded, and may be in a lesser time! How can<br />
any one say for certainity? There have been and<br />
still there are more cases of more severe nature<br />
being treated successfully by the ‘traditional’<br />
method = KSS]<br />
3. The Story of Connor: An Excerpt from a<br />
forthcoming book<br />
REICHENBERG-ULLMAN, Judyth<br />
(SIM. XVII, 2/2004)<br />
Connor, a seven-year-old, with his temper out<br />
of control. Suddenly he’s screaming, clawing,<br />
biting. He hates being held down. He will bite if<br />
restrained. Rude and insolent, he just did not know<br />
when to stop.<br />
At 19 months, he was dehydrated and given IV<br />
in the neck. He was strapped down and screaming<br />
for 24 hours.<br />
Connor became frightened during the stillborn<br />
delivery of his sister. He never got over that<br />
trauma.<br />
The first medicine given was Stramonium, for<br />
violent behavior coupled with fears of dark and<br />
water. Later Lyssin made a big difference.<br />
Five weeks after Stramonium, his fears were<br />
less intense and no nightmares. Fear of dogs<br />
lessened. Biting diminished.<br />
Not satisfied with the improvement after eight<br />
months, case was restudied and based on rage, fear<br />
of water, animal like behavior and terror of dogs,<br />
prescribed Lyssin.<br />
After this, biting was gone, better with water,<br />
significant improvement socially. At this point, he<br />
was diagnosed as having Asperger’s Syndrome.<br />
A new technique to explore his attitude<br />
towards the animal kingdom. His favorite animal<br />
was Peregrine Falcons. The theme of Falcon is a<br />
strong feeling of being restrained, confined or<br />
trapped. A homœopathic medicine made from a<br />
drop of blood of the Peregrine Falcon was<br />
prescribed.<br />
The improvement was remarkable and better<br />
than ever. He had reached another stage of<br />
development and maturity and appropriate social<br />
awareness. Nine months after changing to Falcon,<br />
all positive changes have continued and his sense of<br />
smell which was lost since he was four is back.<br />
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[This case is again is based on ‘signature’. The<br />
theme of Falcon is a strong feeling of being<br />
restrained, confined or trapped. The main feeling<br />
of those needing this animal is of being trapped and<br />
restrained. Which animal including human, would<br />
docilely agree to be trapped and restrained? A<br />
mouse caught in a trap overnight would be gnawing<br />
at the thin iron bars, the wooden door the whole<br />
night, to escape. In the morning as the trapdoor is<br />
opened even a little, the mouse would dart out<br />
lightning-like and escape into the bushes. Anyway,<br />
what could we, who do not know the ‘Proving’ of<br />
Falcon and its symptoms, or have the remedy in<br />
any of the pharmacies here do, if we get a case like<br />
Connor? Are there no ‘Plant’ remedies which have<br />
these symptoms? The search for a suitable remedy<br />
in the available armamentarium is equally<br />
fascinating and challenging. This is not to deny the<br />
successful application of Falcon, in the case. It is<br />
there, for all to see. The idea of Falcon came up<br />
only because the boy’s favourite animal was<br />
Falcon. A signature? In his book ‘Medicine in the<br />
Veda - Religious Healing in the Veda’ by<br />
Kenneth G. ZYSK, we read the following: “From<br />
this, we notice that the frog, whose nature is cool<br />
and wet, served as the receptacle for the hot fever.<br />
Bloomfield and Henry consider that such a practice<br />
is an example of allopathic, as opposed to<br />
homœopathic medicine which is exemplified at<br />
KauśS 26. 14-21 (AVŚ 1.22), where yellow birds<br />
are used to carry away the yellowness (jaundice) of<br />
a patient. This is, indeed, one explanation.<br />
Filliozat, however, has proposed a different, equally<br />
valid, interpretation: …… In this way, Filliozat<br />
understands both the yellow birds and the frog to be<br />
used homœopathically ….” Perhaps this kind of<br />
‘Homœopathy’ (in ancient India) is not far from<br />
the ‘themes’ of the present day! = KSS]<br />
4. A Case of Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia<br />
FLEISHER, Mitchell (AJHM. 97, 2/2004)<br />
56-year-old female businesswoman with severe<br />
Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia. Fatigue began<br />
after she lost a major business to a female<br />
competitor. She harbored profound resentment,<br />
anger, disgust and distrust toward most women.<br />
She vehemently denied of having jealousy, envy<br />
and any fears.<br />
Using free associative techniques promulgated<br />
by Dr. Divya CHHABRA, her core qualities like<br />
Dreams of spiders and falling, Fear of hairy spiders<br />
attacking, and Rage and pure malice were elicited;<br />
and also clairvoyance.<br />
She could not stand anything against her neck.
Crotalus cascavella 1M dry on tongue. Three<br />
months later, fatigue and muscle pains were more<br />
than 80% better. She also noted that her sinus<br />
problems which she did not mention were also<br />
better. She has continued to do progressively well<br />
at subsequent follow-up visits. [Many of the cases,<br />
like the one given here, gives the Repertory<br />
‘rubrics’ and whatever the repertory directs is<br />
chosen. What is the Materia Medica’s role? We<br />
have very little information in the available Materia<br />
Medica: VERMEULEN’s Concordant, Roger<br />
MORRISON’s Desk top, Robin MURPHY’s<br />
Lotus. These confirm the Clairvoyance, hairy<br />
spiders, but not the ‘Sarcasm’, ‘Loquacity’,<br />
‘Ambition’. Is Repertory the final authority? =<br />
KSS.]<br />
5. Clinical Snapshots<br />
SHEPPERD, Joel (AJHM. 97, 2/2004)<br />
Case 1: Headache after Viral Illness.<br />
PR - 60-year-old patient with an Upper<br />
Respiratory Infection. Clear nasal discharge,<br />
exhaustion, chilliness without fever and sore throat<br />
relieved by warm beverages. Arsenicum album 200<br />
several doses in water. After 3 days better except<br />
for fatigue and dull headache. Self medicated with<br />
Gelsemium 200 no avail. Upon further questioning,<br />
headache as similar to a helmet. Crotalus<br />
cascavella 200. Three daily doses brought relief<br />
until the headache was completely gone in three<br />
days and his energy returned normal by the fifth<br />
day.<br />
Case 2: Right Remedy, Wrong Outcome<br />
A man in 30’s with haggard look and ill at ease<br />
in ill-fitting clothes. He had quit his job and<br />
socialising. Not interested in food or beer which he<br />
enjoyed previously. His apathy had resulted from<br />
an excess of drugs, alcohol and sex.<br />
Phosphoric acid 200. A month later, he was<br />
nicely dressed and animated. Restarted his job,<br />
began partying and frequenting bars again.<br />
Two months later, he died of drug overdose.<br />
[Amen = KSS]<br />
6. Acute Intercurrent or Intermediate<br />
Remedies in Chronic Diseases<br />
SCHEPPER, Luc De (AJHM. 97, 2/2004)<br />
Dr. De SCHEPPER, using the Organon as a<br />
guide, details the appropriate management of<br />
various acute disorders. He advocates the treatment<br />
of significant acute illnesses, and asserts that most<br />
often an acute remedy other than the chronic<br />
remedy will be required. As sources he cites<br />
HAHNEMANN, KENT and von<br />
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BŒNNINGHAUSEN. Acutes are grouped as<br />
follows: IA. Acutes caused by lifestyle or diet<br />
habits, for which no homœopathic treatment is<br />
indicated; IB. Acutes with clear exciting factors and<br />
strong symptoms, for which an intercurrent acute<br />
remedy will be required; IC. Acute exacerbations of<br />
the Chronic Miasm, which, if not extreme, can be<br />
tempered by a repetition of the chronic remedy, but<br />
which, if severe, usually require an intercurrent<br />
emergency remedy; II. Sporadic acutes due either to<br />
1) meteorological or telluric influences, the<br />
susceptibility to which reflects a constitutional<br />
sensitivity; hence the treatment is the chronic<br />
remedy, unless the situation is severe and urgent,<br />
when an acute intercurrent remedy might be given,<br />
or 2) epidemic diseases, for which either the<br />
chronic or an acute remedy could be indicated<br />
depending upon the severity of the illness; and,<br />
lastly, III. Acute Miasms of well-known, readily<br />
diagnosable diseases; such as, Smallpox, Measles,<br />
Mumps, etc, which are treated only with acute<br />
intercurrent remedies, and after which follow-up<br />
treatment with the indicated chronic remedy is<br />
important. [The full article is given in Part II]<br />
7. Homœopathy as a supportive therapy in Cancer<br />
RAJENDRAN E.S.<br />
(HOMEOPATHY, 93, 2/2004)<br />
Case 1: 64-year-old male. Adenocarcinoma<br />
Rectum. Metastasis to Liver and regional LN.<br />
Bloody stool 10-12 per day for 5 months.<br />
Distension in abdomen. Oedema less. B/L inguinal<br />
hernia repairs. Craving for sweets and non-veg.<br />
Thirst increased.<br />
Abdominal pain > after stool and urination.<br />
Hurried. Breathless after exertion. Tongue dry,<br />
coated. Sigmoidoscopy: Neoplasm 10cm. from<br />
anal margin. Biopsy: moderately differentiated<br />
Adenocarcinoma. Metastasis in Liver and regional<br />
lymph nodes. Colectomy refused.<br />
Lycopodium 30. t.d.s. for 4 days. Ruta Q 5 gtt<br />
t.d.s. for rectal bleeding.<br />
12 days later: Generally well. Stools 4-6<br />
times/day. Ruta not required.<br />
45 days later: Some recurrence.<br />
Lycopodium 30 b.d. for 2 weeks. A month<br />
later Lycopodium 30 every 3 days for 5 months.<br />
Severe cough and wheezing. Antimonium tarticum<br />
30 hourly until improvement. Then resume<br />
Lycopodium 30 and Ruta 30.<br />
Thuja 1M 2 doses intercurrent.<br />
2 months later recurrence. Mer.sol.30 q.i.d. for<br />
a week then b.d. 6 weeks later exhausting<br />
diarrhoea for 2 days with thirst for warm water.<br />
Ars. alb 30 q.i.d. for a week then b.d.
5 weeks later died peacefully.<br />
Case 2: 77-year-old female. Terminal<br />
Squamous Carcinoma of face.<br />
Squamous Cell Carcinoma right cheek since 9<br />
months. Radiotherapy. Ulceration spreading<br />
rapidly since 3 months. Unable to open mouth.<br />
Offensive pus mixed with blood. Excruciating pain.<br />
Flabby, fair, chilly, perspiration on head.<br />
Calc. carb 30, 2 pills q.i.d. No pain after first<br />
2 doses. Calc. carb 30 to be taken as required.<br />
5 weeks later, able to drink milk and fruit juice.<br />
2 months later stable with increased weakness<br />
and emaciation. Calc. carb used 3 times.<br />
A week later died.<br />
Case 3: 70-year-old male. Carcinoma of<br />
Larynx.<br />
Hoarseness after public speaking since 2 years.<br />
Advised immediate Surgery and Radiotherapy.<br />
Then homœopathic treatment started.<br />
Sensitive, sympathetic, chilly, thirstless,<br />
craving sugar and salt, ailments from milk, egg.<br />
Carcinoma Larynx; Fistula in Ano; bleeding<br />
Haemorrhoids; Dermatitis; Chronic Pharyngitis;<br />
Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media; Ferrum phos<br />
LM 3, 15 drops t.d.s. for a week and then daily.<br />
10 weeks later – No throat pain and Sinusitis.<br />
Patient advised to undergo Ayurvedic treatment for<br />
Fistula in Ano.<br />
Ferrum phos. LM 3, 15 drops every 3 days.<br />
4 months later: stable except slight increase in<br />
Throat pain and Eczema.<br />
One year later: 80% better.<br />
Ferrum phos LM 4, 15 drops every 4 days.<br />
4 months later: Free from all complaints except<br />
Haemorrhoids.<br />
5 months later: Ferrum phos. LM 6. 15 drops<br />
daily for a week then every 2 days for 2 weeks.<br />
He was on placebo for a year and advised to<br />
discontinue medication.<br />
[How was Lycopodium 30 and Ruta 30 given?<br />
Simultaneously or one after another?<br />
HAHNEMANN’s instructions are that the same<br />
potency cannot be repeated but every time the<br />
potency should be different by way of succussions.<br />
The author of these cases has repeated 30 potency<br />
several times a day (b.d., t.d.s., q.i.d.) and for many<br />
weeks! LM potencies in ‘drops’ for days together<br />
without succussing? = KSS.]<br />
8. Curing Constipation<br />
DOOLEY, Timothy R. (HT. 23, 5/2003)<br />
Factors such as diet, habit, genetics, hydration,<br />
personality and environmental toxins all interact to<br />
determine how a person’s elimination functions.<br />
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Indications of Nux vomica, Bryonia, Silica,<br />
Alumina, Plumbum and Aesculus are discussed.<br />
Drink plenty of water, eat whole grain foods,<br />
fruits and vegetables; avoid processed foods, white<br />
sugar.<br />
9. Sticks and stones and broken bones.<br />
CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 23, 5/2003)<br />
Maria, 91, had fallen and had hairline fractures<br />
of two of the metatarsals of left foot more or less in<br />
the middle of the foot. She was confused,<br />
frightened, exhausted and in lot of pain. She had<br />
been taking Arnica 30 sporadically throughout the<br />
day.<br />
Swelling was less but pain was bothering.<br />
Symphytum 1M, and next morning foot was sore<br />
but not painful. Arnica 1M b.d. The ace bandage<br />
was replaced with a comforting sock. 15 minute<br />
ice bath gave her a tremendous relief. Cream<br />
containing Arnica, Ruta and Symphytum rubbed 2-3<br />
times daily. Ledum for a couple of days in a row.<br />
On the 5 th day she sank into an apathetic<br />
depression. Phosphoric acid single dose. She had<br />
a peaceful sleep and woke her old spunky self.<br />
She was doing exercises from her sick bed and<br />
after 17 days, she is walking carefully without pain.<br />
On days when she became anxious, she had<br />
diarrhoea and talk about death. Sips of water and<br />
covering with quilt. A dose of Arsenicum and she<br />
bounced back from despair.<br />
Instructions about caring for bed-bound,<br />
elderly folk are given.<br />
10. Homœopathic First aid for Fractures<br />
CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 23, 5/2003)<br />
Immediately after the injury : Arnica, Ledum<br />
Healing the pain : Symphytum, Bryonia,<br />
Ruta<br />
Healing the emotional body : Conium, Phosphoric<br />
acid, Staphysagria<br />
Other remedies : Hypericum, Arnica<br />
Helping bones that are slow<br />
to heal : Calcarea phos. 6x<br />
Silica 6x<br />
Prescribing guidelines are given.
11. Homœopathy for a Healthy<br />
Retirement.<br />
ALLEN, Karen (HT. 23, 5/2003)<br />
Homœopathy offers a holistic solution to a<br />
senior’s health problems, with remedies that are<br />
gentle, safe and inexpensive.<br />
Larry, 68, had Pneumonia an year ago and not<br />
well since then. Tired much more easily, sleeps<br />
longer and wakes up groggy. Tonsils are larger<br />
now, swell up with a cold more often. Despair of<br />
recovery. Funny smoky feeling inside the lungs.<br />
Repertorised using Mac Repertory. Baryta<br />
carbonica 6c b.d. for next 6 weeks. Within a week,<br />
noticed a change in his level of energy, with less<br />
fatigue and more enthusiasm about life and within<br />
three months back to his old self.<br />
12. Managing Stress and Loss as we Age<br />
MULLIS, Nancy (HT. 23, 5/2003)<br />
Homœopathy gives us excellent opportunities<br />
to maximize health in the aging process. One of the<br />
greatest predictors of living to a healthy old age is<br />
one’s ability to adapt to stress and loss of loved<br />
ones.<br />
Jim, 68, with severe foot pain. Persistent<br />
hoarseness after being on the phone for a while,<br />
dryness of throat not eliminated by drinking,<br />
photophobia, painful haemorrhoids, incomplete<br />
emptying of bladder and BPH. Majority of the<br />
problems started after the death of his wife 3 years<br />
ago. He was still caring and concerned about his<br />
adult children.<br />
After treatment with Causticum, foot pain,<br />
Hoarseness and Photophobia resolved and his other<br />
complaints improved greatly.<br />
13. A Septugenarian with Emphysema<br />
ALLEN, Karen (HT. 23, 5/2003)<br />
ELIZA, in her late 70’s sought help for<br />
Emphysema. Her respiratory symptoms included a<br />
spasmodic sensation and aggravation from walking.<br />
She had a strong contempt for others, and no<br />
interactions with family members. As she spoke,<br />
the color of the face changed from pale to sallow to<br />
yellow to red in varying degrees.<br />
Platina 12 daily. 7 weeks later, facial color<br />
stable, looked healthier. She was more pleasant<br />
and less condemning. No need of Oxygen tank<br />
now and need of inhaler only once. She still had a<br />
long way to go.<br />
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Homœopathy can be successful in helping to<br />
increase functionality within the limitations that<br />
exist.<br />
14. Top ten remedies for Seniors<br />
CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 23, 5/2003)<br />
The indications of ten remedies most often<br />
required for the elderly people are given in brief.<br />
The remedies are Alumina, Ambra grisea,<br />
Arsenicum album, Baryta carbonica, Carbo<br />
vegetabilis, Conium maculatum, Ignatia amara,<br />
Lycopodium, Phosphoric acid and Rhus<br />
toxicodendron. The indications are tabulated.<br />
15. Easing the Suffering of a Loved One<br />
WYCKOFF, Valeria (HT. 23, 5/2003)<br />
95-year-old grandmother of the author had a<br />
Stroke and was dying. She never wanted tube<br />
feeding or other measures to prolong her life.<br />
There was agitation in her hands: They moved<br />
constantly as she lay there, body still and eyes<br />
closed. Arsenicum album 30, 4 pellets were placed<br />
inside her lower lip. Her hands had stopped<br />
moving. She remained serene till next day when<br />
she seemed to get agitated again. Arsenicum<br />
repeated and she calmed down. She died later that<br />
day.<br />
16. Vertigo makes the World go round …, and<br />
round, …<br />
HOOVER, Todd A. (HT. 23, 5/2003)<br />
Vertigo is a whirling, spinning sensation<br />
produced by a malfunctioning of the balance<br />
apparatus of the inner-ear.<br />
Faintness (or pre-syncope) is a light-headed<br />
sensation caused by a fluctuation in blood pressure.<br />
For Labyrinthitis/Vestibular Neuronitis, the<br />
indications for Gelsemium, Cocculus, Nux vomica,<br />
Belladonna, Bryonia alba and Pulsatilla are<br />
discussed.<br />
For Motion sickness, the indications for<br />
Tabacum, Conium, Theridion, Calcarea carbonica<br />
and Petroleum are discussed.<br />
17. Help for Hay Fever and Allergy Season<br />
ULLMAN, Dana (HT. 23, 5/2003)<br />
Indications for Allium cepa, Euphrasia,<br />
Arsenicum album, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, Natrum<br />
muriaticum, Ambrosia, Sabadilla, Solidago, House<br />
dust mite, Arum triphyllum, Kali bichromicum,<br />
Wyethia and Histaminum are discussed in brief.
(This is an excerpt form Dana ULLMANN’s book<br />
Homœopathic Family Medicine, an e Book.)<br />
18. Quick Recovery from Surgery – Homœopathic<br />
healing for accidents and injuries<br />
DOOLEY, Timothy R. (HT. 23, 6/2003)<br />
The indications for Ledum palustre,<br />
Hypericum, Hamamelis, Bellis perennis, Ruta<br />
graveolens, Symphytum and Arnica are discussed in<br />
brief.<br />
19. “Wow! It’s a miracle!”<br />
The healing power of Calendula<br />
BABICKE, Dee (HT. 23, 6/2003)<br />
Christopher, 10 years, had a very bad fall from<br />
bike with blood streaming from each knee, side of<br />
his left leg, left elbow and top of his nose. In<br />
addition a ‘burn mark’ across the top of his left foot<br />
along where the sandal strap lay.<br />
The wounds were dressed with Calendula<br />
ointment and Arnica 30.<br />
Next morning everything had scabbed over.<br />
The ‘burn mark’ was swollen, red and full of<br />
yellowish pus. A red streak extending toward<br />
ankle. Calendula 30 thrice within the hour.<br />
Redness and Swelling began to subside. Pus over<br />
scab was beginning to dry.<br />
Next morning scabs and pus reduced in size<br />
and the scab began to detach. Calendula 1M.<br />
Within one hour, on wiping the scab came off and<br />
wound was completely clean. [The point one<br />
would like to make here is the rapidity with which<br />
the complete healing occurred under the<br />
homœopathic remedy = KSS].<br />
20. Homœopathy works for Women<br />
REICHENBERG-ULLMAN, Judyth<br />
(HT. 23, 6/2003)<br />
The author discusses about clinical conditions<br />
where one can treat oneself and when to find a<br />
professional homœopath, for many ailments<br />
peculiar to women.<br />
21. Homœopathy for Menstrual Pain<br />
REICHENBERG-ULLMAN, Judyth<br />
(HT. 23, 6/2003)<br />
The indications for the following 8 great<br />
remedies for menstrual cramps are tabulated.<br />
Belladonna, Cactus, Chamomilla, Cimicifuga,<br />
Colocynthis, Lachesis, Magnesia phosphorica and<br />
Nux vomica.<br />
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Naturopathic self-care tips for menstrual<br />
cramps are given.<br />
22. Redefining Fertility: Choosing to be Fertile in<br />
the whole of your life<br />
ALLEN, Karen (HT. 23, 6/2003)<br />
Fertility implies abundant production that is<br />
inherent in the power of Nature, so full of life that it<br />
keeps bursting forth. It is an odd tendency of<br />
human nature that pain and discomfort have a way<br />
of narrowing our focus and narrowing our<br />
definitions. As our worlds shrink to hold only this<br />
one reproductive agenda, we do indeed become<br />
infertile – putting careers on hold, withdrawing<br />
from social events, ceasing to create and<br />
productively use all of the resources at our<br />
command.<br />
With infertile couples, there is obsession with<br />
child-bearing. The author emphasizes the<br />
importance of a fertile life with the broadest<br />
definitions of the word. For them, this is a new<br />
concept, a new way of thinking about their<br />
parenting possibilities and their own lives.<br />
Case: Mary consulted after many months of<br />
Infertility treatment. She was depressed and<br />
joyless. She felt guilty and regretful about her past.<br />
Chilly, very irregular menstrual cycles, pain in her<br />
heels, aversion to meat and a strong desire for<br />
lemonade.<br />
Cyclamen 1M. Six weeks later refreshed,<br />
depression and worried affect gone. Periods<br />
regular. No more burdened feeling. Heels hurt less<br />
often. She no longer has an unreasonable focus on<br />
becoming pregnant. Over the next 9 months, the<br />
remedy was repeated twice when her menstrual<br />
period did not start as expected. No heel pain and<br />
stopped lemonade. Within a year, she was<br />
pregnant, and delivered a girl child and later she got<br />
another child.<br />
23. The atypical Pap test – What it means and what<br />
to do about it<br />
CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 23, 6/2003)<br />
Pap test is a screening test for Cervical Cancer<br />
– not a diagnostic test.<br />
The risk factors and the outcome of the test are<br />
discussed in detail. These are interesting.<br />
Indications for Aconite, Arnica, Gelsemium,<br />
Magnesium phosphoricum, Millefolium,<br />
Staphysagria are given – to heal after a Pap test or<br />
surgical intervention.
24. Homœopathic approaches to Urinary Tract<br />
Infections<br />
HOOVER, Todd A. (HT. 23, 6/2003)<br />
Urinary Tract Infections can be a serious<br />
medical problem. The commonest causes are<br />
discussed. The role of conventional treatment and<br />
preventive strategies mentioned.<br />
Indications for Cantharis, Sulphur,<br />
Sarsaparilla, Mercurius corrosivus, Arsenicum<br />
album, Chimaphila umbellata, Pulsatilla and<br />
Staphysagria are given.<br />
25. Healing stiff and painful joints with<br />
Homœopathy<br />
ULLMAN, Dana (HT. 23, 6/2003)<br />
To provide relief of the acute phase of arthritic<br />
inflammation, the indications of the following<br />
remedies are given.<br />
Rhus toxicodendron, Bryonia, Apis,<br />
Belladonna, Ruta, Rhododendron, Kalmia,<br />
Caulophyllum and Pulsatilla.<br />
26. Eight remedies for indigestion<br />
DOOLEY, Timothy R. (HT. 23, 7/2003)<br />
Environmental conditions involved in the onset<br />
of disease often help determine which<br />
homœopathic medicine will help that individual<br />
patient.<br />
Indications for Nux vomica, Pulsatilla,<br />
Antimonium crudum, Arsenicum album, China,<br />
Carbo vegetabilis, Lycopodium and Bryonia are<br />
given.<br />
27. A young girl with Epilepsy<br />
SHANNON, Tim (HT. 23, 7/2003)<br />
This again is an experience in Kenya, when the<br />
author visited Nairobi in 2000. 10-year-old girl<br />
with Epilepsy since one year of age. She gets the<br />
feeling as if her knees are tied with a chain and then<br />
she gets ‘fits’.<br />
She thinks touching things could be poisonous.<br />
So avoids eating outside home. She gets<br />
Convulsions 3-4 times a day. She washes atleast<br />
three times a day.<br />
Syphilinum 200. 5 days later, no convulsions,<br />
washing once a day. Not scared of being poisoned.<br />
Several months later, it was reported that she<br />
was well with fewer Convulsions.<br />
These people in Africa were living in slums,<br />
with no health care at all. Patients with Epilepsy,<br />
AIDS, Sickle Cell Anaemia, TB, were all suffering.<br />
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Homœopathy worked in these serious diseases as<br />
the only medicine.<br />
28. Lyme Disease: A summertime Danger<br />
HOOVER, Todd A. (HT. 23, 7/2003)<br />
Lyme disease is an extremely complex,<br />
invasive disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi<br />
bacterium – a Spirochete, and infected by deer<br />
ticks.<br />
The symptoms of the three stages of disease,<br />
the difficulty in diagnosis and testing and<br />
prevention are discussed.<br />
Indications for Ledum palustre, Arnica<br />
montana, Belladonna, Mercurius solubilis are<br />
given.<br />
Case: Mary, 30, with chronic and recurring<br />
Lyme disease.<br />
Tremendous anxiety about her health and fear<br />
of dying from the disease. Despite deep fatigue and<br />
depression, she was hurried and excitable.<br />
Wandering pain in joints. Dizzy feeling and<br />
confusion of mind.<br />
Argentum nitricum 200. Six weeks later, her<br />
anxiety, depression, confusion and insomnia had<br />
improved significantly.<br />
3 months later, fatigue resolved and no joint or<br />
muscle pains. Mary had no further signs of Lyme<br />
Disease. Six years later, remains free of any Lyme<br />
Disease symptoms.<br />
29. Giant hives “like Dozens of Fried Eggs”<br />
CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 23, 7/2003)<br />
Mary was suffering from terrible Urticaria,<br />
with huge hives covering her whole body. She had<br />
been to ER thrice in 2 days. Diagnosed as<br />
Angioedema.<br />
The hives felt burning hot and stung, itching,<br />
better from cold applications. She kept on saying<br />
she was OK.<br />
Taken Apis 6 for 2 days. Apis 200 was taken<br />
and within hours the swelling went right down and<br />
the itching and burning dramatically improved.<br />
30. Glowing in the hot Arizona sun<br />
GRILL, Yolande (HT. 23, 7/2003)<br />
Ted, had driven around all day with the top<br />
down enjoying 100+degree desert temperature. His<br />
head was pounding and glowing. Skin on his head<br />
and face stung and lips burning. Belladonna 30<br />
repeated with minimal results. Apis 30. Stinging in<br />
lips stopped immediately and he felt overall relief.<br />
Swelling of lips started to subside soon.
Apis 30 at 2 hour intervals while his symptoms<br />
persisted. ‘Glazed’ appearance accompanying the<br />
burning, stinging and swelling is the characteristic<br />
of Apis.<br />
31. Nearly delirious and horribly swollen<br />
WINSTON, Julian (HT. 23, 7/2003)<br />
A counselor was just stung by numerous<br />
wasps. He was nearly delirious and arm horribly<br />
swollen and red. Burning and stinging pain. Apis<br />
200. Within a minute redness lessened and burning<br />
decreased. One minute later arm burning again.<br />
Another dose, 5 minutes later, burning again.<br />
Another dose. This continued with the lengths of<br />
time between doses increasing to 8, then 12 and<br />
then 15 minutes. He took a shower and came 2<br />
hours later. The swelling, burning, stinging<br />
returning. Another dose and symptoms abated<br />
permanently.<br />
32. Fallaufnahme und Analyse (A Case Report and<br />
Analysis)<br />
SHAH, Nandita (AHZ. 249, 3/2004)<br />
A Case is given in detail and analysed<br />
according to Rajan SANKARAN’s methodology.<br />
The Kingdom’s method is detailed.<br />
33. Homöopathische Behandlung eines<br />
Bewusstlosen Pastienten (Homœopathic<br />
Treatment of an Unconscious Patient)<br />
BÜNDNER, Martin (ZKH. 48, 2/2004)<br />
M.H. suffered in 2001 a right-sided frontotemporal<br />
intercerebral massive Haemorrhage in a<br />
Hypertension crisis, which was cleared on<br />
5/12/2001 by a Craniotomy. Since then he suffered<br />
a left-sided Hemiparesis as also a right facial<br />
Paresis. In the course of the treatment he<br />
developed a recurring Pneumonia. Because of a<br />
swallowing difficulty, a percutanic endoscopically<br />
controlled Gastrotomy was done.<br />
He was again suddenly unconscious on<br />
25/1/2002. The Computer Tomography of the head<br />
showed a fresh intracerebral bleeding. The Hb. was<br />
8.5 g/dl. Since his unconsciousness was unaltered<br />
he was put in intensive care.<br />
M.H. was 63-year-old had a complete Paresis<br />
left-sided as also a right-sided facial paresis.<br />
Bilateral bronchitis. In the Glasgow-Coma-Scale<br />
he had 10 points. Hb. 8.6 g/dl. Urea 55.6 mg/dl.<br />
Creatinine 1.60 mg/dl. TSH-basal
Materia Medica of G.H.G. JAHR was<br />
consulted for confirmation, as well as HERING’s<br />
Guiding Symptoms.<br />
Two globules of Pulsatilla 200 (Spagyros) was<br />
given. There was rapid relief. Subsequent follow<br />
up: she remained free from pain. [In the allopathic<br />
medicine Pulpitis would call for ‘root canal’<br />
treatment and other expensive measures = KSS]<br />
35. Rheumatoide Beschwerden der Hände –<br />
Streptococcinum (Rheumatic ailments of the<br />
Hand – Sreptococcinum)<br />
SOCHA, Martin (ZKH. 48, 2/2004)<br />
28-year-old female, a nurse complained of pain<br />
in both hands since 14 days. Felt while rising in the<br />
morning. Finger joints red and swollen. During the<br />
day while moving about and working with hands<br />
the pains are ameliorated. Stitching, hot hands,<br />
particularly the fingers. When the fingers are<br />
moved the pains are better. Cold < and warmth >.<br />
Cold and humid weather
Thirst, night; Appetite, wanting; Generalities, left<br />
side.<br />
A globule of Antimonium crudum in half a<br />
glass of water, from which half teaspoonful, three<br />
times a day. The child had a good night almost<br />
without itching, the crusts dried up and in 48 hours<br />
the eruptions had all healed.<br />
Materia Medica sources: Chronic Diseases,<br />
Guiding Symptoms.<br />
Case 3: Prolonged Fever: 27 February 1961: 9<br />
year-old girl with prolonged fever. Since eight<br />
days, every evening between 16 and 17 hours she<br />
had fever from 38° to 39°, which continued into the<br />
night. She also complained of weakness and felt ill<br />
without any particular pain. (Pierre SCHMIDT’s<br />
comment: The fever in the evening time is a<br />
common symptom). The child was somewhat pale<br />
and had blue rings around the eyes (Pierre<br />
SCHMIDT: This is striking in a child and it is also<br />
characteristic of the remedy which has cured it).<br />
The lower-eyelids are much swollen.<br />
The parents considered this as symptoms of a<br />
liver disorder since the child was always treated by<br />
the family physician as such, although the digestive<br />
system has never been affected. From the<br />
beginning an eruption, pustular, suppurative<br />
appeared and 4 days after fever, eruptions appeared<br />
on the hands and feet. She was very thin and it was<br />
considered due to the liver. He was always thin.<br />
The eruption on the face was a true inflammatory<br />
Acne with considerable black heads. The borders<br />
were inflamed. It appeared that at first there was<br />
only one black point which increased during this<br />
illness. On the hands and feet were found Measle<br />
like small eruption which were violet-coloured. On<br />
closer examination it was observed that such<br />
eruptions were all over the body. There were<br />
palpable painless lymph nodes in neck and submaxillary<br />
areas. In the throat there was uglylooking<br />
Angina tonsillaris, which the patient had<br />
not told. The mucous membranes were purple red<br />
and dark. The uvula was long and appeared<br />
inflamed. The tonsils and posterior throat were<br />
coated with a slimy mucous.<br />
The calmness of the family appeared to Dr.<br />
BOURGARIT as very strange. Dr. BOURGARIT<br />
thought of Infective Mononucleosis but doubted<br />
whether it could be an acute leukaemic state. He<br />
asked for a blood test which revealed nothing but<br />
lymphocytosis. He ordered a dose of Kali iodatum<br />
7 and next day the child felt very much better.<br />
After four days the child was looking still better.<br />
Physical examination also showed alround<br />
improvement.<br />
Comments of Dr. Pierre SCHMIDT: That is an<br />
interesting case. The remedy is not found under<br />
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Acne. We have Iodum, Kalium bromatum and<br />
others for inflammatory acne. The elongated uvula<br />
in this child was a striking symptom. Acne at this<br />
age is also very rare. The swollen eyelids also are<br />
indicative.<br />
Repertorisation: Throat: elongated uvula;<br />
Discoloration, redness, dark red; Suppuration,<br />
tonsils; Face: eruptions, pustules; Discoloration,<br />
bluish, eyes, circles around; Eyes: swollen, lids;<br />
skin: purpura haemorrhagica.<br />
Ref. to Materia Medica: Encyclopaedia,<br />
Guiding Symptoms, CLARKE, LIPPE, KENT.<br />
[All the three cases clearly on ‘facts’; no<br />
speculations; no long list of mental symptoms; no<br />
themes. All symptoms verifiable in the source<br />
books. This is ‘Homœopathy’ = KSS]<br />
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IV. REPERTORY<br />
1. Towards an evidence - based<br />
repertory: clinical evaluation of<br />
Veratrum album<br />
WASSENHOVEN, Van M.<br />
(HOMEOPATHY, 93, 2/2004)<br />
The analysis of data collected by<br />
applying information technology in<br />
daily practice opens the possibility<br />
of validating homœopathic<br />
prescribing symptoms. The author<br />
has collected data on Repertory<br />
rubrics, homœopathic medicines<br />
prescribed, and clinical outcomes,<br />
for 16 years. As an example of<br />
clinical verification the outcomes of<br />
patients prescribed Veratrum album<br />
are correlated against rubrics.<br />
Remarkable results were obtained<br />
when Verat-a was presented to 24<br />
patients, 52 rubrics were used. The
data were analysed using the<br />
classical method and the likelihood<br />
ratios method. There is good<br />
correlation in the results given by<br />
these methods. Among the most<br />
important symptoms of Verat-a are:<br />
ailments from mortification,<br />
vomiting and cough in Spring.<br />
This study confirms the essence of Veratrum<br />
album and opens new perspectives for a future<br />
Repertory. The use of Winchip software in daily<br />
practice does not take time and by using it, you<br />
contribute to the improvement of Homœopathy.<br />
Computerized daily practice gives the opportunity<br />
to open the black box, to be confronted with the<br />
real world of Homœopathy. Evidence-based<br />
Homœopathy is an approach specific to<br />
Homœopathy seeking to validate different<br />
homœopathic concepts, methodologies and<br />
strategies. [Homœopathy was born on the basis of<br />
practical evidence. HAHNEMANN called it<br />
Practical therapeutics – Heilkunde der Enfahrung.<br />
Every homœopath experiences the evidence every<br />
day. Who is calling for evidence? = KSS].<br />
2. Furcht vor Extravaganz – die Übertragung und<br />
Interpretation von Gemütsrubriken (Fear of<br />
Extravagance – The transference and<br />
interpretation of Mental rubrics)<br />
HOLZAPFEL, Klaus (ZKH. 48, 2/2004)<br />
‘Rediscovery of Homœopathy’ by Dr. M.L.<br />
SEHGAL, translated into German has been taken<br />
up for study particularly. Dr. HOLZAPFEL has<br />
taken up six ‘rubrics’, which have been interpreted<br />
for clinical applications by Dr. SEHGAL, and<br />
applied extensively by the followers of the method.<br />
These rubrics are:<br />
1. Fear of extravagance: Remedy Opium.<br />
2. Will, muscles refuse to obey the will, when<br />
attention is turned away: Remedy Gelsemium.<br />
3. Recognizes everything but cannot move:<br />
Remedy Cocculus.<br />
4. Longing, for repose and tranquility: Remedy Nux<br />
vomica.<br />
5. Asks for nothing: Remedy many.<br />
6. Embarrassed, ailments after: Remedy many and<br />
Sulphur among them.<br />
The first: [The interpretation of SEHGAL may<br />
be seen in his books=KSS]. The source of this<br />
symptom is verified from EN. Vol. VII, No. 182.<br />
When the source of this symptom No. 10 is verified<br />
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(Source No. 160) we find it a “self experiment” and<br />
in relation to a travel report made by Maden –<br />
‘Travels in Turkey’ – published in 1829 in Boston<br />
Medical and Surgical Journal. Can the fear of<br />
extravagance during a journey be an analogous to a<br />
sick person fearing whether he will be able to avoid<br />
a mass or cannot bear it anymore?<br />
The second: See sources EN. IV, 397, No. 422,<br />
GS. V, 366, 367, 387, 388.<br />
This symptom in the Repertory SR. is via<br />
BOGER, who gave it briefly “Will, muscles refuse<br />
to obey”. Gelsemium and Lilium tigrinum have<br />
been wrongly included in “Will, muscles refuse to<br />
obey when attention is turned away”.<br />
The third: SEHGAL has given a new meaning<br />
to this rubric “recognizes the reality and accepts it”.<br />
The symptom in the GS reads: “Puerperal<br />
Eclampsia; …spells cause mental terror at the<br />
time; is conscious during paroxysms, but cannot<br />
move, eyes open and immovable.” (GS. IV, 278).<br />
The case was published in the Annual Record of<br />
Homœopathic Literature, in 1874.<br />
This rubric “Recognizes everything but cannot<br />
move” has to be removed and an appropriate rubric<br />
must be worked out. A more appropriate remedy<br />
for this rubric “Recognizes everything but cannot<br />
move” would be Gelsemium. Refer to: EN. IV,<br />
400, No. 512: “Complete loss of muscular power;<br />
was unable to move the limbs or even raise the<br />
eyelids, although he could hear and was cognizant<br />
of all transpiring around him”. Unfortunately<br />
Gelsemium is not in this rubric.<br />
“Longing for repose and tranquility”, has been<br />
analysed well by SEHGAL.<br />
“Asks for nothing”. SEHGAL’s interpretation<br />
is far from the rubric.<br />
“Ailments from Embarrasment”. The original<br />
symptom from HAHNEMANN is, “She finds her<br />
state very distressing and she is afraid of future”.<br />
(Chronic Diseases, Symptom No. 11). The rubric<br />
in SR I must be corrected suitably at least in respect<br />
of Sulphur.<br />
The observations of Dr. HOLZAPFEL has<br />
been commented upon by Dr. Gerhardus LANG in<br />
his ‘Letter to the Editor’ (ZKH. 48, 3/2004). Dr.<br />
LANG practices Sehgal-method.<br />
Dr. LANG explains SEHGAL’s interpretation<br />
and justifies it by the results in practice.<br />
Dr. HOLZAPFEL (ZKH. 48, 4/2004) again<br />
points out the inconsistencies in the methodology.<br />
[There are so many points involved in these<br />
methodologies which depends upon the Repertory<br />
only, and ignores the Materia Medica, the Provings.<br />
Whether clinical symptom, or Proved and verified<br />
symptom, is irrelevant to this method. We have<br />
also observed that there are many errors in the
translations of the Symptoms – particularly the<br />
Proving symptoms. We cite the Encyclopaedia of<br />
T.F. ALLEN wherein such errors had crept in. The<br />
jumbling of Dreams with Delusions, ‘as-if’<br />
symptoms as ‘Delusions’ - the ‘as-if’ symptom is a<br />
way of the Prover/patient explaining his symptom.<br />
Many women have said that their pains were so<br />
severe as ‘labour-pain’. Can we interpret<br />
‘Delusion, she is in labour’? We have to contend<br />
with many aspects: there is the error in translation;<br />
there is the error in transferring the symptom into a<br />
‘rubric’ in the Repertory; and there is the further<br />
imagination playing in the interpretation of the<br />
rubric in practice. Unfortunately there is no place<br />
for the Materia Medica in these. Are not these<br />
‘whims and fancies’. Of course everyone claims<br />
grand results! And that justifies everything!=KSS].<br />
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V. PHARMACOLOGY<br />
1. Anti-inflammatory activity of Arnica montana<br />
6cH: preclinical study in animals<br />
MACÊDO S.B.; FERREIRA L.R.; PERAZZO<br />
F.F. and CARVALHO, Tavares J.C.<br />
(HOMEOPATHY 93, 2/2004)<br />
The anti-inflammatory effect of Arnica<br />
montana 6cH was evaluated using acute and<br />
chronic inflammation models. In the acute model,<br />
carrageenin-induced rat paw oedema, the group<br />
treated with Arnica montana 6cH showed 30%<br />
inhibition compared to control (P
initial homœopathic consultation and via postal<br />
questionnaire at a mean follow-up time of 134 days.<br />
Primary symptoms improved by a mean of<br />
2.49 points (95% confidence interval (CI) 2.08-<br />
2.90; P
continuous. Body changes were reported by<br />
38.5%, followed by mental changes in 35% and<br />
general symptoms in 26.5%. Sleepiness was<br />
reported by 89% of respondents, anxiety in 53%,<br />
pain muscles in 50%, headache in 44% and<br />
irritability in 43%. Women presented more<br />
headache than men but they had more difficult<br />
concentration than women. These results suggest<br />
the need to use appropriate controls in<br />
homœopathic pathogenetic trials, basic<br />
experimental source of information about the<br />
effects of homœopathic medicines in healthy<br />
human beings.<br />
6. Saúde e Sofrimento – Pesquisa qualitativa<br />
sobre as implicações do tratamento<br />
homeopático na saúde de uma criança com<br />
retardo mental)<br />
(Health and Suffering – Qualitative research on<br />
the implications of homœopathic treatment in<br />
the health of a child with mental retardation)<br />
SOLON, Luiz Ricardo (RH. 69, 1-4/2004)<br />
The research introduces a discussion on the<br />
necessity of a qualitative epistemology for<br />
Homœopathy, founded on subjectivity theory,<br />
transposing empirism and organicism that in it<br />
predominate. During the study of a case of a 7<br />
year-old child, diagnosed with serious mental<br />
retardation and subnormal vision, submitted to<br />
homœopathic treatment, a hypothesis of concurrent<br />
relationship between advance in health and social<br />
interaction efforts was constructed, allowing him to<br />
come closer to a new zone of subjective senses for<br />
his life. Such hypothesis revealed congruity with<br />
the homœopathic qualitative approach that<br />
understood the subjective pathology as the<br />
Causticum way to suffer. The study points to<br />
continuity of theoretical construction of the<br />
homœopathic physician, to contribute to the real<br />
development of that citizen in new ways to live and<br />
to signify reality.<br />
7. Efeito Antioxidante in vitro dos Medicamentos<br />
Homeopáticos Arsenicum album, Cuprum<br />
metallicum Manganum and Zincum<br />
metallicum.<br />
(In vitro antioxidant effects of homœopathic<br />
medicines Arsenicum album, Cuprum<br />
metallicum, Manganum and Zincum<br />
metallicum)<br />
BATELLO, Celso (RH. 69, 1-4/2004)<br />
This dissertation with the support of a<br />
theoretical and practical foundation, presents the<br />
scenario that fits into the proposal: The antioxidant<br />
effects in vitro of homœopathic medicines,<br />
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Arsenicum album, Cuprum metallicum, Manganum<br />
and Zincum metallicum.<br />
In the first chapters is demonstrated the<br />
theoretical bibliographical substantation, the<br />
Homœopathy and Oligotherapy as therapeutic<br />
techniques, as well as the importance of oxidation<br />
phenomena for a better comprehension of the<br />
organic phenomena, mainly in the genesis of many<br />
diseases. It is also experimentally demonstrated the<br />
homœopathic medicines antioxidant action in<br />
different dilutions in comparison with Melatonin in<br />
various concentrations over the lipidic peroxidation<br />
in homogenate of mice brains measured through<br />
malondialdehyde dosage obtained through<br />
absorbancy technique.<br />
For the analysis of the results, the Kruskat<br />
Wallis and Dunn’s Multiple Comparisons tests<br />
were realized, that revealed significant differences<br />
among the experimented groups.<br />
It was verified a greater lipidic peroxidation<br />
inhibiting effect with Melatonin 1M, followed by<br />
Melatonin 0.5 M, Cuprum metallicum C12,<br />
Cuprum metallicum C80, Arsenicum album C30,<br />
Melatonine 0.24M, Manganum C30 and Arsenicum<br />
album C12.<br />
It was proved that Melatonin has an in vitro<br />
lipidic peroxidation inhibiting effect, and so being<br />
adopted as reference. However, a new fact arises<br />
from the observation of the significant lipid<br />
peroxidation inhibition obtained with the usage of<br />
homœopathic medicines, sometimes with dilutions<br />
that surpass the Avogadro number, as in the cases<br />
of Cuprum metallicum C30, Arsenicum album C30<br />
and Manganum C30 in decreasing order.<br />
This work emphasizes the possibility of the<br />
existence of a different antioxidant mechanism of<br />
homœopathic medicine from the known dose-effect<br />
relationship.<br />
8. Avaliação Dos Resultados Do Tratamento<br />
Homeopático De Crianças Da Comunidade Do<br />
Morro Dos Cabritos - RJ (Evaluating the<br />
results of homœopthic treatment in children of<br />
the “Morro Dos Cabritos” Community – Rio<br />
de Janeiro)<br />
FONSECA, Ademar, et. cols. (RH. 69, 1-<br />
4/2004)<br />
The development of evaluation models<br />
compatible with homœopathic medical rationality is<br />
still a challenge and a necessity.<br />
The author presents his contribution to<br />
establish an evaluation model compatible with the<br />
homœopathic concepts. The criteria used to<br />
evaluate effectiveness and efficiency are presented,<br />
as well as the partial results of the individual
homœopathic treatment in 93 children from the<br />
Morro Dos Cabritos community, from April 2000<br />
to September 2002, and evaluated until December<br />
2002 by the Society Homeopatia Ação pelo<br />
Semelhant from Rio de Janeiro.<br />
The results are discussed, as well as the<br />
difficulties faced during the process, the limitations<br />
in the presented methodology, and some<br />
suggestions for future models.<br />
The author concludes that the indexes used in<br />
this model point out to the efficiency and<br />
effectiveness of Homœopathy, with even better<br />
results in time, specially after 20 months of<br />
treatment, although they do not solve all the<br />
methodological problems discussed.<br />
The author makes several suggestions specially<br />
the need to develop a general and individual index<br />
that contemplate all the criteria used in the<br />
evaluation of the cases with an objective point of<br />
view.<br />
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VIII. EDUCATION<br />
1. Ambulatõrio Diadático Homeopático Relato de<br />
Experiẽncia (Didactical Homœopathic<br />
Ambulatory: Experience Report)<br />
BERINGHS-BUENO L.A.; BIREPINTE C.P.;<br />
HEREDIA M.S.; MONTES H.;<br />
PUSTGLIONE M.; QUEVEDO R.; ZILLIG<br />
P.V. (RH. 69, 1-4/2004)<br />
This is a description of the authors’ clinical<br />
experience during four months in the second group<br />
of master degree program in homœopathic<br />
didactical ambulatory in the Faculdade de<br />
Ciências da Saúde São Paulo. They present their<br />
experience with the classic tripod: Science,<br />
Assistance and Teaching. All patients had classical<br />
homœopathic anamnesis and had the prescription<br />
according to the similitude principle with new<br />
appointments each 30 days.<br />
2. Experimentação Patogenética Homeopática<br />
Breve Como Método Didático (Brief<br />
Homœopathic Pathogenetic Experimentation as<br />
a Didactic Method)<br />
TEIXEIRA, Marcus Zulian (RH. 69, 1-4/2004)<br />
Introduction: Everyone devoted to<br />
Homœopathy teaching is aware of the difficulties of<br />
the apprentices concerning the theoretical<br />
understanding of the homœopthic presuppositions,<br />
as they are inserted in Paradigms that are different<br />
from those of the hegemonic Science.<br />
Objective: Based on this, it was suggested to<br />
include brief homœopathic pathogenetic<br />
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experimentation as a curricular subject and teaching<br />
method to the Homœopathy disciples taught in<br />
medical school, so that the theoretical knowledge of<br />
the homœopathic presuppositions is supported by<br />
practical experience.<br />
Method: Following the instructions in the<br />
Organon, the pathogenetic experimentation was<br />
offered as a voluntary activity, including only the<br />
students who are free of chronic diseases and who<br />
had not used the regularly used medicines in the<br />
last three months. It was suggested that the<br />
experimental medicine given once a week in one<br />
single dose in the 30CH potency, should be a<br />
polychrest with symptom already described in<br />
various homœopathic Materia Medica, so that at the<br />
end of the self-observation period the<br />
experimentor’s symptoms could be compared with<br />
the previous pathogenesis.<br />
Results: Twenty one of the thirty students of<br />
Homœopathy as elective discipline of the Medical<br />
School of the University of Sāo Paulo (FMUSP)<br />
participated in the experimentation in 2003,<br />
describing the several classes of symptoms<br />
according to the specific methodology and daily<br />
report, many of them with peculiar characteristics<br />
and notable idiosyncrasy. The whole group of<br />
students were favourable to the didactic proposal,<br />
experiencing as a personal experience, or via their<br />
friends’ experience, the dynamized substances’<br />
property of arousing symptoms in healthy<br />
individuals, as well as arousing a healing reaction<br />
in pre-existent symptoms, according to the<br />
principles of therapeutic similarity.<br />
Conclusion: As a didactic method, the brief<br />
homœopathic pathogenetic experimentation is<br />
extremely effective regarding the sedimentation of<br />
the homœopathic foundations, enabling the<br />
observation of idiosyncratic manifestations of the<br />
human individuality based on a qualitative<br />
methodology. Nothing impedes that, with a larger<br />
number of participants, we can even apply the<br />
randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled<br />
method, increasing the scientific rigidity in the<br />
valorization of the emergence of pathogenetic<br />
symptoms. [Double blind, randomized, etc.,<br />
experiment is only useful for academic purposes, if<br />
at all. Empiric application is more certain =KSS]<br />
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IX. GENERAL<br />
1. Pragmatism: The Heart of Homœopathy<br />
Interview with Will TAYLOR by TESSLER,<br />
Neil. (SIM. XVII, 2/2004)
Author shares his perspectives on some of the<br />
modern controversies in Homœopathy.<br />
Tension and conflict is where growth starts.<br />
‘Classic’ is not fixed, its an organic reality, it<br />
evolves and moves. The error we follow is to<br />
proclaim one is right and aligning ourselves with a<br />
dogmatic position and creating alliances. We need<br />
to be adaptable, look at our case and apply the tools<br />
that case will yield to.<br />
He gives an example of how staying locked<br />
into one way of finding a remedy can get us into<br />
trouble.<br />
Understand Chronic Miasms by understanding<br />
that larger image of disease which helps in treating<br />
the individual affected by it.<br />
He has taken the common and frequent<br />
symptoms of Lyme disease, and some of the<br />
oddities that occasionally happen and repertorised<br />
all of them. Kalmia latifolia, came first, Ledum<br />
second, Rhododendron sixth or seventh.<br />
What was interesting was all these belong to<br />
the family of Ericacea. Another remedy Gaultheria<br />
procumbens has almost all the symptoms.<br />
His current speculation is Lyme is an Ericacea<br />
disease. His bent is to use the family relationships<br />
within a classical analysis which can help us may<br />
be recognize patterns and find some small<br />
remedies, we might not be able to find otherwise.<br />
[See No. 28 in Section III – Therapeutics – in<br />
which Todd HOOVER has given a case of Lyme<br />
Disease cured with Argentum nitricum 200, one<br />
dose. How can we limit Lyme disease to ‘Ericacea’<br />
family and put it in the box of ‘Plant’ only? We<br />
should beware of these ‘new Masters’ = KSS]<br />
When this extends into poorly proven or<br />
unproven remedies, we enter into that area with that<br />
knowledge, with some trepidation and some<br />
caution. It’s a trial, it’s an experiment we can do at<br />
this moment.<br />
We have to do our best with the tools at hand,<br />
which sometimes are inadequate. This is where he<br />
struggles with those who promote rigidity in the<br />
methodology. [The tools are sufficient. Keep them<br />
honed and apply = KSS]<br />
He points out that BŒNNINGHAUSEN’s<br />
method was really designed to make up for the<br />
inadequacies of the Materia Medica.<br />
Regarding the modern provings his biggest<br />
concern is the separation of pre-existing symptoms<br />
of the individual from the symptoms of the proving.<br />
Regarding the new Miasms, he keeps an eye<br />
open to see if they are useful in practice. He is very<br />
clear that Sycosis is Human Papilloma Virus.<br />
HEMPEL mistranslated the word for urethral<br />
discharge as Gonorrhoea and he feels it nothing to<br />
do with Sycosis.<br />
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2. Nutrition does count in Homœopathic Healing<br />
WYCKOFF, Valeria (HT. 23, 5/2003)<br />
Nutritional deficiencies can limit the success of<br />
homœopathic treatment (i.e. becoming “obstacles to<br />
cure”).<br />
Deficits may result from the aging process,<br />
poor eating habits or conventional drugs.<br />
Absorption of vitamin B12 slows down with<br />
age. So they are energized by a B12 shot.<br />
Studies show Aspirin therapy increases the loss<br />
of Folic acid, vitamin C and Zinc.<br />
By changing one’s eating habits, changes in<br />
health do happen. Plenty of fruits and vegetables<br />
are advised. With homœopathic treatment and<br />
lifestyle changes, we can reap healthy rewards at<br />
any age.<br />
3. A Homœopathic Physician in Kenya<br />
SCHEPPER, Luc De (HT. 23, 7/2003)<br />
Dr. Luc De SCHEPPER, writes briefly about<br />
his experience in Kenya, in January 2003. He spent<br />
his first 7 days in a small village called Lusi, where<br />
there was no doctor, nurse or clinic or electricity or<br />
running water. Two-day course in acute<br />
homœopathic prescribing was given to 15 nurses;<br />
each one of them received a homœopathic kit of 48<br />
remedies and a copy of the book The People’s<br />
Repertory.<br />
Next two days were spent in treating children<br />
in a nearby orphanage.<br />
A ‘homœopathic vaccination’ against Malaria<br />
for the whole village was organized using the<br />
Nosode Malaria officinalis.<br />
Series of lectures were scheduled in Nairobi for<br />
4 days.<br />
10-year-old son of one of the most popular<br />
doctors in Nairobi had been ill for 14 days with a<br />
continuous, suffocating cough, with no relief. He<br />
had been seen by the best doctors, X-rayed, liver<br />
scan, cortisone, etc. etc. – all to no avail. After two<br />
doses of Ipecac 1M, he slept through the night.<br />
35 difficult cases were also referred.<br />
He had 5 Radio interviews on Capitol FM in<br />
Nairobi.<br />
The author wishes that every homœopath could<br />
have a chance to offer his services to a country, so<br />
greatly in need of our wonderful, inexpensive and<br />
effective science, Homœopathy.<br />
4. Homœopathy below the Poverty Line<br />
A teaching clinic in Nairobi, Kenya.<br />
RUCHIRA, Didi Ananda (HT. 23, 7/2003)<br />
Abha light is a service project whose goal is to<br />
bring affordable medicine to the people of Africa
through Homœopathy. Kenyans are trained for two<br />
years and clinics set up.<br />
36-year-old, WANJERU, came to the clinic<br />
with gasping and panting for each breath and could<br />
hardly talk. In the past treated for TB and<br />
Pneumonia. Pains in lower left chest and sensation<br />
of water in that area. Phosphorus 30 b.d. A week<br />
later, no cough, breathing eased. Vomiting<br />
improved. “Succussion splash” was heard now. So<br />
probable diagnosis of Pyloric stenosis. In<br />
Murphy’s Repertory only Aethusa and<br />
Ornithogalum are listed. On further examination of<br />
WANJERU, Aethusa was seen as the remedy.<br />
Aethusa 30 b.d. for 3 days. She was 70%<br />
better. No vomiting or no nausea. Succussion<br />
splash reduced.<br />
The scope of the problems that Homœopathy<br />
can address for the people in Kenya and Africa is<br />
tremendous. [As it indeed is in India. In fact<br />
Homœopathy is ‘people’s medicine’ and must<br />
address itself to the needy, i.e. those who need<br />
medicinal attention most who may, in the majority,<br />
be the poor. A ‘boxed’ item in this on the same<br />
page of HT mentions of the role of Homœopathy in<br />
Africa in 1930s, 1940s. If healing the sick is the<br />
calling of the physician, Homœopathy must be<br />
protected from being hijacked by the high-tech<br />
medical hands = KSS].<br />
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X. BOOKS<br />
1. Clinical Observations of Children’s<br />
Remedies by Farokh J. MASTER. Lutra<br />
Services: Eindhoven, The Netherlands. ISBN:<br />
90-74456-11-1. 2003 (Second edition) 724 pages.<br />
Hardbound $70.00 (US) Review by George<br />
GUESS. (AJHM. 97, 2/2004)<br />
“The book provides detailed and highly<br />
accessible information on 76 remedies, all<br />
emphasizing how these remedies present in<br />
children. … There is even frequent inclusion of<br />
relevant physical examination findings. ... The<br />
volume is replete with differential diagnosis charts.<br />
… The book is extensively indexed….”<br />
“This is an excellent text which any<br />
professional homœopath treating children would<br />
benefit from by reading…”<br />
2. Clinical Focus Guide to Homœopathic<br />
Remedies, Volume 1 by Louis KLEIN. Luminos<br />
Homœopathic Courses Ltd. Canada 2003.<br />
Paperback. 259 pages. ISBN 0-9731843-1-0. $<br />
© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXII, 2/<strong>2005</strong>.<br />
75<br />
39.95 (US). Review by George GUESS. (AJHM.<br />
97, 2/2004)<br />
“… The material presented is novel and fresh.<br />
It is culled from Mr. KLEIN’s extensive clinical<br />
experience..”<br />
“Each chapter begins with essential portrait of<br />
the remedy, then its classification, then detailed<br />
outline of central characteristics and lastly pertinent<br />
quotes…”<br />
3. Dreams, Symbols and Homœopathy:<br />
Archetypal Dimensions of Healing by Jane<br />
CICCHETTI. North Atlantic Books and<br />
Homœopathic Educational Services, Berkeley,<br />
California. 2003. ISBN 1-55643-436-7. 257 pages,<br />
Soft cover $ 16.95 (US) Review by Nicholas<br />
NOSSAMAN. (AJHM. 97, 2/2004)<br />
“…The book is well-indexed and contains<br />
chapter-by-chapter bibliography…”<br />
“This book is a unique and comprehensive<br />
explication of the fruitful marriage of Homœopathy<br />
and Depth Psychology. It is thick with<br />
understanding and imagery, is written in a readable<br />
style and is a valuable trail-breaker for the<br />
understanding of human health and disease. …”<br />
4. Impossible cure: The promise of<br />
Homœopathy by Amy L. LANSKY Ph.D., R.L.<br />
Ranch Press: Portola Valley, CA, 2003,<br />
paperback, 302 pages $18.95. Review by Lia<br />
BELLO. (HT. 23, 7/2003).<br />
“… Impossible cure succeeds in demystifying<br />
Homœopathy’s approach to healing and will help<br />
people understand what embarking on<br />
homœopathic treatment is all about. The facts and<br />
history are accurate and well documented …”<br />
Review by Julian WINSTON.<br />
“….. It is the finest general introduction to<br />
Homœopathy I’ve yet read. … She weaves<br />
together a seamless exposition about Homœopathy<br />
– what it is, how it developed, what research exists<br />
– and with it gives us her personal journey of<br />
discovery. … It has something new in it for<br />
everyone – no matter what their level….”<br />
5. Homöopathische Psychiatrie, Wolfgang<br />
BARCK, (Homœopathic Psychiatry), 310 S.,<br />
geb., Grundlagen und Praxis, Leer 2003, Є. 48/-<br />
Review by Rainer APPELL (AHZ. 249, 3/2004):<br />
“A true surprise: while the homœopathic mode<br />
market is increasing with younger authors with the<br />
motto, “as much younger, so much Guru” and the<br />
time to let an idea ripe does not seem to be the<br />
practice – now four years after the death of the<br />
author – a noteworthy new edition comes which is<br />
not such a ‘fashion’ book.
This book is about homœopathic Psychiatry by<br />
the late Wolfgang BARCK, who worked so much<br />
in the background … BARCK who studied first<br />
Psychology with the theme Gestalt Psychology and<br />
Epistomology, and after the end of his study of<br />
Medicine in different psychiatric university clinics<br />
and absolved it with Prof. BENDETTI. Besides<br />
Psychiatry and Psycho-therapeutic, his interest<br />
extended to Homœopathy which fascinated him so<br />
that in his practice he began to use Homœopathy<br />
more. In his book besides giving the principles of<br />
Homœopathy in very readable manner, also gives<br />
very clear cases. … Four remedies – Lachesis,<br />
Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Phosphorus are<br />
thoroughly explained and with cases very clearly<br />
presented. . The book should be – ‘Homœopathy as<br />
psychotherapy’.<br />
6. Vergleichende Arzneimittellehre<br />
homöopathischer Polychreste (Comparative<br />
Materia Medica of Homœopathic Polychrests),<br />
FOERSTER, Gisela; HEÉ, Hansjörg, 628 S.,<br />
geb., Karl F. Haug Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, Є<br />
79.95 (German) Review by Leopold DREXLER<br />
(AHZ. 249, 3/2004): “A big praise for the authors<br />
for this book which has been written with much<br />
exactness. Eight remedies, two compared with<br />
each other … This book puts in an impressive way<br />
not just the symptoms of the remedy, but also the<br />
psychoanalytical connections but remains strictly<br />
with the symptoms. … This well done work can be<br />
well recommended to those who work deeply...”<br />
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XI. NEWS AND NOTES<br />
I. The Homœopathic Symposium SMITH,<br />
Malcolm. (SIM. XVII, 2/2004) The Homœopathic<br />
Symposium is a project that has the potential to<br />
grow the study of Homœopathy exponentially, and<br />
to rally our community into working together for<br />
the common cause of furthering our medicine.<br />
It is an encrypted, private site on the Internet<br />
that is an archive of interactive cured patient videos<br />
for use in teaching of Homœopathy. It is a hightech<br />
fully interactive venue in which both students<br />
and practitioners of Homœopathy can exchange<br />
information and share in patient video cases from<br />
skilled practitioners in the field.<br />
Each case is interspersed with commentary<br />
most often from the practitioner who solved the<br />
case. The themes together with discussion of what<br />
led to the remedy is presented.<br />
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“Team effort” series was created to share<br />
difficult uncured cases on-line. The case is open to<br />
the community and analysis invited. Each month<br />
follow-up on-line is posted to track the progress.<br />
Homœopathy is not easy to practice, there’s no<br />
way around it and this project is designed as an<br />
adjunct to teaching. Internal dissertions about<br />
methodologies must be kept by and an honest<br />
attempt to apply new methodologies should be<br />
made; the results will speak. It is also good<br />
experience to the homœopaths. [It is these<br />
‘innovators’ of ‘themes’ and speculations who<br />
make it more difficult to practice. Results do not<br />
always justify the means = KSS]<br />
info@homeopathicsymposium.com<br />
www.homeopathicsymposium.com<br />
II. White paper on the homœopathic<br />
profession: How can we create a widely<br />
accepted and thriving homœopathic profession?<br />
SWOPE, Harry. (SIM. XVII, 2/2004) The author<br />
was a founder of the Council for Homœopathic<br />
Certification in 1991.<br />
In order for a homœopathic profession to have<br />
any credibility and for the public to put any trust in<br />
it, there must be standards that define what it means<br />
to be a professional homœopath.<br />
He has discussed various options to achieve<br />
this.<br />
III. In a Letter to the Editor, (SIM. XVII,<br />
2/2004) the Librarian, Homœopathic Library<br />
Information Service writes that the British<br />
Homœopathic Library holds a pre-eminent<br />
collection of homœopathic literature, right from<br />
HAHNEMANN’s first article on Homœopathy and<br />
many 19 th and 20 th century British Homœopathic<br />
Literatures. Users can request articles directly from<br />
the library or by searching the online database<br />
which is free and requesting article copies online.<br />
E-mail www.hom-inform.org .<br />
hom-inform@dial.pipex.com<br />
IV. Our Homœopathic Heritage. WINSTON,<br />
Julian. (AJHM. 97, 2/2004) “Chris ELLITHORP<br />
died on March 17, 2004. He toiled for<br />
Homœopathy so far behind the scenes that few<br />
knew him. Few are interested in the rich heritage<br />
we have. [Very few are interested. It is a sad<br />
situation = KSS] Most of those only want to “find<br />
the remedy”.<br />
Only some few understand the treasures of the<br />
books. Fewer understand the richness upon which<br />
the whole edifice is built – the paper trail of letters<br />
from homœopaths, invoices written in a flowing<br />
script from Boericke and Tafel from the 1870’s,
photographs of old homœopaths never seen before<br />
… all that “stuff”.<br />
Chris’s wish was to keep his whole collection<br />
intact.<br />
Can our community rise to this? Or do we just<br />
not care, being willing to stand by as more of our<br />
history disappears?”<br />
V. Hahnemann Monument Update CHASE,<br />
Sandra M. (AJHM. 97, 2/2004) Work is on for<br />
repair of the famous and largest monument for<br />
HAHNEMANN, in Washington, D.C., USA.<br />
As of October 2003, $ 30,000 for the purpose<br />
of underwriting the renovation of the exquisite<br />
bronze and granite monument to Dr. C.F. Samuel<br />
HAHNEMANN at Scott circle in Washington D.C.<br />
was amassed (or raised).<br />
Senior Conservator Judith JACOBS will be<br />
performing the actual repair, with particular regard<br />
to the mosaic in arch above Hahnemann’s head.<br />
The additional challenge is that it is actually<br />
fashioned of pieces of colored glass, rather than of<br />
ceramic tiles.<br />
Items to be addressed in the restoration include<br />
the following:<br />
- the brick paving<br />
- the bronze entablatures<br />
- the granite paving<br />
- the bronze statue<br />
- the tree replacement<br />
- the granite structure<br />
- the grounds improvement<br />
VI. Interview with Francis TREUHERZ by<br />
GRIMES, Melanie. (AJHM. 97, 2/2004) Francis<br />
TREUHERZ pursued a career in Social Services of<br />
the Jewish Community in France, Israel and<br />
England before moving to academic teaching.<br />
After his homœopathic studies he entered private<br />
practice and from 1986 to 1993 he edited the<br />
Journal, The Homeopath. He has taught in many<br />
Homœopathy schools. He has helped development<br />
of Mac Repertory Programme. His only book so<br />
far, Homœopathy in the Irish Potato famine<br />
(1995 – the 150 th anniversary of the Potato Famine)<br />
has been very well received. He has one of the<br />
largest libraries, with 6250 volumes on<br />
Homœopathy.<br />
TREUHERZ recalls that it was Pyrogen and<br />
later China which saved him from an essential<br />
Surgery (Peritonitis), in 1991 and once two three<br />
years ago again Calcarea carbonica and then<br />
Calcarea renalis saved him from the surgeons knife<br />
(kidney stones).<br />
TREUHERZ traces the history of the Society<br />
of Homœopaths and the Colleges. He gave a<br />
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historical paper on KENT and Swedenborgianism.<br />
He was in India and studied with Drs. S.P. DEY, S.<br />
DUBEY.<br />
He feels that the problems facing us are the<br />
same as they were. There are many who are<br />
attempting to destabilize Homœopathy. [and many<br />
of them are homœopaths themselves = KSS]<br />
TREUHERZ says that BURNETT is his hero.<br />
About Repertories coming out now-a-days he feels<br />
“there are too may symptoms in the repertories<br />
from over mentalized provers…”<br />
VII. Cough. CHOFFRUT, Franck. The different<br />
causes of this symptom are set out: Asthma,<br />
Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Sinusitis, Rhinopharyngitis,<br />
Allergic rhinitis, Nasal polyps, etc.<br />
Some medicines are recalled with their main<br />
symptoms. The author stresses the lack of<br />
auscultatory symptoms in the Materia Medica. (L’<br />
Homéopathie Européenne 2003; 6 in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 2/2004)<br />
VIII. Comparison between Naja and Aurum.<br />
COLIN, Philippe. Both may be indicated for<br />
depressive and cardiovascular symptoms. They can<br />
be suicidal, they like alcohol but do not tolerate it.<br />
They can have alternations of depression and<br />
excitement. Aurum has symptoms we do not find<br />
in Naja. Aurum has anger, sense of responsibility,<br />
religious concerns. Naja more self-centred, shy and<br />
gentle and feeling of duality. On the physical level,<br />
Aurum has infectious symptoms and Naja<br />
pollinosis.<br />
Pustular eruptions, Testicular diseases, pain<br />
long bone, Diplopia, Hemiopia, Hypertension seen<br />
only in Aurum; Oedema, chilblains, left ovarian<br />
pains and flatulence only in Naja.<br />
Aurum more chronic, whereas Naja’s action is<br />
acute or subacute. (L’ Homéopathie Européenne<br />
2003; 6 in HOMEOPATHY, 93, 2/2004)<br />
IX. Dengue CARVALLO N.S. This paper is a<br />
clinical and therapeutic review of Dengue fever.<br />
The classical symptoms of the disease are<br />
repertorised. The following useful remedies are<br />
discussed in detail: Eupat., Gels., Acon., Bry., Ferrp.,<br />
Cad-s., Chin-ars., Bapt., Rhus-t., Sulph., and<br />
Phos. (Gaceta Homeopáthica de Caracas 2002;<br />
10 in HOMEOPATHY, 93, 2/2004)<br />
X. The Hyperactive Child. ROJAS, Vahlis de<br />
F.M. Definition, Diagnosis, Prognosis and<br />
Treatment of Attention Deficit Disorder are<br />
discussed. The following categories are presented<br />
for guidance:<br />
• Predominance of hyperactivity and<br />
psychomotor agitation: Kali-br., Zinc., Merc.<br />
sol., Tarent., Coff., Nux-v.
• Miasmatic remedies in ADHD: Calc-p., Calcf.,<br />
Iod., Med,<br />
• Predominance of sleep disturbance: Ars.,<br />
Hyos., Stram., Cina.<br />
• Predominance of inattention and<br />
comprehension problems: Aeth., Bar-c., Sil.,<br />
Caust.<br />
(Gaceta Homeopática de Caracas 2002; 10 in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 2/2004)<br />
XI. Symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease.<br />
“Homœopathic Evaluation of Symptoms presented<br />
in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease.” This is a<br />
study of 23 patients from Venezuela. Each case<br />
was analysed, repertorised and results discussed. A<br />
differentiation was made between premorbid<br />
personality and the symptoms of the disease. In the<br />
former Lach., Nux-v., Sulph., Ars., Nat-m., and Lyc.<br />
were prominent. In the latter group Sulph., Bell.,<br />
Nux-v., Lach., Phos., Sep., Ign., Bry., and Con.<br />
(Gaceta Homeopática de Caracas 2002; 10 in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 2/2004)<br />
XII. Parasites in rabbits treated with Cina.<br />
LÓPEZ, R.J.L. et al. This study evaluates the<br />
effectiveness of Cina 30 in the treatment of<br />
Intestinal Coccidiosis in rabbits. The rabbits are<br />
bred for their meat and fur. Thirty rabbit breeders<br />
and 1455 rabbits were involved. There is high<br />
mortality and morbidity rate from the disease.<br />
Faecal analysis for the presence of eggs by a<br />
flotation method was carried out before and after<br />
treatment. Cina 30 was administered in the rabbit’s<br />
drinking water for 5 days.<br />
There was a marked reduction in the levels of<br />
infestation by faecal analysis, reduction in<br />
mortality, marked increase in weight and physical<br />
condition in treated group, which resulted in<br />
significant economic benefit. (Gaceta<br />
Homeopática de Caracas 2002; 10/2 in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 2/2004)<br />
XIII. Silica in the treatment of Chronic Skin<br />
Ulcers. FERNÁNDEZ I.M. After general<br />
discussion on causes and grading of ulcers, three<br />
cases of different aetiology are presented.<br />
Case 1: 21-year-old male with plantar ulcer<br />
refractory to antibiotics since a year. 3 cm in<br />
diameter, clean base, painless, yellow fetid<br />
discharge. He had Charcot’s joint. Sepia reduced<br />
the ulcer, Silica 30 brought about complete<br />
resolution in one month.<br />
Case 2: 37-year-old woman with umbilical Ulcer<br />
following a Hernia repair. Initially 11.2 cm in<br />
diameter, reduced to 1 cm with Ignatia which was<br />
given because she lost her son. Silica 30, because<br />
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of abundant yellow fetid discharge. Complete<br />
healing in a fortnight.<br />
Case 3: 62-year-old man with Diabetes. His ulcer<br />
of vascular origin was 1.2 cm in diameter under left<br />
big toe. Painless, yellow fetid discharge. Silica 30<br />
healed it in 15 days. (Gaceta Homeopática de<br />
Caracas 2002; 10/2, in HOMEOPATHY, 93,<br />
2/2004)<br />
XIV. Unusual resolution of Parauterine Tumour<br />
RODRÍGUEZ G.D. 36-year-old woman had a right<br />
parauterine mass as well as a uterine Myoma. She<br />
had been treated constitutionally a month ago with<br />
Lycopodium 200. So Lycopodium 200 was<br />
repeated in Plussing method for 3 days.<br />
On third day she had vaginal bleeding, with<br />
dark odorless blood containing some tissue, and<br />
severe right-sided abdominal pain which resolved<br />
uneventfully. Few days later, Ultrasound showed a<br />
complete disappearance of the Ovarian tumor,<br />
while Myoma remained. (Gaceta Homeopática de<br />
Caracas 2002; 10/2 in HOMEOPATHY, 93,<br />
2/2004)<br />
XV. The four elements and the selection of<br />
potencies. NORLAND M. Misha NORLAND<br />
offers a variety of thought on these two topics (this<br />
article is an excerpt from his new book,<br />
Signatures, Miasms, AIDS: Spiritual Aspects in<br />
Homœopathy, (www.yondercottpress.com). In the<br />
area of potency he suggests: “Go high (200c-MM):<br />
When the path to exteriorisation of the disease is<br />
unblocked”. “Stay low (6c-30c and LM1-3):<br />
When the path to exteriorisation of the disease is<br />
blocked”.<br />
NORLAND brings MAUGHAM and<br />
DAMONTE into his discussion. These two<br />
homœopathic contemporaries were responsible for<br />
a ‘new wave’ of thinking which touched a large<br />
number of homœopaths: ‘Of relevance here was<br />
their understanding of the analogous relationship of<br />
potency to planes of consciousness. The scheme<br />
relates mind, emotions and body to the three planes<br />
of potency: high, medium and low.’<br />
The author examines the four elements in detail<br />
weaving in Tantra, the Bhagavad-Gita and Jung:<br />
‘The four psychological functions described by<br />
C.G. JUNG, namely intuition, thinking, feeling and<br />
sensation, correspond to fire, air, water and earth.<br />
JUNG described how these functions operate in the<br />
human psyche (here in the order of earth, water, air<br />
and fire) as follows: ‘There are four aspects of<br />
psychological orientation, beyond which nothing<br />
fundamental remains to be said…’<br />
And: ‘Patients who operate in an elemental<br />
“fire” mode also do best on high potencies: 10M
and above. Elemental fire communicates in<br />
images; intuition is the primary modus operandi<br />
and as in the case of ether, the person experiences<br />
the world spontaneously. When questioning about<br />
a thing, they want to ascertain, “Where did it come<br />
from? Where it is going?” They often see things in<br />
terms of connections. In health they are passionate,<br />
ardent and motivated. “Hot” is the key-concept.<br />
This expression may correspond to SANKARAN’s<br />
5 th level of vital sensation.’ (The Homeopath<br />
2003; 91 in HOMEOPATHY, 93, 2/2004)<br />
XVI. Two cases of Mimosa pudica. LINNANE K.<br />
and WANSBROUGH C. The prescription is based<br />
on applying principles of imaginative Materia<br />
Medica where understanding is derived through<br />
applying a subtle use of Doctrine of Signatures.<br />
‘Oversensitive, mild and yielding disposition,<br />
with dislike of confrontation, and fear of dark’ are<br />
mentioned as common features of this remedy.<br />
(The Homeopath 2003; 91 in HOMEOPATHY,<br />
93, 2/2004)<br />
[Only by Hahnemannian Proving Pure symptoms,<br />
indications are obtainable; these are ‘facts’ with no<br />
speculations. Weaving symptom is not<br />
Homœopathy = KSS].<br />
XVII. My nightmare patient. TREE J. A case of<br />
Polycystic ovaries in a 32-year-old woman, Apis<br />
mellifica 1M followed by Lycopodium 30. Six<br />
months later further information emerged and Lac<br />
caninum helped profoundly.<br />
“The deeper feeling is, patient’s self disgust,<br />
guilt, inability to follow things through and her<br />
need to be dominated, controlled and told what to<br />
do. This reminds us of how a dog might feel, a<br />
correspondence which of course points to Lac<br />
caninum.” (The Homeopath 2003; 91 in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 2/2004) [How does any one<br />
know for certain what a dog ‘feels’? If only man<br />
would really ‘know’ what a dog, or for that matter a<br />
chicken, a cow, or any other animal feels he<br />
wouldn’t be so cruel as he/she now is.<br />
Once the ‘signature’ is accepted as a “safe,<br />
sure, rapid” method, the symptoms would be as<br />
good as one’s imagination could conjure up.<br />
Homœopaths should beware of this ‘trap’, and not<br />
fall into fascinating pits = KSS].<br />
XVIII. Lapis lazuli: a proving. Proving of Lapis<br />
lazuli by 10 provers in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2000/1.<br />
90CK potency was used. It was double blind and<br />
the provers were instructed to take one dose per day<br />
until symptoms commenced and to record those<br />
symptoms for 30 days. (The Homeopath 2003; 91<br />
in HOMEOPATHY, 93, 2/2004)<br />
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XIX. The Korsakovian potencies OLINGTON V.<br />
The author reviews the history and technical details<br />
of the Korsakovian potencies. ‘Comparison<br />
between Korsakovian and Hahnemannian<br />
potentisations’ in which she brings up the fact that<br />
Korsakovian potencies could be viewed as multidynamisations<br />
(the solution is a mixture of all<br />
previous potencies). (The Homeopath, 2003; 91 in<br />
HOMEOPATHY 93, 2/2004)<br />
XX. Treatment of experimental stroke with lowdose<br />
Glutamate and homœopathic Arnica<br />
montana. JONAS W. et al. This article concludes<br />
that Arnica 200 reduces the long-term damage and<br />
death rates from brain injuries in experimental<br />
animals. It also seems to suggest that the remedy<br />
may exacerbate Ischaemia in the initial stages of<br />
brain injury. (Perfusion 1999; 12 in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 2/2004)<br />
XXI. The nature and origin of Calcium<br />
compounds DAEMS W. This brief article by an<br />
anthroposphically trained pharmacist provides an<br />
interesting perspective on calcium metabolism and<br />
provides a rationale for why the anthroposphical<br />
products Calcon AM and Calcon PM should be<br />
administered according to the time of the day.<br />
(Lilipoh 2003; 8 in HOMEOPATHY, 93, 2/2004)<br />
XXII. Efficacy of Arnica in Varicose Vein<br />
Surgery WOLF M.; TAMASCHKE C.; MAYER<br />
W. and HEGER M. The results of this pilot study<br />
showed a trend towards a beneficial effect of<br />
Arnica D12 with regard to reduction of Haematoma<br />
and pain during the post-operative course. (Forsch<br />
Komplementarmed Klass Naturheilkd 2003; 10<br />
in HOMEOPATHY, 93, 2/2004).<br />
XXIII. Homœopathy for SARS. WINSTON,<br />
Julian (Editorial). (HT. 23, 5/2003) The common<br />
symptoms of SARS – Sudden Acute Respiratory<br />
Syndrome – Sudden onset of symptoms, High fever<br />
with shaking, Malaise to the point of feeling faint,<br />
Violent cough with Pneumonia – are repertorised.<br />
The remedies which have all these symptoms<br />
are Arsenicum, Belladonna, Eupatorium<br />
perfoliatum and Phosphorus. Indications to<br />
differentiate these remedies are discussed in brief.<br />
XXIV. The Martha Oelman Community Service<br />
Award was presented to Janice A. WENGER. The<br />
Henry N. Williams Professional Service Award<br />
was presented to Roger MORRISON. (HT. 23,<br />
6/2003)<br />
XXV. The Editor (Julian WINSTON, HT. 23,<br />
6/2003) narrates his personal experience with
egard to the power of Arnica in potency to relieve<br />
pains from dental work. It is not just relieving pain<br />
but the speed with which the pain goes away. He<br />
comments on some ‘researches’ published in the<br />
Media which dub Arnica as no more effective than<br />
placebo! He also quotes Dr. Jennifer JACOBS<br />
extensively from the AJHM. 2003 – Homœopathy<br />
is not a ‘Complementary’, or ‘Alternative’ or even<br />
worse ‘Integrative’ medicine. Homœopathy is not<br />
an adjunct to Conventional Medicine. The<br />
homœopaths must realize that Homœopathy is<br />
complete in itself. [I have been reading the British<br />
Homœopathic Journal – now ‘Homœopathy’ – for<br />
over 35 years now and over the years it is devoting<br />
almost the entire journal for ‘scientific’ – whatever<br />
it means – researches which more often are helpful<br />
in damning Homœopathy = KSS]<br />
XXVI. Is knitting oil-painting? WINSTON,<br />
Julian. (HT. 23, 7/2003) The author knew of no<br />
other field of endeavor where people involved<br />
persist in calling their art something that it is not.<br />
The definition of Homœopathy is very clear.<br />
Calling any other technique which rests not on<br />
similarity as Homœopathy muddies the water and<br />
confuses the consumer.<br />
XXVII. A Native American remedy. (HT. 23,<br />
7/2003) The first cure of Dropsy by Apis ever<br />
reported was in 1847. This article appeared in 1866<br />
in The Elements of New Materia Medica and<br />
Therapeutics, based upon an Entirely New<br />
Collection of Drug-provings and Clinical<br />
Experience, by E.E. Marcy, J.C. Peters And Otto<br />
Fullgraff. [For the full text of this story see Apis in<br />
Margaret TYLER’s book Drug Pictures… = KSS]<br />
XXVIII. Valuable Hahnemann Manuscript<br />
acquired: The Institute for History of Medicine<br />
of the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart, has<br />
recently acquired the second improved and<br />
corrected edition of Vol. VI of the Pure Materia<br />
Medica (Printed in 1827). The valuable<br />
Manuscript came up in the springtime auction of<br />
Reiss & Sohn. Hahnemann Manuscripts are rarely<br />
available and are as costly as GOETHE’s. With<br />
this acquisition the Institute for History of<br />
Medicine now possesses almost all important<br />
HAHNEMANN works (Prof. Dr. Martin DINGES<br />
in ZKH. 48, 2/2004)<br />
XXIX. Sinnvoller Fortschritt – Oder<br />
Rückschritt in die Zeit vor HAHNEMANN?<br />
(Significant Progress or regress to the pre-<br />
HAHNEMANN time?) by Klaus HABICH, Curt<br />
KÖSTERS and Joachim ROHWER (ZKH. 48,<br />
2/2004). This is a criticism of the new wave of<br />
methodologies in regard to Homœopathy – like the<br />
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‘Mind only’, the ‘signature’ theory, the ‘periodic<br />
table’ theory, the ‘speculative’, etc. These are<br />
claimed to heal the sick ‘deeply’. They are also<br />
claimed to be ‘innovative’, new ideas, etc. and<br />
hence a big progress. Sometimes it is also said<br />
Homœopathy has been ‘re-discovered’ and new<br />
‘insights’ are claimed. After reading and listening<br />
to them it would seem as if the entire galaxy of<br />
such personalities as LIPPE, GUERNSEY,<br />
ALLEN, BOGER, CLOSE, FARRINGTON,<br />
KENT were all superficial, they did not do the<br />
‘deep healing’. [How deep is deep? Generally man<br />
takes his ‘deep’ with him without letting anyone –<br />
be it wife/husband – fathom the depths of Mind. If<br />
there are readers who disagree, please let me know<br />
= KSS].<br />
The signatories to this paper carrying the three<br />
names – Klaus HABICH, Curt KÖSTERS, Joachen<br />
ROHWER – include many from different countries.<br />
Attention is drawn to HAHNEMANN:<br />
“Appreciable, distinctly appreciable to our senses<br />
must that be, which is to be removed in each<br />
disease in order to transform it into health, and right<br />
clearly must each remedy express what it can<br />
positively cure, if medical art shall cease to be a<br />
wanton game of hazard with human life, and shall<br />
commence to be the sure deliverer from diseases”.<br />
(Spirit of the Homœopathic doctrine, 1813. – tr.<br />
R.E. DUDGEON in Lesser Writings of Samuel<br />
Hahnemann).<br />
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LIST OF JOURNALS<br />
Full addresses of the Journals covered by this Quarterly Homœopathic<br />
Digest are given below:<br />
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1. AHZ: Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung, Karl F. Haug Verlag,<br />
Hüthig GmbH, im Weiher 10, 69121, HEIDELBERG,<br />
GERMANY.<br />
2. AJHM: American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine, formerly<br />
Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy (JAIH). 801 N.<br />
Fairfax Street, Suite 306 Alexandria, VA 22314.<br />
3. HOMEOPATHY: Formerly British Homeopathic Journal (BHJ),<br />
Homeopathy, Faculty of Homeopathy, 29 Park Street West, Luton,<br />
Bedfordshire, LU13BE, UK.<br />
4. HT: Homeopathy Today, National Center for Homeopathy, 801,<br />
North Fairfax Street, Suite 306, ALEXANDRIA, VA. 22314, USA.<br />
5. RH: : Revista De Homeopatia, Rua Estado de Israel, 639 Cep<br />
04022-001 – SÃO Paulo Brazil<br />
6. SIM: Simillimum, The Journal of the Homeopathic Academy of<br />
Naturopathic Physicians, P.O. Box 8341, Covington, WA 98042,<br />
USA.<br />
7. ZKH: Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie, Karl F. Haug<br />
Verlag, Hüthig GmbH, Im Weiher 10, D-69121 HEIDELBERG,<br />
GERMANY.<br />
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PART II<br />
(This section contains abstracts/extracts from selected articles; even the entire article in some cases)<br />
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1. The Debt We Owe To Homœopathy<br />
PULFORD, A.<br />
(Editorial, Homœopathic Recorder, December,<br />
1929)<br />
Perhaps none of us, who have experienced<br />
unbounded success with Homœopathy, have ever<br />
stopped to ask ourselves if we fully realize the<br />
magnitude of the debt that we each and all owe to<br />
Homœopathy and what we are doing to help toward<br />
discharging that enormous debt. Is it just either to<br />
Homœopathy or to those to whom, as we pass on,<br />
we are to leave this rich legacy, to go into seclusion<br />
and take with us the store of riches that we have<br />
garnered by the wayside during a busy and<br />
prosperous career? What of us, if those who had<br />
preceded us had done this? Are we not in duty<br />
bound to continually keep on nurturing and<br />
supporting the coming generation of rising young<br />
homœopaths, helping them through the years of<br />
lean competency, trials, heartaches and<br />
discouragements? What if those who preceded us<br />
had done as we are doing now? What would have<br />
happened to us if they had permanently withdrawn<br />
from all professional activity as soon as they had<br />
financially succeeded and found they could get<br />
along without us? Is it not meet that we should<br />
remain and aid those who are to take up the banner<br />
and carry it on to victory! Should we desert and<br />
forsake them?<br />
Why are not all the great and splendid<br />
homœopaths attending the I.H.A. meetings, giving<br />
the very best of what is within them, helping to<br />
keep out politics, lending encouragement to the<br />
younger men and helping educate the older men<br />
into the straight and narrow path? This would tend<br />
not only to the fulfillment of the above but would<br />
give power and prestige to Homœopathy and help<br />
in part to discharge the enormous debt which we all<br />
owe to that fine art which had been the means of<br />
our success. Every true homœopath has every<br />
reason to be proud of his calling.<br />
Thus, in the interest of humanity, let us all,<br />
until our last breath, give of our stores of wealth<br />
and lore and time in an effort to discharge our<br />
honest debt to Homœopathy, to the rising<br />
generation of homœopaths and to suffering<br />
humanity. Let those who have given up in<br />
despair because things have not gone right,<br />
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and those who have come to the conclusion that<br />
they can get along without us come back into the<br />
camp for the sake of that rising younger generation<br />
of homœopathic physicians. The paying of the debt<br />
cannot be evaded. Let us all be proud to be listed in<br />
the category of active workers for the advancement<br />
of Homœopathy.<br />
So we appeal with all the manhood within us<br />
for such great and good men as have temporarily<br />
held themselves aloof to come back and help us to<br />
show the world that America can yet stage a REAL<br />
RENAISSANCE of Hahnemannian Homœopathy,<br />
and that America has the brain and the stamina to<br />
produce one.<br />
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2. Post-vaccination Syndrome<br />
SMITS, Tinus (NAMAH. 11, 4/2004)<br />
Editor’s note<br />
This article only explores the negative effects<br />
of vaccinations. This does not negate the positive<br />
effects of vaccination namely, protection against<br />
the concerned disease. Written from Netherlands,<br />
the terminology may be a little different, and is<br />
explained by the author.<br />
Preface:<br />
‘Post-vaccination * syndrome * ’ has for several<br />
years now been an increasingly common diagnosis<br />
in my daily practice. By degrees, I have established<br />
an effective method for treating this syndrome. I<br />
now publicise my findings: for doctors, parents and<br />
any other persons interested in or concerned with<br />
this matter.<br />
Purpose: The recognition of the ‘post-vaccination<br />
syndrome’ – its diagnosis, method of treatment and<br />
prevention.<br />
Scope: The findings are a consolidation of accurate<br />
observations over a number of years based on<br />
discussion with children’s parents and patients and<br />
experience acquired from the treatment and<br />
prevention of this disorder.<br />
Method: Homœopathic techniques, including the<br />
use of carefully potentised and diluted vaccines for<br />
the confirmation of diagnosis, therapy and<br />
prevention.<br />
*<br />
Post-vaccination: After vaccination.<br />
*<br />
Syndrome: The collective symptoms of a<br />
particular ailment.
Results: The results achieved by the use of<br />
potentised vaccines in the diagnosis and at the same<br />
time the treatment of PVS (post-vaccination<br />
syndrome) appear so consistent and successful that<br />
the method can be used to provide a conclusive<br />
answer to the sometimes vexed question of the<br />
presence or absence of post-vaccination syndrome<br />
in a patient.<br />
Recommendations: The insights obtained from<br />
careful observation and the use of potentised<br />
vaccines have led to a number of recommendations<br />
with respect to Dutch vaccination policy, as<br />
formulated in the chapter recommendations.<br />
Conclusions: The ‘post-vaccination syndrome’<br />
diagnosis has unquestionably earned a prominent<br />
place in paediatrics. The condition can at the same<br />
time be treated successfully by the use of potentised<br />
vaccines as described.<br />
Introduction:<br />
My interest in vaccination and its adverse<br />
effects dates from the time, some 20 years ago, that<br />
my own children were small. Throughout the<br />
intervening period I have collated information and<br />
mainly, during the last ten years, have recorded the<br />
testimony of my own practice.<br />
Homœopathic practice has recognized that<br />
chronic complaints can develop following<br />
vaccination, ever since the general introduction of<br />
the Smallpox vaccination in the 19 th century. For<br />
many years Thuja was acknowledged by<br />
homœopaths as the proven remedy for these<br />
complaints, whose treatment by homœopathic<br />
means however appeared to me to be less than<br />
satisfactory. About ten years ago, I acquired the<br />
book La medicine retrouvée (1) by my colleague<br />
Jean Elmiger, which caused me to change my<br />
methods of treating post-vaccination disorders and<br />
my feelings of helplessness began gradually to<br />
disappear. The method he described was simple<br />
and easy to use, both for treatment and prevention.<br />
I made a habit of enquiring about each child’s<br />
vaccination history and a grateful mother would<br />
frequently exclaim:<br />
“It’s just what I’ve always said, but nobody<br />
would believe me; they said those complaints<br />
couldn’t have anything to do with the<br />
vaccinations.”<br />
Vaccines appear to have more side-effects than<br />
has hitherto been accepted. It must be recalled that<br />
vaccines are composed of weakened, dead or<br />
divided germs or toxins with their additives, to<br />
which impurities (aluminum phosphate, aluminum<br />
hydroxide, neomycin, thiomersal – a mercury<br />
compound, formaldehyde, 2-phenoxyethanol,<br />
chicken protein) always cling.<br />
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These vaccinations can be responsible for both<br />
acute and chronic health problems.<br />
Basic description of the ‘post-vaccination<br />
syndrome’ (PVS)<br />
The symptoms of this syndrome originate from<br />
two sources. On the one hand a large number of<br />
these symptoms are frequently cited in the literature<br />
as post-vaccination symptoms; other symptoms are<br />
my own observations. It must be stressed in this<br />
context that any symptom that manifests itself<br />
following vaccination and only disappears after<br />
treatment with the potentised vaccine is deduced as<br />
caused by the vaccine concerned. The PVS can be<br />
divided into an acute and chronic syndrome. The<br />
following are the main symptoms of the acute<br />
syndrome: fever, convulsions, absentmindedness,<br />
encephalitis and/or meningitis, limbs swollen<br />
around the point of inoculation, whooping-type<br />
cough, bronchitis, diarrhoea, excessive somnolence,<br />
frequent and inconsolable crying, penetrating and<br />
heart-rending shrieking (cri-encephalique),<br />
fainting/shock, pneumonia, death, cot death – since<br />
the Japanese delayed the whooping cough<br />
vaccination to the age of two years, cot-deaths has<br />
been practically obliterated in Japan (2).<br />
By carefully studying and recording the cases,<br />
we arrived at the following catalogue of chronic<br />
post-vaccination symptoms: colds, amber or green<br />
phlegm, inflamed eyes, loss of eye contact,<br />
squinting, inflammation of the middle ear,<br />
bronchitis, expectoration, coughing, asthma,<br />
eczema, allergies, inflamed joints, tiredness and<br />
lack of vigour, excessive thirst, diabetes, diarrhoea,<br />
constipation, headaches, disturbed sleep with<br />
periods of waking and crying, epilepsy, rigidity of<br />
the back, muscle cramps, light headedness, lack of<br />
concentration, loss of memory, growth<br />
disturbances, lack of coordination, disturbed<br />
development, behavioral problems such as<br />
fidgeting, aggressiveness, irritation, moodiness,<br />
emotional imbalance, confusion, loss of will power,<br />
mental torpidity.<br />
This list must needs be incomplete as the<br />
symptoms of post-vaccination illness can be<br />
extremely varied. The diagnosis is based not so<br />
much on the actual symptom as on the point of time<br />
of its appearance and disappearance after treatment<br />
with potentised vaccines. To add to the<br />
complication, it is not possible to attribute certain<br />
individual symptoms of the PVS specifically to the<br />
DKTP * or DTP * vaccination, others to the MMR *<br />
* DKTP: vaccine against Diptheria, Whooping<br />
cough, Tetanus, Polio.<br />
*DTP: vaccine against Diptheria, Tetanus, Polio
vaccination and yet others to the HIB * vaccination.<br />
In practice it must be accepted that each vaccine<br />
can be responsible for several of the symptoms<br />
named and also for additional symptoms that have<br />
not been mentioned. There is also no clear<br />
demarcation between acute and chronic complaints<br />
as the acute conditions are often the beginning of<br />
chronic suffering.<br />
The fact that someone has displayed no direct<br />
or acute reaction to a vaccination does not<br />
necessarily exclude the possibility of the vaccine<br />
being the cause of chronic complaints. These<br />
complaints usually become clear only after one,<br />
two or even more weeks have passed and<br />
dismissing a diagnosis of PVS in chronic cases<br />
because of the time-lapse between the cause<br />
(vaccination) and the appearance of the condition is<br />
fundamentally wrong. Ellen demonstrates this.<br />
Ellen was eleven months old when I first saw<br />
her in the middle of February and had constantly<br />
had colds ‘since birth’. She cried continually at<br />
night for the first few weeks, probably as a result of<br />
stomach cramps. At five months she suffered<br />
terribly for two weeks from fluid, squirting<br />
diarrhoea. At eight months she was first bothered<br />
by a suppurating inflammation of the middle ear<br />
and a temperature of above 40º. She was then<br />
given her first antibiotic treatment. After this she<br />
had four further attacks of middle ear inflammation,<br />
the last accompanied by vomiting, watery diarrhoea<br />
and a temperature between 37.5 and 38.6C. She<br />
was otherwise a bright child, quite well-developed,<br />
she ate and slept without difficulty. She smelt sour<br />
when she was unwell. She has had three DKTP’s,<br />
to which she showed no direct reaction. Middle-ear<br />
inflammation and digestive disturbances are<br />
prevalent on the mother’s side of the family. I<br />
began applying a common homœopathic treatment,<br />
without success. On April 15 th , she was given the<br />
fourth DKTP and 14 days later she again had a<br />
cold, brought up mucus, developed purulent eyes,<br />
ate less, cried at night and got another inflammation<br />
of the middle ear. When I saw her at the beginning<br />
of June with both ears discharging, a dirty nose and<br />
purulent eyes, it was clear to me that she had PVS.<br />
I prescribed a DKTP 30K * , 200K * , MK * and XMK *<br />
on four consecutive days. [Why such aggressive<br />
*MMR: Vaccine against Mumps, Measles, Rubella<br />
(German measles).<br />
*HIB: Vaccine against Haemophilus influenzal B<br />
virus that can cause meningitis.<br />
* NB the author uses K-potencies, so you will find<br />
30K, 200K, MK and XMK corresponding with<br />
30C, 200C, 1M and 10M.<br />
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prescription 30, 200, M, XM – on four consecutive<br />
days? What would have happened if he had given<br />
one potency, whether 200 or M on one day only?<br />
Or, why did he stop with XM and not go to 50M on<br />
the 5 th day, CM on the 6 th day? Is there no law or it<br />
all one’s whims? Does his experience, teaches us<br />
to follow same methodology in our patients? The<br />
‘orthodox’ teaching is to give one dose of one<br />
medicine and wait and watch. Has that teaching<br />
been dumped into the trash can and replaced by<br />
‘modern’ aggressive method? = KSS] On July 20 th ,<br />
the mother rang me to tell me that the child ‘had<br />
never been so well’. Everything has finished and it<br />
surprised everyone that the child looks so healthy.<br />
There was no relapse.<br />
Also, often only the second, third or fourth<br />
administration of the vaccine creates problems. A<br />
good example of this is Jurgen. He was exactly one<br />
year old when his mother first appeared at my<br />
practice. When he was three weeks old he<br />
contracted a cold that had still not disappeared. Up<br />
to six months he was lovable and quiet, but this<br />
suddenly changed: he became restless and noisy<br />
and often had one-day fevers, ten times in that year.<br />
It was as if he was a different child, said his mother.<br />
Nothing pleased him anymore, he refused to sit on<br />
his mother’s lap, even for a game or nursery-rhyme.<br />
He had his vaccinations exactly on time ‘with<br />
absolutely no problems’ according to the mother,<br />
except that after the fourth DKTP/HIB, a month<br />
ago, he had a one-day fever. His colds were<br />
characterised by a watery running nose,<br />
expectoration and noisy breathing: “you can always<br />
hear something,” his mother said. From six months<br />
he was given vegetables and fruit juice as well as<br />
the bottle.<br />
“What is the matter with him? He has suffered<br />
colds since he was three weeks old so he very<br />
probably has an innate tendency to infection and<br />
weak defences.”<br />
But the enormous change in Jurgen’s character<br />
at six months is the most noticeable part of this tale.<br />
Theoretically this could be caused by the change in<br />
diet, but it is most unlikely that this could cause the<br />
change in character. These changes can however<br />
easily be explained by a post-vaccination<br />
syndrome. His total lack of reaction to the various<br />
vaccines is more likely to be a sign of his poor<br />
general defences than of the harmlessness of the<br />
vaccinations. We gave him a series of potentised<br />
DKTP/HIB. His weak defences (which are shown<br />
by his constant colds) will remain to be treated<br />
later, as this was present before the vaccination<br />
period. After the DKTP/HIB 30K, which he was<br />
given in the evening before going to bed, he cried at<br />
night incessantly for four hours, after which he was
noticeably more content. He also had diarrhoea<br />
that day. The 30K was therefore repeated a few<br />
days later, after which the series was completed.<br />
After three weeks I saw Jurgen again. His mother<br />
said that his behaviour had improved beyond<br />
measure. He was now much more content and<br />
remained on her lap, and expressed real pleasure<br />
(for example when his parents came home). He<br />
played more happily, and no longer ran from one<br />
thing to another. He had become calmer. Since the<br />
treatment he often had diarrhoea and he slept<br />
fitfully, waking at night and wanting to play as if to<br />
make up for lost time. He yelled whenever his<br />
mother went away. I prescribed a repeat series of<br />
potentised DKTP/HIB, to which he reacted with<br />
three days of fever of up to 40º, a runny nose,<br />
coughing and inflamed eyes. This was followed by<br />
almost constant diarrhoea, rejection of his food and<br />
continuing colds. Then came a period with bodily<br />
disturbances: teething difficulties, expectoration<br />
and squeaky breathing. It seemed as if he was<br />
bothered by something other than his vaccinations,<br />
so I decided on the basis of his symptoms to treat<br />
him with Cuprum metallicum after which he finally<br />
recovered. He sleeps peacefully, no longer has<br />
diarrhoea, the colds and inflammation of the eyes<br />
have disappeared and Jurgen is fully recovered.<br />
The homœopathic method<br />
Diagnosis, treatment and prevention are all<br />
carried out according to the homœopathic method.<br />
[Where is ‘homœopathic method’ in giving a series<br />
on consecutive days, to a baby? = KSS] A basic<br />
knowledge of Homœopathiy is therefore necessary.<br />
[Yes, indeed = KSS] Homœopathy was discovered<br />
200 years ago by the German Samuel<br />
HAHNEMANN.<br />
The principles of Homœopathy are based on<br />
the Law of Similars, which is to say that patients<br />
should be treated with medicaments that produce in<br />
healthy individuals symptoms that are similar to<br />
those present in the patient. Such properties of<br />
medicaments are published in a Materia Medica.<br />
The homœopathic remedy acts on the deeply seated<br />
energetic disturbance that is cause of the disorder.<br />
It will be clear that complaints can only become<br />
chronic if the injected substance – I am limiting my<br />
arguments here to problems associated with<br />
vaccination – has brought about such an energetic<br />
disturbance or directly caused this damage. The<br />
injected substance is quickly excreted from the<br />
body and can only be the cause of continuing<br />
disorders when tissue has been damaged. Chronic<br />
conditions associated with PVS are therefore<br />
mainly based on energy disorders.<br />
If a vaccine is the cause of an ailment, the same<br />
vaccine in a homœopathic dilution (for example<br />
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DKTP 30K) is the perfectly correspondent remedy<br />
(similimum) and has the power to antidote its<br />
effects. It can therefore be applied both as remedy<br />
and as diagnostic agent. [This is ‘Tautopathy’<br />
according to Dr. R.P. PATEL = KSS]<br />
General principle<br />
How can it be claimed that homœopathic<br />
dilutions of a vaccine can cure an ailment that has<br />
itself been caused by that same vaccine? In reality<br />
the vaccine propagates the ailment. Homœopathy<br />
has ever since its beginning used agents which<br />
cause disease, after dilution and potentisation, as<br />
remedies. Remedies such as Tuberculinum<br />
(Tuberculosis), Syphilinum (Syphilis) and<br />
Medorrhinum (Gonorrhoea) were successfully<br />
applied in the 19 th century and today are still<br />
frequently used homœopathic remedies. [Yes, We<br />
have these remedies but they – Medorrhinum,<br />
Syphilinum etc., have been ‘proved’ in the genuine<br />
manner of homœopathic Provings and applied to<br />
disease with such similar symptoms = KSS]<br />
Once a complaint has penetrated to the<br />
energetic level – we are considering chronic<br />
ailments – it is possible to use the potentised cause<br />
of the complaint (the homœopathic remedy) [This<br />
is not Homœopathy = KSS] to cure the ailment.<br />
Such ailments are not only caused by vaccines but<br />
also by other medicines. The course of Peter’s<br />
illness, is a clear example of this. Peter, 10 months<br />
old, was suffering from colic and stone-hard stools<br />
and could scream dreadfully for hours on end<br />
following his first DKTP. His mother, who is a<br />
‘DES-daughter * , has Crohn’s disease and took<br />
Salazopyrine * during and after pregnancy so could<br />
not breast-feed her child. Peter has had hard stools<br />
from his sixth week and always needed two days to<br />
expel his faeces. He turned red, perspired over his<br />
whole body, got cross, shrieked and kicked. After<br />
his first DKTP/HIB he had fever for a day and his<br />
whole thigh became swollen ‘like a sausage’. He<br />
screamed incessantly for nearly five hours. After<br />
the second DKTP/HIB, he again developed a fever<br />
with a swollen, red leg. Growth disorders were also<br />
observed. The third vaccine was injected into his<br />
arm, after which he again developed a fever, with a<br />
swollen arm.<br />
The following potentised vaccines were<br />
administered: DKTP/HIB 30K, 200K, MK and<br />
XMK on four consecutive days; after the MK Peter<br />
cried all day and then started to recover. After two<br />
weeks he fell back into his old pattern of ailments.<br />
* DES-daughter: Daughter of a mother who used<br />
DIETHYLSTIBESTEROL during pregnancy.<br />
* Salazopyrine: Infection inhibiting medicine<br />
against enteritis.
The DKTP/HIB 30K and 200K were then repeated<br />
and again he recovered. His mother speaks of a<br />
miracle; Peter is happier and no longer screams.<br />
The drop in his weight curve started to rectify itself.<br />
He still suffered from hard stools, which was to be<br />
expected as this was the case before vaccination.<br />
Two possibilities can be considered: he either<br />
has a predisposition to intestinal problems or these<br />
manifested themselves before birth as a result of his<br />
mother’s use of Salazopyrine during pregnancy. If<br />
the latter is the case, the problem could relatively<br />
easily be solved. My initial tentative diagnosis was<br />
chronic constipation caused by the mother’s use of<br />
Salazopyrine during pregnancy. If this diagnosis is<br />
correct, the ailment should be cured and eventually<br />
entirely disappear after treatment with potentised<br />
Salazopyrine. I prescribed Salazopyrine 30K once<br />
a week. After two months the constipation was<br />
fully cured. [This again is Tautopathy = KSS]<br />
Naturally occurring diseases such as chickenpox,<br />
influenza, glandular fever and<br />
cytomegalovirus etc. can equally cause chronic<br />
symptoms long after the actual ailment has<br />
disappeared.<br />
Luuk was born in early November 1994 and<br />
received his first DKTP/HIB on 15 th February<br />
1995. A few days later he first became ill; he had<br />
shortage of breath accom-panied by noisy<br />
breathing. The GP prescribed Bricanyl * and<br />
Clamoxyl * but this appeared unsatisfactory and<br />
Luuk was given a second course of Clamoxyl. On<br />
11 th April his lungs were finally completely clear<br />
and he was given the second DKTP/HIB. Two days<br />
later he contracted diarrhoea which lasted a week,<br />
for which the doctor prescribed Diar-olyte * . On<br />
11 th May followed the third DKTP/HIB and on 16 th<br />
May Luuk was again short of breath and the doctor<br />
represcribed Clamoxyl, this time together with<br />
Depropine * . However, Luuk’s condition did not<br />
improve and halfway through June he was given<br />
Atrovent * and Erythrocine * . On 23 rd June he was<br />
given Erythrocine again with Zaditen * and on 13 th<br />
July (four months after the beginning of his<br />
complaints) he visited the paediatrician, who did<br />
not offer a diagnosis but suggested stopping the<br />
treatment. Luuk’s condition improved gradually.<br />
* Bricanyl: A bronchodilator.<br />
* Clamoxyl: An antibiotic.<br />
* Diarolyte: A medicine for the prevention of<br />
dehydration.<br />
* Depropine: A remedy against allergy and a<br />
bronchodilator.<br />
* Atrovent: A bronchodilator.<br />
* Erythrocine: An antibiotic.<br />
* Zaditen: A medicine against allergy.<br />
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On 21 st November the fourth DKTP/HIB was<br />
given. On 26 th November his nose started running,<br />
he began to cough and he had trouble breathing.<br />
Luuk was visiting his grandparents in a different<br />
town at the time. The mother consulted the local<br />
GP on duty, who suggested PVS and referred Luuk<br />
to me. The following Monday I saw Luuk, who<br />
had breathing difficulties and was heavily<br />
congested. I prescribed a solution of DKTP/HIB<br />
30K. Within 24 hours the breathing problems were<br />
noticeably improved. For several days he<br />
continued to cough and expectorate and in the<br />
following week the phlegm was completely cleared.<br />
To complete elimination of the disturbance by the<br />
vaccines, he was given a further series of potentised<br />
vaccines from 30K to XMK on four consecutive<br />
days. Since then (a period of nine months) Luuk<br />
has no longer been ill. Because of its high degree<br />
of reliability and efficacy, this method offers an<br />
excellent opportunity for establishing the cause of<br />
certain illnesses. One can trace step by step the<br />
vaccine, medicine or illness that has caused the<br />
complaint. This scheme also allows us to find the<br />
cause of the often discussed ‘Jungle syndrome’, a<br />
syndrome which has claimed so many young<br />
soldiers as victims; as was also the case of Johan, a<br />
19-year-old seaman. Johan reported for duty with<br />
the Marines in August 1993 and was given a<br />
Mantoux injection on 13 th August. On 20 th August<br />
a DTP and Typhoid jab was given and on 16 th<br />
September a booster Typhoid vaccination. He<br />
gradually deteriorated, as he says himself. He was<br />
overtired, had serious difficulty concentrating,<br />
became very forgetful and had a strained left knee.<br />
At night particularly, he had bellyache, a burning<br />
feeling in his stomach and palpitations. After three<br />
months he was discharged from service. He went<br />
back to his former employer, but could hardly<br />
work. For a year and a half he was very poorly,<br />
then he ended up in the summer of ’95 on social<br />
security. A rheumatologist declared him ‘in perfect<br />
health’. After that he sought help in the alternative<br />
medicine circuit and ended up visiting me. He told<br />
me that he felt fluey all day, perspired heavily, had<br />
to drink a lot and urinate very frequently. At night<br />
he was thoroughly exhausted. He felt too weak to<br />
ride his motor-bike. He got stomach cramps and<br />
felt ill from two glasses of beer. His problems were<br />
almost certainly due to one of the vaccinations.<br />
Any other explanation seemed simply untenable.<br />
Treatment with Typhus 30K up to XMK on four<br />
consecutive days was started without any success.<br />
Three weeks later, the DTP series 30K to XMK<br />
was given, again without any improvement being<br />
recorded. As suspicion still fell heavily on one of<br />
the vaccinations, I repeated both series, again
without result. What was left is the Mantoux.<br />
Immediately following the potentised Mantoux<br />
series he felt better and was again able to work<br />
whole days. Although he felt a lot better he was<br />
still a long way from being what he was. The<br />
Mantoux series was therefore repeated several<br />
times, each time after an interval of three weeks.<br />
He now anticipates a full recovery from this.<br />
And what must we think about all the children<br />
worldwide who are given a BCG * , which is many<br />
times stronger than Mantoux, in the first few days<br />
of their life! In the Netherlands, BCG is never<br />
given to children. Nevertheless, the incidence of<br />
Tuberculosis in the Netherlands is the lowest in the<br />
world.<br />
Treatment<br />
Treatment is with potentised vaccine. Usually<br />
the best method for chronic PVS is to administer<br />
this remedy at four different potencies on four<br />
consecutive days; the first day 30C, the second day<br />
200C, the third day 1M and the fourth day 10M. In<br />
each case about 10 globules are introduced directly<br />
into the mouth without any fluid to be drunk. [Why<br />
ten globules? Good Lord? What is the sense? =<br />
KSS] The granules dissolve completely within one<br />
minute. It is advisable not to eat or drink or brush<br />
the teeth for half an hour before or after this<br />
administration so that the medicament can act<br />
without interference. If the symptoms are<br />
aggravated after one of the four potencies, it is<br />
always necessary to wait until the reaction is over<br />
before continuing treatment. In such cases the<br />
same potency is then repeated. This procedure is<br />
continued as long as necessary for the patient’s<br />
reaction to cease, normally after one or two repeat<br />
doses. The series is then completed. It is also<br />
possible to treat a severe reaction with a solution of<br />
the 30C. For this, ten globules are dissolved in half<br />
a glass of water which is administered, a sip or<br />
teaspoonful at a time, for one or two days. The<br />
most common reaction is fever, which does not<br />
require further treatment. If the child is vulnerable,<br />
as for example as a result of serious vaccine-related<br />
complications or if oversensitivity is anticipated,<br />
each potency can be administered weekly. Severe<br />
reactions can similarly be treated by weekly repeats<br />
of the same potency until no reaction is clearly<br />
discernible. If the disorder has not completely<br />
cleared up after three weeks, the whole series can<br />
be repeated. One to three series is usually<br />
sufficient.<br />
In acute cases the treatment is largely similar,<br />
differing only in that the preference in acute cases<br />
* BCG: Vaccine against Tuberculosis.<br />
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is given to aqueous solutions of a 30C or 200C as<br />
described above. This solution is administered at<br />
the rate of sip or a teaspoonful an hour for a number<br />
of days; three doses are usually sufficient as is seen<br />
in the following case. Ragma was a one-year-oldgirl.<br />
In the early morning on 4 th May, 1992, a<br />
worried father rang me because his daughter was<br />
quite seriously ill. Both of Ragma’s parents were<br />
homœopathic doctors and knew the dangers of<br />
vaccination. They had chosen to have their<br />
daughter only partially inoculated at a later date to<br />
avoid vaccination risks as far as possible. As they<br />
both enjoyed long-distance travel, they decided to<br />
give Ragma a DTP at 13 months. Up to then she<br />
had been a healthy child. She had occasionally had<br />
coughing fits but these had spontaneously<br />
disappeared. The day following the vaccination<br />
Ragma became very listless. After a week she<br />
began coughing and vomiting with a temperature of<br />
38-39°. She did not want any food or drink beyond<br />
her single daily breast feed. She woke frequently<br />
and only began to sleep properly at about 5 o’clock<br />
in the morning. She was prone to frequent crying<br />
fits, especially at night. Her parents gave her Thuja<br />
1M after she had been coughing and had a fever for<br />
four days. She did not react to this. Her condition<br />
worsened and five days after the beginning of her<br />
illness she clearly had an infiltration in the lower<br />
lobe of her left lung. Her temperature was 39.5°.<br />
she would neither eat nor drink and vomited as a<br />
result of her coughing fits. Her parents were<br />
worried about dehydration and feared<br />
hospitalization. The family doctor involved pressed<br />
for an immediate course of antibiotics. When the<br />
father rang me on that May morning, I advised him<br />
to start immediately with the administration once an<br />
hour of a teaspoonful of a solution of DTP 200K. I<br />
arranged to see Ragma at the end of the afternoon.<br />
Her condition was then essentially unchanged.<br />
Crepitations were clearly audible in the lower left<br />
lung; there was (as yet) no sign of dehydration but<br />
we clearly had a seriously ill child. We agreed to<br />
continue with the treatment and to postpone further<br />
decisions until the next morning. The next morning<br />
I received an enthusiastic telephone-call from the<br />
parents. Ragma had slept better, her temperature<br />
was 37.9°, she was coughing a lot less, had stopped<br />
vomiting and was more active. The treatment (a sip<br />
of DTP 200k every hour) was continued. [Same<br />
potency in solution every hour (every waking hour<br />
I believe) which means 10-12 doses, without<br />
succussing, stirring the solution? Why this every<br />
hour panic prescription? = KSS]<br />
The next morning Ragma was full of beans.<br />
The fever had abated completely, her appetite was<br />
first-rate and she was drinking normally. Her facial
colour was back to normal. Medication was<br />
stopped and the lungs healed without problems.<br />
I dared to tackle Ragma’s case because I had<br />
ample experience of treating PVS-complaints with<br />
potentised vaccine and had built up my faith in the<br />
efficacy of this method. Antibiotics would almost<br />
certainly have worked too slowly to prevent<br />
dehydration and hospitalization, whilst the DTP<br />
200K not only very effectively cured the postvaccination<br />
syndrome but also restored the general<br />
defences.<br />
Even where the post-vaccination syndrome is<br />
of several years’ standing, it can still be treated<br />
successfully.<br />
Prevention<br />
Homœopaths used to recommend, and<br />
sometimes still do, Thuja 30C before vaccination.<br />
Personally I have had unfortunate experiences with<br />
this and have never been able to confirm its<br />
efficacy. Paediatrician Yvonne Pernet has<br />
recommended Thuja 30C to the parents of all the<br />
children she has vaccinated for several years.<br />
When she stepped over to the preventive use of<br />
potentised vaccines, the difference in the results<br />
was indisputable. There were patently fewer sideeffects<br />
to vaccination with this novel method. In<br />
fact, the energetic level becomes safeguarded so it<br />
can no longer be disturbed by the vaccine. It is as if<br />
the organism is warned of the approaching<br />
‘artificial’ illnesses and can therefore better<br />
maintain its balance. It must be remembered that<br />
chronic complaints can only occur because the<br />
deeper levels of our energy have been disturbed.<br />
The procedure is as follows: two days before<br />
vaccination, give the potentised vaccine (e.g.<br />
DKTP) at 200C, about 10 small granules<br />
(globules), and repeat after vaccination, on the<br />
same day. If there is to be no further vaccination<br />
for time being, it is a good idea to administer the<br />
potentised vaccine a month later in increasing<br />
potencies of 30C, 200C, 1M and 10M on four<br />
consecutive days in order to correct any possible<br />
disturbance to the deeper energy levels. If, as can<br />
never be completely excluded, complications still<br />
occur despite these preventive measures, it is<br />
recommended that a solution in water of the 200C<br />
be given for three days at the acute stage and to<br />
repeat the whole series several weeks later as is<br />
seen in Lisette’s case.<br />
Following the DTP-jab at four years, Lisette<br />
showed an enormous decline in her developoment<br />
despite the preventive measure of DTP 200K two<br />
days before the vaccination and later on the same<br />
day: she started eating badly again, was very tired<br />
and reverted to baby behaviour: she talked<br />
gibberish, wanted to be fed and to revert to bottle-<br />
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feeding. She became listless, spent a lot of time<br />
lying on the ground and wanted to be cuddled a lot<br />
as well as developing oversensitivity to pain. I<br />
gave her a complete series of DTP 30K, 200K, MK<br />
and XMK over four days, after which the<br />
complaints completely disappeared and her<br />
development continued normally.<br />
Injury to the general defence mechanism<br />
Whereas the body’s specific defences against<br />
certain diseases can be increased by means of<br />
vaccination, which is obviously the effect intended,<br />
practice shows that the defences as a whole can also<br />
be significantly broken down.<br />
We see a group of children previously in good<br />
health suddenly develop all manner of infections<br />
after vaccination, or children in whom existing<br />
complaints worsen. The case of Ragma’s<br />
pneumonia is an example of this. Weakened<br />
natural defences often manifest themselves in<br />
chronic colds, ear infections and bronchial<br />
infections. Generally speaking, the family doctor<br />
and, at a later stage, the paediatrician will prescribe<br />
antibiotics. In such cases, the weakened defences<br />
are already discernible: antibiotics suddenly appear<br />
to be less effective and several courses need to be<br />
given consecutively. Even then, infections often<br />
linger for weeks or even months. Moreover, the<br />
general defence mechanisms can deteriorate further<br />
after this repeated treatment. This weakening of the<br />
defences can possibly be ascribed to a shift from a<br />
defensive system at the cellular level (aided by<br />
white blood corpuscles) to an essentially humoral<br />
defence (brought about by antibodies). Vaccination<br />
strengthens humoral defence and weakens cellular<br />
defence. If this happens while children are but a<br />
few months old and their cellular defences are still<br />
being built up, a serious loss of natural defenses<br />
with consequent sensitivity to infection can be the<br />
result.<br />
Johan E. Sprietsma (3) is of the opinion that<br />
the body’s immune system, by shifting form a<br />
cellular to a more humoral defence mechanism,<br />
becomes a lot less effective and diseases<br />
consequently take on a chronic character.<br />
The WHO (Geneva, April 1977), has<br />
confirmed an enormous increase in the incidence of<br />
infectious diseases (4). This is explained as a result<br />
of the self-sufficiency of rich countries and the<br />
deplorable conditions in poor countries. But are the<br />
conditions in poor countries any more deplorable<br />
now than they always have been? Malaria and<br />
Tuberculosis are becoming increasingly difficult to<br />
combat and are returning to many parts of the<br />
world. Also plague, yellow fever, diphtheria and<br />
cholera are on the increase. The WHO considers<br />
this to be a consequence of mankind’s penetration
into previously uninhabited areas and of urban<br />
overpopulation. The collapse of the former Sovietbloc<br />
countries and the enormous increase in air<br />
traffic (more than 50 million people annually) are<br />
also given as causes. However, living conditions in<br />
many countries cannot be seen to have led to<br />
reduced sensitivity to infection; on the contrary,<br />
infectious disease is on the increase in these areas.<br />
The WHO can also explain this: aging, migration<br />
and tourism, industrial food production. This last<br />
cause must certainly not be underestimated. It has<br />
gradually been established that we in the opulent<br />
West are becoming under-nourished owing to the<br />
structure of our whole food-production chain of<br />
cultivation, reaping, preservation, production and<br />
preparation. The belief that a varied diet ensures<br />
adequate nutrition has long been questioned and has<br />
now been overthrown by the results of scientific<br />
research. But the WHO disregards the fact that the<br />
populations of rich and poor countries alike display<br />
poor defences and have therefore become<br />
increasingly susceptible. A person with good<br />
defences need scarcely worry about infectious<br />
diseases. Medicine attributes the incidence of<br />
infection to external contamination, whereas in<br />
reality the individual’s general defence plays the<br />
leading part. The only cause that really affects the<br />
whole world population is the multiplicity of<br />
vaccines that are administered to the new-born,<br />
often within a few days of birth. [The BCG is given<br />
within 24 hours after birth = KSS] I have for many<br />
years been able to substantiate that it is precisely<br />
these vaccines that cause the drop-off in resistance<br />
to all sorts of infectious disease. I have observed<br />
this both in the Netherlands and in Nepal, where I<br />
worked for several months as a homœopathic<br />
doctor. Newly born Nepalese are given a BCG<br />
injection and so infected with Tuberculosis, before<br />
they are a day old, while as long ago as 1979 the<br />
WHO itself published the results of a very<br />
extensive parallel research project into the<br />
effectiveness of the BCG vaccination in southern<br />
India, in which 260,000 people were involved and<br />
which had a seven and a half year follow-up (5).<br />
The results demonstrated that the BCG was entirely<br />
without protective value.<br />
“The distribution of new cases of bacillary<br />
Tuberculosis among those not infected at intake did<br />
not show any evidence of a protective effect of the<br />
BCG vaccines”.<br />
A year later, in an article: Does BCG<br />
vaccination protect the newborn and young<br />
infants against Tuberculosis? H.G. Tendam and<br />
K.L. Hitze assert that there is little direct evidence<br />
of BCG vaccination against infant Tuberculosis<br />
(6). It is incomprehensible that in Nepal, and also<br />
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in many other countries, children are given a BCG<br />
vaccination at birth: it is certainly not in the child’s<br />
interest to be infected with Tuberculosis at such a<br />
tender age, which serves to injure his general<br />
defence mechanism. If exposure to a genuine<br />
Tuberculosis infection does not provide resistance<br />
against later Tuberculosis infections, how can a<br />
weakened form be expected to?<br />
It is high time for serious consideration to be<br />
given to the effects of vaccination on immunity by<br />
those whose interest in, or dependence on,<br />
vaccination is not financial. Hans Rumke, for<br />
example, paediatrician at the RIVM * , Bilthoven, the<br />
Netherlands, who is responsible for the quality and<br />
production of vaccines in the Netherlands – and is<br />
also a member of the side-effects committee! –<br />
speaks of the present publication about the postvaccination<br />
syndrome as ‘dangerous rubbish’<br />
because he is seriously concerned about what could<br />
happen if the post-vaccination syndrome were to<br />
receive wider recognition (7). Here, too, we see<br />
this confusion of interests. The time is ripe for an<br />
independent side-effects committee which is in no<br />
way involved with vaccination policy as such. At<br />
present, the side-effects of vaccination are seen as a<br />
threat to a specific vaccination policy and critical<br />
approach, even one based entirely on practical<br />
experience, is laughed out of court as ‘dangerous<br />
rubbish’ without any attempt on the part of those<br />
responsible at serious research. One researcher,<br />
Viera Schneibner, who has conducted a colossal<br />
amount of research into the consequences of<br />
vaccination based exclusively on orthodox medical<br />
research material, makes her conclusion<br />
immediately clear in the title of her book:<br />
Vaccination, 100 years of orthodox research<br />
shows that vaccines represent a medical assault on<br />
the immune system (8). I have arrived at the same<br />
conclusion in my own practice entirely<br />
independently of her investigations.<br />
The following example demonstrates how a<br />
small child’s resistance can be almost<br />
imperceptibly weakened as well as the high level of<br />
competence necessary to recognize and treat this<br />
process as post-vaccination syndrome.<br />
Sabina was nearly two when I saw her halfway<br />
through March 1997. Her disorder began in<br />
November ’96 when she started attending daynursery.<br />
She was subject to nasal catarrh,<br />
* RIVM: Rijks Institute Volksgezondhei &<br />
Milieuhygiene; Government Institute for Public<br />
Health and Environmental Protection responsible<br />
for the development of new vaccines and for the<br />
introduction ad execution of the vaccination<br />
programme.
coughing, fits, vomiting and diarrhoea. She had<br />
been given three courses of antibiotics (November,<br />
December, January). She contracted Chicken-pox<br />
at the end of November. Before this, her life had<br />
been unproblematical. The pregnancy ran its<br />
course without much trouble and she was born by<br />
Caesarean section. She was breastfed for seven<br />
months. She received her vaccinations at the<br />
normal time. Following the first DKTP/HIB, she<br />
had her first cold and her last vaccination (MMR),<br />
to which she showed no noticeable reaction, was in<br />
July ’96. The problems did not start until three<br />
months later, when she was attending day-nursery<br />
three times a week. Her mother described her as ‘a<br />
real nuisance’, a pusher who quickly got cross<br />
when things went wrong and then started throwing<br />
things. She was eager to learn, happy, boisterous,<br />
she had trouble eating and sleeping. She was a<br />
chatterbox, reacted violently to pain and could not<br />
leave things alone. She loved being cuddled and<br />
liked sucking her dummy. She was pale, ate hot<br />
meals with difficulty but would eat bread without<br />
trouble. She drank a lot, and still more when she<br />
was not well. She needed to eat a lot between<br />
meals. There is a history of Cancer in the family<br />
(PM/MPM/MMM) and diabetes mellitus (MP).<br />
The father’s side tends to obesity. Expressed in<br />
homœopathic terms, this child clearly displayed a<br />
Saccharum-pattern and I therefore prescribed<br />
Saccharum officinale 200K, once every two weeks.<br />
The child’s defences had clearly been<br />
undermined. She is an only child and had had little<br />
contact with other children. That is why the trouble<br />
revealed itself at the day-nursery. Ten days after<br />
the treatment had been started, the mother rang<br />
because the ailments had worsened and Sabina was<br />
running a temperature of 40C. I prescribed<br />
Saccharum officinale 30K in water, a sip an hour,<br />
but the next day she was worse and the mother was<br />
in a panic. We made an appointment for Sabina to<br />
see me and it appeared that she had an infection in<br />
both ears. Her lungs were clear. I concluded that<br />
another layer was blocking the efficacy of the<br />
constitutional remedy (Saccharum officinale), a<br />
layer that was screening her Saccharum layer. The<br />
Saccharum was not able to improve her defences<br />
and their weakened state must have had its origin in<br />
something other than a constitutional cause.<br />
Experience has taught me that vaccines are the<br />
most common source of such problems, and there<br />
had been little else in her short life that could so<br />
clearly have weakened her defences. I therefore<br />
started immediately to combat the MMR<br />
administered three months before the illness started.<br />
I prescribed a sip every hour of MMR 30K and the<br />
next day Sabina was free of fever, had had a good<br />
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night’s sleep and was visibly improving. The<br />
neutralization of the MMR was continued with<br />
higher potencies in the following weeks, after<br />
which the DKTP and HIB were counteracted. This<br />
way Sabina was completely cured of her PVS and it<br />
was only then that her mother realized that Sabina<br />
had actually been unsettled before attending<br />
nursery, but that had not come out in the form of<br />
infections. Her enjoyment of life has greatly<br />
increased, she is once again a delightful and<br />
contented child liked by everybody.<br />
Sanne’s case is also interesting. She is<br />
seriously handicapped and is especially prone to<br />
epileptic attacks and Pneumonia. I have been<br />
treating her for seven years and in all that time she<br />
has not once been hospitalized, though it was<br />
sometimes a near thing and a large share of the<br />
credit for this must go to her parents, whose<br />
courage and competence have greatly influenced<br />
her wellbeing. I have only seen her occasionally<br />
during recent years and number of consultations by<br />
telephone together with a good collaboration with<br />
the GP, who has kept an eye on the medical<br />
background, have been sufficient to control the<br />
Pneumonia and prevent aggravation of the epilepsy,<br />
using Opium or Cuprum metallicum. And so she<br />
reached her ninth birthday and at the instigation of<br />
her parents was given a DTP and an MMR, not on<br />
the same day, but still…. At the end of February,<br />
the mother rang me because Pneumonia was<br />
imminent so I prescribed for Sanne the usual<br />
Opium but this time it did not help and even with<br />
increased potencies there was no improvement to<br />
be seen. The new GP wanted to hospitalize her, but<br />
the mother refused: she set up a drip-feed for the<br />
child herself and at her wit’s end, we decided to<br />
give a course of antibiotics even though this had<br />
never really helped her in the past. She showed<br />
some improvement but three days after the ten-day<br />
course she was in the same state again with obvious<br />
Pneumonia. We conferred with the previous GP. I<br />
then prescribed Cuprum metalicum and Cuprum<br />
sulphuricum, without success. And so a further<br />
course of antibiotics followed, again without<br />
success. Nothing seemed to help. Then I<br />
personally made a thorough examination of Sanne<br />
and discovered that she had had an MMR in<br />
October and a DTP half a year before that. I started<br />
immediately with a sip of MMR 30K hourly, and<br />
the next day Sanne had a splendid Opium-pattern<br />
back. She slept all day, could not be woken and<br />
rolled her eyes back up. Sanne was reacting and<br />
could therefore be treated. Then she recuperated<br />
fully within one week, first thanks to Opium,<br />
followed by Cuprum metallicum. The reactivity
was restored once the DTP had been further<br />
deactivated.<br />
This shows clearly how a ‘constitutional’<br />
remedy that for seven years had given outstanding<br />
results can fail when the patient has been<br />
inoculated, and how antibiotics then also fail to<br />
help. It is necessary to restore the immune system<br />
by counteracting the PVS, so that both<br />
homœopathic remedies and possibly antibiotics can<br />
function effectively. The following case is also a<br />
clear example of such diminished general defences:<br />
Patrick was nine months old when I first saw him.<br />
He constantly had a cold with green mucus. His<br />
breathing had been erratic since birth, but was now<br />
heavy and accompanied by phlegm. His mother<br />
stopped breast-feeding him after four and a half<br />
months. At this time he also developed Eczema in<br />
the elbows and behind the knees, which was treated<br />
with cortisone ointment. He had been inoculated<br />
according to the normal scheme (i.e. at 3,4 and 5<br />
months). Eight to ten days after the first<br />
DKTP/HIB, he contracted bronchitis with coughing<br />
fits, for which he was given antibiotics by the<br />
family doctor. Since then his breathing had been<br />
attended by expectoration. He caught a heavy cold<br />
following the second DKTP/HIB. Only the third<br />
vaccination was given in stages, first the DKTP and<br />
fourteen days later the HIB, which resulted in fewer<br />
reactions. In the spring, his right eye became<br />
inflamed and produced green pus and at the time I<br />
saw him he had an infection of the left inner ear.<br />
He had in total three courses of penicillin and<br />
reacted each time with a rash. At the time he was<br />
taking two puffs of Becotide * three times a day. He<br />
was perspiring heavily. I started treatment with a<br />
series of HIB, followed a week later by a series of<br />
DKTP and again two weeks later by a series of<br />
DKTP/HIB. When I next saw him five weeks later<br />
there had been no clear improvement; of the last<br />
series he had only taken the 30K and had just had<br />
an ear infection with a fever of 40.6°, which the<br />
family doctor treated with penicillin. It still seemed<br />
that the injections were the only explanation for his<br />
complaints. Apparently one disorder was masking<br />
another. Homœopathy recognizes that multiple<br />
disorders must always be treated in the correct<br />
sequence, that is to say in the reverse order to that<br />
in which they appeared. It appeared that the<br />
antibiotics had caused their own problems, which<br />
prevented him from benefiting from the given<br />
therapy. I therefore started treatment with a series<br />
of Penicillinum 30K, 200K, MK and XMK; after<br />
* Becotide: A powder of Beclamethasone for<br />
inhalation.<br />
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the MK he reacted with amber phlegm and a dry<br />
cough. Then the XMK was administered and the<br />
amber phlegm disappeared entirely. Two weeks<br />
later he had the series DKTP/ HIB, after which his<br />
improvement continued. One month later he was<br />
fully recovered: his colds have disappeared and he<br />
no longer expectorates.<br />
Misconduct, changes in mood<br />
It is to be expected that a child with a cold has<br />
some irritation or whose hearing has become<br />
impaired will be abnormally peevish, difficult or<br />
tearful. We still see a number of children who<br />
display behavioural disorders after vaccination,<br />
which cannot be characterised as restlessness or<br />
‘the fidgets’. Up to the present, nobody has paid<br />
any serious attention to disturbances of this kind<br />
and nobody, apart from a handful of ‘initiates’<br />
suspects that vaccination can completely interfere<br />
with the character of children, let alone adults.<br />
Parents regularly say to me after vaccines have<br />
been neutralized:<br />
“It is unbelievable, but my son/daughter is just<br />
as he/she used to be, he/she now enjoys life as<br />
much as before the inoculations. My child has<br />
stopped complaining and it is now a pleasure to<br />
spend time with him/her, where it had become a<br />
heavy chore”.<br />
It is significant that in most cases the parents<br />
had not complained particularly about the child’s<br />
behaviour; they had come because of a physical<br />
complaint. People do not generally complain to the<br />
doctor about their children’s behavior; in those<br />
serious cases where they do the cause of the<br />
problem has never been associated with<br />
vaccination. This is seen in the case of Jurgen,<br />
cited above.<br />
Implied obstacles to the acceptance of the postvaccination<br />
syndrome<br />
To accept that a connection between<br />
vaccination and its consequences can only be<br />
verified if the malady becomes apparent within<br />
three days is to disavow the reality of the PVS.<br />
This period of three times 24 hours would only<br />
allow for the possibility of an acute PVS so that the<br />
most pronounced and at the same time most<br />
important manifestation of the PVS, the chronic<br />
cases, would necessarily be excluded from<br />
consideration. This acceptance shuts out what<br />
should in reality be the fundamental subject-matter<br />
of the study. The available statistics about the sideeffects<br />
of vaccination (9, 10, 11, 12, 13) then<br />
become completely meaningless, especially when<br />
(as is the case in the Netherlands) those responsible<br />
for the implementation of the vaccination policy are<br />
included in the side-effects committee and<br />
disorders have to be explained by word of mouth.
A large part of the damage goes almost unnoticed<br />
and can only be established at a later date when the<br />
symptoms only appear weeks or even months after<br />
vaccination.<br />
This situation is well exemplified in the case of<br />
Sabina. The damage only became evident when,<br />
three months later, a demand was made on her<br />
immune system at the day-nursery. Only then did it<br />
emerge that her natural defences had been<br />
weakened by the MMR vaccination, which up to<br />
then had given no discernible problems. But it is<br />
typically instances of this sort that are seized by<br />
opponents to the recognition of the PVS to suggest<br />
that the culprit is the contact with other children<br />
rather than the vaccine. No consideration is given<br />
to the fact that good defences were originally<br />
present or that a child needs to be able to rely on<br />
these defences in order not to become ill as a matter<br />
of course at each infectious contact, once he starts<br />
attending a creche, day-nursery, school or some<br />
other social meeting-place where bacteria and other<br />
germs can be passed on. Administration of<br />
potentised vaccines has shown that in the majority<br />
of cases such weakened defences can be restored,<br />
so such social contacts are merely the provocation,<br />
not the cause, of the malady. We must ask<br />
ourselves – and accurate independent research is<br />
needed to answer the question satisfactorily – if we<br />
are not actively destroying an indispensable<br />
mechanism that is of vital importance to our<br />
survival in a world where germs are part and parcel<br />
of the environment. For a long time we have<br />
effectively attempted to counteract atrophied<br />
general defences by antibiotics, but it seems that a<br />
satisfactory natural immune system is becoming<br />
increasingly important. However good medical<br />
remedies may seem at first, they always exhibit<br />
inadequacies.<br />
It is therefore essential to see what happens,<br />
not in the first three days following vaccination, but<br />
after. The use of potentised vaccines can play an<br />
essential part here. This method provides excellent<br />
opportunities for confirming or rejecting a<br />
diagnosis. This is invaluable and can help achieve<br />
a clear insight into the real extent of the problem.<br />
The following case demonstrates how lightly<br />
and irresponsibly acute cases can at present be<br />
regarded. Anita received her third combined<br />
DKTP/HIB vaccination at five months. The same<br />
evening, her temperature had risen to 40C, she<br />
cried incessantly and appeared to have stomach<br />
cramps. Her mother was concerned and consulted<br />
the doctor next day, who examined the child and<br />
advised waiting to see what happened. He did not<br />
actually exclude the possibility of an acute postvaccination<br />
syndrome, but was not able to treat this.<br />
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Anita did not improve and a second visit to the<br />
doctor produced neither new opinions nor<br />
treatment. When the mother on the third day<br />
approached the clinic where her daughter had been<br />
inoculated for advice about these post-vaccination<br />
disorders, a nurse told her that the vaccinations<br />
could not be the cause as any effects would wear<br />
out within 24 hours. Then the mother rang me,<br />
where-upon I immediately prescribed a solution of<br />
DKTP/HIB 30K, after which Anita fully recovered<br />
in 12 hours. When I later contacted the doctor<br />
responsible at the health-care centre to complain<br />
about the advice given, I was treated to a<br />
meaningless albeit diplomatic answer “Most<br />
complications do not last longer than 24 hours”.<br />
And once again reality is denied and attributed to<br />
coincidence…<br />
Research<br />
The next step in relation to the above should be<br />
to initiate a thorough large-scale parallel research *<br />
project in which one group of children is given a<br />
preventive 200C dose of vaccine two days before<br />
vaccination, as described above, and another group<br />
a placebo. Immediately following vaccination the<br />
same procedure (200C or placebo) would be<br />
repeated. A carefully tabulated record of the<br />
child’s state of health before the commencement of<br />
vaccination and its reaction to the inoculation<br />
should be kept: Fever, crying, sleeplessness,<br />
Convulsions, Epilepsy, growth-pattern<br />
disturbances, behavioural disturbances, infections<br />
such as inflamed ears, Bronchitis, Bronchial<br />
asthma, Eczema, along with motor development<br />
and mental development. The project should cover<br />
the age group from three months to eighteen<br />
months. This way the differences in reaction<br />
between children treated and those not treated with<br />
a homœopathic dilution of the vaccine can be<br />
charted. This work would gain an extra dimension<br />
as a similar comparison between vaccinated and<br />
unvaccinated children has never been made<br />
anywhere in the world despite the massive scale on<br />
which vaccination is carried out. No other<br />
medication would be allowed on the market under<br />
these conditions.<br />
Recommendations<br />
Besides the preventive measures using<br />
potentised vaccine in the 200c dilution as described<br />
above, other means of prevention can lessen the<br />
* Parallel research: A research project in which one<br />
group (the experimental group) is given the<br />
medicine to be tested while the other group (the<br />
control group) is merely given a placebo and during<br />
which neither the experimental subject nor the<br />
researcher knows who is given what.
isks from vaccination. In the first place this means<br />
being alert to signals from the child following<br />
vaccination. All too frequently it is assumed that<br />
all will be well and a following vaccine is<br />
administered unadvisedly.<br />
In the Tijdschrift voor Jaugdgeondhoidszorg<br />
for 1994 (14) is an interesting illustration.<br />
“The commission considered the case of a girl<br />
who is now two years old whose mental and<br />
physical development was very seriously retarded.<br />
She had undergone a normal development since her<br />
full-term birth at normal weight. She became<br />
seriously ill following the second DKTP, with a<br />
temperature of 41C and symptoms that clearly<br />
suggested Whooping cough: six weeks later it was<br />
obvious that her mental development was retarded.<br />
Following the first DKTP she had also been ill with<br />
a temperature of 40C, coughing bouts with<br />
tightness in the chest and vomiting, but less<br />
seriously than after the second inoculation.<br />
“The committee recognizes that whereas a<br />
causal connection with both inoculations cannot be<br />
ruled out, this must be considered unlikely owing to<br />
the particularity of the course of the illness and<br />
against the background of the corpus of scientific<br />
literature relating to such a connexion.”<br />
The commission’s opinion is in fact not very<br />
interesting here, although it does underline how<br />
such problems are generally tackled. What is much<br />
more relevant is the question as to the grounds on<br />
which it was considered that the responsible person<br />
or organization should go ahead with the second<br />
DKTP. At the very least it should have been<br />
decided to leave out the Whooping cough<br />
vaccination because of the coughing and oppression<br />
and 40C, temperature following the first DKTP.<br />
It would be unjust to conclude from the above<br />
that the various organizations responsible do not<br />
seriously consider reports of ailments. The<br />
problem is double-edged. First, most cases of PVS<br />
do not reach the commission because doctors and<br />
paediatricians are not trained to recognize a postvaccination<br />
syndrome, so the parents are told that<br />
the vaccination has nothing to do with the ailment.<br />
Secondly, the commission does not possess the<br />
means of establishing a definite relationship to the<br />
vaccine when a post-vaccination syndrome is<br />
reported, which leads to parents being fobbed off<br />
with unsatisfactory conclusions characterised by<br />
such phrases as “It is unlikely that….” It is after all<br />
only possible from a scientific viewpoint to confirm<br />
something on the basis of a definitely established<br />
relationship, which up to the present has not been<br />
possible. However, the method described here<br />
provides an excellent possibility for doing that,<br />
which can mean the end of the annoying<br />
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uncertainty while at the same time offering some<br />
prospect of recovery for the patient.<br />
Dr. Jean Elminger declares in his book La<br />
medicine retrouvée (1) that:<br />
1. Vaccination is carried out too early;<br />
2. too many vaccines are administered together;<br />
3. vaccination is carried out too frequently; and<br />
4. vaccines cultivated on animal proteins are used,<br />
which<br />
also contain chemical additives that can excite<br />
allergies.<br />
It is clear that some sort of preventive action<br />
can be undertaken against these situations:<br />
Point 1<br />
Vaccination is carried out too early in the sense<br />
that the new-born baby is building up his own<br />
cellular (general) defence and will pay for a shift<br />
towards humoral defence with a weakening of its<br />
immune system as a whole. It is interesting to note<br />
in this context that cot deaths have practically been<br />
eradicated in Japan, where the Whooping cough<br />
vaccine is not given before two years of age.<br />
Point 2<br />
Marieke is a good example of too many<br />
vaccines being administered together. Her fourth<br />
DKTP and HIB were postponed and at 15 months<br />
she had to receive another DKTP, HIB and MMR.<br />
She was given these at the same time, a total of<br />
eight vaccines. Her mother’s anxious question<br />
whether that was all right was answered in the<br />
affirmative: the child was strong enough.<br />
Nevertheless she reacted to the first three DKTP’s<br />
and HIB’s with a temperature above 30C and by<br />
shrieking inconsolably (especially the first time).<br />
The ninth day after this massive inoculation, she<br />
had a seizure with rattling respiration accompanied<br />
by slimy expectoration and her right side became<br />
completely rigid. Her temperature rose to 41.2C.<br />
She was admitted to hospital where she was given a<br />
lumbar puncture and further blood tests, but no<br />
infection was diagnosed. After two days she<br />
appeared completely recovered, but at eight o’clock<br />
on the third morning she had a serious epileptic<br />
attack which lasted until the evening. Marieke was<br />
no longer Marieke. Her speech was reduced to<br />
hmm, hmm.. She constantly rocked backwards and<br />
forwards and up and down. There was no longer<br />
any eye contact; it was ‘as if she’s looking straight<br />
through you’. All warmth, joy and feeling of<br />
happiness and sorrow had disappeared. She had<br />
become an invalid baby that needed help feeding,<br />
could not crawl, walk or talk. Her growth<br />
practically ceased.<br />
Marieke appeared to have lost her sense of<br />
balance; she waved her arms when walking and by<br />
now had had two months of physio-therapy and
speech therapy. She only said ‘mummy’ and<br />
‘daddy’. But there was no repeat of the epileptic<br />
attacks and the medication was reduced after three<br />
months. Now two and a half, her condition had<br />
never been diagnosed as a post-vaccination<br />
syndrome. Her paediatrician repeatedly enquired if<br />
her mother still believed it came from the<br />
vaccinations, and the mother replied that she was<br />
99% certain it did. Actual proof of a casual<br />
connection would also in this case have to come<br />
from the potentised vaccine, however. We started<br />
the treatment carefully with just a MMR in<br />
homœopathic dilution with a week between each<br />
administration. It was not certain that Marieke<br />
would still be able to recover fully. This misery<br />
could probably have been avoided if such vaccinecocktails<br />
had been a thing of the past.<br />
Treatment was started on April 22 nd and I saw<br />
her again on 14 th August, nearly four months later.<br />
She had been given each potency of the MMR<br />
twice because her condition worsened each time.<br />
The last dose (XMK) was given three weeks<br />
previously.<br />
Marieke had changed enormously. She<br />
immediately got a runny nose and went through a<br />
highly emotional period during which she cried<br />
about literally everything and held on to her<br />
mother, just like when she was in hospital. But by<br />
now she feels safe again with her father and mother<br />
and she can safely be left with people she knows.<br />
Her mother describes her as radiant; she is freer,<br />
approaches people, is decided in what she wants.<br />
Her coordination has improved beyond measure.<br />
Her bearing is no longer that of a baby, her<br />
muscular control and balance have improved by<br />
leaps and bounds. She can walk normally again<br />
without waving her arms. Her pupils are no longer<br />
dilated and function normally and her<br />
oversensitivity to light is much reduced. Her<br />
digestion has improved; there is no undigested food<br />
in her faeces, which smell more normal. Her<br />
speech has improved; she uses some new words but<br />
in this is still backward for her age. Generally<br />
speaking she is about half a year behind her actual<br />
age which means she has caught up about one-anda-half<br />
year in four months. A consultation with the<br />
welfare-centre doctor who gave her all the vaccines<br />
together has not proved very satisfactory. She<br />
maintains that she acted correctly and says that she<br />
would do the same in similar cases in the future.<br />
I decide to eliminate the disturbances from the<br />
other vaccines (DKTP and HIB) after one treatment<br />
as Marieke is far healthier. If necessary the whole<br />
procedure can be repeated. It looks as if Marieke,<br />
too, can recover completely from her postvaccination<br />
syndrome. This treatment has at the<br />
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same time definitively shown the cause of the<br />
bodily and mental retardation to be postvaccination<br />
syndrome.<br />
Economic considerations have dictated for<br />
several years now that an increasing number of<br />
vaccinations be given at the same time, e.g. MMR-<br />
D(K)TP or DKTP-HIB. Six or seven different<br />
vaccines at one time brings added risks; after all,<br />
one would not naturally contract six or seven<br />
diseases at the same time. The original notion was<br />
to give the HIB separately from the DKTP as a<br />
combination of the two would overburden the child.<br />
In practice this created organisational difficulties so<br />
it was decided to give DKTP and HIB together.<br />
Three month old babies are therefore given fifteen<br />
vaccinations in two months. The child’s defence<br />
mechanism at this age is undeveloped and<br />
vulnerable. The defences passed from mother to<br />
child are slowly breaking down and the child has to<br />
develop its own defences. It is therefore not<br />
surprising that the child experiences difficulty in<br />
coping with the heavy stimulation of its specific<br />
defensive mechanism caused by the combined<br />
disease germs, foreign proteins, chemical pollutants<br />
and additives all being pumped into its body within<br />
a short period. Consequently all sorts of chronic<br />
complaints stemming from weakened general<br />
defences occur at this time. This way the child is<br />
forced to concentrate on the specific defence<br />
against the administered diseases and is not given<br />
the chance to develop its own more general defence<br />
mechanism. The general defences can even be<br />
seriously broken down, as is shown in the cases<br />
described.<br />
The necessity for vaccinating so young and so<br />
frequently in a period of vulnerability has never<br />
been demonstrated. Generally speaking, two<br />
D(K)TP vaccinations and one booster six months<br />
later should be sufficient for the first four years of<br />
life.<br />
Point 3<br />
The case of Saskia shows that owing to an<br />
unnecessary repeat of the Whooping cough vaccine<br />
Saskia has adverse reactions after each vaccination.<br />
At three months she was given her fist<br />
DKTP/HIB and fourteen days later she contracted<br />
Whooping cough from an infected child. The<br />
paediatrician diagnosed Whooping cough which<br />
lasted nearly five months. But even after that she<br />
was constantly unwell: Colds, Flu, Diarrhoea and<br />
any other illness she came into contact with.<br />
Nevertheless, at eight months she was given a<br />
DKTP/HIB despite the parents’ direct query about<br />
the necessity. She developed a high temperature<br />
and was very ill for two days.
A month later the third DKTP followed, after<br />
which she was ill for a week with a high<br />
temperature. Only then was it decided to drop the<br />
superfluous Whooping cough vaccine at the next<br />
inoculation. She hardly showed any reaction to the<br />
DTP/HIB vaccination, but her further development<br />
had clearly been disturbed. At nearly two, Saskia<br />
still did not talk and would only take minced food.<br />
Her back and neck were strained and she crawled<br />
with her body to one side. She hardly walked and<br />
constantly supported herself on whatever was to<br />
hand. Now, three months after starting on the<br />
recovery programme with DKTP/HIB 30K, 200K,<br />
MK and XMK and with Pertussin (Whooping<br />
cough) 30K, 200K, MK (she did not have the<br />
XMK), Saskia is a different child. The<br />
improvement started slowly, but it became<br />
increasingly obvious that she was recovering. The<br />
results can now be called spectacular. She has<br />
completely made up lost time. She can now walk<br />
normally and even run, jog, climb stairs and walk<br />
backwards. She crawls symmetrically. Her speech<br />
is satisfactory and her articulation has much<br />
improved. She is energetic, less dependent on her<br />
mother and no longer panics if she cannot see her.<br />
She needs less sleep and no longer takes<br />
medication. A cold with green phlegm cleared up<br />
for the first time without going on to her lungs and<br />
without any wheezing. She is content and is a joy<br />
every day, reports the mother. Saskia is practically<br />
cured of the detrimental effects of the DKTP/HIB<br />
and the Whooping cough.<br />
Point 4<br />
The preparation of safer vaccines without<br />
animal proteins or chemical additives is no easy<br />
matter. One possibility would be the fully synthetic<br />
preparation of vaccines. The first fully synthetic<br />
vaccine (against Malaria), originating in Bolivia, is<br />
already being used on a small scale.<br />
Summing up, I should like to make the<br />
recommendations concerning vaccination policy:<br />
1. To implement vaccination later. Hold back<br />
vaccination until the child has built up its cellular<br />
defences (general defences) sufficiently.<br />
There are enough variations worldwide in the<br />
age at which children receive their first vaccination<br />
for a preliminary balance-sheet of the advantages<br />
and disadvantages to be made up. A useful<br />
example is the Whooping cough vaccination in<br />
Japan, which is not given before two years. A<br />
comparative study could be made by, for example,<br />
not vaccinating children from a particular region<br />
before ten months and following their progress<br />
compared with a control group of children<br />
vaccinated from their third month.<br />
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2. To administer vaccines separately where<br />
possible. In the first place the HIB can be given by<br />
itself again, as in the USA. Moreover the DKTP or<br />
DTP should never be combines with the MMR, as<br />
now happens with nine-year-olds. Vulnerable<br />
children who displayed strong reactions to an<br />
earlier vaccination should as a matter of course be<br />
given a DTP instead of a DKTP. Research shows<br />
that DKTP gives more cause for complaint than<br />
DTP.<br />
3. Increase the intervals between vaccines: two<br />
months instead of one month. This is less<br />
troublesome to the child and is more efficacious.<br />
4. Reducing the total number of vaccinations to<br />
three from four for the D(K)TP and HIB, the first<br />
two with an interval of two months and the third<br />
after six months, as is already the case for children<br />
of foreign origin.<br />
5. Keeping a careful record of the child’s<br />
reactions to the previous vaccine before further<br />
vaccinating the child. A more stringent and<br />
cautious policy than the present one towards<br />
complications needs implementing.<br />
6. No further vaccinations before complete<br />
recovery from post-vaccination symptoms.<br />
Children with a suspected post-vaccination<br />
syndrome require treatment and cure with the<br />
potentised vaccine. Following this, full or partial<br />
vaccination should be abandoned and preventive<br />
measures with the vaccine at 200K need to be<br />
taken.<br />
7. Systematic protection with potentised vaccine<br />
at every vaccination if the comparative study yields<br />
positive results.<br />
8. Specific instruction concerning PVS to doctors,<br />
nurses and parents.<br />
Conclusions<br />
Armed with potentised vaccines, we have an<br />
efficient weapon in the fight against post –<br />
vaccination syndromes. It is a proviso that doctors<br />
recognize these conditions for what they are. We<br />
are confronted by an ailment that has almost never<br />
been diagnosed up to the present. Nevertheless, a<br />
correct diagnosis can lead to a simple treatment.<br />
For this reason it is important for the parents to be<br />
able to report to the doctor or at the welfare centre<br />
on the reactions of their child. Their diligence can<br />
mean the finding of an effective treatment.<br />
The treatment of PVS with potentised vaccine<br />
confirms or disproves the diagnosis. If a doctor<br />
believes he has a case of PVS, he can check his<br />
diagnosis with the potentised vaccine. If his<br />
diagnosis is correct, the complaint will disappear or<br />
improve with this therapy. Where no improvement<br />
is observed it will be necessary to check that there<br />
is no more recent cause for the complaint or its
aggravation. The most recent disturbance must<br />
always be treated first. If, for instance, the<br />
complaint started after the fourth DKTP but the<br />
child has had MMR in the meantime, it can be<br />
advisable, even necessary, to eliminate the MMR<br />
disturbance before the DKTP. If this does not<br />
effect a cure, a different diagnosis must be sought.<br />
References<br />
1. Dr.Jean ELMINGER: La medicine retrouvée<br />
ou les ambitions nouvelle de l’homeopathie.<br />
BRON S.A.; LAUSANNE, 1985.<br />
2. CHERRY et. al. Report of a task force on<br />
Pertussis + Pertussis immunization. Pediatrics<br />
(supp), 1988.<br />
3. Dr.Johan E.SPRIETSMA. Ortho nummer 1,<br />
Februari, 1995, p.30.<br />
4. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation.<br />
57(5): 819-827, 1979.<br />
5. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, 57<br />
(5): 819-827, 1879.<br />
6. H.G. TENDAM & K.L. HITZE. Does BCG<br />
vaccination protect the newborn and young infants?<br />
Bulletin of the World Health Organisation 58 (1):<br />
37-41, 1980.<br />
7. WILKINS J., WILLIAMS F.F., WEHRIE P.F.,<br />
et al. Agglutinin response to pertussis vaccine. J.<br />
PEDIATR., 1971; 79: 197-202.<br />
8. Viera SCHNEIBNER. VACCINATION 100<br />
years of Orthodox research shows that vaccines<br />
represent a medical assault on the immune system.<br />
178 Gavottes Leap Rd., Blackheath, NSW 2785,<br />
Australia; viera schneibner (Fax 047-87 8988).<br />
9. Kathleen R. STRATTON, Cynthia J.HOWE,<br />
Richard B.JHONSTON, editors, Vaccine safety<br />
committee, Division of Health Promotion and<br />
Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine. Adverse<br />
events associated with childhood vaccines;<br />
evidence bearing on causality. National Academy<br />
Press, March 1994, 2101 Constitution Ave., N.W.<br />
Washington D.C. 20418 USA or 36 Lonsdale Rd.,<br />
Summertown, Oxford, UK OX2 7EW.<br />
10. CODY C.L., BARAFF L.J., CHERRY J.D. et<br />
al. Nature and rates of adverse reactions<br />
associated with DTP and DT immunizations in<br />
infants and children. Pediatrics 1981; 68: 650-660.<br />
11. ODENT M.R., CULPIN E.E., KIMMEL T.<br />
Primal Health Centre, London. Pertussis<br />
vaccination and asthma: is there a link? JAMA,<br />
1994; 272/8:592-3.<br />
12. American Institute of Medicine, Division of<br />
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, C.P.<br />
HOWSON, C.J. HOWE, H.V. FINEBERG,<br />
Editors, Committee to Review the adverse<br />
consequences of Pertussis and Rubella vaccines.,<br />
National Academy Press, 36 Lonsdale Rd.,<br />
Summertown, Oxford, UK OX2 7EW.<br />
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13. PETER FOKKENS. Gevonden en gewraakt:<br />
het postvaccinaal syndroom. Care 40, Febr/Mrt<br />
1997.<br />
14. Tijdschrift voor Jeugdgezongdheidzorg.<br />
Jaargang 26, juni 1994, nr.3, p.41.<br />
[When Lancet published in its Editorial about the<br />
adverse effects including Autism from the MMR<br />
vaccination, “as many as 30 Fellows of the Royal<br />
Society, which included two Nobel Laureates,”<br />
charged the Lancet with “desperate head-line<br />
seeking”, “sensationalism”, “scare mongering”, etc.<br />
Scientists claimed that the incidence of Measles<br />
went up as panicked families refused to give MMR<br />
vaccine to their children. Similarly about Hormone<br />
Replacement Therapy (HRT) about which Lancet<br />
said that it made risks of breast Cancer almost<br />
double. The “Scientists” called it “inflammatory”.<br />
– News from The Hindu News Paper of June 24,<br />
<strong>2005</strong>. The experience of Tinus SMITS is<br />
confirmed in the experience of many of us. We<br />
have our experience of not vaccinating our children<br />
for any ‘feared’ disease – because of our confidence<br />
of treating successfully cases of Measles, Mumps<br />
and even Rubella, etc. None of the children be it a<br />
handful – because the majority of the population<br />
are frightened by the exaggerated dinning by the<br />
media supported by the ‘scientists’ of fatal results if<br />
the children are not vaccinated. Over the years we<br />
have seen cases of Autism increasing, be it ever so<br />
subtle. Whatever may be the view of the<br />
‘scientists’ who refuse to accept the evidence<br />
available, we are convinced that vaccinations are<br />
not a blessing = KSS].<br />
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3. Acute Intercurrent or Intermediate Remedies in<br />
Chronic Diseases<br />
SCHEPPER, Luc De (AJHM. 97, 2/2004)<br />
(A61): Organon Aphorism by HAHNEMANN<br />
Reference. This symbol represents the paragraph<br />
from HAHNEMANN’s Organon, specifically the<br />
Aphorism number from where the reference<br />
originated.<br />
CD: Chronic Diseases by HAHNEMANN<br />
Reference. This symbol represents the thought<br />
taken form HAHNEMANN’s Chronic Diseases<br />
book.<br />
Using Acute Intercurrent Remedies.<br />
Many homœopaths seem to lack an understanding<br />
of how to use an acute intercurrent remedy. Often<br />
acute remedies have been called everything from<br />
drainage remedies and tandem remedies to support<br />
and lesional remedies. Some homœopathic<br />
teachers, who claim to be constitutional prescribers<br />
(homœopaths who say they do chronic “layer”<br />
prescribing), totally forbid the use of acute
intercurrent remedies and misinform others by<br />
saying that the use of acute remedies during the<br />
administration of a chronic remedy is suppressive.<br />
These individuals always try to find one remedy<br />
that goes throughout the chronic case history, no<br />
matter what the patient’s present acute disease state<br />
may be. They use this “constitutional” remedy for<br />
everything, no matter what disease state arises!<br />
This limited view is too extreme for the general<br />
practitioner of homœopathic healing.<br />
Why does this approach very rarely work?<br />
We only have to refer to Aphorisms 36-40 of the<br />
Organon on similar and dissimilar diseases. In<br />
Aphorism 38, HAHNEMANN tells us that the<br />
stronger and dissimilar acute disease will postpone<br />
or suspend the older chronic and weaker disease.<br />
Thus, administering the constitutional/chronic<br />
remedy during emergencies such as dangerous<br />
pathological crises, severe traumas, overexposure,<br />
serious injuries, and virulent acute Miasms, is a<br />
serious mistake as it runs the risk of disrupting the<br />
natural symptom pattern and causing unproductive<br />
aggravations as well as accessory symptoms of<br />
the chronic remedy!<br />
During an acute crisis the remedy of choice is<br />
the acute intercurrent. This acute illness shows a<br />
different clinical picture from the chronic natural<br />
disease. How could a dissimilar remedy correct<br />
this situation? That would fly in the face of our<br />
most sacred principle: Like cures like. A<br />
homœopath must have the tools to prevent and cure<br />
dangerous epidemic diseases, treat emergencies,<br />
crises, and acute virulent Miasms. The acute<br />
remedy must be chosen according to the causal or<br />
exciting factor and its active symptoms (von<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN [VB] method), not according<br />
to the chronic case history. The desired middle<br />
path is the class of homœopaths who find a balance<br />
between those who treat in layers and those who<br />
use the grand constitutional remedy for everything.<br />
No doubt, the closer the remedy is to the<br />
simillimum the deeper and more all-encompassing<br />
its action will be on the Vital Force (VF). This is a<br />
very subtle aspect of the single remedy and<br />
minimal dose and is a wonder to perceive. The<br />
goal is always to use the minimum number of<br />
remedies, the smallest amount of medicine, and the<br />
fewest repetitions. Since the simillimum addresses<br />
the soil on which acute and chronic diseases grow,<br />
it can sometimes cure both acute and chronic<br />
manifestations as well as act as a prophylactic.<br />
Especially with the use of HAHNEMANN’s<br />
medicinal solutions (5 th and 6 th Edition of the<br />
Organon), we often find that the adjustment of the<br />
succussions or size of the dose will keep the<br />
remedy working.<br />
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The skillful use of intercurrents is an essential<br />
method in Classical Homœopathy, an aspect of<br />
complete case management. Acute intercurrent<br />
remedies are used during temporary disruptions of<br />
the chronic treatment. For example, “taking cold<br />
in the stomach by eating fruit, [cured] by smelling<br />
of Arsenicum” (Hahnemann, 1997, p.131). These<br />
remedies are chosen because of the exciting cause<br />
and the active acute symptoms so that they do not<br />
disrupt the deeper layer associated with a different<br />
fundamental cause and with the constitution. These<br />
intercurrents mainly act superficially; thus they will<br />
not interfere with the complementary constitutional<br />
treatment. They are specialized specifics, which<br />
deal with the disruption of the chronic treatment by<br />
occasional exciting causes that would delay the<br />
cure.<br />
The practitioner might be temporarily<br />
successful with his “chronic remedy for all<br />
situations” (especially a practitioner who runs a<br />
sheltered psychosomatic clinic), but this method<br />
will not work when strong acute emotional and<br />
physical factors surface. Emotional shock (fright,<br />
grief which causes the menses to cease, etc.), Head<br />
trauma, Sun stroke, Food poisoning, Worm and<br />
Parasite infestations, Meningitis, Cholera, Typhoid<br />
– these are just a few examples that require acute<br />
intercurrent remedies.<br />
Because of the continued suppression of<br />
miasmatic chronic diseases in modern countries, we<br />
must know when to use acute intercurrents. If one<br />
reads the old masters (see von<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN’s Lesser Writings), one will<br />
see that they dealt with horrendous acute situations,<br />
which are still present today. Nothing has really<br />
changed except that we have some new acute<br />
diseases: SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory<br />
Syndrome), West Nile virus, the Four Corner’s<br />
disease (hantavirus), etc.<br />
The reason some homœopaths speak about<br />
disrupting their chronic cases with acute remedies<br />
is that they do not know the strategy behind using<br />
acute intercurrents. As mentioned above, if one<br />
uses the exciting cause and active symptoms of the<br />
acute syndrome as a basis for selecting a remedy<br />
(VB method), then the intercurrent will not disturb<br />
the chronic condition. But if, during an acute<br />
attack, the homœopath continues to administer a<br />
deeper-acting chronic remedy which envelopes the<br />
previous deeper and often different fundamental<br />
causes, this may disrupt the natural symptom<br />
layers. Simply put, one-dimensional constitutional<br />
prescribers are wary of treating acute diseases<br />
because they do not know how to do it.
HAHNEMANN and Acute Intercurrents<br />
What does HAHNEMANN have to say about<br />
acute intercurrents? He introduced the idea in 1828<br />
by presenting the following examples in Chronic<br />
Diseases: (CD)<br />
“Among the mishaps which disturb the<br />
treatment only in temporary way, I enumerate:<br />
overloading the stomach (this may be remedied by<br />
hunger …; disorder of the stomach from fat meat,<br />
especially from eating pork (to be cured by fasting<br />
and Pulsatilla); a disorder of the stomach which<br />
causes rising from the stomach after eating and<br />
especially nausea and inclination to vomit (by<br />
highly potentized Antimonium crudum); taking<br />
cold in the stomach by eating fruit (by smelling of<br />
Arsenicum); troubles from spirituous liquors (Nux<br />
vomica); when vexation is joined with fright, by<br />
Aconite; but if sadness is caused by fright give<br />
Ignatia seed; ….. unhappy love with jealousy<br />
(Hyoscyamus); …. Burning of the skin by<br />
Arsenicum; … homesickness with redness of<br />
cheeks by Capsicum, etc.” (1997, pp. 131-132).<br />
After talking about this first class of acute<br />
illnesses, HAHNEMANN tells us not to continue<br />
the chronic antipsoric treatment in cases of<br />
epidemic diseases or intermediary diseases, so as<br />
not to mix the symptoms of the acute crisis with<br />
those of the chronic disease. If one needs to<br />
administer a first aid, crisis or genus epidemicus<br />
remedy, the constitutional chronic remedy should<br />
be withheld until after the crisis subsides.<br />
(CD) “But during the treatment of chronic<br />
diseases by antipsoric remedies we often need the<br />
other non-antipsoric store of medicines in cases<br />
where epidemic diseases or intermediate diseases<br />
(morbi intercurrentes) arising usually from<br />
meteoric and telluric causes attack our chronic<br />
patients, and so not only temporarily disturb the<br />
treatment, but even interrupt it for a longer time.<br />
Here the other homœopathic remedies will have to<br />
be used, wherefore I shall not enter upon this here,<br />
except to say that the antipsoric treatment will have<br />
for the time to be totally discontinued, so long as<br />
the treatment of the epidemic disease which has<br />
also seized our (chronic) patient may last, even if a<br />
few weeks in the worst cases may thus be lost. But<br />
here also, if the disease is not too severe, the above<br />
mentioned method of applying the medicine by<br />
smelling a moistened pellet (olfactory method) is<br />
often sufficient to help, and the cure of the acute<br />
disease may thus be extraordinarily shortened.”<br />
(1997, p.132) (Author’s emphasis and words<br />
added.)<br />
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The same idea – not taking into account the<br />
active miasmatic state in acute events – is reflected<br />
in the Organon,<br />
(A221) “If, however, insanity or mania<br />
(precipitated by fright, vexation, alcohol, etc.)<br />
suddenly bursts forth as an acute disease from the<br />
patient’s usually calm condition, although it almost<br />
always arises from internal Psora (like a flame<br />
flaring up from it), at this initial, acute stage it<br />
should immediately be treated, not with antipsoric<br />
remedies, but with medicines such as Aconite,<br />
Belladonna, Stramonium, Hyoscyamus, Mercury,<br />
etc., chosen from the other group of proved<br />
remedies and given in highly potentized subtle<br />
homœopathic doses, so as to overcome it to the<br />
point where the Psora returns for the time being to<br />
its former, almost latent condition, in which the<br />
patient appears to be well.”<br />
In such acute flare-ups, HAHNEMANN tells<br />
us to use those very specific acute remedies without<br />
taking into account the dominant miasmatic state as<br />
we would for chronic cases. This is one of the few<br />
exceptions – together with the one-sided diseases,<br />
which can be regarded as severe acute situations<br />
suspending the chronic miasmatic natural illness –<br />
in which we use the VB method. With this method<br />
you select the remedy according to modalities,<br />
location, sensation and concomitant symptoms.<br />
The Vital Force needs an intercurrent remedy in<br />
high potency and subtle or minute dose to subdue a<br />
threatening acute flare-up.<br />
In Chronic Diseases, HAHNEMANN makes<br />
an interesting point about Malaria, which presently<br />
kills about three million people per year worldwide<br />
and is a tubercular miasmatic expression.<br />
(CD) “China is only appropriate to the<br />
endemic intermittent fever in marshy regions ...<br />
Even at the beginning of the treatment of an<br />
epidemic intermittent fever, the homœopathic<br />
physician is most safe in giving every time an<br />
attenuated dose of Sulphur or, in appropriate cases,<br />
Hepar sulphuris in a fine little pellet or by means of<br />
smelling and in waiting its effects for a few days,<br />
until the improvement resulting from it ceases, then<br />
only he will give, in one or two attenuated doses,<br />
the non-antipsoric remedy which has been found<br />
homœopathically appropriate to the epidemy of this<br />
year. These doses should however only be given at<br />
the end of the attack. With all patients in<br />
intermittent fever, Psora is essentially involved<br />
in every epidemy, therefore an attenuated dose of<br />
Sulphur or Hepar sulphuris is necessary at the<br />
beginning of every treatment of epidemic<br />
intermittent fever, and makes the restoration of the<br />
patient more sure and easy.” (1997, p. 133,<br />
footnote)
KENT and Acute Intercurrents<br />
KENT continued this discussion in his<br />
Lectures on Homœopathic Philosophy in Lecture<br />
XXVI titled, “The Examination of the Patient.”<br />
“It is important to avoid getting confused by<br />
two disease images that may exist in the body at the<br />
same time (that does not mean both are equally<br />
active). A chronic patient, for instance, may be<br />
suffering from an acute disease and the physician<br />
on being called may think that it is necessary to<br />
take the totality of the symptoms; but if he should<br />
do that in an acute disease, mixing both chronic and<br />
acute symptoms together, he will become confused<br />
and will not find the right remedy. The two things<br />
must be separated. The group of symptoms that<br />
constitutes the image and appearance of the acute<br />
Miasm must now be prescribed for. The chronic<br />
symptoms will not, of course, be present when the<br />
acute Miasm is running, because the latter<br />
suppresses or suspends the chronic symptoms….<br />
This illustrates the doctrine of not prescribing for<br />
an acute and chronic trouble together… The acute<br />
disease is never complicated with the chronic; the<br />
acute suppresses the chronic and they never become<br />
complex…. Prescribe first for the acute attack, and<br />
the symptoms that belong to it. It is well, however,<br />
for the physician to know all the symptoms that the<br />
patient has of a chronic character, that he may know<br />
what to expect, that he may look at the close of the<br />
acute attack for the coming out of the old<br />
manifestations of psora, although often an entirely<br />
new group of symptoms will appear.” (KENT,<br />
1979, pp. 174-176) (Author’s note added.)<br />
As you can see, here KENT follows<br />
HAHNEMANN and lays to rest those “modern<br />
myths” of not treating acutes while you are treating<br />
a chronic disorder. He speaks here of true virulent<br />
acute Miasms, not sporadic befallments or nonthreatening<br />
exacerbations of chronic Miasms. After<br />
the acute crisis is over, the homœopath can resume<br />
the chronic treatment.<br />
Von BŒNNINGHAUSEN and Acute<br />
Intercurrents<br />
Von BŒNNINGHAUSEN was another<br />
homœopath who talked about acute intercurrents in<br />
the first published homœopathic Repertory (1832),<br />
A Systematic Alphabetical Repertory of<br />
Homœopathic Remedies. Within a sub-chapter<br />
titled “Interruption of the Antipsoric Cure” is the<br />
section, “Intercurrent Remedies in Chronic<br />
Disease”. This section includes a list of acute<br />
intercurrents and their symptoms in crisis during<br />
chronic treatments. These therapeutic hints are<br />
characteristic keynotes of the acute intercurrent<br />
remedies and the homœopath must refer to the<br />
Materia Medica for confirmation and differential<br />
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diagnosis with other remedies. Some examples<br />
include:<br />
“Stomach, overloading of (main rubric) with<br />
subrubrics:<br />
• Deranged with gastric fever, chills and<br />
coldness with eructations, Bry.<br />
• And inclination to it, Ant. crud.<br />
• By fatty foods, Puls.<br />
• Chilled as from fruit, Ars.”<br />
Among the remedies listed by the Baron are<br />
non-miasmatic remedies like Aconite, Antimonium<br />
crudum, Arnica, Bryonia, Chamomilla, Coffea,<br />
Ignatia, Ipecacuanha, Rhus toxicodendron, etc.<br />
These are used for acute emotional crises,<br />
accidents, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness from loss<br />
of fluids, and acute Miasms such as colds and flus.<br />
Why would a deep-acting remedy such as<br />
Arsenicum be found among these acute<br />
intercurrents? It is in the acute list of<br />
HAHNEMANN and von BŒNNINGHAUSEN for<br />
use in an upset stomach – in other words an acute<br />
local complaint. If Arsenicum had a deeper<br />
relationship to the individual’s case history<br />
(anxiety, fear of death, fear of contamination,<br />
obsessive compulsive behavior, etc.), it should not<br />
be used during a serious acute crisis as it might<br />
interrupt the chronic treatment and delay the cure.<br />
Another more superficial simillimum must be<br />
chosen at that point. Most intercurrents are nonmiasmatic<br />
remedies that have no relationship to the<br />
deeper aspects of the case. They are chosen<br />
according to the location, sensation, modalities, and<br />
concomitants (a complete von<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN case). These acute<br />
intercurrents act as superficial remedies that suit the<br />
acute layer of symptoms one wishes to remove, but<br />
are not directed toward the underlying Miasm or<br />
constitution. This also means that we should<br />
choose these intercurrents only for serious acute<br />
events, only if the crisis needs special attention, and<br />
not for every trifling situation as often happens. A<br />
homœopath should treat strong acute Miasms,<br />
painful exacerbations of chronic states, and<br />
dangerous crises whenever necessary, because it is<br />
preferable to administering allopathic dissimilar<br />
drugs.<br />
As an example, let me describe choosing the<br />
right intercurrent for myself when I was plagued by<br />
an annoying, lingering cough and while I was<br />
taking a chronic constitutional remedy. After<br />
waiting for fourteen days and finding that the cough<br />
was getting worse, I decided to take an intercurrent.<br />
The rubrics included:<br />
• Cough, dry<br />
• Cough, with convulsions
• Cough, constriction in larynx<br />
• Cough, irritation in larynx<br />
• Larynx/trachea, irritation in throat-pit<br />
• Chest, sensation as a band<br />
• Chest, constriction<br />
• Larynx, tickling, in throat-pit<br />
• Irritability, wants to be left alone<br />
• Very thirsty, usually thirstless except with<br />
meals<br />
Far stronger than the rest of the remedies<br />
which appeared were Phosphorus (first), and<br />
Cuprum (second). Because Phosphorus is a deepworking<br />
anti-miasmatic remedy, which would have<br />
interrupted my chronic treatment, I decided on<br />
Bryonia 200, (the acute of Phosphorus), split dose<br />
in bottle, 12 succussions, 1 tsp. PRN. After one<br />
dose my cough was already much better, and it<br />
disappeared completely the next day. Later,<br />
chronic treatment was resumed.<br />
This leads me to the following question:<br />
“What changes are important in acute<br />
diseases?”<br />
All the symptoms that have changed since the<br />
onset of the cough belong to the cough. For<br />
example: being very thirsty now that the cough<br />
started where usually I am not thirsty. This<br />
becomes very important. It would not be important<br />
if I were always thirsty, even before the onset of<br />
this cough.<br />
Another very important facet of change in<br />
acute diseases is the change in disposition and<br />
mental/emotional symptoms: the disposition during<br />
the acute disease as compared to the usual<br />
disposition will be a key factor. This absolutely<br />
must be investigated and plays an important role in<br />
finding the remedy. The more drastic this change<br />
is, the more important it is. The “feeling of<br />
wanting to be left alone” is very unusual for me,<br />
and Bryonia, the indicated remedy, has certainly<br />
this symptom as well as the great thirst mentioned<br />
in this case. This resembles of course the VB<br />
method, where von BŒNNINGHAUSEN takes<br />
only into account the mental/emotional symptoms<br />
as a tool to differentiate between several remedies<br />
close to the case.<br />
HAHNEMANN stresses the importance of<br />
emotional changes even in acute diseases in,<br />
(A213) “Therefore one will never cure<br />
according to nature – that is, homœopathically –<br />
unless one considers the mental and emotional<br />
changes along with the other symptoms in all cases<br />
of disease, even acute ones, and unless for<br />
treatment one chooses from among the remedies a<br />
disease agent that can produce an emotional or<br />
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as well as other symptoms similar to those of the<br />
disease. Thus Aconitum napellus will seldom or<br />
never cure either quickly or permanently if the<br />
disposition is calm and undisturbed; nor will Nux<br />
vomica if it is mild or phlegmatic; nor will<br />
Pulsatilla if it is glad, cheerful and willful; nor will<br />
Ignatia if it is steady and without fearfulness or<br />
irritability.”<br />
There is one good thing about acute versus<br />
chronic disease. In (A82), HAHNEMANN tells us,<br />
“In acute diseases the principal symptoms become<br />
prominent and recognizable to the senses more<br />
quickly, so the taking of the case requires far less<br />
time and there are far fewer questions to ask<br />
because most of the questions are self-evident;<br />
whereas in chronic diseases that have been evolving<br />
gradually for a number of years, it is far more<br />
troublesome to obtain the symptoms.”<br />
And, (A99) “On the whole it will be easier for<br />
the physician to take the case in diseases that are<br />
acute or that have arisen recently, because all the<br />
symptoms and deviations from the healthy<br />
condition, which was only recently lost, are to<br />
patient and relatives still fresh in memory, still new<br />
and striking. The physician must of course know<br />
everything here also, but he needs to probe far less,<br />
because everything he needs to know is told to him,<br />
most of it spontaneously.”<br />
Proceeding with Treatment After Using an<br />
Acute Intercurrent<br />
Again HAHNEMANN guides us very clearly<br />
in Chronic Diseases.<br />
(CD) “The intelligent homœopathic physician<br />
will soon note the point of time when his remedies<br />
have completed the cure of the epidemic<br />
intermediate disease (usually they appear in the<br />
form of a fever) and when the peculiar course of the<br />
chronic (psoric) malady is continued.<br />
“The symptoms of the original chronic disease<br />
will, however, always be found somewhat varied<br />
(altered) after the cure of such a prevailing<br />
intermediate disease. … The homœopathic<br />
physician will then choose his antipsoric remedy<br />
according to the totality of the remaining<br />
symptoms, and not simply give the one he<br />
intended to give before the intermediate disease<br />
appeared.” (1997, p. 132-133). (Author’s<br />
emphasis and words added.)<br />
Therefore, after the acute event (a strong one,<br />
that is), one must retake the case with special<br />
emphasis on any newly appeared symptoms. The<br />
most recent and permanent symptoms point to the<br />
next remedy. Some of the chronic symptoms also<br />
persist during an acute crisis and thus obtain a<br />
higher value for the selection of the simillimum.<br />
If the same remedy that was serviceable before the
acute crisis is still indicated, it may be repeated. If<br />
the symptom picture has changed, the new<br />
symptoms must be investigated in relationship to all<br />
the data associated with the chronic strategies<br />
before. This tells you how disruptive it is to<br />
continue administering the chronic remedy during<br />
acute crises! It is also wise, after the acute episode,<br />
to see whether the constitutional state improves<br />
greatly without the administration of any remedy.<br />
Better to wait and watch and give a placebo to<br />
please the patient until the VF has been able to<br />
produce all the symptoms you must prescribe on.<br />
HAHNEMANN further reminds us in Chronic<br />
Diseases to pay attention to another event, which<br />
can occur at this point, after treating the acute<br />
event, even when the acute has been properly<br />
treated:<br />
(CD) “Here is a fitting opportunity to note that<br />
the great epidemic diseases…. when they complete<br />
their course especially without a judicious<br />
homœopathic treatment, leave the organism so<br />
shaken and irritated, that with many who seem<br />
restored, the Psora, which was before slumbering<br />
(dormant) and latent now awakes quickly, either<br />
into itch-like eruptions or into chronic disorders,<br />
which then reach a high degree in a short time, if<br />
they are not treated properly in an antipsoric<br />
manner. … The allopathic physician, when such a<br />
patient…. dies after all his unsuitable treatment,<br />
declares that he has died from the sequelae of<br />
Whooping cough, Measles, etc.<br />
“These sequelae are, however, the innumerable<br />
chronic diseases in numberless forms of developed<br />
Psora which (were) unknown and consequently<br />
remained uncured.” (1997, pp. 133-134) (Author’s<br />
words added.)<br />
How often do we see a patient in the clinic who<br />
comes to us and says, “I had this simple cough (or<br />
flu, or small trauma, or small upset), and I have<br />
never been well since then”. These statements are<br />
explained by the above quote: this “innocentappearing<br />
event” has activated the dormant, often<br />
psoric Miasm, leaving the patient in a state worse<br />
than he ever was before. This is incomprehensible<br />
to the patient and his allopathic physician, but<br />
easily managed by a well-trained homœopath.<br />
Allopathic Recourse<br />
In a footnote to Aphorism 67, HAHNEMANN<br />
elaborates on situations where allopathic<br />
intervention is justified.<br />
(A67) “Only in the most urgent cases, where<br />
danger to life and imminent death do not allow time<br />
for a homoeopathic remedy to act – neither hours,<br />
nor often quarter hours, nor even minutes – in<br />
sudden accidents to healthy individuals, such as<br />
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choking, freezing, drowning, etc., only in such<br />
cases may we and should we as a first measure at<br />
least bring back irritability and sensitivity (physical<br />
life) by using a palliative ...”<br />
Apart from the previous examples, if an acute<br />
situation becomes dangerously uncontrollable, we<br />
can use allopathic palliative treatment to give us a<br />
second chance to find the curative homœopathic<br />
treatment. This situation is an exception – for<br />
example, severe bleeding spells in a patient with<br />
chronic Ulcerative Colitis – and not at all the same<br />
as preferring to give your patients OTC drugs or<br />
antibiotics as acute interventions for fear of<br />
disrupting the chronic treatment. Obviously those<br />
homœopaths do not know the basic principles of<br />
Homœopathy. They should know that OTC drugs<br />
(just like other allopathic drugs) cause a dissimilar<br />
disease, thus creating a more complex disease<br />
which is more difficult to treat. They do a<br />
disservice to the patient as well as to other<br />
homœopaths who inherit such cases. And, of<br />
course, they have passed up a chance to show how<br />
well Homœopathy works on acute diseases. The<br />
use of allopathic drugs might be an easy way out<br />
for the incompetent or lazy homœopath, but it will<br />
make the management of that patient’s case a lot<br />
more difficult. And even though antibiotics might<br />
overcome the infection, they do not favorably affect<br />
the susceptibility of the human organism. After<br />
antibiotics, the person is to a certain degree even<br />
more susceptible to micro-organisms, not to<br />
mention side-effects such as overgrowth of yeast<br />
and destruction of the normal flora. The foregoing<br />
are notwithstanding the fact that Homœopathy is<br />
superior to anything that exists for the treatment of<br />
infectious diseases.<br />
What Acute Events Need an Intercurrent<br />
Remedy?<br />
Not treating a serious acute event at all is a<br />
mistake. Due to its nature, an acute disease evolves<br />
in four possible directions. The patient can<br />
succumb to it; it will suspend the chronic disease<br />
and can become an independent chronic state; or it<br />
will combine with the existing chronic disease and<br />
create a complex chronic disease, which will be<br />
much more difficult to treat. The best outcome is<br />
that the strong Vital Force might overcome this<br />
acute Miasm without causing further sequelae.<br />
“The physician amuses that patient while Nature<br />
cures,” Voltaire said – but this is not a reason to<br />
refrain from treating acutes!<br />
Margaret TYLER wrote in her book<br />
Homœopathic Drug Pictures (in the lecture on<br />
Natrum muriaticum Nat-m.) about a crisis situation<br />
where she treated a chronic Nat-m. patient with a<br />
severe acute headache. She advises against the use
of the chronic constitutional remedy at this time<br />
because it may produce severe aggravations.<br />
Instead, she suggests using the acute of Nat-m.,<br />
Bryonia, to deal with the acute crisis. Afterwards<br />
she resumes the chronic remedy to remove the<br />
underlying cause. This advice comes from years of<br />
clinical experience and should not be ignored. It<br />
also means that you do not continue Bryonia once<br />
the acute stage is over, as I have seen some<br />
homœopaths do!<br />
Which acute crisis needs an acute intercurrent<br />
remedy rather than a continuation with the chronic<br />
constitutional remedy? As usual, HAHNEMANN<br />
gives us definite guidelines. In Aphorism 73 of the<br />
sixth edition Organon, HAHNEMANN describes<br />
three kinds of acute diseases. Group 1 combines<br />
those relating to lifestyle/diet and miasmatic<br />
predisposition; Group 2 includes epidemic and<br />
acutes belonging to idiosyncrasy; and Group 3<br />
includes acute Miasms such as those belonging to<br />
childhood diseases.<br />
Group One Acute Diseases<br />
Group One is subdivided into three different<br />
categories.<br />
A. Acute situations caused by lifestyle or dietary<br />
mistakes<br />
(A73) “…Exciting causes of such acute febrile<br />
conditions are: excesses or privation in eating,<br />
traumatisms, chilling or overheating, fatigue (from<br />
poor lifestyle choices), strains from lifting, etc., or<br />
else psychic agitation and upsets.” (Our modern<br />
TV, video games, magazines, and now Internet<br />
exposure) (Author’s notes added.)<br />
These issues are also discussed in Aphorism 77<br />
(see remarks on the aphorism in Chapter 9).<br />
(A77) “Diseases engendered by prolonged<br />
exposure to avoidable noxious influences should<br />
not be called chronic. The include diseases brought<br />
about by:<br />
• The habitual indulgence in harmful food or<br />
drink;<br />
• All kinds of excesses that undermine health;<br />
• Prolonged deprivation of things necessary to<br />
life;<br />
• Unhealthy places, especially swampy regions;<br />
• Dwelling only in cellars, damp workplaces, or<br />
other closed quarters;<br />
• Lack of exercise or fresh air;<br />
• Physical or mental overexertion;<br />
• Continuing emotional stress; etc….”<br />
HAHNEMANN refers to these situations also<br />
as “false chronic diseases”, since they can become<br />
chronic through continued abuse, but all they will<br />
require to be cured is a sensible change to diet<br />
and/or lifestyle. He continues:<br />
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(A77) “These self-inflicted disturbances go<br />
away on their own with improved living conditions<br />
if no chronic Miasm is present, and they cannot be<br />
called chronic diseases.”<br />
In al these cases no remedy is required except<br />
placebo (if called for) to temper the demands of the<br />
drug-oriented or hypochondriacal patient. The best<br />
treatment is rest, sleep, appropriate diet, and good<br />
care.<br />
B. Acute situations with a clear exciting factor<br />
and strong symptoms<br />
If the exacerbation is moderate to strong, and<br />
a clear causality is manifested, an intercurrent<br />
remedy, which acts superficially on the chronic<br />
Miasm, may be chosen according to the VB<br />
method, rather than giving a deep-acting<br />
polychrest. This will calm the symptoms for the<br />
moment without acting too deeply on the case.<br />
After the crisis has subsided, complementary<br />
constitutional treatment is needed to remove the<br />
underlying cause.<br />
Examples:<br />
Acute physical trauma: in this case the etiology<br />
and the organ or tissue affected will be of<br />
importance to identify the remedy. In other words,<br />
if the injury is a puncture wound compared to a<br />
blow (e.g. to the eye) it will correspond to a<br />
different remedy – Ledum and Hypericum versus<br />
Arnica and Ruta).<br />
Emotional trauma: we must look at the kind of<br />
trauma as well as the reaction of the patient to the<br />
trauma, which will be determined by the active<br />
miasmatic condition of the patient. And the trauma<br />
can of course wake up the Miasm! The first ninety<br />
pages of KENT are full of examples and the<br />
miasmatic reaction will help us in selecting the<br />
appropriate remedy; e.g., we have the tubercular<br />
jealousy of Pulsatilla, the psoric variety of Nux<br />
vomica, the syphilitic variety of Hyoscyamus and<br />
the sycotic variety of Lachesis.<br />
Poisons and vaccinations: we are talking here<br />
of street drugs, allopathic drugs, food poisoning,<br />
etc. The best antidote again is not the same or<br />
isopathic substance, but the most similar remedy.<br />
Sometimes one finds effects of poisonings when<br />
one looks into the “relationship of remedies;”<br />
specifically looking at the “antidoted by…” section<br />
will point to the group of remedies that should be<br />
looked at.<br />
C. Acute exacerbation of a Chronic Miasm<br />
This situation can also be an acute<br />
exacerbation of a Chronic Miasm (like catching<br />
the flu through lack of sleep or partying too much).<br />
In this case we do not always want to interrupt the<br />
action of the constitutional remedy with an
intercurrent remedy. If there is no obvious exciting<br />
cause, it may be a healing crisis brought on by the<br />
constitutional chronic remedy. Rest, massage, and<br />
hot and cold water treatments (hydrotherapy) might<br />
be sufficient to render the patient comfortable until<br />
this acute exacerbation subsides.<br />
In Third World countries like Kenya, I have<br />
found myself exposed to situations like those<br />
European and American homœopaths faced at the<br />
turn of the twentieth century. Many people came to<br />
us in an “acute” stage, excited by physical strain<br />
(all the women in the village where I worked in<br />
Kenya had at least four children and eight was not<br />
uncommon), by becoming chilled or overheated, by<br />
eating unsuitable food, mental stress, etc. How<br />
many of these cases are really acute?<br />
As you can see in Aphorism 73,<br />
HAHNEMANN suggests, and experience confirms,<br />
that most of these cases are acute exacerbations of<br />
fundamental chronic states and Miasms, activated<br />
by exciting causes. When the symptoms do not<br />
represent an extreme crisis, the simillimum, which<br />
suit their constitutional nature, often clears the<br />
acute exacerbations and then addresses the<br />
fundamental chronic states. That is the majesty of<br />
the grand simillimum. This may account for<br />
statements by homœopaths, such as Massimo<br />
Manglialavori, who state that it is possible to find a<br />
single remedy to successfully treat both chronic and<br />
acute situations. However, when the same author<br />
claims that “he does not believe in Miasms and<br />
knows nothing about them,” I wonder about the<br />
veracity of his statement. Don’t we all owe it to<br />
our patients to investigate before we reject the<br />
concept of Miasms – or worse still, we fail to<br />
investigate at all because of our knee-jerk negative<br />
feelings about Miasms? Let’s not fall into<br />
allopathic reasoning, which borders on fear of and<br />
hostility towards one of the greatest discoveries of<br />
Homœopathy.<br />
HAHNEMANN says:<br />
(A73) “In reality most of these acute diseases<br />
are only passing flare-ups of Latent Psora, which<br />
returns by itself to a dormant state if the flare-ups<br />
are not too violent and if they are quickly<br />
eliminated.”<br />
Only if the exacerbation is moderate to severe<br />
do we want to intervene with intercurrent remedies<br />
as an emergency measure. Again, the VB method<br />
will help you choose the intercurrent remedy.<br />
In his Lesser Writings, KENT expresses the<br />
same scenario:<br />
“The acute expressions of a chronic disease<br />
have a different management from the acute<br />
diseases; e.g., a child suffers from Bronchitis at<br />
every change of weather. It may grow worse if<br />
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treated with the remedy for the acute symptoms.<br />
The Miasm that predisposes the child to<br />
recurrent attacks must be considered.” (KENT,<br />
1994, p.419) (Author’s emphasis added.)<br />
Group Two Acute Diseases<br />
(A73) “Then there are sporadic acute diseases,<br />
which affect a few individuals at a time here and<br />
there, acute diseases brought on by harmful<br />
meteorological or telluric influences to which only<br />
a few people are susceptible at any one time.”<br />
This was long recognized in Traditional<br />
Chinese Medicine: certain climate factors are<br />
known to influence specific organs which have an<br />
affinity for those conditions; e.g., cold to kidneys or<br />
dampness to spleen-stomach, though only certain<br />
people seem to have a high susceptibility to that<br />
particular climate factor. Sometimes, but not<br />
always, these diseases form acute layers, which<br />
repress the constitutional picture until they have run<br />
their course or are removed by homœopathic<br />
remedies. These acute disorders are so closely<br />
linked to the patient’s chronic susceptibility that<br />
they can often be treated with their constitutional<br />
simillimum. It is only in emergencies such as<br />
sunstroke, dehydration, severe exposure to cold,<br />
anaphylactic reactions, poisoning, and severe<br />
physical or mental trauma that these cases are truly<br />
an acute crisis. In such an exigency, the symptoms<br />
will indicate a crisis remedy. Acute Miasms<br />
present a different situation from sporadic diseases<br />
because they involve infectious etiologies.<br />
HAHNEMANN discusses a second type of<br />
sporadic diseases.<br />
(A73) “Bordering on these are the epidemic<br />
diseases, in which many individuals are affected<br />
very similarly from a similar cause. In crowded<br />
areas they tend to become contagious. These<br />
epidemics cause fevers, each with its own<br />
characteristics; and because each case of disease in<br />
the same epidemic has the same origin, those<br />
affected manifest a similar disease process, which,<br />
left to itself, ends either in death or in recovery<br />
within a limited time. Wars, floods, and famine are<br />
often the exciting causes or the breeders of such<br />
diseases.”<br />
In acute Miasms, the susceptibility factor is<br />
closely related to acquired and inherited Miasms<br />
and family disorders. For this reason, the remedy<br />
for the acute Miasm may also be the remedy for the<br />
patient’s constitutional condition. This is especially<br />
common to acute Miasms that run a nonthreatening<br />
natural course with few or no<br />
complications. This may not be the case, however,<br />
when the acute disease is of a very virulent nature.<br />
Because of their intensity, these acute diseases will<br />
suspend the chronic disease and an intercurrent
acute remedy is needed to deal with this new acute<br />
natural disease. It will display a new symptom<br />
image that will either run its course or be removed<br />
by homœopathic remedies.<br />
In these circumstances an acute intercurrent is<br />
the remedy of choice. We’ve all seen patients who<br />
have been never well since (NWS) a certain illness.<br />
The NWS acute disease has now become a chronic<br />
disease, stronger and dissimilar to the previously<br />
treated chronic disease, which is now suspended.<br />
SARS is a good example.<br />
Deep-acting complementary remedies<br />
(constitutional and anti-miasmatic treatment) must<br />
remove the chronic underlying causes after the<br />
acute crisis is ameliorated. Let the constitutional<br />
factors, the nature of the disease, and the totality of<br />
the symptoms (Organon, Aphorisms 5,6 and 7) be<br />
your guide to the homœopathic remedy, and you<br />
will have success. Follow the revelations of the VF<br />
and it will demonstrate, through causation, signs<br />
and symptoms, which remedy it needs. Trust your<br />
recuperated VF to tell you what to do!<br />
Group Three Acute Diseases<br />
HAHNEMANN also alludes to the third kind<br />
of acute diseases.<br />
(A73) “Then there are those acute Miasms that<br />
always recur in their own particular form, which is<br />
why they are known by an established name. Some<br />
of them are contracted only once in a lifetime, like<br />
Smallpox, Measles, Whooping cough, …Scarlatina<br />
…Mumps, etc., while others recur frequently in<br />
fairly similar ways, like… the Yellow fever of<br />
coastal regions, Asiatic cholera, etc.”<br />
We see the same in modern times: Bubonic<br />
Plague in India; Tuberculosis (TB) and Cholera<br />
epidemics in South Africa; Malaria and TB in<br />
Kenya; epidemics during the war between the Tutsi<br />
and Hutu in Rwanda and Burundi or the civil wars<br />
in Zaire; Flu epidemics worldwide, etc. These<br />
acute Miasms are caused by microorganisms and<br />
are self-limiting but tend to form a quick crisis and<br />
end either with complications, perhaps even death,<br />
or convalescence (a person can fall prey to these<br />
illnesses more than once). By contrast, the once-ina-lifetime<br />
illnesses provide permanent immunity<br />
after only one attack.<br />
All these acute diseases should be treated with<br />
remedies reflecting the picture of the acute<br />
Miasmatic state alone – the acute genus<br />
epidemicus. A follow-up with constitutional and<br />
anti-miasmatic remedies to remove the underlying<br />
susceptibility is then necessary.<br />
HAHNEMANN warns us to not pay attention<br />
to the name attached to the epidemic disease, like<br />
the yearly flu in modern times.<br />
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(A100) “In investigating the totality of<br />
symptoms of epidemics and sporadic diseases, it<br />
makes no difference at all whether something<br />
similar, by the same or a different name, has ever<br />
appeared in the world before. Whether or not such<br />
an epidemic is new or unusual makes no difference<br />
either in the examination or in the cure, since in any<br />
case the physician must presume the true picture of<br />
every epidemic to be new and unknown and must<br />
thoroughly examine it as it is in all of its details if<br />
he wants to be a true and thorough physician who<br />
never replaces observation with guess work, who<br />
never lets himself assume that the treatment of any<br />
given case in his care is wholly or partly known in<br />
advance and that he need not carefully seek out all<br />
its expressions. This is all the more necessary<br />
because every epidemic is in many ways unique<br />
and upon careful examination if found to be very<br />
different from all previous ones falsely bearing the<br />
same name, the only exceptions being those caused<br />
by the same unvarying infectious agent, such as<br />
Smallpox…”<br />
What a scathing condemnation of present<br />
allopathic practices where the severe flu strain of<br />
this year was treated, of course unsuccessfully, with<br />
a vaccination of the previous flu variety!<br />
Conclusion<br />
We can emphasize that the proper use of an<br />
acute intercurrent in the treatment of a patient is<br />
essential for a speedy cure of a chronic illness.<br />
When and where to use these acute remedies are<br />
equally important issues as when to continue the<br />
chronic treatment, especially when the homœopath<br />
should recognize where the acute manifestation is<br />
nothing more than an expression of a chronic<br />
miasmatic state. Homœopaths throwing one acute<br />
remedy after another to the unsuspecting patient for<br />
trifling matters are just as guilty of misconduct as<br />
those homœopaths who refuse to use acute<br />
intercurrents under any circumstances. Knowledge<br />
of HAHNEMANN’s teachings is the only guide!<br />
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(While Part II features articles from other journals, Part III contains the editor’s own contribution and other<br />
original articles.)<br />
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BOOK SHELF:<br />
1. What is Tautopathy? by Dr. R.P. PATEL,<br />
Dr. R.P. PATEL Institute of Homœopathy for<br />
Research and Education in Homœopathy,<br />
Baroda – 390023. Seventh Edition <strong>2005</strong>. Rs.<br />
150/- US $ 5.<br />
“Tautopathy is a method of curing or removing<br />
bad or side effects of drugs by means of the<br />
identical harmful agent in potentised form.”<br />
Many of the modern ‘wonder drugs’ of<br />
allopathic medicine cause many adverse ill effects,<br />
making one wonder whether the medicine had<br />
made the health worser than it was before the<br />
‘wonder medicine’. These are very clearly<br />
discussed in the Chapter “What is Tautopathy?”<br />
The sure and quick way of removing the ill<br />
effects of such drugs is by administering the same<br />
drug in potentised form. So simple and sure.<br />
Dr. PATEL has potentised 112 such drugs<br />
which are available to the profession for therapeutic<br />
use.<br />
In Chapter 2 the ‘process’ of preparing<br />
medicines is explained.<br />
In Chapter 3 the ‘side-effects’ of various drugs<br />
from Aspirin, Adrenaline, Atropine to Vitamin (A,<br />
B, D, K) are listed. This we may take as the<br />
Materia Medica of these drugs.<br />
However, in Chapter 4 there is a truly<br />
homœopathic Materia Medica of 7 drugs, based on<br />
‘Provings’.<br />
Chapter 5 presents ‘a few cases’.<br />
At the end ‘Bibliography’ covers 49 sources.<br />
The book is well produced, sturdily bound and<br />
is a must for every Homœopathy Practitioner.<br />
Almost everyday we get patients who have had<br />
already lot of drugging by Allopathy. This book<br />
will help in recognizing the iatrogenic from the<br />
natural disease symptoms. The homœopath will<br />
thus be able to get the true picture of the natural<br />
disease and make a true cure.<br />
The long chapter on ‘What is Tautopathy?’<br />
citing many sources pointing to iatrogenesis is very<br />
interesting and useful. There are strong arguments<br />
in the chapter on the serious ill effects of<br />
vaccinations. There is the warning that “humanity<br />
today is drug ridden as never before in history.”<br />
Dr. PATEL has said, “… Proving according to<br />
Homœopathy requires men and money and it is my<br />
101<br />
experience that homœopaths won’t allow me to<br />
prove these drugs on them to save money<br />
for Homœopathy….”. It is only for allopathic<br />
experiments that money is required. What money<br />
is required for a few homœopaths to take some<br />
homœopathic pills and just record changes in a<br />
notebook? Nothing. There is only one requirement<br />
– that is willing homœopath volunteers. Neither<br />
HAHNEMANN nor his fellow provers were<br />
moneyed. In fact HAHNEMANN was poor. They<br />
were sincere homœopaths and devoted.<br />
Unfortunately, none of us today are so. This is the<br />
curse. With 180 homœopathic colleges in India we<br />
have not one proving (published) in one year. That<br />
speaks for the quality of education.<br />
To come back to the book under review, the<br />
book is strongly recommended to every<br />
Homœopathy Practitioner.<br />
-K.S. SRINIVASAN<br />
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2. Biophysical Therapy of Allergies, Peter<br />
SCHUMACHER, M.D., George Thieme Verlag,<br />
Stuttgart, <strong>2005</strong>. 264 pages.<br />
The author is an experienced Paediatrician who<br />
disillusioned with the Allopathic Medicine sought<br />
out for something better. His disillusionment is<br />
succinctly said: “I was an expert in medical<br />
Philosophy, which in fact seemed to serve only the<br />
scientific process (whatever that means) – to help<br />
the ill – no longer seemed that important.”<br />
Dr.SCHUMACHER therefore left the University<br />
Hospital and opened up his own Practice with the<br />
hope that he would thus be directly in contact with<br />
the patients and would realize his ideals of a<br />
medical practitioner. But still he felt unsettled. He<br />
felt that the “conventional medical training” was<br />
more a “mastering the implementation of the list of<br />
medicines sold by the pharmaceutical Industry.”<br />
He despaired that “many patients he treated<br />
according to allopathic medicine were not able to<br />
truly regain and/or maintain their health. Instead,<br />
many children developed a deceptive state of health<br />
(it might be better to say ‘visibly free from<br />
symptoms’). They would suffer recurring illness,<br />
often with different symptoms to those initially<br />
treated. These symptoms then required additional<br />
treatment.” [HAHNEMANN has said similarly<br />
over 200 years ago = KSS]. SCHUMACHER
eflected and recalled PARACELSUS. He then<br />
turned towards ‘naturopathic approach’.<br />
SCHUMACHER saw impressive healing<br />
results using high potency homœopathic<br />
preparations; the oscillating balance between the<br />
opposing forces Yin and Yang according to<br />
Chinese Acupuncture; regulatory Thermography<br />
offering deep insights into an organism’s regulatory<br />
processes; electro-acupuncture bringing about<br />
fascinating phenomena; and finally the almost<br />
implausible possibility, electro-magnetic<br />
oscillations as used by the bio-resonance modality<br />
to cure illnesses.<br />
SCHUMACHER specialized in Allergies and<br />
their subsequent problems. He thanks three<br />
personalities who were instrumental in his change:<br />
First “Samuel HAHNEMANN, who discovered<br />
not only 200 years ago the Law of Similars, but<br />
also showed that information containing no<br />
actual matter (in the form of homœopathic high<br />
potencies) can indeed have an effect on an<br />
organism. He showed that even if the principle is<br />
initially incomprehensible, it is possible to learn<br />
how to implement it in practice.”<br />
Second “Reinhold VOLL. Using a discovery<br />
made in the 1950s to identify functional processes<br />
and energetic conditions in an organism by means<br />
of electrical measurements conducted upon the<br />
epidermal layer of the skin, he created the<br />
impressive therapy modality of<br />
Electroacupunture.”<br />
Third “Franz MORELL. Based on the<br />
principles of Electro-acupuncture, he had the<br />
ingenious idea to use the body’s information<br />
directly for therapy. In this way he created a link<br />
between the Homœopathy by HAHNEMANN and<br />
the latest finding by VOLL. Thus Bioresonance<br />
therapy, also known as MORA Therapy, based on<br />
the patient’s own oscillation was born.”<br />
“Without these practical men and of course, the<br />
fundamental knowledge of the ‘Great Sages’ like<br />
PLANCK, EINSTEIN and all those erudite<br />
Professors of Physics, Quantum mechanics, and<br />
Biophysics, the biophysics, the biophysical aspect<br />
of medicine as expressed in this book would be<br />
unthinkable as during HAHNEMANN’s days.”<br />
I have quoted extensively from the Preface of<br />
the book so that the reader will have a clear idea as<br />
to what the book is about and relevance to<br />
Homœopathy.<br />
The book is in two parts – Part I has chapters<br />
on Foundation and Basic Terminology, with subheads<br />
as the Physics Aspects in Medicine, Allergy:<br />
A Medical Phenomenon, Allergy from a Physics,<br />
Point of view, Symptoms of Allergic Reactions,<br />
Classification of Allergies, Biophysical Allergy<br />
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diagnosis, Biophysical Allergy Therapy. Part II has<br />
Chapter of Allergies – Clinical Studies with subheads<br />
on Hay Fever, Inhalation Allergies,<br />
Bronchial Asthma, Ingestion Allergies,<br />
Neurodermatitis, Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s<br />
Disease, Celiac Disease, Allergies to Insect Venom,<br />
Urticaria.<br />
Each of these is well discussed.<br />
An Appendix follows: This Chapter contains<br />
1. Cow’s Milk Allergy, 2. Wheat Allergy, 3.<br />
Hyperergy, 4. Intestinal Mycosis.<br />
A fairly long list of references (Bibliography)<br />
is given at the end.<br />
The book is well produced and has much<br />
useful information and can be recommended<br />
without hesitation for all practitioners.<br />
-K.S. SRINIVASAN<br />
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3. Carcinosin – A Classical Study by Ajay<br />
Kumar Babu, 123 pp. Thavarakkattil<br />
Publishers, Modakalloor P.O. Kozhikode<br />
673721, Kerala, India. Rs. 120/-<br />
Carcinosin is a Polychrest. It has become a<br />
remedy of such importance that an ‘international’<br />
teacher giving many Seminars in Europe and USA,<br />
etc., particularly on Cancer, recommends this<br />
remedy to be applied in all Cancers.<br />
Dr. Ajay Kumar BABU says that this book is<br />
the fruit of many years research and practical<br />
clinical experience with Carcinosin.<br />
The book is in two parts 1. Lectures on<br />
Carcinosin and 2. Clinical Repertory.<br />
Carcinosin is more often required in children<br />
and Dr. BABU gives a brief chapter on this. The<br />
characteristic of the remedy is also well brought<br />
out.<br />
The Materia Medica of Carcinosin in presented<br />
in narrative form, and this makes interesting<br />
reading.<br />
List of related remedies, Clinical Indications<br />
are given at the end of Part I.<br />
Clinical Repertory in ‘Schema’ form makes<br />
Part II.<br />
The book will certainly be useful for all<br />
Practitioners.<br />
-K.S. SRINIVASAN<br />
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© Quarterly Homœopathic Digest, Vol. XXII, 2/<strong>2005</strong>.<br />
OBITUARY<br />
It is with great sadness that I learned of the demise of my dear and longtime friend<br />
and well-known homœopathic physician Dr. H.L. CHITKARA, at New Delhi on 29 April<br />
<strong>2005</strong>.<br />
He was suffering from Parkinson’s Disease since few years and was slowly declining.<br />
Dr. Harbans Lal CHITKARA was born on 12 August 1924 in Village Vallah (now in<br />
Pakistan) in a family practicing Unani Medicine. He was B.A. (Hons) in English. After<br />
partition he came to India and joined Govt. service. He passed the D.H.S. Examination in<br />
Homœopathy and became a regular practitioner of Homœopathy and soon became wellknown.<br />
He mastered the Science, took part in scientific meetings and wrote in journals.<br />
He was Editor of the Journal Homœopathic Sandesh. As internal bickerings began in<br />
the Homœopathic Association, he distanced himself from groups and was a no-party<br />
man.<br />
Dr. CHITKARA was closely associated with Dr. S.P. KOPPIKAR in editing for<br />
nearly a decade and half the Journal Homœopathic Heritage. He regularly authored a<br />
column ‘Pill Box’, in the journal.<br />
Dr. CHITKARA took great interest in the Quarterly Homœopathic Digest which I<br />
began to bring out in 1984 (and still going on, in its 22 nd year) and he was sad at the<br />
apathy of the younger generations towards homœopathic journals.<br />
He authored/edited books which were all well received all over including abroad: the<br />
major works are – Quick Reference Guide to Repertory of Mind, The Best of<br />
Burnett, New Comprehensive Homœopathic Materia Medica of Mind. The latter<br />
book has seen four editions and has been translated into German.<br />
Dr. CHITKARA, during his later years was a dedicated supporter of the ‘Sehgal<br />
Method’ which he practiced with some slight alterations. He called this<br />
‘PROMISALONE’ (Prescribing on Mental Symptoms Alone). He trained many younger<br />
homœopaths; there were regular periodic meetings of his group and the discussions were<br />
recorded on tapes. I have a few of them.<br />
He was very much interested in Philosophy. He avidly read the books of<br />
Nisargadutta Maharaj and also Ramesh Balsekhar. Whenever he came across a good<br />
book, he used to send it on to me or a copy of it. Of course I too would send some books<br />
from my side.<br />
It is unfortunate and strange fate that such a man as he was – a teetotaller – was<br />
disabled with Parkinson’s disease during the last few years and he declined slowly. He<br />
was stoic and took all his sufferings with faith in God.<br />
To me it is great personal loss. I have a fairly large file of our correspondance<br />
covering a period of over 20 years. I cannot express my sense of grief in words. May his<br />
soul rest in peace.<br />
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A BREAK THROUGH FOR MIASMATIC TREATMENT IN HOMŒOPATHY<br />
NO BODY HAS DONE IT. NO BODY SHALL DO IT. BUT WE HAVE DONE IT.<br />
NOW IT HAS COME TO YOUR DOOR.<br />
OPEN THE DOOR AND THE SUN GOD WILL ENTER INTO YOUR HOUSE AND<br />
YOU CAN HAVE A LIGHT AND BRIGHTNESS.<br />
WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE IN DARKNESS?<br />
DR.R.P.PATEL PRESENTS<br />
AFTER 55 YEARS OF RESEARCH AND EXPERIENCES IN HOMŒOPATHY<br />
KENTIAN<br />
WHAT IT DOES AND OFFERS IF YOU HAVE FAITH IN DR. HAHNEMANN’S<br />
HOMŒOPATHY? LOOK OUT.<br />
1. MIASMS ARE CORNER STONES OF HOMŒOPATHY.<br />
2. “That the original malady that I was looking for had to be of a miasmic-chronic<br />
nature, was obvious to me, because it was never conquered by the force of a robust<br />
constitution, never beaten by the healthiest diet or regimen of life, never died down of<br />
its own accord, but, with the passing of the years, becomes worse and shows more<br />
and more alarming symptoms, till the end of life, as in every chronic, miasmatic<br />
disease”.<br />
3. Dr. Hahnemann writes, “In communicating to the world this great discovery, I am<br />
sorry that I must doubt whether my contemporaries will comprehend the logical<br />
sequence of these teachings of mine, and will follow them carefully and gain thereby<br />
the infinite benefits for suffering humanity which must inevitably spring from a<br />
faithful and accurate observance of the same; or whether frightened away by the<br />
unheard of nature of many of these disclosures, they will not rather leave them<br />
untried and uninitiated and therefore useless.” (Ch. Diseases-p.7.) Is it true with<br />
present day HOMŒOPATHS?<br />
4. “Dr. Hahnemann’s Striking, singular, extraordinary, and peculiar symptoms are<br />
basic miasmatic ones, always: hence the wonderful curative effects produced by<br />
remedies selected upon such symptoms, they are capable of reaching down deep<br />
enough to extinguish or what is a better term, to separate their miasmatic bond<br />
from the life force.” (Dr.J.H. Allen, Chronic Miasms, p.101.)<br />
ONLY YOU HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT – FAILURES OR SUCCESSES?<br />
Write for further informations to:<br />
DR.R.P.PATEL INSTITUTE OF HOMŒOPATHY<br />
FOR<br />
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN HOMŒOPATHY<br />
HAHNEMANN HOUSE-MEISSEN<br />
ATMAJYOTI ASHRAM ROAD, SUBHANPURA, VADODARA – 390023.<br />
GUJARAT, INDIA.<br />
Note: DO VISIT By Appointment HOMŒOPATHY HISTORY MUSEUM the only<br />
one in the world at above address.<br />
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QUARTERLY HOMŒOPATHIC DIGEST<br />
VOL. XXII, 3, <strong>2005</strong><br />
Part I Current Literature Listing<br />
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Part I of the journal lists the current literature in Homœopathy drawn from the well-known homœopathic<br />
journals published world-over – India, England, Germany, France, Brazil, USA, etc., - discipline-wise, with<br />
brief abstracts/extracts. Readers may refer to the original articles for detailed study. The full names and<br />
addresses of the journals covered by this compilation are given at the end of Part I. Part II contains selected<br />
essays/articles/extracts, while Part III carries original articles for this journal, Book Reviews, etc.<br />
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PHILOSOPHY<br />
1. Analyzing a Case: Kingdoms, Remedies and<br />
Insights<br />
SHAH, Nandita (AH. 10/2004)<br />
If Homœopathy is to succeed as a Science, it is<br />
very important that we come to a common or<br />
similar group of remedies for a given case, no<br />
matter which methods we choose to use. [We will<br />
not reach this state in the existing condition – with<br />
speculative Materia Medica, individual ‘insights’<br />
etc. If we wish a ‘scientific’ Homœopathy we must<br />
follow the method laid down by the old Masters.<br />
We cannot lay our own roads and expect it take us<br />
aright = KSS]<br />
No one method is better than the other, but all<br />
methods demand a high degree of sincerity and<br />
concentration. [These soothing words will serve<br />
the ‘politics’ of Homœopathy. There cannot be<br />
several methods. Recently a long case was narrated<br />
and the remedy was Eagle. The author avers that<br />
the patient could not have been cured, if this<br />
remedy–Eagle-had not been introduced. A similar<br />
assertion about a case of Rat’s blood. Wouldn’t<br />
another homœopath cure these cases without<br />
‘Eagle’ and Rat’s blood? He/She would. Tolerance<br />
of many methods will make Homœopathic<br />
Therapeutics a caricature = KSS.]<br />
The patient expresses his state in every sphere<br />
of his life – words, postures, gestures, emotions,<br />
interests, and of course by his physical disease. It<br />
would be better to confirm the same remedy<br />
through several facts, than through only one.<br />
A recent development in the method of case<br />
taking is to take the physical complaint in all<br />
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details, and then go into the state of mind, which<br />
helps to make the connection between two.<br />
Another approach is to understand in detail the<br />
way in which the physical complaint stresses the<br />
patient.<br />
A useful step in narrowing down the choice of<br />
the remedy is to decide to which kingdom the<br />
patient belongs to. In brief, structure is the<br />
keyword of a mineral case, sensitivity – plant case<br />
and competition or survival – animal case [These<br />
are the ideas of Dr. Rajan SANKARAN = KSS]<br />
The next step is to understand the Miasm of the<br />
patient.<br />
The Miasm, as defined here, is the depth to<br />
which the patient perceives his problem or<br />
situation.<br />
The Miasms – Acute, Psora, Sycosis, Syphilis,<br />
Typhoid, Malarial, Ringworm, Cancer, Tubercular<br />
and Leprosy are discussed in brief and their<br />
respective remedies mentioned.<br />
Case: A young woman, 34, with complaints of<br />
stomach upset from change in food and<br />
susceptibility to worms. Her stomach was hard, as<br />
if the intestines were in a knot. She was critical of<br />
herself and felt she wasn’t loved enough. Afraid of<br />
closed spaces, being trapped, claustrophobic. She<br />
liked freedom and didn’t like to be bound.<br />
Kali carbonicum 200, based on her<br />
conscientiousness and family relationship. Two<br />
weeks later, felt hungry, which had been rare. Six<br />
weeks later Carcinosin 200 because of her need for<br />
perfection, cleanliness, improving herself and<br />
sensitivity to criticism.<br />
Two weeks later better emotionally. 20 weeks<br />
later, feeling of tightening of guts, like a knot.<br />
This sensation and the opposite feeling of<br />
openness, freedom and lightness is the central<br />
sensation of Cactaceae [Who decides this fixed
‘central sensation’? = KSS] and the Cancer Miasm<br />
remedy in that family is Anhalonium.<br />
Anhalonium 200. Over the next 24 weeks she<br />
improved and then another dose, when there was a<br />
relapse.<br />
2. The Structure of the Organon<br />
SINGER S.R. and OBERBAUM M.<br />
(HOMEOPATHY, 93, 3/2004)<br />
The Organon of Medicine is the seminal text<br />
of Homœopathy. However, its grammar and<br />
structure make it obtuse and remote to both new<br />
students and veterans. We propose a demarcation<br />
of the Organon into sections, exposing the didactic<br />
structure of the Organon, and display this<br />
demarcation in concise graphic form. It is hoped<br />
that this representation will improve accessibility<br />
and understanding of the Organon for readers at all<br />
levels.<br />
3. Patient-Practitioner-Remedy (PPR)<br />
entanglement. Part 6. Miasms revisited: nonlinear<br />
quantum theory as a model for the<br />
homœopathic process<br />
MILGROM L.R.<br />
(HOMEOPATHY, 93, 3/2004)<br />
The possibility that non-linear quantum theory<br />
could be used to model PPR entanglement is<br />
discussed in relation to the treatment of Miasms. In<br />
this model, Miasms are imagined as disease entities<br />
behaving like solitary waves, or ‘solitons’ which,<br />
when trapped in a therapeutic state space, requiring<br />
equally soliton-like (miasmatic or high potency)<br />
remedies to effectively ‘annihilate’ them.<br />
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MATERIA MEDICA<br />
1. Carbolic acid<br />
KLEIN, Lou (AH. 10/2004)<br />
Carbolic acid should be considered a remedy<br />
for someone who is suffering from effects of<br />
allergy shots or who has a personal or familial<br />
history of allergy injections.<br />
One constituent in the allergy shot is Phenol<br />
from which this remedy is made.<br />
This is highly indicated in “environmental<br />
allergies”.<br />
It is also to be considered in severe Asthma<br />
where it is life threatening and triggered by<br />
allergens.<br />
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The symptoms of this remedy from few<br />
Materia Medicas are given.<br />
2. Flying under water. Serum anguillae case<br />
SHARFSTEIN, Catherine (AH. 10/2004)<br />
A 65-year-old woman, bald, with complaints of<br />
‘Bladder problem’. She runs to the bathroom with<br />
diarrhoea-like symptoms. Eel serum (Serum<br />
anguillae), helped her all through. [Lot of story in<br />
the manner of Dr. Rajan SANKARAN’s teachings<br />
and perhaps also Dr. Divya CHABRA’s . May be<br />
this kind of case-taking suits some persons (both<br />
patient and physician) and they could spend all the<br />
time in extended investigations. Most of the<br />
‘signature’ cases seem to be fascinating fancies.<br />
But people get cured! = KSS]<br />
3. Clarity and intoxication – The proving of<br />
Amethyst<br />
SEIDENECK, Barbara; GREGORICH, Jim<br />
and LOCKWOOD, Amy E. (AH. 10/2004)<br />
The Homœopathy School of Colorado<br />
conducted this Proving over a period of five years<br />
with five different groups of students (1996-1998<br />
and 2000-2001).<br />
The Proving was conducted according to the<br />
directions given in the Organon. Helios<br />
Pharmacy in England prepared Amethyst in<br />
potency.<br />
The ‘themes’, Dreams and Mind and rest of the<br />
symptomatology and the ‘rubrics’ are given.<br />
Themes Occurring in Dreams<br />
• Smallrooms/caves/compartments/underground/<br />
tunnel<br />
• Big buildings/malls/supermarkets<br />
• Windows, doors, openings Up/down (climbing,<br />
going down, levels, flying)<br />
• Water (snow, rain, ocean, wet, ice, boat,<br />
swimming)<br />
• Groups of people (classes, schools, teachers)<br />
• Old (old people, old friends, old buildings)<br />
• Darkness/light<br />
• Famous people<br />
• Weddings<br />
• Clothes<br />
• Sick, infection<br />
• Highways/cars/bikes/travel<br />
• Colors (red, white)<br />
• Screaming<br />
“After the first proving I became fascinated with<br />
specific themes of the proving, especially<br />
certain dreams and how they related so closely<br />
to the nature and structure of the Amethyst.
During the proving one of my own dreams<br />
reflected similar dream elements experienced<br />
by a number of provers. Was this because I<br />
knew the substance or was I just part of a<br />
group experience? This is when I decided to<br />
deep proving the remedy to see if certain<br />
themes and dreams would repeat in unrelated<br />
groups of people.” – Barbara SEIDENECK C.<br />
Hom, CCH, RSHom (NA)<br />
DREAMS<br />
1. I was in a small room when hands were<br />
coming at me. I didn’t want hands to touch me. I<br />
tried to scream so that someone could hear me.<br />
Couldn’t seem to scream. Then I finally screamed<br />
out loud.<br />
2. Had to climb down from boxes; going to a<br />
wedding. In a warehouse with steel shelving and<br />
boxes. Climbing down and to the left, toward<br />
door with light. Boxes filled with juice. Can’t let<br />
people with horse in to see me. But once to the<br />
door, don’t care if people see because I’m gone.<br />
Different day was doing the same thing again. This<br />
time, I was showing someone else how to do it<br />
because I was good at it. Realized I was part of a<br />
group. After second time, realized I wouldn’t have<br />
to do it anymore. Warehouse was at bottom of<br />
hill – underground. Woke up and thought it was<br />
between 1:30 and 3, but it was 6:09. Weird.<br />
Unusual. I usually know what time it is when I<br />
wake up.<br />
3. Dream occurred a.m. I was running through a<br />
burning wheat/oat field of golden color towards a<br />
building for shelter. When I got inside the shelter,<br />
into a dark small wet room, I was locked in. This<br />
room was stuffy and of concrete walls and floors.<br />
Aliens came to take me from this room; however, I<br />
escaped and ran out the back of the barn through<br />
another golden field. This field was not on fire.<br />
Then I woke up and was super-tired. Woke<br />
exhausted from the dream and stayed in bed. Woke<br />
at 9:30 am.<br />
4. I had dropped off someone at the airport and<br />
felt a sense of freedom. I had time for myself to go<br />
shopping for clothes, some sort of mall, which<br />
seemed enjoyable at first and then turned chaotic.<br />
Many people, it seemed dark, dishevelled racks. I<br />
pick out a few items, but nothing I’m really<br />
interested in. The shopping seems to turn into more<br />
of an obligation, or something forced. I<br />
contemplate leaving, but don’t. Something is<br />
keeping me there. I look for a dress in a room for<br />
what seems like a long time, finally I find one.<br />
There is a waiting line for the dressing room. The<br />
dressing room area is strange. Cubby holes, no<br />
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walls between the rooms, no barriers, just small.<br />
The one I get into, the mirror is set on the floor.<br />
So I have to squat down to see what I’m wearing.<br />
Another woman comes into my dressing room,<br />
which seems a bit threatening at first. She is a<br />
young, somewhat tough looking woman. The ice is<br />
broken between us when she asks me for my<br />
opinion on a vest. It’s dark in the dressing room<br />
and I can’t see the detail on the vest.<br />
5. Shopping mall. Homœopathic books. Went<br />
home was living in a white house. The characters<br />
were bad guys. A friend appears and says I’ll<br />
protect you. Stand in front of window, and they’ll<br />
go away. Bad guys started to mess with car license<br />
plates.<br />
6. Top row of seats at a theatre, but steep like<br />
bleachers in a gym. Taking person there to see if<br />
could get into dance class; watching person and<br />
teacher. Three people in red baseball uniforms<br />
with white numbers and name on back of shirt.<br />
The person I was watching was wearing a different<br />
color. Then studying; had just climbed down from<br />
loft. Same person was asleep on bed with light<br />
coming in through window. Dreamt had mucus in<br />
eyes, so wipe eyes and there’s blood on my finger.<br />
Look in mirror and scratch on sclera horizontal.<br />
Realized I was dreaming in my dream. Didn’t<br />
really climb down from loft and scratch eye. Big<br />
clock above person sleeping by the window. Clock<br />
said 11:16, numbers really big and really small.<br />
Felt I had to be a good example and felt I had …<br />
about falling to sleep because they were watching<br />
me. Felt good when I woke up.<br />
7. Water leaking into a building and I am<br />
playing an imaginary game with children.<br />
8. Dreams of psychiatric hospital for adolescents,<br />
a big old building in the country. Full of unhappy<br />
people. Some locked up in wards; some trying to<br />
run away. Later I was back at college – big classes,<br />
lots of people, walking around campus. I also had<br />
a daughter at the same school. She was unhappy<br />
about her apartment. It also became her<br />
classroom and was so overcrowded. All her<br />
friends had seats up front and she had to sit way in<br />
back. She thought about quitting because the<br />
school was so crowded.<br />
9. Going to the mall because of a famous rock<br />
band. It was crowded. We were on the upper<br />
level and on the lower level were guys from the<br />
band. Some guys from the band were floating on a<br />
raft in some sort of canal.<br />
10. Husband and I flying on an airplane, like a toy<br />
airplane that landed on a beach. We left the hotel<br />
and went back. The maid was angry because we<br />
came back after checking out. The maid squirted<br />
us with a hose. Then I was shopping with my
mother in a department store, where all the<br />
dresses were too short or too tight.<br />
11. Went to work with husband and 5-year-old<br />
son. Worked in a huge old Victorian mansion<br />
with elevators and big stairways. Husband works<br />
in the basement and my office is upstairs.<br />
Chinese restaurant and bar with lots of people in<br />
the building. The son gets lost in the building. I<br />
try to drive him to the children’s center in the van.<br />
But we had to sit on the van like we were riding on<br />
a big animal. Couldn’t steer or reach the pedals,<br />
kept sliding on icy rocks. Went the wrong way on<br />
the highway ramps.<br />
12. Dreamt of being in a supermarket buying<br />
chicken. Got only half a container, which was<br />
upsetting. It was a nasty, dirty run down<br />
supermarket, like in Mexico.<br />
13. Was in a supermarket with a friend who<br />
wasn’t feeling well. Made an appointment with<br />
homœopath and visited them at a booth in the<br />
store. Told her not to worry about money. Got<br />
hungry, sat down in an aisle and ate spaghetti.<br />
Worried about it being messy. While eating saw<br />
the friend’s grandmother walk down the aisle.<br />
She used some lotion and didn’t pay for it. I<br />
thought that was inconsiderate.<br />
14. Dreams of whole bunch of people in engineer<br />
training. Big classroom, big cafeteria, big<br />
shopping mall. Went on a bike trip up and down<br />
hills on a big highway. Get to someone’s big<br />
house with big yard and big kitchen. I’m trying to<br />
water the big lawns.<br />
15. Dreams about fast running water.<br />
16. Son went swimming in John Elway’s pool. I<br />
went to talk to John Elway (famous football player<br />
in the United States.)<br />
17. Dreamt of snow falling.<br />
18. I was with the Russian army in the winter on a<br />
frozen lake covered with snow with lots of people<br />
and vehicles. I was riding a little convertible<br />
sports car with the top down.<br />
19. Dreams of ice hockey. About to play. This<br />
theme came up two to three times this month.<br />
20. Flying over water and saw the words “Ben<br />
Eon” on a piece of nearby land. I was with mom.<br />
It looked like a map. I swooped down into the<br />
water and swam freely. No fear. Some flamingos<br />
appeared and started snapping at my ankles.<br />
21. On an island in the ocean that had been used<br />
for weapons testing or training troops. Families<br />
had died there, falling down in front of their homes<br />
as if poisoned. Pictures of documentation like<br />
newspaper articles in a scrapbook. My husband<br />
and son were excited about being in a movie. We<br />
were on some sort of metal pier or platform that<br />
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collapsed into the ocean. We swam in the ocean<br />
and then were riding on a big rubber raft.<br />
22. Dreams of old friends, I haven’t seen in an<br />
long time.<br />
23. Dreamt of an old friend and son and they<br />
looked older.<br />
24. Went to visit an artist friend, not a real person.<br />
I had to go through large dark room, which had a<br />
bar in the middle. I had to go through and out back<br />
door. I had to go through a door and a window<br />
well. I never got to this person. I went to visit him<br />
again at a festival at an artwork booth.<br />
25. At old piano teacher’s house, in bed in a dark<br />
room and the teacher was playing the piano for<br />
me. Other people in the house.<br />
26. Last night dreamed of Princess Diana, alive. I<br />
wanted to assure her that things would be OK.<br />
27. Watching a wedding of no one she knew.<br />
There is a big leafy vine growing out of the<br />
building. The vine went and grabbed my new<br />
mother-in-law and dragged her out of church<br />
toward the bride. Laughing in the dream.<br />
28. Vivid, colorful. Best friend came before our<br />
class (student clinic), was deathly sick. She only<br />
wore a t-shirt and underwear. I felt sick to see<br />
her, but couldn’t do anything for her.<br />
29. A dream of spiritual nature, speaking to my<br />
teacher.<br />
30. Dreams of being with lots of people in a<br />
crowd or a party.<br />
31. Had to do a presentation about a subject she<br />
didn’t know in front of a lot of people. Drove coworkers<br />
home, couldn’t see, got lost in the dark.<br />
Unusual for her to dream about groups of people.<br />
32. I was at my old piano teacher’s house with a<br />
lot of other people. It was raining and dark<br />
outside. I was washing windows and closed one<br />
window where the rain was pounding in onto the<br />
floor. My sister was there. I was with a guru or<br />
teacher with a lot of others, and we were<br />
pondering questions. Image of a very large rough<br />
featured man, like a giant cowboy.<br />
33. Girlfriend, daughter and I go around town.<br />
The vehicle you drove dictated what tasks you did.<br />
I was in charge of deciding who got which car,<br />
keeping this in order. There was light coming<br />
through a door.<br />
34. Dreams without much emotion. My family<br />
went to the moon. Traveled in space shuttle-like<br />
vehicle homemade. Told son not to go out. He<br />
went anyway but it was OK. We were out on the<br />
moon’s surface jumping around.<br />
35. I rode a bike out to the highway, going west to<br />
look for an address that I would go to later. I was<br />
very big. Could look into second floor windows.<br />
But riding on the highway was scary. Cars going
fast around me, I didn’t know where to turn off.<br />
Dizzy and afraid to fall. Big trucks almost push me<br />
off the road. I was on a very small bike and I was<br />
regular size with some people from class. We<br />
stopped at a rest stop under an underpass that was<br />
like a cave with rooms in it. I found something<br />
that I had left there that wouldn’t fit into my bike<br />
basket. Then there was a big flea market inside the<br />
cave/house, very musty and dusty. Other rooms in<br />
there like an old house. Dark bedrooms.<br />
Wandered around in it. Old painted dressers –<br />
pink with scenes from the Hobbit and fairy tales.<br />
Thought of calla lilies; was looking for a vase.<br />
36. Being in a VW bus and looking out of the<br />
window.<br />
37. Taking out insides. Three red bloody balls.<br />
38. Dreams of being stung by a bee.<br />
39. Dreams of sexual relations with the same sex.<br />
Very disturbing.<br />
40. Between 6-8 AM dreamt that my husband had<br />
a carbuncle. Husband was worried about it. I was<br />
worried about infection. The carbuncle was on the<br />
thigh.<br />
41. Dreamt of skin peeling off.<br />
“And they did – many dreams of buildings,<br />
small spaces, upper and lower levels as well as<br />
dreams of groups and crowded spaces were<br />
experienced by all four proving groups. If you look<br />
at a segment of the geode, this is what you see –<br />
many pink to purple crystals large and small, high<br />
and low compressed into a confined space.” –<br />
Barbara SEIDENECK C Hom, CCH, RSHom (NA)<br />
Affinities<br />
Interestingly, the proving of Amethyst bore a<br />
resemblance to some of the traditional thought of<br />
healing crystals. The mental and emotional realms<br />
yielded the most significant symptoms. The remedy<br />
affected relationships, as well as mental calm and<br />
clarity. This sense of well-being and positive<br />
energy was countered by themes of confusion,<br />
dullness, and poor concentration. Some provers<br />
even experienced the intoxication theme from<br />
Greek legend – drinkers did not feel the effects of<br />
alcohol, while others felt “buzzed” without<br />
drinking. The dreams had some of the same themes<br />
of relationship (old friends, teachers, weddings).<br />
Other dreams were reminiscent of the Amethyst<br />
crystal itself (small rooms, caves, underground).<br />
In the physical realm, the head, eyes, nose,<br />
throat, and stomach as well as female issues<br />
produced significant symptomatology.<br />
MIND – Mental Themes<br />
The symptoms below were derived from<br />
journals of all the provers who actually received<br />
doses of the remedy in potency. The symptoms<br />
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have been aggregated into common themes. The<br />
text of the proving in its entirety will be available at<br />
the website of Homeopathy School of Colorado at<br />
www.homeopathyschool.org.<br />
Irritability/impatience/quarrelling<br />
1. Snapping at people.<br />
2. Cranky, irritable. It’s awful.<br />
3. People are more aggressive with me. Argued<br />
with boyfriend.<br />
4. Fighting with husband. Never has done this.<br />
Ran away for 10 hours without letting anyone<br />
know where she was going.<br />
5. In the afternoon a little more irritable. For 30<br />
minutes very irritated.<br />
6. Irritability and impatience.<br />
7. A little more patient than usual.<br />
8. Very impatient with my son. Quick and tense.<br />
9. Irritable with daughter and myself.<br />
10. Irritable at every little thing.<br />
11. Irritated. I have harsh language.<br />
12. I speak loudly and create havoc with it.<br />
13. Sharp tongue; got into bad fight with husband.<br />
I say whatever I want to.<br />
14. No hysterical or irritated state before menses.<br />
My husband can usually tell when my periods<br />
begin because of my bad temper.<br />
(symptom free after remedy for the first time in<br />
10 years – cured symptom)<br />
Clarity/energy/well-being/industrious<br />
1. People react with abruptness. Feel more awake.<br />
Nervous energy. Not sleepy after meals as<br />
usual. Getting a lot of things done.<br />
2. Thinking more clearly.<br />
3. The remedy seems to help with decision<br />
making.<br />
4. I seem really clear mentally. Really busy.<br />
Lots going on. Lots of room to handle it and<br />
figure things out. Felt able. (Normally I feel<br />
pulled in different directions and get frustrated<br />
when my mind doesn’t function. Usually can<br />
only figure out one thing at a time.)<br />
5. Mentally very active, calm and clear.<br />
6. Thinking more clearly, even the emotions are<br />
more clear.<br />
7. Unusually busy all day.<br />
8. More aware of myself. More mental clarity.<br />
Not quite clairvoyant. But aware of higher self.<br />
9. Feeling open and clear in the evening.<br />
10. Feeling much clarity and positive energy at<br />
moments. Vacillation of mental and emotional<br />
symptoms, feeling self-conscious at times, and<br />
at other times feeling spiritually connected<br />
with others.<br />
11. Waking in the morning with good energy.
Feeling very happy. Feeling really good.<br />
12. Woke up feeling really good, tons of energy.<br />
Good energy, feel good, very active.<br />
13. Was very busy at work, very focused, lots of<br />
energy, feel good.<br />
14. Felt focused all day.<br />
15. Fast/restlessness/”buzzy”/hyperawareness<br />
16. Something is about to happen to me, like male<br />
energy. Like a premonition.<br />
17. Feeling that something dramatic was going to<br />
happen.<br />
18. Pacing on the phone. Wound up.<br />
19. Restless at bedtime. Couldn’t sleep at first.<br />
20. Quick to answer. Fast talk.<br />
21. Sense of acceleration – moving faster, thinking<br />
faster, but not anxious.<br />
22. Feeling as if he had been poisoned before.<br />
Now mental awareness has returned.<br />
23. Heightened sense of awareness.<br />
24. Moments of buzzy, high energy. Occurred two<br />
hours after taking second dose of remedy.<br />
25. Feels hyper aware of body and mental<br />
capacities.<br />
Confusion/dullness/slowness<br />
1. Since the remedy less in touch with emotions.<br />
Feels unemotional<br />
2. During call to supervisor, mental confusion.<br />
Couldn’t readily remember previous day’s<br />
ailments.<br />
3. Couldn’t remember what he did the previous<br />
day.<br />
4. Thinking feels slow, sluggish and dull.<br />
5. Concentration difficult. Loss of mental focus.<br />
Mentally dull.<br />
6. Had trouble counting while playing dominos.<br />
Something unusual for me.<br />
7. Forget where I parked, felt disconnected.<br />
Unusual. I didn’t know which way to go. I<br />
found the car pretty quickly; stumbled upon it.<br />
8. Strange feeling of being tired and bored.<br />
Weak memory/poor<br />
concentration/spacey/mistakes<br />
1. Noticed difficulty concentrating, not wanting<br />
to focus on paperwork.<br />
2. I’m writing things on the wrong pages!<br />
3. Spaced out two phone calls.<br />
4. Spaced out feeling and irritability. Forgot to<br />
call supervisor for proving.<br />
5. Mentally not as sharp. “Floating through the<br />
day.” Feels more mellow. Talking more slowly.<br />
6. Seems a little difficult to concentrate because<br />
of fatigue and mental cloudiness. Difficulty<br />
focusing on calendar dates.<br />
7. Scatter brained; hard to concentrate.<br />
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8. I do everything wrong. Constantly making<br />
mistakes as if my head is cloudy. I’m not smooth<br />
in my daily operations. My handwriting is terrible.<br />
I speak very “matter of factly” to everyone; I don’t<br />
care if I hurt their feelings.<br />
9. I’m very spacey; starring out of the window.<br />
Calm/Anxiety<br />
1. Problems at work, owner uptight. Stay very<br />
calm with this (unusually calm).<br />
2. Feel patient and calm.<br />
3. Feeling anxious. Wanted to eat. Huge<br />
appetite.<br />
4. I’ve become more negative towards others.<br />
Anxious feeling. Too much energy.<br />
5. The remedy seems to intensify the fears and<br />
anxieties; makes me more aware of them.<br />
6. Increasing agitation and some anxiousness. I<br />
feel a little out of sorts.<br />
7. Anxiety about taking the remedy.<br />
Sensitivity<br />
1. More sensitive to odors, which seem to give<br />
me a feeling of pressure in the top of my head. The<br />
smell from books and a down comforter give<br />
instant headache. Usually sensitive but not this<br />
sensitive. Car exhaust and dirty air have been more<br />
intolerable than usual and have caused the same<br />
head pressure reaction in varying degrees. The<br />
headache was worse and was accompanied by an<br />
anxious, speedy feeling that lasts for sometime<br />
beyond exposure.<br />
2. Every noise seems to be amplified. Own voice<br />
sounds very loud.<br />
3. Own voice seems violent.<br />
4. I felt like I was turning into a wolf. I hear<br />
every little sound in or out of the house as if<br />
amplified a thousand times.<br />
5. I can smell everything.<br />
Intoxication/sobriety<br />
1. Drank 1 quart of 3.2 beer. No intoxicating<br />
effect. (This is something unusual for prover.)<br />
2. Drank Fosters beer (one 25-ounce can). No<br />
intoxicating effect. (He usually doesn’t drink beer.)<br />
3. Buzzed feeling, light headed, like being drunk.<br />
Mentally disconnected to what’s going on around<br />
me. I’m separate.<br />
4. Supervisor remarks that the prover sounds<br />
intoxicated.<br />
5. Feeling buzzed.<br />
Sadness/depression/weeping<br />
1. Depressed while talking to supervisor on the<br />
phone. Don’t feel normal joviality.
2. Depression set in. Overwhelmed feeling.<br />
Wanted to escape.<br />
3. Depression all day. A gloom over me.<br />
4. Unusual intensity with depression and sadness<br />
regarding issues with daughter.<br />
5. Emotionally very sensitive. Crying over an<br />
animal on an environmental show on TV; not<br />
something that I normally do.<br />
6. Weeping easily.<br />
Unusual sensations<br />
1. In the evening a creepy feeling like someone is<br />
watching me, or someone is behind me. I looked<br />
around and no one was there.<br />
2. One hour after taking the remedy, I felt a<br />
sensation of something moving inside while I was<br />
driving. It moved upward; had a brief image of a<br />
spirit inside unfolding.<br />
3. In the morning, sensation of being in an empty<br />
tube or tunnel scooping up light and colors. The<br />
world is coming in at one end and going out the<br />
other.<br />
4. Images of “largeness.”<br />
Miscellaneous<br />
1. Feels sick when thinking about taking more of<br />
the remedy.<br />
2. I don’t want to look anyone in the eye. My<br />
eyes feel like they’re looking downward.<br />
3. Desires to be held quietly.<br />
4. Persistent erotic feeling throughout the nap;<br />
felt aroused. Feeling center mostly around breasts<br />
feeling warm and full.<br />
VERTIGO<br />
1. Bent down, on rising from stooping sense that I<br />
could black out. Vertigo action momentary.<br />
2. Sort of dizzy, light-headed, shaky feeling for<br />
about 15 minutes, like I’ve lost too much blood.<br />
HEAD<br />
1. Pain dull across top of eyes. Dull headache<br />
with pain in eyes. Headache all day but gone by<br />
the morning.<br />
2. Headache over right eyeball. Dull pain. Not<br />
relieved by nap. Continues through the afternoon.<br />
3. Despite chiropractic adjustment got a headache<br />
over right eye and eye socket. Sharp pain.<br />
4. Pain in right temple. Piercing. Continues until<br />
evening.<br />
5. Waking with headache above right eye. Dull<br />
pain. The next day, drifting in and out of sleep.<br />
Headache worsening as the day goes on. Headache<br />
dull, slight and steady. Across front forehead and<br />
in right eye. On the fourth day, still has headache.<br />
Low-grade. Moved from across the eyes to behind<br />
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the eyes. Dull ache. Mild continuous, steady. Not<br />
distressing.<br />
6. Strong headache. Aching pain above and<br />
behind eyes.<br />
7. Headache banded. Over forehead. Minor pain<br />
around the head from side to side.<br />
8. Sensation of heat. Left side of head.<br />
9. Lots of hair fell out in shower (unusual).<br />
10. Sinus pressure. Dull aching pain. Feels like<br />
first stage of migraine. Started previous day on and<br />
off < night < right side above eye.<br />
11. Had sharp pain over left eye like a knife above<br />
left eyebrow. Dull headache. (Not irritable with<br />
headache, which would be usual for this prover.)<br />
12. Shortly after taking third dose of remedy<br />
experienced flash of pain in left side of head. The<br />
next day, five minutes after taking a dose of remedy<br />
experienced a headache in the left side of scalp.<br />
Flash – front to back. Stitching, sharp.<br />
13. Feeling funny. Sensing headache on top to the<br />
right front to back. Feeling buzzed; like after<br />
alcohol.<br />
14. Light-headed. Mentally disconnected to<br />
what’s going on around me. I’m separate. Buzzed;<br />
could feel it down my body to arms and legs.<br />
Headache moving around. Stabilized, dull pain on<br />
top of head toward the front. Sense of nausea,<br />
subtle. Headache continues and moves to left side<br />
of head; temporal. Dull. Tension kind of<br />
headache. Headache stronger in left temple.<br />
Headache moving all around. Stabilized as dull<br />
pain in the top of head, towards the front. Subtle<br />
sense of nausea with the headache. Headache<br />
continues and moves to left side of head; temporal.<br />
Dull. Sensation of pulsation in the head. Energy is<br />
moving. Headache continues, mostly on top front<br />
to mid-point.<br />
15. Burning pain in temples (this prover never has<br />
headaches).<br />
16. Mild headache in temples (this prover never<br />
has headaches).<br />
17. Headache all over with neck involvement.<br />
Took Advil. The next day, headache again with<br />
stiffness in back of neck and shoulder. Occipital<br />
headache that went up to the forehead. I usually get<br />
headaches at the beginning of my period but not<br />
after, and they usually occur in the morning on<br />
waking and not in the afternoon. The third day,<br />
feeling pressure mostly on top part of my head.<br />
The third day, slight headache in temples and<br />
forehead. Pressure feeling continues. Head not<br />
clear. Headache (?) comes and goes in intensity;<br />
symptoms last 8 days.<br />
18. Sensation as if I’m inside my head listening.<br />
While drying my face and bending over, I hear a
hollow sound inside my head, caused by the friction<br />
of rubbing the towel back and forth.<br />
19. A hollow sensation in the head while bending<br />
over and scrunching my hair. I am hearing the<br />
sound from inside my head, like my head is hollow.<br />
20. Have noticed minor head and sinus congestion<br />
since I had the headaches on Day 5 and 6 of the<br />
provings.<br />
21. Brief, sharp pains in upper head. The next day,<br />
brief, sharp pains on right side of head.<br />
22. Headache behind eyes, forehead and temples;<br />
occurring in the late morning.<br />
23. Headache starts in the back of head and neck,<br />
goes up in the head on the right side to above the<br />
eyebrows, extends to whole right side; > with<br />
rubbing the neck, > with cold applications, ><br />
pressure, > lying down. Dull ache; > when keeping<br />
head up while lying down.<br />
24. After taking remedy, low-grade, very dull<br />
headache starting in forehead region and extending<br />
into crown of head. Headache moved to top of<br />
head and towards the back. Experienced a sharp<br />
twinge on the left side that lasted a few seconds.<br />
Headache continues but only in the forehead area<br />
above the eyes. Dull ache.<br />
25. Dull headache in forehead area, especially over<br />
eyes. Feeling foggy and tired. Headache<br />
worsening. The weather is clear. The storm moved<br />
through last night. Low-grade headache lasts all<br />
day and continues in the forehead area.<br />
EYES<br />
1. Eyes itching dramatically. Like a stick right in<br />
the socket.<br />
2. Itching right eye.<br />
3. Twitch in left eyebrow where the socket meets<br />
the skull.<br />
4. Burning, a little gritty, a bit irritated. Itchiness<br />
of the eye, especially right corner of right eye.<br />
Look congested, and vision feels a bit tired and<br />
blurry.<br />
5. Eyes feeling dry and a little gritty.<br />
6. Eyes burning.<br />
7. Eyes sensitive to light.<br />
8. Right eye itchy. The next day both eyes itchy.<br />
9. Both eyes are itchy this morning. Eyes very<br />
itchy. Feels better to rub them. My eyes are<br />
REALLY red. Symptoms last for about 15<br />
minutes. Eyes got better after a hot shower.<br />
10. Eyes feel very heavy.<br />
11. Vision foggy. Sensation of film across eye.<br />
EAR<br />
1. Hot right ear.<br />
2. Tingling in left ear.<br />
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3. Piercing pain in both ears like dull pencils<br />
being driven in.<br />
4. Pressure on ears and congestion. Three days<br />
later slight congestion with more fluid in ears.<br />
5. Pain in right ear like an insect; seconds of pain.<br />
Milder in left ear. Boring pain. Pain behind both<br />
ears. First right then left. The next day, brief,<br />
sharp pains in right ear. Pain in right ear continues<br />
to third day, it vibrates.<br />
6. Brief throbbing in both ears, worse on the<br />
right. Noticeable sensation, but not a bad pain.<br />
7. Woke up with shooting pain in my left ear.<br />
Pain in left ear continues intermittently.<br />
8. Lobes of ears dry.<br />
HEARING<br />
1. Heightened sense of hearing, on and off during<br />
first four days of proving. While listening to music<br />
I can hear the high-pitched percussion sounds<br />
extremely well, especially the triangle; it stands out<br />
much more than usual. Sitting quietly in car<br />
hearing white noise very intensely, as if I could<br />
hear the vibration of electrical wires and everything<br />
around me (like the plastic in the car, the concrete<br />
outside). I feel like screaming because there is no<br />
way to escape this crazy buzzing. Acute awareness<br />
of high-pitched constant sound from down the<br />
street coming through an open window.<br />
2. My ear feels very open to the sound coming<br />
in, as if there is no filter. Heightened hearing<br />
awareness for sounds coming in through the<br />
window. Someone in the distance is pushing a<br />
shopping cart and it sounds very sharp.<br />
3. Heightened hearing upon drying hair with a<br />
towel; rubbing.<br />
NOSE<br />
1. Noticeable smell of manure.<br />
2. Pressure from sinus headache. Lots of watery<br />
discharge. Sinuses so full that passage feels<br />
narrow.<br />
3. Frequent sneezing in morning.<br />
4. Constant post-nasal drip though don’t have a<br />
cold. Spitting all day. Not feeling sick.<br />
5. Stuffy when waking up.<br />
6. Twitch at root of nose on the left side.<br />
7. Running nose: clear, watery drips from end of<br />
nose, lasting one hour. Two days later, nose runny<br />
with nausea.<br />
8. A general feeling that my acute sense of smell<br />
is increasing.<br />
9. Heightened sense of smell, on and off. The<br />
next day, sense of smell heightened at times.<br />
Smells, not pleasant or agreeable, ranging from<br />
mildly pungent to intolerable: neighbors’ barbeque,<br />
smell from clothes dryer, car exhaust, fast food, etc.
10. Three huge sneezes. Sniffly, itchy nose; drips<br />
into the back of the throat. An hour later, sneezes<br />
again. Eyes itchy. Nose very itchy. Post-nasal<br />
drip down back of throat. Another hour later, nose<br />
not sniffly, just draining into throat. Symptom<br />
lasted until 11 am. Then the symptom returned at<br />
16:30 when I took the second dose.<br />
11. Nose sniffly again, followed the next day by<br />
post-nasal drip, scratchy throat, >while in the steam<br />
room. On the third day after sneezing, out came<br />
yellowish thick green mucus. Lots of post-nasal<br />
drip. On the fourth day post-nasal drip; have to<br />
swallow. < in am, > in pm.<br />
12. Driving to work, big globs of mucus, postnasal<br />
in the throat and couldn’t get it out. Then ate<br />
at 9:15 and the mucus cleared out.<br />
13. Nose stuffy in am and worse pm. The next<br />
day, nose dry, inside nostrils, as though I’d inhaled<br />
a bunch of dust.<br />
FACE<br />
1. Two small pimples on right forehead and left<br />
cheek bone. They were gone the next day.<br />
2. Small pimple on right jaw. It was gone the<br />
next day.<br />
3. Heat sensation in face.<br />
4. Sensation of flush in face, but it wasn’t<br />
discolored. Forehead around to temple. Tingling<br />
in face; in general, like after dentist over most of<br />
body.<br />
5. Pain/pressure in the face just below the eyes.<br />
6. In the morning, pressure in forehead about<br />
nose; passed quickly.<br />
MOUTH<br />
1. Wine didn’t taste sweet. Salsa tasted terrible,<br />
normally craves spicy. Tasted too spicy, didn’t like<br />
that taste.<br />
2. Food didn’t taste quite as flavorful.<br />
3. Spit felt thicker.<br />
4. Saliva acrid and burning.<br />
5. Gums swollen, left side, top, lasting to<br />
following day.<br />
6. Burning sensation, right side of lower lips, as if<br />
I’d eaten something spicy. An hour later,<br />
numbness at mouth, both lips and top of tongue.<br />
7. Bitter taste, tip of tongue. Lots of saliva.<br />
8. Dry mouth but thirstless during cold<br />
symptoms.<br />
9. One hour after taking remedy, increased saliva<br />
in the mouth; swallowing a lot.<br />
TEETH<br />
1. Teeth hurt all day; both sides; upper and lower.<br />
Feels like there is a coating on teeth, especially<br />
with sweets and even with fruit. Makes me want to<br />
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brush my teeth. > rinsing. >vegetables. >toast. >hot<br />
water. Teeth very sensitive even without sweet.<br />
2. While eating suddenly a metallic taste. Feeling<br />
like I can taste the fillings in my teeth.<br />
3. Tight molars, achy.<br />
THROAT<br />
1. Swelling in esophagus after eating cookies.<br />
2. Throat feels swollen. Hard to swallow.<br />
3. Began to notice something in my throat, as if<br />
the glands were swollen. The next day, still<br />
noticing my throat in the same way. It’s very<br />
unusual for me to get throat symptoms.<br />
4. Swollen glands. The next day throat is slightly<br />
sore. Two day later, dry, tickling throat.<br />
5. Throat sore and scratchy. Better warm drink.<br />
Better lying down.<br />
6. Scratchy throat; has to clear a lot and that<br />
makes it feel better. Symptom lasted until 11 am.<br />
Then the symptoms return at 16:30 when she took<br />
the second dose. One half hour after taking the<br />
remedy, the scratchy throat returns; must clear<br />
throat all day. Woke from nap with a scratchy<br />
throat (remedy taken at 15:15). The next day, woke<br />
in the morning with dry throat, scratchy, feeling<br />
dusty. Better with clearing and swallowing. Better<br />
drinking hot tea. Better moving about. Better in<br />
general. The throat symptoms were gone by the<br />
sixth day.<br />
7. Feels like the swallowing mechanism is not<br />
working; feels like food is staying in her throat after<br />
swallowing.<br />
8. Small tickle in throat that made me cough<br />
once; it never came back.<br />
9. Having to clear throat.<br />
10. Slight symptoms of sore throat.<br />
11. Sore throat around 4 PM > drinking cool<br />
fluids; > massaging neck. At the same time has<br />
greenish mucus in the nose. The next day, wakes<br />
with sore, dry throat, not painful, just irritating.<br />
Lots of yellow mucus. Spitting out the mucus. ><br />
cool drinks, > massaging throat, > 10:30 AM.<br />
12. Dry throat, really thirsty, on waking and<br />
retiring. Spit out mucus 6-7 times today. Two days<br />
later, dry throat and have been drinking quite a lot<br />
of water. Did not urinate frequently today. The<br />
dryness continues for two more days.<br />
EXTERNAL THROAT<br />
Spot on neck with weak twinge of pain on left<br />
side. Spot sore for a short time.<br />
STOMACH<br />
1. Sudden nausea.<br />
2. Nervous stomach. Burning, turned sour.<br />
Acidic feeling. The next morning, nervous rushing<br />
to center of stomach.<br />
3. Thirsty all day. Drank 3.5 liters.
4. Very mild nausea almost immediately after<br />
taking first dose of the remedy. Took 3 rd dose of<br />
remedy and again experienced mild nausea, like a<br />
bubbling or churning in stomach.<br />
5. Empty, little nauseous, and pressure at center<br />
of sternum.<br />
6. Appetite diminished. Not hungry.<br />
7. Mild sense of having to vomit, a passing thing.<br />
8. Mild nausea (prover has never had stomach<br />
problems) during the first three days of the proving.<br />
Nausea started 15 minutes after taking the remedy.<br />
Nausea better after eating a bowl of chicken soup<br />
(normally doesn’t eat this time of day; went to great<br />
effort to get the soup). Has aversion to eat the soup<br />
but does so anyway.<br />
9. Thirstlessness and appetite decreased during<br />
first six days of proving.<br />
10. Nausea during yoga with muscle shaking and<br />
weakness.<br />
11. Mild acidic feeling located below the sternum.<br />
12. Thirst increased.<br />
ABDOMEN<br />
1. Gas in the afternoon. The next day more gas.<br />
2. Woke with gurgling in the lower left abdomen,<br />
lasting 30 minutes.<br />
3. Sour smelling gas; haven’t eaten any foods that<br />
usually give me gas.<br />
RECTUM<br />
1. More bowel movements. Going to the<br />
bathroom a lot.<br />
2. Spasms in rectum. Felt like having ball in butt.<br />
Lasted two minutes. Incapacitating pain. Felt<br />
nauseous during it. After lying on floor in pain,<br />
gone in two minutes.<br />
3. Constipation. Passes only hard balls. Stool<br />
like sheep dung. Little pellets. Symptoms last two<br />
days.<br />
BLADDER<br />
Urination decreased by 50%, lasting two days.<br />
MALE GENITALIA<br />
1. Sexual desire increased since taking remedy;<br />
lasting 3 days.<br />
2. Sex drive completely gone.<br />
FEMALE GENITALIA<br />
1. Sex on back burner; so irritable.<br />
2. Severe cramps in uterus. Sudden onset. On a<br />
scale of 1-10, these cramps were a 10 in severity.<br />
(This prover usually has extremely painful periods,<br />
and after the remedy she had her first painless<br />
period ever.)<br />
3. Menstruation – not as irritated as usual.<br />
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4. Vaginal discharge – stringy like cloudy egg<br />
white.<br />
5. Bleeding during menses increased.<br />
6. Very mild contraction of uterus during menses.<br />
7. Pelvic floor feels warm, somewhat burning;<br />
lasts for about 10 minutes.<br />
8. Sensation on right side of labia: has a<br />
tightening, rubbed feeling. Like I’m going to get<br />
herpes.<br />
9. Increasing sexual energy, arousal in genital<br />
area. Pulsating sensation in vulva and clitoral area,<br />
on and off for 10 minutes.<br />
10. I have a very itchy spot on my pubic bone.<br />
Red spots on pubic bone, under hair, itching; better<br />
with scratching. This lasts 4 days.<br />
11. Relaxation of vagina with bubbly feeling<br />
inside. Sexual desire is low.<br />
12. There is a feeling of swelling under the hair.<br />
Sensation as if I can feel every hair. High sexual<br />
desire.<br />
13. Period started 3 days late. No cramping in<br />
lower abdomen or lower back, which she usually<br />
gets.<br />
14. Period starts one day early. Cramps worse than<br />
usual.<br />
RESPIRATION<br />
1. Constriction and tightness with breathing.<br />
Pressure on inhalation. Need to make an effort to<br />
inhale.<br />
2. Lungs dry when walking up hill, breathing<br />
difficult, has to stop to breath.<br />
COUGH<br />
1. Cough while lying in bed in the morning,<br />
lasted 10-15 minutes.<br />
2. A little cough from tickle in throat. Woke<br />
from nap with a dry cough and tickle in throat. The<br />
next day, dry cough; makes throat raw. Cough like<br />
choking on the third day. Went out in the cold<br />
weather and coughed a lot. Dry, choking cough.<br />
Tried to cough deeply but throat would close. The<br />
cough lasts 5 days.<br />
CHEST<br />
1. Empty sensation, little nausea, and pressure at<br />
center of sternum. The next day, minute amount of<br />
pressure on the chest, lower than armpit level.<br />
Lower end of sternum; upper epigastrium.<br />
2. Empty feeling extending to abdomen.<br />
3. Brief, slight fluttering feeling in the heart.<br />
Breasts feeling tender, slightly swollen, lasting<br />
about a week (usually happens before menses, but<br />
this isn’t the right time). The third day, a short<br />
period of uneasiness in my heart. Aware of it<br />
beating harder than usual.
4. Occasionally shooting pain right breast,<br />
shooting from outside toward nipple. Has occurred<br />
about six times today, very quickly. The next day,<br />
same quick shooting pain of right breast as<br />
yesterday. Feel it about every 10 minutes.<br />
5. Congested tight feeling in upper abdominal and<br />
lower chest and below the sternum.<br />
6. My heart is pounding. Felt it the next day also.<br />
7. Not time for menses, breasts feeling thick.<br />
Husband noticed that they were swollen. This<br />
continues to next day.<br />
8. Heaviness in the chest, followed by a sharp,<br />
stitching pain like a needle; 3 inches down from the<br />
collar bone. First the left side then the right, then<br />
back to left. Lasted until 6 pm. Worse pressure.<br />
Later, chest pain again, size of tennis ball. Better<br />
erect, but worse on rising.<br />
BACK<br />
1. Spine stiff.<br />
2. Back pain, lasting six days.<br />
3. Tingling on each side of spine, mid-back,<br />
between shoulder blades. Sensation comes and<br />
goes. Two or three hours later, muscles on left<br />
side, mid-back, contracting and warm. Neck tight.<br />
Then, two days later, tingling sensation on both<br />
sides of mid-back.<br />
4. I feel tense in the middle of my back (unusual<br />
for me).<br />
5. On waking have back pain between spine and<br />
shoulder blade on right side. Very tight, stabbing,<br />
hurting very bad. Can’t go to work. Occasionally<br />
gets this, but never this bad and usually on both<br />
sides. Cold applications helped a little.<br />
6. Stiffness, discomfort of low back; followed by<br />
coolness running up my back. Upper back stiff<br />
three days later.<br />
EXTREMITIES<br />
1. Weakness and tiredness in shoulders and arms;<br />
weak and slightly painful.<br />
2. Sensation on top of right foot. Felt weak.<br />
3. Clumsiness. Dropped cap while screwing on<br />
laundry detergent bottle. Five days later, dropped<br />
toilet seat. Usually careful.<br />
4. Numbness in left arm, left thumb, and fingers.<br />
5. Buzzed, could feel it down the body, arms and<br />
legs.<br />
6. Light numbness in hands and fingers. The next<br />
day, numbness in hands and fingers. < left side.<br />
7. Feet feeling burning, dry, uncomfortable and<br />
full.<br />
8. A pin-point of burning pain that comes up from<br />
time to time for a few days. It occurs on the top of<br />
my right ankle where it bends into my right foot.<br />
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There’s nothing showing. I’ve never had this<br />
before.<br />
9. Bright red patches, streaks on inside of knees.<br />
Starting at bend, going outwards toward the front.<br />
Slightly raised, about one inch wide. Itching and<br />
burning. Six days later, red patches on knees<br />
almost gone, but now slowly returning.<br />
10. Shortly after taking remedy, brief tingling, pins<br />
and needles in right arm. Later, brief sharp pains in<br />
right leg – knee and above. Feet itch. The next<br />
day, brief, sharp pain on right side.<br />
11. At midnight, noticed swelling of the feet from<br />
the base of the toes up to the bend in the foot. Feet<br />
look fat and stubby. I’ve never had anything like<br />
this. The swelling lasts two days.<br />
12. Ankles and feet feel thick and swollen.<br />
SLEEP<br />
1. More groggy than usual upon rising.<br />
2. Sleeplessness between 2:30 and 5:30 am.<br />
3. Sleep disturbed. Difficult to go to sleep.<br />
Needed to take naps.<br />
4. Couldn’t sleep (unusual). Took over two hours<br />
to fall asleep not because of thoughts. The body<br />
was tired; the mind was awake.<br />
5. Still awake, can’t fall asleep. It’s windy<br />
outside and that’s agitating me. It’s hard to stay still<br />
or find a comfortable position. I’m not going to<br />
repeat the remedy.<br />
6. Took a nap one hour after taking remedy.<br />
Usually can’t nap.<br />
7. Can’t fall asleep; it’s windy outside and that’s<br />
agitating me. It’s hard to stay still or find a<br />
comfortable position. I’m not going to repeat the<br />
remedy.<br />
SKIN<br />
1. Burning rash on shoulders and on both sides of<br />
breasts. Spots on left side of neck.<br />
2. Rash on neck. Bumps on arms. Rash all over<br />
neck and back. Rash blotchy, raised, brownish-pin,<br />
spreading onto shoulder.<br />
3. Itch on right arm near elbow.<br />
4. Skin became drier, itchy (skin normally very<br />
oily).<br />
5. Rash on neck.<br />
6. Dry nose, lips and skin.<br />
GENERALS<br />
Food desires<br />
1. Craves lemonade and orange juice.<br />
2. Strong desire for chocolate, like it is obsessive,<br />
can’t stop. Ate lots of M & Ms.<br />
3. Ate lots of chocolate, obsessive for the entire<br />
week. (This is an entirely new symptom.)
4. Crave watermelon.<br />
5. I only enjoy things that are soothing and gentle.<br />
Don’t like sharp tastes in my food.<br />
Heat/cold<br />
1. Wave of heat – torso and arms.<br />
2. Hot, cold, and tingling sensation all at the same<br />
time. > walking.<br />
3. Felt very chilled. Needed sweater. Felt very<br />
sleepy. Lay down and didn’t sleep. Later on got<br />
very warm.<br />
4. Felt hot, but puts on socks and wool sweater.<br />
5. Felt cold and desired salt.<br />
6. Very cold in the evening before going to bed.<br />
Needed to use two blankets.<br />
Energy/weakness<br />
1. Unusually good energy with her periods.<br />
2. Felt fine in the sun, which was strange.<br />
3. Tons of energy, anxious and jittery.<br />
4. Have more physical energy. Going and going<br />
and not feeling tired.<br />
5. Light-headed, weak, like I hadn’t had any food,<br />
but had eaten two hours before. Almost dizzy and<br />
some nausea. > exercising.<br />
6. Felt good but expected otherwise because there<br />
was a change in the weather (cured symptom).<br />
7. Tiredness; came and went quickly.<br />
8. Stirring quietly in car hearing white nose very<br />
intensely as if I could hear the vibration of<br />
electrical wires and everything around me (like the<br />
plastic in the car, the concrete outside). I feel like<br />
screaming because there is no way to escape this<br />
crazy buzzing. [that exact sx is higher, under<br />
HEARING.]<br />
9. Moments of buzzy, high energy. Occurred two<br />
hours after taking second dose of remedy.<br />
10. After the remedy first felt more energetic, then<br />
starting on day 6 I felt exhausted.<br />
11. Have energy. Wants to walk to places instead<br />
of driving.<br />
12. High energy; wants to do lots of projects.<br />
13. Energy low all day. Feels quiet.<br />
14. Tired all day; yawned all day. Wife had to<br />
drive. Fell asleep in the car. Woke up exhausted<br />
from the nap. Never felt like this before.<br />
15. Woke up exhausted as if I had taken sleeping<br />
pills.<br />
16. Waking at 7 am feeling refreshed, which is<br />
unusual for me.<br />
Side<br />
Right-sided sharp pain.<br />
Tingling/tremor<br />
1. Tingling sensation throughout body.<br />
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2. Shakiness after lunch. Felt shaky all over:<br />
stomach, legs, arms; heart rate is also increased.<br />
3. Tremors inside whole body, like an engine<br />
reviving in neutral. Lasted for one hour; whole<br />
body shaking.<br />
4. Calypte anna – a homœopathic proving of<br />
Anna’s Humming bird<br />
SHEPARD, Cynthia A. (AH. 10/2004)<br />
Proving took place in British Columbia,<br />
Canada in 2003. Two male and six female provers.<br />
The author has chosen to present his proving<br />
data with comparisons to humming bird anatomy,<br />
physiology, biology and behaviour. The<br />
correlations are strong and help provide a clearer<br />
image of the remedy.<br />
Swing of energy levels, internal coldness and<br />
sluggishness, absence of digestive problems, strong<br />
aggravations from chocolate and alcohol, stiffness<br />
of hips, a feeling of calmness, inability to<br />
communicate the thoughts are some of the<br />
symptoms.<br />
5. Vincetoxicum Proving<br />
GLUECK, Walter (AH. 10/2004)<br />
In Folk medicine, this is used as a “poison<br />
conqueror”. Proved in 1986 in 30C in seven<br />
provers.<br />
Symptoms of Vincetoxicum officinale (sym.<br />
Cynandricum vincetoxicum) in schematic manner<br />
and some of the confirmed symptoms are given.<br />
Four ‘Flu’ cases helped by the remedy are<br />
presented.<br />
Schematic Head – Foot Survey<br />
Mind: Apathetic<br />
Dizziness: Dizziness with headache, dazed<br />
Head: Funny feeling, as if dazed, heavy,<br />
dull<br />
Headache: From nape of the neck continuing<br />
to crown of the head,<br />
Headache: Oppressive dull, heavy<br />
Headache: Head dull, hammering,<br />
exploding, better when lying<br />
down<br />
Headache: Crown of the head dull, as if<br />
exploding<br />
Eyes: Feeling of pressure in the eyes<br />
Nose: Watery nasal catarrh, from time<br />
to time, blocked nose<br />
Nose: Secretion watery, white-yellow,<br />
green<br />
Neck: Feeling of stiffness, lateral<br />
dragging feeling
Throat: Sore throat, worse when<br />
swallowing, feeling of enlarged<br />
tonsils<br />
Stomach: Nausea from swallowing of<br />
sputum<br />
Bladder: Urinary incontinence when<br />
coughing<br />
Cough: Dry, during daytime, spasmodic<br />
Cough: Expectoration viscous, white<br />
Cough: Cough painful, leaving burning in<br />
chest<br />
Cough: Coughing at night, walking<br />
through coughing not clear<br />
Back: Cervical pain. As if gripped in a<br />
bench-vice; stiffness in back of<br />
head<br />
Back: Stiffness in back of head<br />
Extremities: Aching limbs, all bones aching<br />
Sleep: Nightmares, bad sleep; dreams of<br />
day’s occurrences<br />
Temperature: Feeling hot (objective: slightly<br />
raised temperature)<br />
Temperature: Hot feeling in the morning,<br />
alternating hot and cold<br />
General: Weakness, worse in the morning,<br />
exhaustion, with apathy, lack of<br />
drive<br />
Confirmed symptoms and Differential<br />
Diagnoses:<br />
More or less rapid onset of illness (within 1-6<br />
hours), with weakness, leaden tiredness, aching<br />
bones and shivers (Eup. per.)<br />
Numb headache, beginning mostly in crown of<br />
head or entire head, worse for movement; with<br />
stupor, incapacity to think clearly; sometimes with<br />
dizziness and/or pain in eyes or sensitivity to light.<br />
Aching limbs, pain throughout body, or pain in<br />
spinal column, in region of cervical and/or lumbar<br />
spine.<br />
Possibly beginning with runny cold and/or<br />
slight sore throat, caused by cold (Quill.)<br />
Better for resting, lying down, warmth, hot<br />
bath.<br />
Possibly increased appetite during shivers<br />
(Eup. per. Phos., China, Veratr. etc.); thirst normal.<br />
After shivery stage (Pyrogen.), within 6 – 12<br />
hours: sensation of heat and/or fever (with or<br />
without sweating); with strong dull headache,<br />
mostly on top of head (differential diagnosis Gels.),<br />
thirst mostly normal, little appetite.<br />
Worsening of sensation of heat mostly<br />
afternoon, evening or night; asks for more cover,<br />
possibly alternating feeling of hot and cold during<br />
fever.<br />
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Possibly dry, spasmodic cough with burning in<br />
chest, headache worse for coughing (Bry.)<br />
During feverish stage, sometimes slight feeling<br />
of nausea and unspecific abdominal discomfort.<br />
Similarity to Bell., Ferr., Phos., Gels.<br />
6. Comparison of Provings of Larrea tridentata<br />
(Creosote)<br />
ROWE, Todd (SIM. XVII, 3/2004)<br />
This article is a comparison between two<br />
provings done on Larrea tridentata by Dr. Stephen<br />
MESSER et al and Todd ROWE.<br />
It is remarkable that both groups chose the<br />
same substance to be proven at the same time and<br />
were done completely independently.<br />
Repetition of provings provides an opportunity<br />
to deepen our understanding of our medicines.<br />
The proving methodologies, rubrics and<br />
themes are compared.<br />
The concordance of symptoms between the<br />
two provings was approximately 50%. 80-90%<br />
concordance would ultimately prove ideal.<br />
7. Brown Pelican: An excerpt from: Birds<br />
Homœopathic Remedies from the Avian<br />
Realm<br />
SHORE, Jonathan; SCHRIEBMAN, Judy and<br />
HOGELAND, Anneke (SIM. XVII, 3/2004)<br />
Proving done in September 2001.<br />
Core idea: Freedom to be. Freedom from<br />
judgement. They suffer from the opinions of others<br />
as to how they should be in the world.<br />
Key aspects: Connection versus separation<br />
Instinct versus reason<br />
Mental confusion versus<br />
conscientiousness over details<br />
Calm versus Anxiety/fear<br />
Leadership<br />
Solemnity, Joy, Purity<br />
Right sidedness<br />
Hypersensitivity<br />
Prominent rubrics are given. [This is in tune<br />
with the time, i.e. data collection more on ‘mind’ =<br />
KSS]<br />
8. Magnesia carbonica and Sulphur:<br />
Compatibility in Relationship<br />
LALOR, Liz (AJHM. 97, 3/2004)<br />
Ms. LALOR authored the book “A<br />
Homeopathic Guide to Partnership and<br />
Compatibility” as a means to introduce the public<br />
to Homœopathy, specifically in the context of how<br />
differing constitutional remedy types might interact
when in relationship with one another. Here we<br />
have excerpted the chapter on Magnesia carbonica<br />
and Sulphur. The two remedies – Magnesia<br />
carbonica, with its great need for security within a<br />
relationship and peaceful harmony, and Sulphur,<br />
with its need for recognition and egotism – create<br />
an interesting relationship dynamic, which is<br />
thoroughly explored in this article/chapter.<br />
[Here again is a 12 pages article. Lot of<br />
speculations. The basis for the findings “Healthy<br />
Sulphurs are intensely passionate, intensely<br />
creative, and intensely inspirational! How come<br />
these? And the ‘Unhealthy Sulphurs’ are the<br />
opposite. Do we have ‘healthy Sulphurs’, healthy<br />
Lycopodiums’ and so on? = KSS]<br />
9. The Toxicology of Claviceps purpurea: Ergot<br />
of Rye<br />
BONNET M.S. and BASSON P.W.<br />
(AJHM. 97, 3/2004)<br />
The signs and symptoms of poisoning by<br />
Claviceps purpurea (Secale cornutum) has been<br />
gathered from medical, hospital and veterinary<br />
reports and presented in a classical homœopathic<br />
repertory fashion in order to supplement the<br />
homœopathic Materia Medica.<br />
Materia Medica Based on the Human<br />
Envenomation by Claviceps purpurea, Ergot of<br />
Rye. Its Toxicology.<br />
Outline review<br />
Ergot, in most cases, will be limited to digestive<br />
disorders, insomnia and slight disturbances of the<br />
autonomic nervous system. Less frequently, severe<br />
delirium, muscular spasms and cardiovascular<br />
collapse are encountered. Peripheral arterial<br />
constriction progresses slowly but persistently.<br />
Ergot disorder develops more quickly in children<br />
but, equally, leaves them more rapidly. The<br />
condition is more noticeable during winter when it<br />
resembles frostbite or freezing of the extremities.<br />
Pregnancy and lactation are adversely affected.<br />
Mind<br />
Aggressiveness (cattle & occasionally swine).<br />
Agitation, worse for attempt at restraining patient<br />
(severe phase).<br />
Belligerence (animal symptom).<br />
Confusion, mental.<br />
Crying loudly, shrieking, complaining that a<br />
devouring fire is burning their feet and hands.<br />
Delirium, confusional but can be interrupted<br />
momentarily by strong external stimuli (severe<br />
phase); duration of delirium variable (humans &<br />
livestock).<br />
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Delirium and hallucinations; seized with a fearful<br />
and dangerous disorder.<br />
Depressive state of mind initially, with anguish and<br />
slight agitation.<br />
Dullness and depression (livestock).<br />
Coldness, complaining of.<br />
Confusional state of mind.<br />
Consciousness level disturbances.<br />
Delirium, systematized, with animal hallucinations<br />
and self-accusation; sometimes mystical or<br />
macabre; at other times terrifying visions followed<br />
by fugues, leading some patients to throw<br />
themselves out of windows (severe phase).<br />
Delusion of being consumed by flames.<br />
Depressive state with anguish and slight agitation,<br />
generalized, early first symptom becoming clearly<br />
defined a few hours later at start of digestive<br />
disturbance (first phase).<br />
Disturbances of Autonomic Nervous System<br />
accompany digestive disorders (first phase).<br />
Dull and depressed (humans & animals) (long<br />
term).<br />
Frantic running in the streets.<br />
Hallucinations, visual, appearing towards evening;<br />
recalling those of alcoholism, with particular<br />
themes of visions of animals and of flames (severe<br />
phase).<br />
Hallucinations, visual, all fleeting and variable,<br />
often followed by dreamy delirium (severe phase).<br />
Hyperexcitability (animal symptom).<br />
Logorrhoea, psychomotor agitation and absolute<br />
insomnia always presage appearance of mental<br />
disorders (severe phase) which can include mania<br />
or psychosis with hallucinations.<br />
Memory loss.<br />
Mood alterations from ‘maniacal’ for some, to<br />
‘melancholic’ for other, or still others seem to<br />
plunge into a comatose sleep’.<br />
Nervousness.<br />
Restlessness, hyperactivity of short duration,<br />
followed by depression, early symptoms (100% of<br />
experimental mice).<br />
Stamping of feet (may be due to pain) (animal<br />
symptom).<br />
Stupor (cattle & occasionally swine).<br />
Writhing and screaming in bed.<br />
Vertigo<br />
Dizziness and Vertigo.<br />
Drowsiness.<br />
Fainting attacks, severe, with imperceptible pulse,<br />
low and feeble arterial tension and a feeling of<br />
anguish (severe phase); spontaneous remission.<br />
Giddiness, persistent, accompanying abundant<br />
sweating and a disagreeable (striking) odor (first<br />
phase).
Central Nervous System<br />
Ataxia or staggering (animal symptom).<br />
Autonomic nervous system disturbances<br />
accompany digestive disorders such as gusts of<br />
warmth, followed by impressions of cold waves,<br />
with intense sweating crises (first phase).<br />
Convulsions (acute) (human, rarely, & animal<br />
symptom, including livestock, cattle & horses;<br />
occasionally swine); intermittent (28.6% of<br />
experimental mice) beginning with muscular<br />
tremors and subsiding within four minutes, to start<br />
again repeatedly, followed by complete exhaustion<br />
and loss of movement. (experimental mice).<br />
Cranial nerves intact (infant).<br />
Discoordination (acute).<br />
Hemiplegia (rarely).<br />
Hypotonic (infant).<br />
Incoordination (livestock).<br />
Lameness (livestock, cattle & occasionally swine).<br />
Neurological examination most often shows the<br />
following signs during the severe phase:<br />
intensional tremor, nearly always present;<br />
accompanied by fibrillary twitching, sometimes;<br />
and myoclonus, suggestions of.<br />
cerebellar syndrome (unusual);<br />
Romberg’s sign never seen.<br />
Paralysis (experimental mice).<br />
Paralysis, never (severe phase).<br />
Paralyis, temporary (cattle).<br />
Tremblings and twitchings.<br />
Unconscious but reacting sluggishly to painful<br />
stimuli (infant).<br />
Unconsciousness, possible.<br />
Cerebro-Spinal Fluid<br />
Cerebro-spinal fluid: normal (infant).<br />
Reflexes<br />
Babinski’s reflex, transient (severe phase).<br />
Lower limbs reflexes present and equal.<br />
Reflexes slightly exaggerated, especially the<br />
patellar reflex (severe phase).<br />
Tendon reflexes (all) present, sluggish, and equal<br />
on both sides. (infant).<br />
Gait<br />
Claudication distance reducing from 1,600 metres<br />
down to 23 metres within 18 months, but worsening<br />
and deteriorating rapidly in final month.<br />
Intermittent claudication affecting left calf initially,<br />
but both calves involved eventually.<br />
Tottering, wobbling, staggering, faltering on<br />
walking, as if drunk.<br />
Walking in a stiff-legged gait, falling in unusual<br />
and awkward positions (cattle).<br />
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Sensation to touch, pinprick, vibration & position<br />
sensations reduced over soles of feet; loss of<br />
peripheral sensation in poorly vascularized distal<br />
structure.<br />
Skin sensitivity variable (cattle).<br />
Head & Neck<br />
Cephalgias follows hand symptoms.<br />
Headaches, daily with nausea, relieved only by<br />
further doses of causative ergotamine.<br />
Headaches, well marked; for several years, more<br />
frequent under stress, characterized by pain in the<br />
back of the neck, radiating over the left temple;<br />
occasional blurring of vision and vomiting, but no<br />
warning aura.<br />
Headaches with a sensation of heaviness or<br />
weightiness, usually following the pains in the<br />
extremities.<br />
Nape of the neck pain and more rarely, true<br />
headaches (first phase).<br />
Eye<br />
Mydriasis, very frequent, with diminution of the<br />
light reflex (first phase).<br />
Mydriasis disappearing during severe phase but<br />
accommodation remaining difficult.<br />
Pupils dilated and reacting to light (infant).<br />
Pupils pin-point and not reacting to light (infant).<br />
Fundoscopy<br />
Fundi normal (infant).<br />
Vision<br />
Blindness, total (humans), intermittent (cattle).<br />
Double vision.<br />
Vision as if eyes were covered by thick fog.<br />
Ear<br />
Deafness, intermittent (cattle).<br />
Gangrenous extremity (animal symptom).<br />
Nose<br />
Gangrenous extremity (animal symptom).<br />
Face<br />
Facial muscles contractions.<br />
Pale.<br />
Mouth & Tongue<br />
Mucous membranes (oral) inflamed or display<br />
shallow superficial erosions (cattle).<br />
Salivation, excessive, frequent (first phase)<br />
(humans, livestock & sheep).<br />
Thirst.<br />
Tongue necrosis.<br />
Throat & Pharynx
Sensation of pharyngeal constriction, often,<br />
distressing (first phase).<br />
Gastrointestinal System<br />
Bleeding internally within digestive tract (sheep).<br />
Digestive disturbances/disorders quickly becoming<br />
worse (first phase).<br />
Gastrointestinal catarrh (livestock).<br />
Stomach<br />
Gastric disturbances.<br />
Appetite<br />
Feed intake reduced (livestock & swine); refuses<br />
food.<br />
Weight gain reduced (livestock & swine).<br />
Nausea & Vomiting<br />
Nausea, particularly notable, with diffuse<br />
abdominal pains (first phase).<br />
Nausea, retching or vomiting in 46% of patients.<br />
Vomiting.<br />
Vomiting with diarrhea, less often noted, in about<br />
30% of patients (first phase).<br />
Vomiting, blood-stained material, suddenly<br />
unexpectedly, following a rigor which itself<br />
followed an initial improvement (infant).<br />
Abdomen<br />
Abdominal pains colicky and frequent (first phase)<br />
(humans & livestock).<br />
Abdominal pains diffuse or subhepatic, with<br />
burning sensations throughout the whole of the<br />
digestive tract (first phase).<br />
Abdominal pains frequently complained of.<br />
Abdominal pains increasing for the duration of one<br />
week.<br />
Intestines<br />
Gut lesions (swine).<br />
Rectum<br />
Burning sensations at the anus with the colicky<br />
abdominal pains (first phase).<br />
Stools<br />
Diarrhea (acute & chronic) (humans, livestock,<br />
cattle, sheep & occasionally swine) or constipation.<br />
Urinary System<br />
Renal artery spasm, reversible.<br />
Renal failure.<br />
Urinary Output: 3L/24 hrs.<br />
Urine output remaining high.<br />
Intravenous Urography (IVU)<br />
Instant dense persistent nephrogram with normalsized<br />
kidneys.<br />
Urine<br />
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Creatinine (urinary): 6.8 µmol/L.<br />
Creatinine clearance (urinary): 3ml/min. (normal:<br />
m: 97-137ml/min; f: 88-128ml/min).<br />
Creatinine clearance at recovery: 54-59 ml/min.<br />
(normal: m: 97-137 ml/min; f:88-128 ml/min).<br />
Potassium (urinary): 25 mmol/L.<br />
Sodium (urinary): 48 mmol/L.<br />
Urea (urinary): 140 mmol/L. (normal: 250-500<br />
mmol/L).<br />
Female Genitalia<br />
Premature menstruations (severe phase).<br />
Pregnancy & Post-Natal<br />
Abortion in early pregnancy. (human & animal<br />
symptom; livestock, sheep & swine but not cattle).<br />
Abortion within three days in 100% of<br />
experimental mice, but within 10 days in cows in<br />
late pregnancy.<br />
Agalactia (cattle, cows & sows).<br />
Contractions, relatively fast (compared to<br />
oxytocin), and superimposed on sustained tonic<br />
contraction.<br />
Foal death in mares, early.<br />
Frank hemorrhages in pregnant women (severe<br />
phase).<br />
Gestations prolonged (cattle).<br />
Lactation reduced, depressed (livestock & swine<br />
but not cattle).<br />
Mammary gland nondevelopment (cattle).<br />
Neonatal mortality, high (livestock, sheep &<br />
swine).<br />
Postpartum headaches.<br />
Postpartum hypertension.<br />
Tendency to abort.<br />
Uterine contractions in gravid uterus.<br />
Uterine motor activity increased, with contractions<br />
increased in force or frequency or both; followed<br />
by a normal degree of relaxation in mild conditions.<br />
In more severe cases, contractions become more<br />
forceful, prolonged with resting tonus markedly<br />
increased and markedly sustained contractures.<br />
Respiratory System<br />
Chest clinically clear. (infant).<br />
Dyspnea, progressive (humans, livestock, cattle,<br />
sheep & occasionally swine).<br />
Dyspnea, severe (infant).<br />
Respiratory depression.<br />
Respiration<br />
Respiration rate:32-70 per minute, shallow (infant).<br />
Cough<br />
Coughing in spasms (infant).<br />
Chest
Angina pectoris due to coronary vasoconstriction,<br />
reduced coronary microcirculatory blood flow and<br />
associated ischemic changes.<br />
Angina pectoris due to a rise in central venous<br />
pressure that will increase the size of the heart and<br />
so augment the metabolic needs of the left ventricle<br />
thus facilitating the development of angina pectoris<br />
in response to exercise or other stress.<br />
Crepitations right base and middle lobe (infant).<br />
Pulmonary edema (especially in patient with<br />
impaired cardiac function) due to decreased<br />
capacity of vascular reservoir.<br />
Thoracic pains; cardialgia (violent) rapidly follows<br />
feet formication as an early symptom.<br />
Chest X-Ray (Chest Roentgenogram) : normal.<br />
Cardiovascular System<br />
Arteriolar vasoconstriction and spasms (long lasting<br />
and persistent).<br />
Bradycardia or tachycardia.<br />
Bradycardia of 40 to 50 beats per minute, regular<br />
(patient pale), even without an increase in blood<br />
pressure (first phase) (predominantly due to<br />
increased vagal activity, but also due to reduction in<br />
sympathetic tone and direct myocardial<br />
depression).<br />
Cyanosis, peripheral, marked (infant), gradually<br />
increasing.<br />
Heart sounds rather muffled (first phase).<br />
Mitral stenosis, severe.<br />
Peripheral arterial insufficiency.<br />
Peripheral blood flow reduced.<br />
Sinus tachycardia of 180 per minute in<br />
semicomatose state (infant).<br />
Veins rapid constriction, resulting in rise in central<br />
venous pressure.<br />
Venous pressure, central: +3.5 cm H2O.<br />
Blood Pressure (BP)<br />
Arterial tension generally rather low with a<br />
disquieting fall during fainting attacks (first phase).<br />
BP ranging from 95/50 to 145/75 mm Hg.<br />
Blood pressure may rise (hypertension) and/or fall<br />
(hypotension), usually in that order.<br />
Hypertension.<br />
Hypertensive attacks (190/100 mm Hg) in between<br />
fainting attacks, representing generalized<br />
vasomotor crises (severe phase).<br />
Normotensive with BP ranging from 140-145<br />
systolic over 75-80 diastolic in adult in both arms.<br />
Systolic blood pressure: 50mm Hg (infant)<br />
Pulse<br />
Pulse rapid and weak.<br />
Pulse rate: 120 per minute, regular and of fair<br />
volume (infant).<br />
Weak pulse (with the bradycardia) (first phase) and<br />
weak peripheral pulses.<br />
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Electrocardiogram (ECG)<br />
ECG: normal.<br />
Angiography<br />
Angiogram of upper limbs:<br />
Aorta (ascending, arch, descending &<br />
abdominal): no abnormalities found.<br />
Axillary arteries: normal, with multiple<br />
collaterals originating from Axillary arteries<br />
and reconstituting distally to form the Ulna and<br />
Radial arteries.<br />
Brachial arteries: long stenotic segments.<br />
Common Iliac arteries: normal.<br />
Radial arteries: short, multiple, stenoses.<br />
Subclavian arteries: normal.<br />
Ulnar arteries: short, multiple, stenoses.<br />
Angiogram of lower limbs:<br />
Femoral arteries, superficial, proximally:<br />
normal.<br />
Femoral arteries, superficial, distal: diffuse<br />
narrowing.<br />
Popliteal arteries: diffuse narrowing.<br />
Profunda & Geniculate artery collaterals<br />
supplying legs, mainly.<br />
Tibial arteries: not well visualized and mainly<br />
supplied by small vessels from Profunda &<br />
Geniculate collaterals.<br />
Arteriography<br />
Bilateral femoral arteriograms: Superficial femoral<br />
arteries: severe narrowing throughout their lengths.<br />
Calf vessels very narrow.<br />
Smoothness of arterial walls seen at all levels.<br />
Atheroma or occlusion not demonstrated.<br />
Plethysmography<br />
Calf and foot blood flow show bilateral peripheral<br />
arterial insufficiency with narrowing of superficial<br />
femoral arteries extending throughout both thighs.<br />
Hyperemic flow present.<br />
Vasoconstriction in the distal vessel bed present<br />
and persistent.<br />
Ultrasound<br />
Tibial, Dorsalis pedis pulses and indirect ankle<br />
systolic pressure flow velocity confirmed peripheral<br />
arterial insufficiency and showed recovery is rather<br />
slow.<br />
Thermography<br />
Hyperemic flow demonstrated after foot pulses<br />
return (St. Anthony’s Fire).<br />
Musculoskeletal System
Crippling and loss of movement within ten days<br />
(71.4% of experimental mice).<br />
Muscular spasms recalling those of tetanus, but less<br />
sustained and less painful, with abundant sweating<br />
and a raised temperature (severe phase).<br />
Muscular pain.<br />
Muscular trembling (acute).<br />
Painful contraction of muscles (acute).<br />
Paresthesia.<br />
Smooth muscles stimulation.<br />
Trembling, muscular (livestock).<br />
Wasting disease, gradual development (livestock).<br />
Weakness.<br />
Extremities<br />
Acræ (distal parts of extremities) ischemia.<br />
Burning sensations in the limbs.<br />
Coldness of the extremities (first symptom)<br />
combined with numbness.<br />
Formication, with pallor and cold in the extremities<br />
recalling Raynaud’s syndrome, with hands and feet<br />
equally affected (severe phase).<br />
Gangrene develops in distal extremities (humans &<br />
animals) (tail, feet, ears, teats) (long term or<br />
chronic).<br />
Hands and feet cold, blue and puffy (infant).<br />
Ischemia of limbs (confirmed by angiography).<br />
Joint swelling, tenderness and a loss of feeling (this<br />
may be followed by dry gangrene).<br />
Nails white, but no edema; may lose nail.<br />
Numbness and cooling of extremities.<br />
Pale, cold and pulseless upper and lower limbs.<br />
Doppler examination showed diffuse arterial<br />
spasms affecting the aorta and the femoral and<br />
humeral arteries (ritonavir drug interaction).<br />
Paresthesias, painful (severe phase).<br />
Peripheral vasoconstriction damaging capillary<br />
endothelium, resulting in vascular stasis,<br />
thrombosis and gangrene.<br />
Pulses, distal, absent (ritonavir drug interaction).<br />
Tingling and paresthesia of extremities.<br />
Trembling of the extremities, inconspicuous, in a<br />
pale and limp patient complaining especially of<br />
inability to read due to disorders of visual<br />
accommodation (first phase).<br />
Twitching of limbs, trembling (humans & cattle).<br />
Weakness in front legs and stiff-legged in hind legs<br />
with general incoordination (cattle).<br />
Upper Limbs<br />
Coldness, tingling, numbness and loss or lack of<br />
sensation in the fingers.<br />
Difficulty in using fingers in fine movement.<br />
Finger contractions, so strong as to appear<br />
disarticulated.<br />
Finger numbness and tingling, progressive to<br />
include entire upper limbs, bilaterally.<br />
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Gangrene in hands.<br />
Hands cold and painful (can be severe), progressive<br />
to include entire upper limbs, bilaterally.<br />
Loss of pricking sensation in fingers.<br />
Pale and cold upper limbs, but no cyanosis.<br />
Pulses, brachial and radial, not palpable.<br />
Pulses, upper limb present and equal.<br />
Raynaud’s disease (more prevalent in winter).<br />
Sensations intact.<br />
Lower Limbs<br />
Burning feet pain, increasing.<br />
Burning leg pain (arteriogram showing smooth<br />
segmental narrowing and bilateral vasospasm<br />
suggestive of severe, generalized large vessel<br />
(Femoral arteritis).<br />
Burning pain, severe, experienced as legs become<br />
warmer, requiring large doses of analgesia.<br />
Calf, right, pulling cramp sensation, after short<br />
(five minutes) walk.<br />
Capillary return slow.<br />
Cold and pale lower extremities, bilateral.<br />
Contraction of legs (livestock).<br />
Cool, pulseless and painful (right) leg.<br />
(Arteriogram showing subtotal stenosis and<br />
pseudoaneurysm of popliteal artery).<br />
Cramps in calves, following formication,<br />
aggravated by the weight of the bed sheets (severe<br />
phase).<br />
Cyanosis and edema in both legs (initial symptom)<br />
(ritonavir drug interaction).<br />
Feet and legs cold and pale.<br />
Feet uncomfortable, sensation of formication,<br />
signals start of illness.<br />
Femoral pulses present bilaterally and of normal<br />
volume, but no pulses felt below femorals, while<br />
pulses of upper extremities and carotids normal.<br />
Fetlocks swelling with pain and eventual loss of<br />
hooves (cattle & occasionally swine).<br />
Foot, right, numb and cold sensation.<br />
Hind feet tenderness (cattle).<br />
Lameness, particularly in the hind limbs (cattle).<br />
Legs ‘icy cold and dead’ sensation to touch.<br />
Moist gangrene of toes (severe phase).<br />
Necrosis of feet (livestock) as well as tail & ear tips<br />
(gangrenous phase).<br />
Paresthesia followed by gangrenous change at<br />
tendon junction.<br />
Pulses below the femorals in either legs absent/not<br />
palpable; no bruits.<br />
Soles paresthesia, bilateral, aggravated by walking<br />
and persistent even after recovery, for one or more<br />
months, though diminished.<br />
Soles paresthesia, bilateral, severe.<br />
Symptoms usually start in the hind limbs. (animal<br />
symptom).
Toes, bilateral gangrene (ritonavir drug interaction).<br />
Toes numbness and tingling.<br />
Toes paresthesia, bilateral, severe.<br />
Toes show cutaneous reactive hyperemia on<br />
improvement and warming.<br />
Weakness in legs.<br />
Tail<br />
Gangrenous extremity (animal symptom).<br />
Gait<br />
Ataxia.<br />
Staggering gait.<br />
Posture<br />
Backward arching of the back (animal symptom).<br />
Lameness (animal symptom).<br />
Lying down (animal symptom).<br />
Reticulo-endothelial System<br />
Edema localized (initial symptom) and pruritic.<br />
Sleep<br />
Insomnia, constant symptom, lasting several days<br />
(first phase).<br />
Sleepiness, prolonged.<br />
Chills<br />
Coolness of affected area (animal symptom).<br />
Fever<br />
Afebrile.<br />
Hyperthermia, with increased pulse and respiration<br />
rates, accompany lameness and a greater<br />
susceptibility to heat stress (livestock & cattle).<br />
Hyperthermia of 39.5°C (infant).<br />
Temperature low, both in morning and evening<br />
(36.5° to 36.8°C) (first phase).<br />
Temperature subnormal (livestock).<br />
Perspiration<br />
Sweats, very abundant, streaming over whole body.<br />
Skin<br />
Cold and pale.<br />
Gangrene, dry (animal symptom).<br />
Itching, a common symptom.<br />
Skin excoriation; desquamation edema. (eventually<br />
death and loss of affected tissues.)<br />
Skin pigmented.<br />
Skin paresthesia, exhibiting reactive hyperemia on<br />
improvement and warming up.<br />
Pain<br />
Pain: angina, suggestive of.<br />
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Pain: Intractable pain in both legs (initial symptom)<br />
(ritonavir drug interaction).<br />
Pain: muscular, severe.<br />
Pain: sensation of pain is lost in the affected areas<br />
(chronic case) and indented line appears between<br />
normal tissue and gangrenous tissue (animal<br />
symptom); eventually all tissue below this line<br />
sloughs.<br />
Pain: shooting.<br />
Hematology<br />
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR): normal.<br />
Film: normochromic, normocytic.<br />
Full blood count (FBC): Normal.<br />
Hemoglobin: 8.4 g/dL. (normal: m: 13.5-18.0 g/dL;<br />
f: 11.5-16.0 g/dL)<br />
VDRL: normal.<br />
White blood cell count: 8.4 x 10 9 L. (normal: 4.0-<br />
11.0 x 10 9 /L).<br />
Biochemistry<br />
Anti-cardiolipin antibodies: negative.<br />
Antinuclear cytoplasmic antibodies: negative.<br />
Antinuclear factor: negative.<br />
Calcium (serum) (Ca++): 2.3 mmol/L. (normal:<br />
2.12-2.65 mmol/L).<br />
Creatinine: 2750 µmol/L (normal: d” 150 µmol/L).<br />
Creatinine clearance (during illness): 3 ml/min.<br />
(normal: m: 100-125 ml/min; f: 85-125 ml/min).<br />
Creatinine clearance (at recovery):54-59 ml/min.<br />
(normal: m: 100-125 ml/min; f: 85-125 ml/min).<br />
Coagulation profile: normal.<br />
D-dimer serology: negative.<br />
Double-stranded DNA antibodies: normal.<br />
Fibrinogen: normal.<br />
Liver function tests (LFT): normal.<br />
Lupus anticoagulant: weakly present at ratio 1:4.<br />
Phosphate: 4.5 mmol/L. (normal: 0.8-1.45<br />
mmol/L).<br />
Platelet count: normal.<br />
Potassium (K+): 4.8 mmol/L. (normal: 3.5-5.2<br />
mmol/L).<br />
Prolactin levels (serum) depression, pronounced,<br />
accounting for galactia (livestock).<br />
Protein C and protein S levels: normal.<br />
Sodium (Na+): 126 mmol/L. (normal: 133-145<br />
mmol/L).<br />
Thyroid function test (TFT): normal.<br />
Urate: 1.02 mmol/L (normal: 0.12-0.42 mmol/L).<br />
Urea (plasma): 70 mmol/L. (normal: 2.5-7.0<br />
mmol/L).<br />
Urea & electrolytes (U&E’s) (renal profile):<br />
normal.<br />
Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL)<br />
serology: negative.
Histopathology<br />
GIT: Small intestine: necrotic areas<br />
Colon, sigmoid: necrotic areas.<br />
CVS: Arteries, mesenteric: hypertrophic smooth<br />
muscles, severe (resulting from chronic<br />
vasospasm).<br />
Generals<br />
Affected part is cool and dries up; a small furrow or<br />
line of separation appears and completely surrounds<br />
the limb, dividing the living tissue from the dead<br />
tissue. There is minimal loss of blood or none at<br />
all.<br />
Debility (humans & 100% of experimental mice).<br />
Epidemic madness with chaos and despair.<br />
Sensations of ‘as if’<br />
Sensation ‘as if’ an insect were creeping under or<br />
over the skin (common symptom).<br />
Amelioration<br />
Ability to sleep is a sign of recovery (end of first<br />
phase).<br />
Post-Mortem/Autopsy<br />
CNS: Cerebral edema (infant).<br />
GIT: Gastritis, hemorrhagic (infant).<br />
Laryngeal submucous hemorrhages (infant).<br />
CVS: Pericardial (visceral) petechiae (infant).<br />
Appendix<br />
Synthesis Repertory: Claviceps purpurea – ‘sec.,’<br />
for Secale cornutum.<br />
Kent Repertory: ‘Sec.,’ for Secale cornutum. (no<br />
claviceps mentioned).<br />
Provings to date: In Bradford (page 248), the<br />
earliest reference to Secale cornutum is by<br />
LORINSER in “Versuch u Beobach. u d Wirk.<br />
Mutterkoens, Berlin, 1824.” Followed by HELBIG<br />
in “Heraklides, 1833, p. 55”; Glock in “Diss. De<br />
Secale corn. Dorpat, 1837”; GIBBON in<br />
“Am.J.Med.Sc., 1844, V.I, p. 244”; Parola in “Gaz.<br />
Med., 1844” and “Œssterr Zeit., V.3, pt.2, 1847,<br />
No.19”; ALLEN in “Med.Adv., V.16, p.I” and<br />
“Tr.Am.Inst.Hom., 1885”, and Mrs.P. in “I.H.A.<br />
(Trans.), 1890”.<br />
‘Secale cornutum’ is mentioned together with the<br />
following synonyms: ‘Secale cereale,’ ‘Acinula<br />
clavus’, ‘Claviceps purpurea,’ ‘Spermœdia clavus,’<br />
‘Ergota’, ‘Sclerotium calvus,’ ‘Secale clavatum’,<br />
‘Secale corniclatum’, ‘Secale mater’, ‘Secale<br />
turgidum’. The same author mentions the following<br />
common names: ‘Cockspur rye,’ ‘Ergot of rye,’<br />
‘Horned rye’ and ‘Spurred rye’.<br />
Mother tincture prepared from dried ergot, C.<br />
purpurea, cultivated from rye.<br />
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All experimental signs and symptoms are from<br />
mammal experiments only: apes, cats, dogs, guinea<br />
pigs, mice, monkeys, rabbits, rats, etc.<br />
History<br />
Ergot was known and used in the medicine of<br />
Avicenna (980-1037 AD), the Arab physician, and<br />
by Chinese midwifery at an even earlier date.<br />
Differential Diagnosis (the determination of which<br />
one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient<br />
is suffering from, by systemically comparing and<br />
contrasting their symptoms (Dorland’s))<br />
“Fescue foot” resembles gangrenous ergotism in<br />
cattle.<br />
Arterial thrombosis.<br />
Arteritis.<br />
Median vessel spasm.<br />
Thrombo-embolic phenomena.<br />
Vasculitis.<br />
10. Nux vomica, the overindulgence remedy<br />
FULLER, Diane (HT. 23, 11/2003)<br />
The indications for the remedy Nux vomica<br />
according to PIERCE W.I., BOERICKE W.,<br />
CHOUDHURI N.M., TYLER M.L., are discussed.<br />
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THERAPEUTICS<br />
1. A Diagnosed Case of Cystic Hygroma of Neck<br />
Beautifully Cured by Calcarea Iodatum<br />
BANERJEA, Subrata K. (AH. 10/2004)<br />
17 Nov. 1998. Mast. S.M. three-month-old<br />
baby was brought with a large lump on right side of<br />
neck. At birth, there was a nodule which within<br />
two months attained the size of a grapefruit.<br />
Paediatric Surgeon advised Surgery and told that<br />
recurrence was possible and so parents opted for<br />
Homœopathy. Dry, hard, offensive stool. Kicks<br />
off covering, left cervical glands enlarged. Sweats<br />
profusely on head. Miasmatic Analysis: Mixed<br />
miasmatic case with Syco-Tubercular<br />
preponderance.<br />
Calcarea iodata 200, one globule to be<br />
dissolved in 8 ounces of pure water, shaken and<br />
sipped slowly throughout the day, save a little at the<br />
bottom, top it up next morning, keep sipping<br />
throughout next day. To be continued for 7 days.<br />
Then for 7 days, no medicine. Followed by another<br />
dose to be shaken and sipped for 7 days.<br />
Calcarea iodata gradually ascended up to 50M<br />
in two years time. Within 3 months mass started
educing and within eight months, it came down to<br />
the size of a small lime. In two years time, it totally<br />
disappeared.<br />
2. I am Anxious and Disconnected<br />
WALDSTEIN, Steve (AH. 10/2004)<br />
43-year-old man complained of Depression,<br />
Glaucoma and Headaches. Fear of going insane. A<br />
disconnected feeling between him and the world for<br />
about 8 years after LSD. Fear of poverty and<br />
selfishness. Delusion that he is repudiated by<br />
society.<br />
Hydrogen 30. One month later, felt more solid,<br />
less fear, better overall. Then relapsed. Another<br />
dose given. Everything continued to improve over<br />
the next 4 years. He only needed one more dose of<br />
Hydrogen 200. [The choice of ‘Hydrogen’ is<br />
explained in this way: “Again the aloneness, the<br />
going inward to point of disappearing and the fear<br />
of making the transition. He talks about aloneness<br />
all through the case, Hydrogen is right at the border<br />
between non-existence (energy) and matter. At the<br />
border between G-d and the physical world. It is<br />
the first element – the first matter alone and then all<br />
the other matter comes from it. So feeling quite<br />
satisfied, I gave one dose of Hydrogen 30.” What a<br />
reasoning. It is all about the doctor’s feelings!<br />
What has this to do with homœopathic teachings by<br />
HAHNEMANN and his true lineage? =KSS]<br />
3. Cuban Rum with Cuban Cigars<br />
POPEN, Andre Y. (AH. 10/2004)<br />
64 year-old woman with irritable colon.<br />
Terrible abdominal pain, cramping. Heat, pressure<br />
on abdomen and bending forward help with pain.<br />
Gluten intolerance. Diarrhoea all the time. Pain<br />
abdomen if no diarrhoea. Smoking cigars help her<br />
toilet. Abdomen bloated and very hard. Doesn’t<br />
like even the smell of food. Losing hair because of<br />
Menopause. Bright red blood in stool after<br />
drinking tea. Even the smell of cooking food is<br />
disliked. Has high Blood Pressure and is taking<br />
tablets for it. Milk, cream and butter also help with<br />
the pain. Music relaxes her. Clairvoyant.<br />
The peculiar symptom of ‘pain abdomen better<br />
by smoking’ is covered only by Colocynthis.<br />
GIBSON D.M., DUNHAM and<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN are quoted.<br />
Colocynthis LM I – one pellet in 4 oz. of water,<br />
succussed 5 times, from which one teaspoon to be<br />
stirred in 4 oz. of water. One teaspoon was taken as<br />
test dose. Rapid improvement. To continue the<br />
remedy. In 4 days she could do without the cigars.<br />
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To continue the remedy. Further 15 days later<br />
gluten test was negative.<br />
For over a year, she has continued to improve<br />
on higher potencies, upto LM 15.<br />
4. A Case of Oleander<br />
POPEN, Andre Y. (AH. 10/2004)<br />
M.S. 12 year-old boy with learning disabilities.<br />
Reading and comprehending difficult. ADHD and<br />
allergies to tomato and acidic fruits. Dry, itchy<br />
skin. Eczema on back of his elbows and knees. He<br />
is more an auditory learner. Learns from science<br />
experiments. Main problem is with concentration<br />
while studying. He is dyslexic.<br />
MM references of N.M. CHOUDHURI,<br />
HAHNEMANN, ALLEN T.F. and Radar Keynotes<br />
4.0 are given.<br />
Oleander LM 1 as per the directions of<br />
HAHNEMANN. Immediately after the first dose<br />
his concentration was good as never before. He<br />
remembered just after one reading.<br />
Improvement lasted for 48 hrs.<br />
Another dose with 5 succussions. Not the<br />
same strong reaction. Third dose worked well and<br />
is doing well. Wait as long as the improvement<br />
lasts and another dose when it stops working.<br />
Two more doses in the next five months and no<br />
complaints. [What other medicine system in the<br />
world would give so good and speedy<br />
improvement, at a negligible cost? The critics<br />
would still say ‘Placebo effect’? = KSS]<br />
5. Homœopathic Treatment of Emergencies and<br />
Terminally Ill Patients<br />
MASTER, Farokh (AH. 10/2004)<br />
The indispensable qualities to be possessed by<br />
a homœopath to treat the emergencies and the<br />
parameters to be examined are discussed. The<br />
causative factor (physical/emotional) precipitating<br />
the present state and objective symptoms and the<br />
dominant pathology at that time are to be noted.<br />
Determination of the type of pathology will<br />
help to study and understand the sphere of action<br />
and pathogenesis of the remedy. Few examples are<br />
given.<br />
Severe gram-negative Septicaemia leading to<br />
multiple organ failure especially of lungs and<br />
kidneys – Hydrocyanic acid.<br />
Extensive sub-arachnoid haemorrhage affecting the<br />
respiratory center – Opium, Solanum aceticum,<br />
Carboneum hydrogenisatum and Lobelia<br />
purpurescens.<br />
Severe Septicaemia with haemolysis – Crotalus<br />
horridus and Taipan.
Uncontrolled Hypertension with CVA –<br />
Hypophysis post. and Toxoplasm gondi.<br />
Uraemia with uncontrolled Hypertension –<br />
Melilotus officinalis.<br />
CVA due to severe damage to mid-brain – Naja,<br />
Adrenaline and Acetanillidum.<br />
Severe LVF where the ejection fraction is very poor<br />
- Caffeinum and Pituitarinum.<br />
Extensive internal bleeding – Hirudo medicinalis.<br />
Case 1: 66-year-old female with Septicaemia<br />
and Cerebro-vascular insult causing hypoxic<br />
damage to the brain. Hypotension severe and<br />
metabolic acidosis due to kidney failure. Comatose<br />
with staring eyes and contracted pupils, swollen<br />
lips, paralysis of right side. Evidence of paralytic<br />
ileus. CXR shows Pulmonary Oedema and CT<br />
Scan – CVA on left side. She had been wrongly<br />
harassed by Income Tax Department and heavily<br />
fined. Opium 50M inhalation at 20 minutes<br />
interval.<br />
Patient regained consciousness on 4 th day, with<br />
improvement in the Acidosis and Hypotension.<br />
Pulmonary Oedema resolved. Patient was weaned<br />
off Ventilator after 10 days of homœopathic<br />
treatment and discharged with Hemiplegia after a<br />
hospital stay of 45 days.<br />
Case 2: 63-year-old man with Carcinoma<br />
Larynx with Pulmonary metastasis leading to<br />
compression of trachea and respiratory distress. He<br />
refused tracheostomy.<br />
Respiration was accelerated, especially on<br />
going to sleep; respiration was difficult and deep,<br />
with moaning; grasping throat while coughing,<br />
hands icy cold and slow pulse.<br />
Hydrocyanic acid 30 every 6 hours. Distress<br />
under control within 48 hours. Lived for 3 months<br />
without tracheostomy.<br />
Case 3: A man of 52 years, with uncontrolled<br />
Hypertension, leading to massive MCA bleed,<br />
leading to extensive cerebral edema with shift of<br />
midline structures with central neurogenic type of<br />
ventilation with respiratory acidosis. He was in<br />
I.C.C.U.<br />
Observations: Comatose; Cheyne-stokes<br />
respiration, imperceptible pulse; deep tendon<br />
reflexes lost, Trismus and suppression of urine.<br />
Morphinum 50M, by inhalation every 3 hours.<br />
Urine output normal after 48 hours. After 6<br />
days, recovered from coma. After 15 days, patient<br />
came out of spinal shock. He was discharged with<br />
extensive, dense Hemiplegia. [How long was the<br />
Morphinum 50M continued? = KSS]<br />
Case 4: 22-year-old man with extensive head<br />
injuries after a car accident, leading to subdural<br />
haematoma and extensive cerebral edema. Had<br />
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respiratory distress, on ventilatory support,<br />
unconscious with convulsions.<br />
Observations: Severe Hypertension; eyes<br />
were staring; intermittent and irregular pulse;<br />
grinding of teeth; gasping respiration.<br />
Drainage from suction was bloody and lot of<br />
gurgling sounds in abdomen.<br />
Cuprum metallicum CM given every 4 hours.<br />
Regained consciousness after seven days. [Was<br />
Cuprum metallicum CM 4 hrly given for 7 days? =<br />
KSS]. Clinical signs of cerebral edema much better.<br />
Discharged with residual neurological effects.<br />
Case 5: Male, 62 years, developed severe<br />
hypoxic cerebral insult during anesthesia, leading to<br />
coma, respiratory distress, hypotension and kidney<br />
failure.<br />
Observations: Constant hiccough in coma<br />
vigil; sudden jerking of lower limbs, high urea and<br />
creatinine. Cold and clammy feet. On attempting<br />
to wean the patient off the ventilator, Cyanosis<br />
developed within two to three minutes.<br />
Laurocerasus 50 M via inhalation every 4 hours.<br />
After 6 days, responded to painful stimuli.<br />
After 10 days, responded to verbal stimuli.<br />
After 15 days, weaned off ventilator.<br />
After 21 days, fully conscious.<br />
After 30 days, discharged with residual<br />
neurological defects and aphasia.<br />
Case 6: 32-year-old male with gram negative<br />
Septicaemia with cerebral Malaria due to<br />
Plasmodium falciparum, leading to coma with<br />
severe hepato-renal failure and Convulsions.<br />
Observations: High fever with coma; evidence<br />
of septicaemic shock; stertorus breathing. Frequent<br />
and small pulse with the body icy cold to touch, yet<br />
throwing off the cover involuntarily. Camphor 1M<br />
every 4 hours.<br />
Consciousness regained in 48 hours, on 4 th day<br />
temperature touched 99°F. Hepatorenal functions<br />
improved by 6 th day. Weaned off Ventilator within<br />
7 days.<br />
After each case, the symptoms of the remedy<br />
which were frequently confirmed in practice are<br />
given. [All very interesting cases. Scientists<br />
demanding ‘evidence’ may read these. The best<br />
evidence is a series of cases of serious nature<br />
recovering after failure of the Hegemony medicine.<br />
What more evidence? One point needs<br />
clarification. In those cases high potencies were<br />
given every 20-30 mts. or hour-4 hrly and patient<br />
recovering steadily over a period. It is not clear to<br />
me whether the remedy was continued at same<br />
intervals all through the period = KSS]<br />
6. Akutfälle nach BÖNNINGHAUSEN (Acute<br />
cases following BŒNNINGHAUSEN)
KLINKENBERG, Carl Rudolf<br />
(ZKH. 48, 3/2004)<br />
Two cases are presented. These cases are<br />
analysed and worked out with the aid of<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN’s Therapeutic Pocket book.<br />
In the first case, a female patient, 46, with<br />
Angina and Sinusitis. On 12.11.2003, she<br />
presented with a cold which began with burning<br />
and scratchiness in the throat, which then became a<br />
pain in the forehead, agg. from bending the head<br />
forward or lifting up some object. Since the<br />
beginning of the ailment, she is “somewhat feeling<br />
chilled”, had cold hands and feet. A day before the<br />
cold, she was exposed to cold wind while at a<br />
railway station. Yesterday the voice was lost, and<br />
she had flowing mucous from the sinuses. She<br />
suffered from a severe Sinusitis 14 years ago after<br />
catching a bad cold. Since then she was disposed to<br />
get a Sinusitis easily.<br />
There was no peculiar characteristic symptom<br />
(§ 153 Organon) in this case.<br />
Since the symptoms were not well defined,<br />
repertorisation with KENT was not possible.<br />
The following symptoms were selected for<br />
working out with BŒNNINGHAUSEN’s<br />
Therapeutic Pocket Book: Frontal sinuses and<br />
inner throat (Localisation); Chilliness<br />
(accompanying general symptom); Whitish mucous<br />
from the sinuses (Condition); Burning pains; Loss<br />
of voice.<br />
The rubrics chosen: Face, Forehead; Coryza,<br />
discharge, mucous; Throat; Burning, inner parts;<br />
Voice poor; Chilliness, worse from becoming cold.<br />
Phosphorus 30: one globule under the tongue.<br />
Two hours later, an aggravation in the forehead.<br />
Next morning, all the complaints had gone away<br />
permanently.<br />
The second case, a female patient, 31 years, in<br />
her 9 th month of pregnancy was suffering from<br />
severe throat pain while swallowing. Swallowing<br />
saliva was particularly painful, as also swallowing<br />
food was very much so, and it made no difference<br />
whether it was cold or hot. She felt very weak and<br />
had to lie down and sleep. She had little sleep in<br />
the recent days because of her son’s illness.<br />
Doubtless she was tired particularly as she was<br />
pregnant and needed much sleep. Sub-febrile<br />
temperature. Little thirst. Poor appetite. At the<br />
very earliest the throat felt sore; stitching pains.<br />
Nights, the complaints are worse.<br />
Sensation of mucous in the back of throat.<br />
Slight nausea from the period the complaints began<br />
which could have some connection to her<br />
pregnancy. Until three weeks before she had taken<br />
Natrum muriaticum Q6 for recurrent abortions.<br />
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Oedematous swelling. Slightly bluish-red lymph<br />
follicle in the back of the throat and near the tonsils.<br />
Her tonsils had been removed during her childhood.<br />
Swollen lymph nodes, bilateral throat.<br />
HAHNEMANN stresses about the peculiar<br />
symptoms, the characteristic (§ 153, 154, 178, 209).<br />
Every symptom is characteristic when it is clearly<br />
defined (§ 153) by a modality, a concomitant or<br />
closely characterized. In this is included the<br />
relative value of disease symptom whether it is<br />
common or unusual in three criteriae:<br />
1. Rarity: rarely occurs in diseases in general or<br />
specific disease forms, elevates the value of a<br />
symptom for choosing it as an indicator for remedy<br />
choice. A symptom unusual for a disease,<br />
unexpected symptoms have, comparatively higher<br />
value than a pathognomic symptom.<br />
2. Intensity: the intensity of a symptom becomes<br />
characteristic by its intensity itself.<br />
3. Certainty: the way the patient defines his<br />
symptom has a relatively greater value. Symptoms<br />
about which the patient is not clear or certain is of<br />
doubtful value. Certainty is more of the symptom<br />
spontaneously told.<br />
In this case Pulsatilla 200, one globule was<br />
given. Two hours after taking the medicine, she<br />
had a severe Migraine and nausea. Also fever.<br />
Next morning no more fever. Nausea gone in a<br />
week. The throat pain much reduced and gone in<br />
two days.<br />
Both the cases tell how acute cases which at<br />
first seemed unclear with least characteristic<br />
symptoms, could be solved by repertorizing with<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN method.<br />
7. Eine Chronische Behandlung – Sulfuricum<br />
acidum (A Chronic Treatment – Sulphuric<br />
acid)<br />
ALTENBACH, Monique (ZKH. 48, 3/2004)<br />
A Chronic case treated over a period of 16<br />
years is presented. The treatment began when the<br />
patient was a 35-year-old man. Sulphur, several<br />
times brought only partial relief. It took 12 years in<br />
this case to make the right homœopathic diagnosis<br />
of Sulphuric acid. After this remedy all round<br />
improvement began.<br />
Several acute episodes which occurred during<br />
the 12-year treatment are described.<br />
8. Androctonus: A Case<br />
SHANNON, Tim (AJHM. 97, 3/2004)<br />
Eight-year-old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome<br />
presents with angry explosions, hates school, very<br />
defiant and obstinate in general. Averse, intolerant<br />
of strangers, privacy around stool, constant
fidgetiness, eating little, temper tantrums, getting<br />
into fights often.<br />
Intense mood swings, sensitive to noise.<br />
The themes pointed to an arachnid, specifically<br />
Androctonus. 1M dry split dose in two separate<br />
envelopes, to be taken on clean palate<br />
approximately 12 hours apart.<br />
Two months later, mild improvement.<br />
Androctonus 10M.<br />
Two months later: Much better, wait.<br />
Three months later: Still progressing but severe<br />
backache.<br />
A month later: Now has long stretches of good<br />
days. Back pain persists in spite of osteopathic<br />
treatment. Androctonus 10M, two doses 12 hours<br />
apart.<br />
45 days later: Excellent progress. Androctonus<br />
LM3 daily.<br />
3 months later: Several things were getting a<br />
bit worse. Androctonus 10M.<br />
4 months later: The patient was more<br />
approachable, less restless. Mother commented<br />
that he was 80% better overall. Much less angry,<br />
defiant. Communication better. [Eleven large<br />
pages for this case giving verbatim ‘transcript’ of<br />
the Interview! Why report a case that is 80% better.<br />
Should we not wait for 2 or 3 years after a ‘full<br />
cure’ before we go to publish as “Cure”? This is<br />
what von BŒNNINGHAUSEN has warned in his<br />
‘last’ article = KSS]<br />
9. The Homœopathic Treatment of Vertigo<br />
GORDON, Deborah L. (AJHM. 97, 3/2004)<br />
Vertigo results from the diseases of the inner<br />
ear or the balance centers of the ear and brain.<br />
Sensation as if the external world were<br />
revolving around the patient (objective vertigo) or<br />
as if he himself were revolving in space (subjective<br />
vertigo).<br />
The descriptions of the remedies for the<br />
treatment of acute vertigo are given: Aconite,<br />
Arnica, Belladonna, Cocculus, Conium, Natrum<br />
muriaticum, Natrum sulphuricum, Nux vomica,<br />
Sepia and Silica.<br />
In the treatment of chronic vertigo the author<br />
has found great success by following the method<br />
developed by Rajan SANKARAN.<br />
Case 1: SR, 68 year-old woman with a ten year<br />
history of paroxysmal vertigo. Worse any motion.<br />
Better from closed eyes, lying down, sleep, holding<br />
perfectly still.<br />
Considerably better from vomiting. She had<br />
wide-eyed wondrous view of the world and<br />
interested in re-embodiment, finding higher levels.<br />
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The severity with which she described her<br />
problems led to the Papaveraceae family and<br />
Sanguinaria (Sycotic miasm).<br />
A dose of Sanguinaria 200 and within a month<br />
similar auras of vertigo but they weren’t frightening<br />
and never recurred.<br />
Case 2: WS, 58 year-old woman with paroxysmal<br />
vertigo for fifteen years. Her attacks threw her<br />
across the room, vomiting and spinning. The spells<br />
started after beginning to write a book about her<br />
son’s life – who was a drug addict and murdered.<br />
The themes of violence, death alternating with<br />
“idyllic life” pointed to Papaveraceae and the<br />
Cancer Miasm to Opium.<br />
Opium 10M and symptom free since then.<br />
10. Homœopathy heals bones<br />
Five remedies for fractures<br />
DOOLEY, Timothy R. (HT. 23, 10/2003)<br />
For the relief of pain and to promote healing,<br />
the indications for Arnica, Symphytum,<br />
Eupatorium, Calcarea phosphoricum and Ruta are<br />
given.<br />
11. Treating Teenagers with Homœopathy<br />
Some thoughts and tips<br />
ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 23, 10/2003)<br />
The information shared in homœopathic<br />
interview is kept private, unless the author feels that<br />
the teen’s behaviour is truly dangerous to<br />
themselves or others.<br />
To understand them the author looks for the<br />
following when they are in the waiting and<br />
consulting room.<br />
- Interaction with parents<br />
- Interaction with siblings<br />
- Interaction with office staff<br />
- What they are reading<br />
- What they are wearing<br />
- What they are listening to<br />
- What else they are doing<br />
Noticing physical appearance: Posture, skin,<br />
hair, makeup, piercings and tattoos.<br />
Every symptom, every outward<br />
manifestation of the person is context dependent.<br />
There is almost no face value without the<br />
context. [Stress mine = KSS]<br />
12. The Eating Habits of Teenagers<br />
OLENEV, Deborah (HT. 23, 10/2003)<br />
The author pays very close attention to the<br />
food preferences which help her in choosing and<br />
deciding the remedy.
Sarah, 19-year-old girl had sore and swollen<br />
tonsils on left side, headache, low energy, 102°,<br />
weepy mood. Pulsatilla 1M did not help. Craving<br />
something cold to drink with ice, craving for milk<br />
and aversion to egg and meat. Twilight agg. Tiny<br />
ulcers on roof of mouth, and tendency to fall asleep<br />
between 1-2 a.m. Phosphorus 200. Next day the<br />
blood tested positive for Infectious Mononucleosis.<br />
Within 4 days all symptoms resolved. (Usually<br />
the symptoms of Infectious Mononucleosis resolve<br />
in 3-4 weeks.)<br />
13. Watch Warts Disappear!<br />
Insomnia too … with homœopathic treatment<br />
POWERS, Donna J. (HT. 23, 10/2003)<br />
Josie, 12-year-old girl with sleeping problem<br />
and fear of dark and of being alone at night and fear<br />
something bad will happen to the family.<br />
Warts on right foot, right knee and left thumb.<br />
Sweaty palms and soles. Causticum 30, thrice in 24<br />
hours.<br />
Three months later, emotionally better, but<br />
warts and sweat persists. Causticum 12, once a day<br />
for 3 days.<br />
Within a week, warts and sweaty hands and<br />
palms cleared up.<br />
14. Terrible teens?<br />
A tale of one teen’s transformation<br />
REICHENBERG-ULLMAN, Judyth<br />
(HT. 23, 10/2003)<br />
Randi, 17-year-old with ADD and easily<br />
angered and quarrelsome. Talks too much, stringy<br />
Epistaxis. Having real hard time focusing in<br />
studies. Likes snakes and hates spiders. Crotalus<br />
horridus 200. Six weeks later, was reading well, no<br />
nose-bleeds, not so angry. Mother reported that she<br />
was cheerful and more communicative.<br />
Two months later there was a relapse and<br />
improved with another dose. Two months later,<br />
Hay fever and Crotalus horridus 30. A dose of<br />
1M, eleven months later. At the end of this period,<br />
felt well enough to discontinue treatment.<br />
15. Two different shoes<br />
GOLDMAN, Ellen (HT. 23, 10/2003)<br />
14-year-old boy with two different shoes. One<br />
shoe had the whole toe area cut off. Painful story<br />
of chronic ingrown toe nails. Three surgeries and<br />
myriad of treatments. The felon has been oozing<br />
pus for months. He could not play because of this<br />
and had a feeling of being unappreciated by others.<br />
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He was desperate to wear normal pair of shoes.<br />
Calcarea sulphurica 200. His ingrown toe-nail<br />
cleared up nicely over the course of a month and so<br />
did his acne.<br />
16. Homœopathic Remedies for Acne<br />
-from Roger MORRISON’s Desktop<br />
Companion to Physical Pathology<br />
(HT. 23, 10/2003)<br />
Snapshots of 13 remedies are given.<br />
17. Chronic Fatigue in an Active Teenager<br />
Never well since Shingles, Mono, Strep and<br />
Bronchitis<br />
GAHLES, Nancy (HT. 23, 10/2003)<br />
Marissa, 14-year-old girl has series of illnesses.<br />
Shingles across her lower back to her hips, then<br />
Mononucleosis, then Strep throat and Bronchitis.<br />
Since then little energy. Pain in temples, irritable<br />
and tired on returning from school. Irregular<br />
periods. Difficulty in reading and anticipatory<br />
anxiety. Recurrent dreams of being kidnapped.<br />
Iris versicolor. Nine months later, became well;<br />
experienced a unique awareness of what the healthy<br />
human state feels like.<br />
18. A family Affair: Treating Parents and Kids<br />
ASPINWALL, Mary (HT. 23, 10/2003)<br />
A Chinese saying: “If the child is sick then<br />
treat the mother”. Children are like psychic<br />
sponges mopping up the “dis-ease” their parents<br />
transmit and then broadcasting it loud and clear.<br />
A mother with debilitating fears which started<br />
after being trapped in a car with her children during<br />
a flood. She was terrified of thunder and lightning.<br />
Caring, sympathetic disposition. Prescribed<br />
Phosphorus and she was delighted with the results.<br />
Her daughter had an operation for a large<br />
ovarian cyst and intense pain in the other ovary.<br />
Always had painful periods with ovarian pains<br />
alternating sides. Low self-esteem.<br />
A dose of Lac caninum and all issues resolved.<br />
The author wonders if the daughter would have<br />
stayed so well had her mother’s anxiety gone<br />
unresolved.<br />
19. Blackout in the Northeast<br />
Homœopathy acts in a State of Emergency<br />
STRONG, Anna (HT. 23, 10/2003)<br />
17-year-old Kelly, fell and scraped the front of<br />
her ankle. Washed with diluted Calendula tincture<br />
and it began to heal. Two days later, after tubing<br />
behind a ski boat, she complained of pain in the<br />
ankle. Next day, a State of Emergency was<br />
declared after the power, water and gasoline pumps<br />
went down suddenly. That evening Kelly, could<br />
not even stand.
On examination, her whole foot and an area six<br />
inches up her leg was swollen, hot and red, though<br />
not shining or throbbing. The wound had a black<br />
center, which was circled by yellowish-green pus<br />
and angry red margin. The wound was closed and<br />
had a lot of pressure built up in it. Her foot was<br />
sensitive to touch, pressure, movement and<br />
walking.<br />
Belladonna 30. Within an hour the heat,<br />
swelling and redness were 95% better. But pus<br />
remained visible.<br />
Next day the wound had not got worse. Hepar<br />
sulph. 6 in hopes that the pus would vent or be<br />
absorbed.<br />
In 4 hours, heat, redness, swelling was back in<br />
all its glory. Belladonna 30 repeated and followed<br />
by improvement.<br />
Kelly’s wound was now clearly closed ulcer<br />
with jagged edges. Mercurius vivus 30. Within an<br />
hour, the angry red margin changed to a healthylooking<br />
pink. Pain went away and energy<br />
improved. The swelling and heat went away<br />
completely.<br />
Repeated thrice that day, twice next day and<br />
once the following day. The wound responded by<br />
granulating from inside out.<br />
20. Holiday Travel Season<br />
Pack these remedies and be prepared<br />
DOOLEY, Timothy R. (HT. 23, 11/2003)<br />
Travel anxiety: Gelsemium, Argentum<br />
nitricum, Aconite and Rescue remedy.<br />
Motion sickness: Cocculus indicus, Tabacum,<br />
Bryonia, Nux vomica, Petroleum, Ginger root.<br />
Jet lag: Arnica.<br />
It appears that homœopathic remedies can pass<br />
through Security Scanners (X-rays) a few times<br />
without affecting their efficacy, but after four to six<br />
passes they seem to diminish in potency. [See item<br />
No. V, in News & Notes Section of this <strong>QHD</strong>. =<br />
KSS]<br />
21. Home for the Holidays<br />
Homœopathy can encourage harmony<br />
ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 23, 11/2003)<br />
The author discusses various scenarios where<br />
Homœopathy can help before, during and after the<br />
holidays.<br />
Along with the homœopathic kit, also<br />
recommends with supplements and botanical<br />
medicines.<br />
22. Cruising through the Holidays<br />
Nine remedies you should know<br />
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SCHEPPER, Luc de (HT. 23, 11/2003)<br />
Nux vomica: Workaholics incapable of<br />
unwinding themselves; hangovers, overeating and<br />
eating too much rich food.<br />
Arsenicum: Traveler’s diarrhea.<br />
Lycopodium: Traveler’s constipation, often<br />
with gas, bloating and burping.<br />
Kali phosphoricum: Worry and nervousness<br />
bring on mental exhaustion. Over-studying.<br />
Picric acid: Weakness and tiredness in body<br />
and mind.<br />
Argentum nitricum: Anticipation, apprehension<br />
and fear, be it stage fright or examination nerves.<br />
Ignatia amara: Emotional turmoil, prevents<br />
many physical ailments; a stiff neck, painful joints,<br />
headaches and exhaustion – when linked to<br />
memories of loss and grief.<br />
Sepia: Nightmare for the unrewarded woman<br />
who guides the family ship through rough waters<br />
throughout the year.<br />
Gelsemium: Paralysed with shock, numb, dizzy<br />
and unable to move after bad news.<br />
23. An acid test for Homœopathy<br />
How Homœopathy kept this family together<br />
MALYON, Jenny (HT. 23, 11/2003)<br />
The author’s partner developed a painful<br />
earache after swimming in the surf. After referring<br />
The Complete Homœopathy Handbook by<br />
Miranda CASTRO, Nitric acid 12 was given. No<br />
earache and all the long-standing Warts on the<br />
palms of his hands had also cleared, as also<br />
emotional improvements.<br />
She understood that people’s negative traits are<br />
symptoms of their own “dis-ease” and used Nitric<br />
acid whenever her husband seemed unduly stressed<br />
out and angry.<br />
When her daughter was seven years old, she<br />
developed filiform Warts all over face and looked<br />
dreadful. For months many remedies were tried but<br />
Warts got worse. Then the author remembered that<br />
at the time of her conception her father was in a<br />
Nitric acid state. Nitric acid 12 and in a few days<br />
all Warts disappeared.<br />
24. Kidney Stones and Other Lumps<br />
TREUHERZ, Francis (HT. 23, 11/2003)<br />
This is about the personal experience of the<br />
author. In March 2002, suddenly he was in extreme<br />
agony with pain in back. Literally writhing on the<br />
floor with screaming. As suggested by a colleague,<br />
Calcarea carbonica 30, every 15 minutes.
Hospitalised. 2-3 hours later pain left as suddenly<br />
as it had come.<br />
With a naked eye pieces of stone could be seen<br />
after passing urine in the glass bottle.<br />
After few days took Calculus renalis 30 once<br />
daily for three months. At the end of June 2002, a<br />
cyst in eyelid became inflamed and blown up<br />
suddenly. Swollen, painful and red. Apis 30 only<br />
palliated. Staphysagria 30 did nothing. A local<br />
surgeon slit the lid and out popped some fragments<br />
of stone.<br />
This cyst was there for 25 years and every year<br />
it would gradually fill up with pus, burst and drain,<br />
but there was always a small hard lump remaining.<br />
Some months after this, a couple of calcified<br />
lumps or arthritic nodules on his knuckles had<br />
become smaller.<br />
So he believes that there must be a similarity<br />
between calcifications wherever they may occur<br />
and Calculus renalis has the potential to address<br />
them. [Note this very useful tip = KSS].<br />
25. Kidney Stones in the Family<br />
WINSTON, Julian (HT. 23, 11/2003)<br />
The author passed his first stone in 1971 and<br />
the last one in 2002. According to an ultrasound<br />
three more stones were left. In 1978, needed<br />
surgery and a general anaesthetic to be removed.<br />
Number of years later, he was in agony while<br />
passing a stone. Berberis 200 advised and within a<br />
half hour he felt relief. He felt Berberis cut the<br />
pain better than the painkillers.<br />
26. Look for the Strange, Rare, Peculiar Symptom<br />
WINSTON, Julian (HT. 23, 11/2003)<br />
Many years ago, Dr. David WEMBER<br />
presented a case of renal colic. The pain was felt in<br />
the ureters on right side and the pain was extending<br />
to his penis and testes. Pain was better by bending<br />
backward over a chair.<br />
A single dose of Dioscorea relieved the pain in<br />
about 15 minutes and a stone was passed three<br />
hours later.<br />
27. “It feels as if …”<br />
Unique Repertory holds the key<br />
WINSTON, Julian (HT. 23, 11/2003)<br />
A friend had a bad cough. The author did not<br />
observe the fact that she was chilly, exhausted by<br />
coughing and burning in chest while coughing.<br />
She had a sensation ‘as if’ she had a ball of<br />
mucus in her throat. H.A. ROBERT’s Sensations<br />
As If gave Arsenicum as the remedy. A single dose<br />
in 30 potency cleared her symptoms within 2 hours.<br />
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Arsenicum covered all her other symptoms also<br />
very well.<br />
28. Kopfschmerz und Migräne aus<br />
Psychosomatischer Sicht (Headache and<br />
Migraine in the light of Psychosomatics)<br />
SCHRAMM, Hans-Jürgen (AHZ. 249, 4/2004)<br />
The importance of giving priority to mental<br />
and emotional symptoms when interpreting any<br />
disease phenomenon for purposes of finding the<br />
simillimum as HAHNEMANN instructed is<br />
demonstrated in the four cases presented here; cases<br />
of headache and Migraine. The value of Depth<br />
Psychology which has been rarely used in<br />
Homœopathic Therapeutics is pointed out.<br />
29. Die homöopathische Behandlung der Migräne<br />
mit Hilfe der Sehgal-Methode (The<br />
homœopathic treatment of Migraine with help<br />
of the Sehgal-method)<br />
LANG, Gerhardus (AHZ. 249, 4/22004)<br />
With three cases of Migraine Dr. LANG shows<br />
that with the Sehgal Method in which only the<br />
presenting mental symptoms are required to find a<br />
remedy in the Repertory without taking into<br />
consideration any physical symptoms, is possible.<br />
[The author who practices “Sehgal-Method” quotes<br />
HAHNEMANN. It is strange that while denying<br />
the very basic of Homœopathy viz. Provings,<br />
Materia Medica, Miasms, but reckoning only the<br />
Repertory which consists mostly of clinical<br />
material and a fair amount of these unreliable, -<br />
HAHNEMANN is invoked! When I met Dr. M.L.<br />
SEHGAL first time – I was taken by my good<br />
friend the late Dr. H.L. CHITKARA - I asked Dr.<br />
SEHGAL whether, after choosing the remedy<br />
according to his method of ‘Mind’ only, from the<br />
first chapter of the KENT Repertory, he verifies the<br />
suitability of the remedy with the Provings or the<br />
Materia Medica, and Dr. SEHGAL replied that he<br />
does not refer to the Materia Medica. He needed<br />
only the ‘Mind’ Chapter of the Repertory, no need<br />
at all for Materia Medica! I met him a second time<br />
later. SEHGAL said that I can use his method and<br />
the results will prove that it was worth all that “It<br />
works”. It was my good fortune that I already had<br />
over 25 years practice then and had learnt<br />
Homœopathy by dint of hard work, study of<br />
German, then study of the source books in original;<br />
I had no need for the ‘revolutionized’<br />
Homœopathy. I also felt that if Provings and<br />
Materia Medica had no value at all for the<br />
practitioner, then it was not Homœopathy. Today<br />
we see that speculative Homœopathy based on
‘Periodic Table’, ‘Signatures’, ‘Families’,<br />
‘Kingdoms’ – all far, far from HAHNEMANN and<br />
his Homœopathy, are the ‘rage’. All these<br />
‘innovators’ invoke HAHNEMANN! = KSS]<br />
30. Erfahrungen in der Behandlung chronischer<br />
Kopfschmerzen (Experiences in the treatment<br />
of chronic headaches)<br />
ELIES, Michael (AHZ. 249, 4/2004)<br />
According to a recent large-scale<br />
documentation of classical homœopathic care in<br />
Germany, headache was among the five most<br />
frequent diagnoses in adults (Migraine and<br />
headache even leading in adult females). As a<br />
contribution to the ongoing discussion therapeutic<br />
observations of 20-years-homœopathic paintherapy<br />
in clinic and general practice are reported.<br />
Especially the importance of former accidents,<br />
injuries in chronic Migraine is pointed out. The<br />
reliable use of Bryonia and Natrum muriaticum in<br />
accompanied Migraine and Natrum sulphuricum in<br />
headache after spinal anesthesia/lumbar puncture<br />
are suggested for further studies in this field. In<br />
chronic headache a trauma before that must be<br />
looked for.<br />
A physical examination would reveal scars if<br />
any and on careful inquiry the injury which caused<br />
the scar will be revealed. Mostly a connection<br />
between the injury and the chronic headache is<br />
seen. KENT rubric “Headache, from injury” gives<br />
Arnica, Calcium sulphuricum, Hypericum, Natrum<br />
muriaticum and Natrum sulphuricum. These are<br />
useful as remedies to begin with when symptoms<br />
are not clear. (see Table).<br />
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REPERTORY<br />
1. Korrektur einer Rubrik im Complete<br />
Repertory (Correction of a rubric in Complete<br />
Repertory)<br />
ZAUNER, Bernhard (ZKH. 48, 3/2004)<br />
In the Complete Repertory for the Rubric<br />
“Cough; pain, from; distant parts in, and Offensive<br />
breath is given Capsicum as the only remedy from<br />
the source Oscar BOERICKE. There is no such<br />
rubric in Kent or Synthesis.<br />
The following sources were examined in<br />
chronological order with reference to this<br />
symptom/remedy:<br />
The ‘Fragmenta de viribus’ of<br />
HAHNEMANN,<br />
‘Materia Medica Pura’ of HAHNEMANN,<br />
‘Guiding Symptoms’ of HERING,<br />
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‘Encyclopaedia of Pure Materia Medica’ of<br />
T.F. ALLEN,<br />
‘Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia<br />
Medica’ – William BOERICKE.<br />
There is no mention of offensive breath in<br />
these.<br />
2. The Homœopathic Repertory<br />
Not the final answer<br />
WINSTON, Julian (HT. 23, 11/2003)<br />
There was a concern over the fact that people<br />
were using Repertory as a shortcut to finding the<br />
remedy, without bothering to look further to the<br />
source material – the Materia Medica – to more<br />
finely differentiate among remedies.<br />
In a letter to BÖNNINGHAUSEN on Dec. 26,<br />
1834, HAHNEMANN implied this.<br />
The same concern exists today.<br />
3. Repertories Today and Yesterday<br />
How are they structured?<br />
Which are most valuable?<br />
WINSTON, Julian (HT. 23, 11/2003)<br />
Brief description about various Repertories are<br />
given.<br />
4. A Vision for the homœopathic Repertory<br />
ALLEN, Karen (HT. 23, 11/2003)<br />
The inconsistencies in the different Repertories<br />
currently with us are discussed including the<br />
‘archaic’ terms. [The ‘archaic’ terms remain so in<br />
our source books and it is wise to let them be so.<br />
One may give the modern terminologies alongside<br />
or give it in a Glossary = KSS]<br />
The author proposes the following:<br />
Perhaps there is a better way. Perhaps we are<br />
coming to a time when the Repertory can be viewed<br />
as a resource belonging to the profession as a<br />
whole, best managed and expanded by the<br />
collaborative consensus of a broad group of<br />
practitioners from around the world. Perhaps in the<br />
future, there could be a governing board for the<br />
Repertory that would review suggested changes and<br />
additions. Perhaps that board could be comprised<br />
of dozens of practitioners from various countries,<br />
and a quorum vote would approve each change.<br />
Remedies that appear to be inaccurate based on the<br />
actual content of provings or the result of clinical<br />
experience could be removed. Suggestions for<br />
additions of rubrics or remedies could be held as<br />
possibilities until they have been confirmed by an<br />
agreed-upon number of practitioners. This
consensus of a larger group would ensure that there<br />
was a more conservative attitude toward<br />
management of new Repertory information as a<br />
resource. The approved recommendations of this<br />
governing body could be distributed to the various<br />
Repertory producers to include or ignore as they<br />
choose.<br />
If such a governing body has the support of the<br />
profession as a whole, its recommendations might<br />
be followed, and the Repertories produced would<br />
benefit practitioners and patients alike. Of course<br />
this would take time, money, and collaboration to<br />
create.<br />
5. Klinisches Stichwort – Aura vor<br />
Kopfschmerzen (Clinical Keyword – Aura<br />
before Headaches)<br />
BLEUL, Gerhard (AHZ. 249, 4/2004)<br />
This is the 12 th in the series of specific ailments<br />
and their keywords in the different repertories.<br />
The rubrics containing the aura before<br />
headache and a brief description of the ‘main’<br />
remedies are given.<br />
6. Repertory and likelihood ratio: time for<br />
structural changes<br />
RUTTEN A.L.B.; STOLPER C.F.; LUGTEN<br />
R.F.G. and BARTHELS R.W.J.M.<br />
(HOMEOPATHY, 93, 3/2004)<br />
Likelihood Ratio (LR) is based on the relation<br />
between the prevalence of a symptom in the<br />
population responding to a medicine and the<br />
prevalence of the same symptom in the rest of the<br />
population.<br />
A study concludes that introducing LR to the<br />
Repertory will not only change its content but also<br />
its use. Because of the altered use we should<br />
consider structural updating. Entries must reflect<br />
the importance of the symptom in relation to the<br />
remedy, not the occurrence of the symptom in the<br />
provings and casuistry.<br />
[Repertory has, in the recent times, been given<br />
the prime importance in a practitioner’s tools. Lot<br />
of data (many of them doubtful authenticity) have<br />
been added, esp. to the ‘Mind’ Section. A ‘mind’boggling<br />
vast data. The recent addition like<br />
‘Hydrogen’, etc. have come up in bold CAPITALS<br />
in some ‘rubrics’ and the ordinary practitioner has<br />
not got the Materia Medica source to verify it.<br />
Blessed are those who stick to good old KENT. I<br />
have seen ‘Provings’ published in (Western)<br />
journals with a brief write-up, lot of signatures and<br />
suggesting ‘ rubrics’ to the Repertory! We also see<br />
the practice of ‘preparing’ a Materia Medica from<br />
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the reportorial rubrics! Quixotic! There are still<br />
some who use the Therapeutic Pocket Book of<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN and do well. The Repertory<br />
is getting fatter and fatter and especially with<br />
computer it can bloat to any extent, that remedy<br />
selection is becoming more and more mechanical.<br />
Repertory can never replace sound knowledge of<br />
Materia Medica. In my younger days – 50 years<br />
ago I have come across colleague students ‘reading’<br />
the Oxford dictionary and memorizing the different<br />
meanings in the hope of doing well in Essay writing<br />
Exams. They fared very poorly. = KSS]<br />
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PHARMACOLOGY<br />
1. Homöopathische Arzneimittelherstellung –<br />
Symbiose von Tradition und Moderne<br />
(Homœopathic medicine manufacture –<br />
Symbiosis of Traditional and Modern)<br />
HAUSCH-HAAG, Petra (ZKH. 48, 3/2004)<br />
This is in the series ‘Pharmacology’ of this<br />
journal, a new column, since ZKH. 48, 1/2004.<br />
In this the homœopathic pharmaceutical<br />
manufacturer ‘Spagyros’ is detailed. Such articles<br />
helps gain confidence in the product and ensures<br />
that the methodology of HAHNEMANN is<br />
followed exactly.<br />
2. CERES AG Schweiz und ALCEA GmbH<br />
Deutschland (CERES AG Switzerland and<br />
ALCEA GmbH Germany)<br />
UNDORF, Klaus (ZKH. 48, 4/2004)<br />
A great deal of care goes into producing<br />
CERES and ALCEA mother tinctures. Space and<br />
Time (the most important principles underlying the<br />
effect) are at the focus of attention in preparing<br />
medicinal plants. Pharmacological studies have<br />
shown that the fresh plant tincture most probably<br />
constitutes the most effective form of preparation of<br />
medicinal plant medication and the most efficient<br />
way of taking the medication. This is based on the<br />
observation that the space between the molecules of<br />
the active ingredient, which are filled with watery<br />
alcohol, has a significant effect. The same thing<br />
applies with respect to the factor time: grinding the<br />
medicinal plants in a slow, correct rhythm with a<br />
mortar and pestle leads to a sustained stabilization<br />
of the fluid structure, thus enhancing the<br />
effectiveness of the mother tincture. Mother<br />
tinctures of CERES and ALCEA are probably the<br />
only mother tinctures in the world which conform<br />
not only to the currently applicable, simplified
HAB methods – they are also in full conformity<br />
with the original HAB methods.<br />
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VETERINARY<br />
1. Hector, the piglet<br />
MOWATT, Sue (HT. 23, 10/2003)<br />
The piglet’s mother had rolled onto her baby<br />
and injured his foot. This caused the siblings to<br />
reject and tear the inside of his back leg. The<br />
animal looked weak, and was sighing repeatedly<br />
while rolling his eyes.<br />
Ignatia 200 and a recipe of Calendula oil, sea<br />
salt and warm water to be used as a wash for his leg<br />
wound. Next day was running around with<br />
improved energy.<br />
2. Stray Cats on the open prairie<br />
One Cat’s story of Healing<br />
MEDEA, Dianna (HT. 23, 11/2003)<br />
A male cat with a large, deep wound on the left<br />
side of the neck about 2 inches in diameter. A dose<br />
of Arnica 200 in his food for 4-5 days.<br />
Then Hypericum 200 – three doses.<br />
A few days later, Silica 200 for lot of debris<br />
coming from his wound.<br />
Later the wound was red, raw and angry.<br />
Calendula 200 once a day for 4 days.<br />
The wound almost closed and even his fur was<br />
growing back. [What more evidence is needed?<br />
What do those ‘scientists’ mean by term ‘evidencebased’?<br />
They can’t call this ‘placebo-effect’ or<br />
‘suggestions’ = KSS]<br />
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RESEARCH<br />
1. High Sensitivity NMR Studies of<br />
Homœopathic Remedies: A Mystery Solved<br />
and Lessons Learned<br />
ANICK, David J. (AJHM. 97, 3/2004)<br />
During 2002, results of high sensitivity NMR<br />
studies of homœopathic remedies made in water<br />
were announced, which claimed that the NMR<br />
spectra of most remedy samples studied contained<br />
certain signals which were absent from the spectra<br />
of most control (unprepared water) samples. The<br />
peaks had not been detected before because they<br />
were too weak (between 5 and 60 mmol/L of H) to<br />
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be seen without a special high sensitivity method.<br />
Most strikingly, the peaks appeared to obey a<br />
mysterious “D2O effect.” This first person account<br />
summarizes the story of this research and explains<br />
how the mystery of both the signals and the D2O<br />
effect was ultimately solved. Telling the story<br />
serves three purposes: to explain to the<br />
homœopathic community and interested others<br />
what became of the announced results; to provide<br />
enough details so that other researchers can<br />
understand how what appeared to be a<br />
breakthrough turned out to be false; and to reflect<br />
on lessons that the experience as a whole can teach.<br />
[Attention is drawn to an article in JAIH, Vol.<br />
61, 10-12/1968, titled ‘Changes caused by<br />
succussion on N.M.R patterns and Bio-assay of<br />
Bradykinin triacetate (BKTA) succussions and<br />
dilutions.’ See part II of this <strong>QHD</strong> = KSS]<br />
2. How do homœopaths make decisions? An<br />
exploratory study of inter-rater reliability and<br />
intuition in the decision making process.<br />
BRIEN S.; PRESCOTT P.; OWEN D and<br />
LEWITH G. (HOMEOPATHY, 93, 3/2004)<br />
The validity of clinical decision making in<br />
Homœopathy is largely unexplored and little is<br />
understood about the process or its reliability. This<br />
exploratory study investigated, in the context of a<br />
questionnaire based re-proving of Belladonna 30,<br />
the extent to which decisions are based on clinical<br />
facts or intuition and how reliable decisions are.<br />
Three experienced, independent homœopathic<br />
clinicians/proving researchers rated the symptom<br />
diaries of the 206 subjects taking part. They<br />
reported their proving decision (i.e. positive<br />
proving response, no proving response or<br />
undecided) based on the total symptom profiles and<br />
rated (on a scale of 0-10) their use of clinical facts<br />
or intuition. Keynote symptoms and overall<br />
confidence scores were also reported. The level of<br />
agreement between raters was generally poor<br />
(weighted kappa 0.349-0.064). All raters used both<br />
facts and intuition. The rater’s reliance on the facts<br />
was significantly associated with classifying those<br />
subjects who had no proving response [rater 1,<br />
P
GUEDES J.R.P.; FERREIRA C.M.;<br />
GUIMARÃES H.M.B.; SALDIVA P.H.N. and<br />
CAPELOZZI V.L.<br />
(HOMEOPATHY, 93, 3/2004)<br />
One strand of research on the scientific basis of<br />
Homœopathy is based on inversion effects of<br />
dilutions and the biophysical properties of<br />
information transfer. A model developed by<br />
Endler, was the basis for the study of the influence<br />
of high-diluted solution (1:10 26 part by weight) of<br />
thyroid glands on the rate of metamorphosis of the<br />
frog Rana catesbeiana from the no legged to fourlegged<br />
stage. The glands were obtained from<br />
tadpoles and prepared accordingly (dilution and<br />
succussion). Similar pure hydroalcoholic solution<br />
(unsuccussed) was used as control. In order to<br />
identify significant differences in the frequencies of<br />
four-legged tadpoles, in homœopathic and control<br />
group, we used a chi-square goodness-of-fit test<br />
(P
the chemical composition of the solution is<br />
identical to that of the solvent. Nine different<br />
preparations, were studied from the 3cH to 30cH<br />
(Hanhamannian Centesimal Dilution). Four of<br />
those were without the active principle (potentized<br />
water). Two different active principles were used:<br />
Arsenicum sulphuratum rubrum (ASR), As4S4, 2, 4dichlorophenoxyacetic<br />
acid (2,4D). The solvents<br />
were: a solution of sodium bicarbonate and of<br />
silicic acid at 5x 10 -5 M (mol/l) each, and solutions<br />
of sodium bicarbonate 5x 10 -5 , 7.5 x 10 -5 and 10 x<br />
10 -5 M (mol/l) in double distilled water. The<br />
containers were Pyrex glass to avoid the release of<br />
alkaline oxide and silica from the walls.<br />
Conductivity measurements of the solutions were<br />
carried out as a function of the age of the potencies.<br />
We found increases of electrical conductivity<br />
compared to untreated solvent. Successive dilution<br />
and succussion can permanently alter the physicochemical<br />
properties of the aqueous solvent. But we<br />
also detected changes in physico-chemical<br />
parameters with time. This has not previously been<br />
reported. The modification of the solvent could<br />
provide an important support to the validity of<br />
homeopathic medicine, that employs ‘medicines<br />
without molecules’. The nature of the phenomena<br />
here described remains still unexplained,<br />
nevertheless, some significant experimental results<br />
were obtained. [This again is a ‘validation’ of the<br />
‘action’ of homœopathic potencies. It is also<br />
interesting that Pyrex glass was used. …<br />
“Successive dilution and succussion can<br />
permanently alter the physico-chemical properties<br />
of the aqueous solvent.” BENVENISTE proved<br />
this. And he was hounded out by the ‘Scientific’<br />
men. BENVENISTE is no more with us. = KSS]<br />
6. A Landmark for Basic Research in<br />
Homœopathy<br />
FISHER, Peter (HOMEOPATHY, 93, 3/2004)<br />
It is now 16 years since the ‘Benveniste Affair’<br />
erupted on the pages of the world’s leading<br />
scientific journal Nature, and the dust has not yet<br />
settled. About the only thing that many scientists<br />
remember is the allegations of pseudoscience<br />
involving Homœopathy. While it is<br />
BENVENISTE’s counterallegations of witch<br />
hunting and McCarthyism which stuck in the minds<br />
of many in the homœopathic world. The<br />
controversy was renewed by a programme made by<br />
the BBC TV Horizon programme and broadcast in<br />
the UK in November 2002, and subsequently in<br />
many other countries, which alleged that<br />
experiments related to BENVENISTE’s were<br />
irreproducible. Similar claims were broadcast by<br />
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the US ABC Network’s 20/20 programme earlier<br />
this year.<br />
Meanwhile, in the background, the real,<br />
scientific story has been gradually unfolding.<br />
History may come to view a scientific paper<br />
published in the journal Inflammation Research in<br />
May, as a turning point in the scientific controversy<br />
surrounding Homœopathy. 1 The experimental<br />
method concerned in all this is the Human Basophil<br />
Degranulation Test (HBDT), a well-established<br />
model of immune response. Basophils are<br />
leucocytes which play an important role in the<br />
anaphylactic reaction. Their cytoplasm contains<br />
granules containing histamine and other immune<br />
mediators which, when released, produce an<br />
allergic reaction. Degranulation is a manifestation<br />
of basophil activation. It can be observed in vitro<br />
and is the basis of the HBDT.<br />
Basophil activation<br />
Various stimuli activate basophils, for instance<br />
the basophils of hay fever sufferers activate when<br />
mixed with pollen extract in vitro. This is a<br />
specific allergen – the basophils of insensitive<br />
individuals do not react. But there are also nonspecific<br />
stimuli which activate all basophils,<br />
sensitized or not. These include anti-IgE. IgE is<br />
the immunoglobulin on the surface of basophils<br />
which recognizes and binds to allergens. Binding<br />
to allergens leads to cross-binding between IgE<br />
molecules which in turn activates the basophil.<br />
Anti-IgE is an IgG antiserum produced by<br />
inoculating goats with human IgE, it binds to IgE<br />
on the basophil surface triggering activation.<br />
BENVENISTE’s group claimed that<br />
degranulation can be triggered by anti-IgE at<br />
dilutions far into the ultramolecular range – up to<br />
10 -120 . However, two independent groups 2, 3 were<br />
unable to reproduce these results.<br />
The more recent work also used the HBDT.<br />
But instead of measuring degranulation provoked<br />
by ultramolecular dilutions of anti-IgE, as<br />
BENVENISTE did, examined the inhibition of<br />
activation of basophils by ultramolecular dilutions<br />
of histamine. Substantial doses of histamine inhibit<br />
activation, the granules themselves contain<br />
histamine, so this is a negative feedback loop. The<br />
paper recently published in Inflammation<br />
Research is a follow-up to a couple of short<br />
abstracts published in the same journal. 4, 5 But this<br />
is a full paper including methodological and<br />
statistical detail and a series of supplementary<br />
experiments which corroborate the main thesis.<br />
The authors are: Philippe BELON, Director of<br />
Research of the homœopathic pharmaceutical<br />
company Laboratoires Boiron (Lyon, France),<br />
Marcel ROBERFROID and Jean CUMPS (Catholic
University of Louvain, Belgium) Madeleine ENNIS<br />
(Queen’s University of Belfast, UK), PF<br />
MANNAIONI (University of Florence, Italy), Jean<br />
STE-LAUDY (Paris), Fred WIEGANT (University<br />
of Utrecht, Netherlands). Four laboratories<br />
conducted the same main experiment, the<br />
supporting experiments were done by various of the<br />
laboratories and the analysis by the Louvain<br />
researchers. The researchers trained together at the<br />
Paris lab to ensure consistency of methods.<br />
Method<br />
The experiments used ultramolecular dilutions<br />
of Histamine 10 -30 –10 -38 M (15-19c), prepared in<br />
steps of 1:100 with vortexing (instead of<br />
succussion). The main experiment, performed by<br />
all the labs, was based on inhibition of basophil<br />
activation as measured by degranulation, using<br />
Alcian Blue staining. Basophil activation,<br />
measured by an automated method, flow cytometry,<br />
was done in three labs. CD63 is a cell surface<br />
marker expressed by activated basophils, but by<br />
very few inactivated basophils. CD63 was tagged<br />
by an antibody and CD63 positive and negative<br />
cells separated by an electronic gate. Other<br />
supporting experiments were measurement of<br />
histamine release, the effects of the histamine<br />
receptor blocking drugs Cimetidine and Ranitidine<br />
and of histidine, a structural analogue of histamine.<br />
Basophils were taken from the blood of healthy<br />
donors of either sex, who had taken no medication<br />
in the preceding 4 weeks. They were incubated for<br />
30 minute at room temperature with or without<br />
histamine dilutions, then mixed with anti-IgE.<br />
Control was distilled water, diluted and vortexed in<br />
the same way. ‘Dud’ experiments (when no<br />
activation occurred after anti-IgE stimulation) were<br />
excluded, leaving a total of 2706 data points.<br />
Results<br />
The researchers examined various stimulating<br />
concentrations of anti-IgE: inhibition of activation<br />
occurred consistently only with the lowest<br />
concentration (0.04 µg/ml), which is closest to<br />
physiological concentrations. Nevertheless, the<br />
overall result, including all stimulatory<br />
concentrations of anti-IgE and all dilutions of<br />
histamine showed statistically highly significant<br />
inhibition from ultramolecular dilutions of<br />
histamine (p ≤ 0.0001). Flow cytometry<br />
experiments at three of the labs, using various<br />
dilutions of histamine, showed compatible results,<br />
with inhibition of activation as high as 43%.<br />
Nearly all experiments showed statistically<br />
significant inhibition of basophil activation.<br />
Two of the laboratories also looked at the<br />
effects of H2–receptor blockers Cimetidine and<br />
Ranitidine. Preincubation of the basophils with<br />
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Cimetidine partially blocked the effects of<br />
ultramolecular dilutions of histamine, the effect of<br />
Ranitidine was not statistically significant. Other<br />
experiments done in one lab each showed<br />
significant reduction in the amount of histamine<br />
released into the supernatant when the basophils<br />
had been pretreated with ultramolecular dilutions of<br />
histamine. And that histidine, which is structurally<br />
similar to histamine but does not have the same<br />
physiological effects, did not have the same effect<br />
as ultramolecular dilutions of histamine (both in<br />
16c). Histidine 16c had the same effect as water<br />
16c.<br />
What next?<br />
In discussing their results, the authors<br />
comment on the variability between laboratories,<br />
which they attribute to the differing susceptibility<br />
of donors. Also on the lack of a dose-response<br />
curve, as would be expected in classical<br />
pharmacology and the specificity of the effects as<br />
shown by the H2-receptor blocker and histidine<br />
experiments. They refer to other work with<br />
ultramolecular dilutions notably the work of<br />
DOUTREMEPUICH’s, JONAS’s and CAZIN’s<br />
groups. 6-8 They conclude that they are unable to<br />
explain their results but suggest that it may involve<br />
biological information from the solvent, a<br />
hypothesis which is supported by recent physical<br />
experiments. 9<br />
Inflammation Research published a<br />
supportive editorial, saying that ‘More and more<br />
patients are turning to this form of complementary<br />
medicine’, and that the paper was published in a<br />
spirit of openness after rigorous review. 10 Although<br />
not much used in the UK, histamine (often in the<br />
form of lung histamine) is widely used in<br />
homeopathic dilution elsewhere in the world, in the<br />
treatment of allergy. But clinical relevance is not<br />
the issue here. Of course further repetition is<br />
required, but it may be that this represents the<br />
‘Holy Grail’ of basic research in Homœopathy—a<br />
method that can be reproduced in any suitably<br />
skilled and equipped laboratory, and which<br />
unequivocally demonstrates the effect of an<br />
ultramolecular dilution.<br />
The other take home message is perhaps that<br />
we should rely on trial by science, not on<br />
pseudoscientific trial by media, which has<br />
characterised far too much of the history of this<br />
series of experiments.<br />
References<br />
1. BELON P., CUMPS J., ENNIS M.,<br />
MANNAIONI P.F., ROBERFROID M., STE-<br />
LAUDY J., WIEGANT F.A.C., Histamine dilutions<br />
modulate basophil activity. Inflamm Res 2004; 53:<br />
181-188.
2. OVELGONNE J.H., BOL A.W.J.M., HOP<br />
W.C.J., van WIJK R. Mechanical agitation of very<br />
dilute antiserum against IgE has no effect on<br />
basophil staining properties. Experientia 1992; 48:<br />
504-508.<br />
3. HIRST S.J., HAYES M.A., BURRIDGE J.,<br />
PEARCE F.L., FOREMAN J.C. Human basophil<br />
degranulation is not triggered by very dilute<br />
antiserum against IgE. Nature 1993; 366: 526-527.<br />
4. BELON P., CUMPS J., ENNIS M.,<br />
MANNAIONI P.F., SAINTE-LAUDY J.,<br />
POBERFROID M. et al. Inhibition of human<br />
basophil degranulation by successive histamine<br />
dilutions: results of European multi-centre trial.<br />
Inflamm res 1999; 48: S17-S18.<br />
5. BROWN V., ENNIS M. Flow-cytometric<br />
analysis of basophil activation: inhibition by<br />
histamine at conventional and homœopathic<br />
concentrations. Inflamm Res 2001; 50: S47-S48.<br />
6. AGUEJOUF O., MALFATTI E., BELON P.,<br />
DOUTREMEPUICH C., Time related<br />
neutralization of two doses acetyl salicylic acid.<br />
Thrombosis Res 2000; 100: 317-323.<br />
7. JONAS W.B., LIN Y., TORTELLA F.<br />
Neuroprotection from glutamate toxicity with ultralow<br />
dose glutamate. Neuroreport 2001; 12: 335-<br />
339.<br />
8. CAZIN J.C., CAZIN M., GABORIT J.L.,<br />
CHAOUI A., BOIRON J., BELON P., et al. A<br />
study of the effect of decimal and centesimal<br />
dilutions of arsenic on the retention and<br />
mobilization of arsenic in the rat. Human Toxicol<br />
1987; 6: 315-320.<br />
9. REY L. Thermoluminescence of ultra high<br />
dilutions of lithiumchloride, sodium chloride.<br />
Physica A 2003; 323: 67-74.<br />
10. FALUS A. Homœopathy, high dilutions – is<br />
there a real effect? Inflamm Res 2004; 53: 179-<br />
180.<br />
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HISTORY<br />
1. Women in Homœopathy<br />
WINSTON, Julian (AH. 10/2004)<br />
This article is about the women homœopaths of<br />
the U.S.A. and about the earliest colleges which<br />
admitted women.<br />
Details about Clemence Sophia LOZIER,<br />
Elizabeth Cady STANTON, Mercy Bisbe<br />
JACKSON and Mary Florence TAFT are given.<br />
List of 21 female graduates listed in Egbert<br />
CLEAVE’s Homœopathic biographies is given.<br />
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2. Eight Themes of HAHNEMANN Seen<br />
Through HAEHL<br />
MORRELL, Peter (AJHM. 97, 3/2004)<br />
The author, after reviewing the biography of<br />
HAHNEMANN authored by HAEHL, identifies<br />
and explores eight themes in HAHNEMANN’s life<br />
and work – 1. What he condemned, 2. Prevailing<br />
systems of medical thought in his day, 3. His<br />
unhappy wanderings, 4. The Miasm theory, 5. His<br />
religion and philosophy, 6. The subtle realm of<br />
disease causation, 7. The life force – the core of his<br />
medical teaching, and 8. His intolerance of<br />
opposing medical viewpoints.<br />
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GENERAL<br />
1. An Interview with Ewald STÖTELER<br />
TREE, Jenni (AH. 10/2004)<br />
Ewald STÖTELER is a highly respected<br />
member of the Dutch homœopathic community and<br />
is a Hahnemannian practitioner through and<br />
through. His book “Hahnemann Understood” is<br />
soon to be available in English.<br />
He studied in the Stichting Klassieke<br />
Homeopathie and started practicing in 1980. He<br />
worked with a group of students and translated the<br />
sixth edition of Organon into Dutch.<br />
Whenever he stumbled across a problem in<br />
practice, he searched in Organon till he found the<br />
answer.<br />
The failure in homœopathic education is due to<br />
teachers who have never read Chronic Diseases.<br />
HAHNEMANN never talks about treating the<br />
patient, but about treating the disease. [No,<br />
HAHNEMANN talks about the sick person in<br />
many places = KSS]<br />
The Vital Force can only be disturbed in three<br />
ways: it can be slowed down (Psora), accelerated<br />
(Sycosis) or it may be destructive (Syphilis).<br />
Tubercular or carcinogenic tendency is either<br />
by infection or inheritance.<br />
If the symptom cannot be explained from the<br />
life circumstances of the patient, it must be a<br />
constitutional (miasmatic) disturbance, and it<br />
needed a mineral remedy.<br />
If the disease from without is connected to life<br />
circumstances, they needed a plant, animal or<br />
Nosode remedy.<br />
When a plant remedy gives a curative reaction,<br />
the complementary mineral remedy will also show<br />
a curative response.
The Nosodes are used to give direction to the<br />
powers of the Dynamis and gives it a second<br />
chance to cure itself from the disease and its<br />
blocking consequences. [It is unfortunate that such<br />
decisive statements are made: “Plants for acutes”,<br />
“minerals for chronic”. Will not Lycopodium be<br />
indicated in chronic cases, or for that matter<br />
Staphysagria? STÖTELER says “HAHNEMANN<br />
knew Psorinum. He refers to it in the last stage of<br />
Chronic Diseases; but it wasn’t proven enough for<br />
him to use. At that stage it needed more testing.”<br />
How does STÖTELER say that HAHNEMANN<br />
felt that it needed more Proving? Further, to the<br />
query by the Interviewer “Did he ever know<br />
Medorrhinum?” STÖTELER answers “I haven’t<br />
come across any remarks showing this.”<br />
Medorrhinum was proved by Samuel SWAN and<br />
published in the Transactions of the International<br />
Hahnemannian Association in 1889, long after<br />
HAHNEMANN had left this world. It became a<br />
remedy in our Materia Medica only after SWAN’s<br />
Provings. Exact date of Proving by SWAN is not<br />
known. However, SWAN became an M.D. in 1867<br />
and so his Provings were after this. About his<br />
“using two remedies in the same day” STÖTELER<br />
says “It is all in HAHNEMANN’s teachings!”<br />
Nothing can be more blasphemous than this<br />
assertion! To the best of our knowledge<br />
HAHNEMANN never taught so. He insisted on<br />
one remedy at a time which should cover the<br />
‘totality’ and he also taught not to repeat the same<br />
potency. STÖTELER also says “In relation to the<br />
subject of potency, HAHNEMANN called the<br />
centesimal potency a ‘mistake’” Where did he say<br />
this? He used the centesimal until his last day of<br />
practice. Was he practicing a ‘mistake’ for years?!<br />
Neither the Interviewer nor the Interviewee can be<br />
forgiven these wrong statements = KSS]<br />
2. Elemental Symbols<br />
LILLEY, David (AH. 10/2004)<br />
Correspondences between Nature’s symbols<br />
and Human Nature is explained through Carbon,<br />
Magnesium and Iron.<br />
3. Interview with Dr. Brian KAPLAN: Second<br />
Prescription and Case Management<br />
ROSS, Shann (AH. 10/2004)<br />
The most important aspect of second<br />
prescription is the assessment of first prescription<br />
and acting accordingly. The most difficult aspect<br />
of second prescription is to make an assessment of<br />
whether someone has genuinely improved. The<br />
easiest mistake is to prescribe too early. The only<br />
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reason to go for a higher potency of the same<br />
remedy in second prescription is when you get a<br />
response each time but of shorter duration. The<br />
easy mistake that occurs in case management come<br />
from the relationship between the homœopath and<br />
the patient, when the trust is breached.<br />
One cannot have an intuitive feeling which a<br />
person needs with an unfamiliar remedy.<br />
He is more interested in reading new ways of<br />
getting information about people. More interested<br />
in understanding people than understanding new<br />
remedies.<br />
He feels it is logical to ask about the main<br />
complaint and then how they feel about having the<br />
problem, what it has done to their life.<br />
4. Homeopathy and the Legal Question:<br />
An Historical Perspective<br />
STEWART, Robert (AH, 10/2004)<br />
History is not so much a spectacle of significant<br />
events and dates, as it is a witness to an evolution<br />
of Consciousness. And all the outrageous<br />
misadventures of History give further evidence to<br />
conflicts between established institutions and the<br />
inexorable changes that have occurred in Human<br />
Consciousness over time… Even the adjective,<br />
“outrageous”, already betrays a bias that has been<br />
created within this very evolution.<br />
One of the chief characteristics of<br />
contemporary humanity is what can be called – the<br />
‘Social Question’. Never before has the relation of<br />
one human being to another acquired such<br />
complexity, nor demanded such conscious<br />
participation. Even in the not-so-distant past,<br />
relations were more instinctively determined, and<br />
the individual was entirely subsumed by the group,<br />
the tribe, the people… All were bound by blood.<br />
One was merely a member of a religion, a trade, a<br />
family.<br />
Today, this is no longer true. Each of us today<br />
assumes at least the posture, if not the catchet, of<br />
individuality. Simply as a matter of course, we<br />
affirm our own unique pedigree. It is not a<br />
criticism but a characterization to say that modern<br />
humanity has become increasingly ego-identified.<br />
This is especially true in the English-speaking West<br />
where a self-absorbed feeling of entitlement has<br />
become almost a way of life. Not only has this<br />
contributed to the peril of the global eco-system, it<br />
has sometimes put a strain on the existing systems<br />
of governance.<br />
Thus, the Social Question … How are we to<br />
find ourselves within the social organism so that all<br />
our capacities have an opportunity to develop<br />
freely? And how are we to relate so as not to
intrude on these same developmental needs in<br />
others? Is a community of individuals an<br />
Oxymoron? What kinds of social institutions<br />
would best serve the growing needs of an<br />
increasingly self-conscious humanity? In a Society<br />
where each claims the freedom of an independent<br />
Conscience, what, if any, should be the legal<br />
constraints?<br />
The relationship of the above thoughts to the<br />
practice of Medicine in general and of<br />
Homœopathy in particular is discussed in this<br />
essay. What is the legal situation of Homœopathy<br />
in the West. In so far as India is concerned it is<br />
clear; we have separate course of study, separate<br />
examination and licence with due protection to both<br />
Practitioner and Patient. However, once licensed<br />
clearly the homœopathic profession (as also other<br />
systems of Medicine like Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani<br />
each of which has separate courses of study,<br />
examination and licence) strongly become<br />
hegemonic and rule denying space to others not<br />
‘licensed’. STEWART very aptly points out:<br />
“Medical licensing laws only serve to distort and<br />
impair healthy social relations. . . . the halls and<br />
chambers of State and Federal buildings everywhere<br />
are simply crawling with the maneuvers and<br />
true outright manipulations of a veritable legion of<br />
lobbyists. ... by dozens of competing ‘special<br />
interests,’ a concept that should have no place in a<br />
realm where rights-awareness should advance.<br />
A thought-provoking, very relevant essay.<br />
5. My mind should be out of the way<br />
Interview with Jonathan SHORE<br />
TESSLER, Neil (SIM. XVII, 3/2004)<br />
Jonathan SHORE talks about how he came into<br />
Homœopathy and about his training with George<br />
VITHOULKAS, and his association with Robert<br />
SCHORE, Roger MORRISON, etc.<br />
He feels that his mind should be out of the way<br />
while trying to find the remedy. In 50 percent of<br />
the cases he thinks “may be it’s this remedy” and<br />
whole thing comes into line. In rest of the cases<br />
different symptoms are taken and elimination done<br />
to see what remedies fit to his feeling of the case.<br />
To judge what is strange, rare and peculiar, he<br />
puts himself in the person’s situation and see how<br />
he would have reacted. If the reaction is way out<br />
from his, then it becomes peculiar.<br />
He sticks to his principle of never criticizing<br />
someone else’s work.<br />
The idea of the kingdoms and birds as a group<br />
was in no way theoretical but arose from the<br />
provings. [How is it that HAHNEMANN did not<br />
see ‘kingdoms’ in all his decades of extensive<br />
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practice? And he proved so many remedies and if<br />
the ‘kingdoms’ came from the Provings did he not<br />
perceive it? = KSS]<br />
6. Interview with Louis KLEIN<br />
TESSLER, Neil (SIM. XVII, 3/2004)<br />
Louis KLEIN believes that there need to be<br />
room in the profession for uniquely artistic<br />
methodologies that are grounded but still intuitive<br />
in nature. The profession has to evolve and<br />
proceed to a new independent level and not just<br />
derive its juice from HAHNEMANN only. [Then<br />
whose juice? Louis KLEIN’s? or a mixed juice of<br />
all the modern ‘innovative’ ‘uniquely artistic’<br />
homœopaths? Far superior cures have been<br />
experienced by those in the past who took the<br />
HAHNEMANN juice = KSS]<br />
He believes the new ideas and concepts can<br />
only strengthen the profession.<br />
Jan SCHOLTEN’s information is reliable in<br />
his experience.<br />
In a well-done and safe proving, not a<br />
poisoning, the prover should experience a reflection<br />
of possible pathologies.<br />
Of late he is distinguishing the difference<br />
between pathology and disposition. The disposition<br />
shapes each person’s unique way of responding to<br />
events.<br />
Our evaluation of the effectiveness of a<br />
homœopathic prescription needs to be based on the<br />
initial change in pathology. [The views of Louis<br />
KLEIN is in tune with the neo-homœopaths who<br />
seem to be one-up on HAHNEMANN. References<br />
to HAHNEMANN, in some places in his Interview,<br />
are, in my opinion, derisive. For example, he says<br />
“Homœopathy originally created by<br />
HAHNEMANN and his friends”. HAHNEMANN<br />
had some students only and not ‘friends’.<br />
Homœopathy was “originally created” by<br />
HAHNEMANN ONLY; just as Isaac NEWTON,<br />
GALILEO. It is all one great man’s discovery.<br />
Louis KLEIN says further that those who stick to<br />
HAHNEMANN only ‘live in little town’. Further<br />
that Homœopathy was in ‘psychological imbroglio<br />
in the past’! that he and others like him have their<br />
own ‘unique ways’; that by applying Jan<br />
SCHOLTEN’s methodology he has been able to<br />
cure serious problems of patients which included<br />
homœopaths, “and not just the Materia Medica<br />
information.” Louis KLEIN ridicules the very<br />
basic of Homœopathy which is Materia Medica<br />
arrived at by Provings. HAHNEMANN insisted on<br />
‘Pure Materia Medica’, and here is a<br />
‘homœopath’ who marks it ‘just the Materia<br />
Medica information’! KLEIN, defending
‘speculation’ says, “well, even HAHNEMANN did<br />
a lot of speculation”. Did HAHNEMANN<br />
speculate about a remedy’s curative powers? He<br />
relied only on facts obtained by Provings only.<br />
HAHNEMANN even criticized Immanuel KANT’s<br />
speculative Philosophy. If this is the attitude of the<br />
‘modern’, ‘innovative’ neo-homœopaths they have<br />
no basis at all for invoking the name of<br />
HAHNEMANN. Someone said that Homœopathy<br />
needed no enemies from outside. We are good at<br />
Harakiri. =KSS]<br />
7 Building a homœopathic profession<br />
ROWE, Todd (SIM. XVII, 3/2004)<br />
Building a homœopathic profession is a vital<br />
step toward greater public recognition and<br />
acceptance and a means to end differences between<br />
us.<br />
The need of full time homœopathic medical<br />
colleges in USA is discussed.<br />
8. Health Sciences in the 21 st Century. A Preview.<br />
MAJUMDAR, Sisir R. (S&C. 70, 11-12/2004)<br />
‘Health Sciences’ are changing. The ‘Health<br />
Profession’ is also changing. Medico-legal and<br />
medico-moral principles are already dictating the<br />
conduct of Medical Profession. Modern medicine<br />
claiming to be founded on scientific study may also<br />
be incomplete or erroneous. Alternative forms of<br />
medicine have made significant inroads into the<br />
popular perception of treatment strategy of various<br />
incurable disease of still unknown aetiology.<br />
[There will always be. In proportion to what is<br />
known, what is not known will always be many<br />
times more = KSS]. Alternative Medicines need<br />
our tolerance and even respect and not disdain.<br />
These are the realities of the 21 st Century Medicine.<br />
In Health-Care it is the individual’s well being<br />
that matter and not machine and statistics. Our<br />
approach in this millennium should be both<br />
evidence-based and experience based.<br />
He quotes Albert EINSTEIN: “Not everything<br />
that can be counted always counts, and not<br />
everything that counts can be counted.”<br />
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BOOKS<br />
1. Heal Thyself: Nicholas CULPEPER and the<br />
Seventeeth-Century Struggle to Bring Medicine<br />
to the People by Benjamin WOOLLEY<br />
Published UK, Feb. 2004. Harper Collins, in<br />
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USA and Canada, July 2004. 402 pp. Review by<br />
Peter MORRELL (AJHM. 97, 3/2004)<br />
“Although this book does not mention<br />
Homœopathy and the events it describes occurred<br />
in the 1600s, a century before HAHNEMANN was<br />
born; nevertheless it reveals a real struggle, a<br />
familiar pattern whenever any vulnerable medical<br />
minority finds itself pitted against a tyrannical<br />
medical monopoly…….. In 1634, CULPEPER<br />
began an apprenticeship to an apothecary, but<br />
abandoned that too in 1640, and set up instead as a<br />
freelance astrologer and medical practitioner..”<br />
“CULPEPER’s practice and his published<br />
works were part of his conscious struggle to bring<br />
medicine to the people, rescuing it from the<br />
reactionary institutions which had hitherto<br />
controlled its use……. One of his main criticisms<br />
of physicians was that they concentrated on the<br />
disease rather than the patient …. CULPEPER’s<br />
chief legacy is the idea that medicine is not<br />
something that should be controlled and<br />
administered by the elite, but something belonging<br />
to everybody – is as important and, perhaps, as<br />
revolutionary now as it was in the 17 th century.<br />
This makes this story still very relevant today.”<br />
2. Dreams, Symbols & Homœopathy Jane<br />
CICCHETTI, North Atlantic Books, California,<br />
USA, Price $ 15.95, ISBN: 1 55643 436 7, 1993<br />
Review by Yubraj SHARMA (HOMEOPATHY,<br />
93, 3/2004)<br />
“The book is largely written for the<br />
homœopathic practitioner, but kept easy enough for<br />
therapists or physicians of other persuasions. It<br />
would be of particular interest to Psychotherapists,<br />
Counsellors and Shamanic healers. … The book is<br />
divided into four sections. .,. In the fourth section<br />
there is interesting new proving information<br />
concerning tree remedies. … The information is<br />
provided in the context of cultural usage and<br />
mythology surrounding these trees. … The milk<br />
remedies are human, cow, cat and dog. Again<br />
reference is made to the Mythology and cultural<br />
history surrounding these animals. … Jane<br />
CICCHETTI has nonetheless brought a range of<br />
analysis that adds to the richness of homœopathic<br />
philosophy.” [What has Homœopathy to do with<br />
Mythology and Folk Tales? We resort to these<br />
storytelling, collect mythical tit bits because it is<br />
easier to construct a Materia Medica than to<br />
conduct ‘Provings’ and obtain factual data? = KSS]<br />
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NEWS AND NOTES
I. Abha Light Foundation (ALF) has been a<br />
registered NGO in Kenya since 2001. (AH.<br />
10/2004) Primary goal is to introduce Homœopathy<br />
into Kenya and East Africa as an affordable lowcost<br />
medicine for the populace in the urban slums<br />
and villages. The students from the villages and<br />
slums are taught in basic clinical physiology,<br />
anatomy and pathology in an informal two-year<br />
course in Homœopathy. They have four<br />
permanent clinics. ALF is engaged in research of<br />
effective means in the treatment, management,<br />
prophylactic or cure of Malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS.<br />
The two-year training is being given on “a<br />
shoestring” budget.<br />
II. Scientists take on Science Media: The<br />
publication of badly conducted and poorly referred<br />
scare stories has had devastating consequences for<br />
individual and public health, in the U.K. and<br />
abroad, and carried a heavy economic cost.<br />
Since disowned by Lancet – that the triple<br />
Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine, for<br />
children could cause Autism.<br />
Scientist claim that the incidence of Measles<br />
went up as panicked families refused to give MMR<br />
vaccine to the children – The study published in<br />
Lancet in 1998 had “ruined” the vaccination<br />
programme and as a result, children had died of<br />
measles and mumps.<br />
Another discredited research warned women<br />
against Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)<br />
suggested that it could increase – almost double the<br />
– risks of Breast cancer.<br />
It is a case of people in glasshouses throwing<br />
stones at each other.<br />
The messages they get are often contrary<br />
creating not only confusion but also panic.<br />
“There will always be an element of hype, even<br />
quality newspapers, but the problem would be<br />
much worse if a serious journal were hyping too”.<br />
Example a serious journal like Lancet. [The provaccination<br />
‘Scientists’ also create scare. We know<br />
many unvaccinated living healthy = KSS]<br />
(The Hindu, Chennai, June 24, <strong>2005</strong>).<br />
III. Doctoring trials is the name of the game: (R.<br />
PRASAD, Chennai) How does it matter as long as<br />
you get cured? The question is simple, the answer<br />
is not.<br />
‘There is growing evidence that doctors’<br />
prescribing habits are influenced by drug<br />
companies, either through discussions with medical<br />
representatives or through sales drives dressed up<br />
as medical education’ wrote Kamran ABBASI and<br />
Richard SMITH in the British Medical Journal<br />
(BMJ) in 2003.<br />
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Mr. SMITH was the editor of BMJ then.<br />
Information supplied to doctors by drug companies<br />
is systematically distorted. It is the doctors who are<br />
perhaps more to blame in coming to depend on<br />
drug company largesse. Drug companies have<br />
managed to deflect the moral compass of the<br />
doctors.<br />
Marcia Angell, editor in chief of the New<br />
England Journal of Medicine has said in her<br />
recent book “The truth about drug companies”<br />
highlighted how patients unwittingly become a part<br />
of phase IV trials have more to do with the way<br />
companies make doctors prescribe their drugs in<br />
lieu of even cheaper generic drugs.<br />
Two chapters in her book have been dedicated<br />
to highlighting the ways in which companies<br />
market their products in the guise of education and<br />
research.<br />
But many doctors rarely use journals to update<br />
themselves. Are journals truly unbiased and<br />
scientifically correct all the time?<br />
Journals no saints<br />
A plethora of studies has indicated the nexus<br />
between drug companies and journals and how<br />
journals knowingly or unwittingly become a part<br />
and parcel of the companies’ propaganda<br />
machinery.<br />
They have developed strategies to co-opt<br />
journals in marketing their products. It is a sad<br />
state one of the last bastions of unbiased<br />
information has been successfully infiltrated by<br />
drug companies.<br />
(Journals) are little more than a marketing tool<br />
of the drug companies.<br />
Assured monetary benefits (to the journals) and<br />
some deft manipulations by the companies have<br />
made this possible.<br />
Respected and reputed journals like the British<br />
Medical Journal, the New England Journal of<br />
Medicine and the Lancet were caught napping.<br />
Only results that are favourable to their interest are<br />
ever published. And they go about doing this very<br />
meticulously.<br />
Biased from the start<br />
The new drug tested against a treatment well<br />
known to the inferior or against a placebo. Even if<br />
tested against too well known drug, it is done<br />
against too low a dose of competitor drug.<br />
Multicentric trials – trials conducted in many<br />
places simultaneously – are considered as one of<br />
the best ways to test the drugs’ safety and efficacy.<br />
Journals tend to treat results obtained from such<br />
trials with greater respect. And it is precisely this<br />
sanctity that companies try to misuse.
Being multicentric in nature, many data sets<br />
are obtained. And only those that are favourable to<br />
the company are ever published. At times only<br />
those parts of the data that are favourable to the<br />
company get published. The favourable results are<br />
then published repeatedly in many journals by<br />
combining data from more than one centre.<br />
The first author of such papers is always<br />
different and no mention is made about the first<br />
time the data was published in a journal. This<br />
makes it very difficult for journals to do the cross<br />
checking. These are but some of the strategies<br />
adopted by the pharmaceutical companies to<br />
hoodwink the journals.<br />
Lure of money<br />
The journals are no saints either. Monetary<br />
gains are an implicit part of it. Companies tend to<br />
buy thousands of reprints. The financial gains runs<br />
to thousands of dollars. If few thousands of dollars<br />
are sufficient to buy a doctor’s loyalty, nearly a<br />
million dollars of revenue do the same with<br />
journals.<br />
The financial gain runs to thousands of dollars.<br />
These reprints are in turn used by companies as<br />
propaganda material to convince doctors of a drug’s<br />
superiority. So what started as a biased study gets<br />
published and is used as a marketing tool!<br />
(The Hindu, Chennai, July 7, <strong>2005</strong>)<br />
IV. Homœopathic Clinic Opened: Another<br />
homœopathic Clinic was opened in February 2004,<br />
at Bad Imnau. (ZKH. 48, 3/2004) The Clinic has<br />
24 beds and has a Day/Night Duty Sisters and<br />
Doctors, headed by Dr.Uwe FRIEDRICH and<br />
Heinz HUBER. Treatment is in accordance with<br />
the rules of Hahnemannian Homœopathy. No other<br />
therapeutical methods are applied. Essential<br />
allopathic treatment may be if required.<br />
Patients of all age groups with Chronic<br />
Diseases will be taken up.<br />
Closely connected with homœopathic<br />
therapeutic concept is a programme in which<br />
Mindfulness exercises, Energy work, Breathing<br />
exercises, Relaxation techniques, Meditations,<br />
Visualisations for activising of self-healing powers,<br />
Stress management and Development of creativity,<br />
all are a part.<br />
V. A question which homœopaths and the laity<br />
ask is whether the X-ray search made of air<br />
travelers would affect the action of homœopathic<br />
remedies. (Uwe FRIEDRICH, ZKH. 48, 3/2004).<br />
An experimental answer is given by<br />
W.SCHERER-PONGRATZ, P.C.ENDLER,<br />
M.HAIDVOGL and M. FRASS, from Ludwig –<br />
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BOLTZMANN Institute for Homœopathy. They<br />
used an animal model (Amphibian), in which the<br />
Amphibians, experience rapid learning with<br />
Thyroxin. Thyroxin D30 steers along this<br />
reproducible hyper-stimulation.<br />
If Thyroxin D30 is passed through X-ray<br />
radiation as is done in airports, there is no loss of its<br />
effects.<br />
Homœopathic home remedies pack need not be<br />
passed through X-ray search during flights. The<br />
authors point out that on the other hand household<br />
gadgets could have an injurious effect.<br />
VI. SPINEDI-Seminar. Bad Imnau, 25-<br />
27.6.2004. Report von Sabine KUSE-<br />
ISINGSHULTE (ZKH. 48, 3/2004): Two main<br />
points were stressed by SPINEDI in the course of<br />
his Seminar about two Breast Cancer patients.<br />
Case 1: 33 year-old female, came in 1989 for<br />
severe back pains bothering her which began three<br />
years ago. Had, painkillers for 2 years but Sepia<br />
healed within few weeks.<br />
In the year 2000 – 11 years later – she came<br />
with a diagnosis of Breast Cancer. Already had<br />
Chemotherapy and Radiation. Parallelly<br />
homœopathic treatment with Phosphorus, Bryonia,<br />
Sepia and Conium. Conium at last improved and<br />
Sepia cured the Miasm finally.<br />
SPINEDI’s comments:<br />
• If a medicine has worked well, we have to<br />
reflect well before changing it, if symptoms of<br />
another remedy appear which we perhaps<br />
examine well.<br />
• In 20% of cases SPINEDI has observed that<br />
the chronic medicine does not come into<br />
question if a tumor has developed.<br />
• Interesting are the symptoms which have not<br />
improved are the ones which we should further<br />
work with. When we neglect this, the disease<br />
goes further on. We should concentrate on<br />
these symptoms.<br />
• If old symptoms appear, the remedy, if it is the<br />
right one, must cover these symptoms.<br />
• The appearance of dreams, which should suit<br />
the remedy, which are new, could be a hint of a<br />
new symptom and the remedy given be wrong<br />
under the circumstances.<br />
• New symptoms of the remedy must be<br />
evaluated according to Organon §§167, 248,<br />
249.<br />
Although in case new symptoms came up after<br />
Phosphorus, pains increased it indicated a good<br />
response to the Chemotherapy with the further<br />
progressive administration of Phosphorus and was<br />
also a confirmation of the specific action of
Phosphorus in Chemo- and Radiation therapy. In<br />
the course of the treatment luckily the symptoms<br />
for the first indicated medicine came up again. It<br />
was the dream of Breast which was forgotten by the<br />
patient. In the anamnesis in 2000 the patient had<br />
said when questioned, that the bandage with<br />
flowers of Camphor which was too tight and very<br />
painful. “Suppressed Trauma” in this manner are<br />
many which may not be recalled by patient:<br />
• Blow on the Breast from small children; with<br />
its feet while swaddling the infant, or with the<br />
head when it is carried, or a kick with its feet<br />
when the child sleeps with the mother.<br />
• Mammography or painfully tight bandages.<br />
• Auto or sports injuries (ball hitting the breast:<br />
Handball, Badminton, Squash)<br />
SPINEDI commented: with this case we come<br />
to understand better the §162 of Organon. Cancer<br />
originates from the Miasm explained it.<br />
Case2: 35 year-old pregnant woman in the 20 th<br />
week of pregnancy was diagnosed with axillary<br />
lymph node metastasis of an occult primary tumor.<br />
Two years ago after the first pregnancy she suffered<br />
a papilloma virus constellation of cervix. She was<br />
conized.<br />
She has in the meanwhile undergone treatment<br />
from many homœopaths and taken many remedies<br />
and in the last two months Carcinosinum LM 120.<br />
With Phosphorus in C potencies she could be<br />
without Chemotherapy during her pregnancy. In<br />
January 2000 a healthy boy was born. In<br />
November 2000 with Phosphorus CM this<br />
treatment ended. Further chronic remedies were<br />
used. In August 2001 a Breast Tumor was<br />
diagnosed. Further treatment proceeded with<br />
different Polychrests.<br />
In Spring 2002 the patient emigrated. She<br />
received plenty of “reserve remedies” and took<br />
them one after the other without further<br />
consultation. Contact with the patient was poor but<br />
she wrote, however, on 15.1.2004 a letter to Dr.<br />
SPINEDI that she had contacted a well-known local<br />
homœopath and with Phytolacca LM6 she<br />
remained in remission until now.<br />
SPINEDI’s fundamental thoughts on this case:<br />
• With Similie therapy the young lady during<br />
pregnancy could keep off Chemotherapy, for<br />
mother and child. This should encourage us to<br />
treat every Cancer case with Homœopathy.<br />
• The basic error was, the symptoms were not<br />
exact and strong enough to be evaluated.<br />
• The symptoms which were not covered by the<br />
selected remedy would surprise us.<br />
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• A conisation only leads to shifting of the<br />
disease to another region. Much better it is to<br />
take the PAP as marker of the progress.<br />
• The CM potency brings to light the “reality”.<br />
If under the CM everything is covered and if it<br />
has at first improved then that is not the right<br />
medicine.<br />
• When the constitutional medicine selected does<br />
not bring the expected improvement, must<br />
consider always organotropic medicine.<br />
• When we make a constitutional prescription,<br />
the patient is carried further, particularly if the<br />
Cancer is slowly progressing. If a wrong<br />
organotropic medicine is prescribed, a<br />
fulminating exacerbation of the tumor will<br />
occur. Beware! In doubt we should apply<br />
always the Chronic remedy, to make the<br />
patient overall strong and supportive.<br />
General on Cancer treatment: In general<br />
SPINEDI spoke in the Seminar the history of<br />
Breast Cancer. Conium and Phytolacca were<br />
spoken of as two important remedies in Breast<br />
Cancer. In respect of Phytolacca much less<br />
information is known about mental symptoms.<br />
Besides KENT a valuable Materia Medica is<br />
available in Homœopathic Drug Pictures of<br />
Margaret TYLER, which is well worth studying.<br />
Eli JONES found Phytolacca as most<br />
important remedy in Breast Cancer. In Breast<br />
Cancer patients, the suckling anamnesis is of<br />
greater significance: if pains or other problems<br />
arise, they must be elevated as the most possible<br />
complete symptom. Pains in the breast after blow<br />
(after mammography) pass away with Conium XM.<br />
Q-Potencies<br />
About the extensive possibilities of reactions<br />
and Observations after the administration of Q<br />
potencies only the essential are given again here:<br />
• For the early aggravation, SPINEDI opined,<br />
badly selected or wrongly administered remedy<br />
is the cause. The different individual reaction<br />
must be borne in mind.<br />
• The appearance of a new symptom is, in 50%<br />
of the cases, mostly an old symptom which the<br />
patient had “not recalled to memory”.<br />
• The frequent and a fatal variant of the<br />
appearance of a new symptom is, that the new<br />
symptom disappear, although the remedy was<br />
wrong. Then this new symptom is lost!<br />
According to SPINEDI, HAHNEMANN’s<br />
procedures in respect of one-sided diseases, to<br />
select the best suited medicine and then to treat the<br />
new symptom is not proven, in every case. He<br />
does not change the medicine implicitly, but
differentiates very vigorously between the old<br />
symptoms and symptoms of the medicine. Also old<br />
symptoms must be covered by medicine or they are<br />
signs for the following medicine. Symptoms of the<br />
medicine on the other hand indicate a wrong<br />
prescribing.<br />
Again and again it is advised to study these<br />
paragraphs in Organon thoroughly.<br />
Effects of Radiation<br />
The effective antidote to Radiotherapy are,<br />
according to SPINEDI: Phosphorus, Radium<br />
bromatum and X-ray. Both Radium bromatum as<br />
well as X-ray come under consideration for the<br />
adverse actions of Radiation therapy, they are the<br />
frequently needed medicine after Phosphorus.<br />
Radium bromatum is similar to Phosphorus and<br />
antidotes it also, as peculiar symptom is the “only a<br />
one day lasting mens.” (Comp. Sepia). A Materia<br />
Medica for X-ray is to be found in ALLEN’s Book<br />
on Nosodes. According to SPINEDI, X-ray is fully<br />
unrepresented in the Repertory (and must be<br />
added). A Materia Medica of Radium bromatum<br />
may be found in the “Collected Works” of A.<br />
GRIMMER.<br />
SPINEDI has observed that the positive effects<br />
of radiation remain, when the side effects of<br />
Radiation therapy begins to be treated by potentised<br />
medicine.<br />
There are patients who do not suit the<br />
Phosphorus schema which however indicated as<br />
antidote. For patients who are exposed intensively<br />
to Electricity or Electrosmog, e.g. locomotive<br />
driver, may have a penetrating effect from<br />
Phosphorus. For ulcerative areas of Necrosis,<br />
according to GRIMMER, Cadmium iodatum is the<br />
only medicine, which has never let him down, for<br />
burns from radiation, Fluoric acid is the frequently<br />
indicated medicine.<br />
VII. Interview with André SAINE. von KARIN<br />
und Ralf VIGOUREUX (ZKH. 48, 3/2004) Some<br />
extracts: Dr. André SAINE is a well-known<br />
homœopath from Canada; he is a fighter for<br />
genuine Homœopathy. KARIN and Ralf<br />
VIGOUREUX interviewed him at his place. They<br />
also spent three weeks with him to actually appraise<br />
themselves with SAINE’s methodologies.<br />
André SAINE takes up severe difficult disease<br />
conditions. Of course he takes up other cases too;<br />
he may let other colleagues treat routine cases and<br />
take up himself with the severe cases.<br />
20 years ago he began to practice with his<br />
father and has seen patients with severe diseases,<br />
and therefore saw from beginning on, difficult<br />
cases. Treating severely ill people is not slow but is<br />
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challenging. By this one can test one’s ability and<br />
methodology and the remedies used and the<br />
possibilities and limits of Homœopathy.<br />
The limits of homœopathic healing are, as a<br />
rule, the limits of the inborn healing ability of<br />
the particular organism. [Bold mine =KSS]<br />
Healing is faster in Homœopathy. For<br />
example, injuries heal much more rapidly; Also if<br />
treated before and after operation the patient<br />
recovers much faster as observed by Surgeons.<br />
Similarly griefs are overcome faster. Homœopathic<br />
healing proceeds para-physiologically or it<br />
transcends normal physiological processes. I think,<br />
in this connection, that we are observing a rapid<br />
increase of the normal healing process and that<br />
there is no new healing process. There are<br />
mechanical problems which limits Homœopathy.<br />
[FN § 7 Organon = KSS]. The real limits of the<br />
Organism for self-regeneration due to disease<br />
processes are the limits of Homœopathy. [It is<br />
inferred that here ‘regeneration’ meant, reactivation<br />
of the functions. I have however, read of case of an<br />
actual regeneration of a part of a limb amputated<br />
earlier! Dr. K. GANAPATHI of Coimbatore<br />
reported the case of a professor whose phalanx of<br />
right thumb was lost due to an injury sustained<br />
from a car door that was being closed. Myristica<br />
sebifera tincture was used for a long period and a<br />
small rudimentary thumb grew and the professor<br />
could again hold a chalk-piece and write on the<br />
black board = see Homœopathic Heritage, Vol.<br />
VIII, 8/1982, P. 445. How many of us realize that<br />
none of the organs howsoever small or trivial like<br />
the Appendix, are essential and nobody could<br />
afford to lose it, although Surgeons may feel that<br />
one would not be a big loser if a small organ<br />
considered not so important is sliced off austensibly<br />
to save the patient’s greater suffering. Years ago, I<br />
remember to have read in the British Medical<br />
Journal a report wherein it was said that a certain<br />
number of persons (50 I believe) whose spleens had<br />
been removed in their childhood had, over the<br />
years, grown a rudimentary spleen! Not all of those<br />
who had undergone splenectomy but quite a few of<br />
them, enough to make one sit up and think. Would<br />
it be wrong or foolish if one felt that if<br />
Homœopathy is used in surgical cases there is good<br />
chance of not only rapid healing of the operated<br />
part but also the limb getting regenerated speedily,<br />
in some cases at least? Think it over = KSS]. In<br />
such cases, for example, as Multiple Sclerosis,<br />
Rheumatoid Arthritis, Spondylitis, Ankylosis, etc.,<br />
Homœopathy can stop the further progress of these<br />
processes. In due course further improvement too<br />
would come about.
Cancer is pure dynamic state but in most of the<br />
cases the result of a false or undue stress and<br />
ultimately failure of the defence power of the<br />
organism. Both the body’s defence powers as well<br />
as life energy reserves are limited. As much longer<br />
and intensive the false or undue stress is so much<br />
more is the risk of the individual Cancer to develop.<br />
If we take 100 persons and their skin is scratched<br />
when they are exposed to ultraviolet rays, some of<br />
them, if not all of them, may develop Skin Cancer.<br />
In principle every person could develop Cancer<br />
according to the state appropriate. When a person<br />
has Cancer we should find out whether it is a<br />
question of alteration of the reaction and whether<br />
this person can be restored back to harmony. As<br />
much younger the person is, as much slow as the<br />
Cancer develops, so much better is the prognosis<br />
with Homœopathy. As much visible a tumor, so<br />
much better the prognosis, since it would be helpful<br />
about the control the treatment has. Further as<br />
much less the characteristic symptoms, and only<br />
few symptoms are present, so much less good is the<br />
prognosis. Nevertheless older persons with<br />
metastasis and a rapidly progressing Cancer have<br />
been seen to react quite satisfactorily to a wellselected<br />
remedy. As much greater the similarity so<br />
much better the reaction of the patient to the<br />
remedy. For all that, we cannot foresay the<br />
measure of the reaction. Will it be sufficient to<br />
overcome the Cancer. That remains ultimately<br />
uncertain.<br />
An example: a 73-year-old female with<br />
Multiple Myeloma, which did not show any<br />
positive result in spite of Chemotherapy. Since<br />
conventional medicine could not offer anything<br />
else, she came to Homœopathy. Although she was<br />
in an advanced developed state and in high degree<br />
of Cancer state and was 73-years-old she was fully<br />
restored to health by pure homœopathic treatment.<br />
The point is that the measure of reaction remains<br />
unknown when the prescribed medicine is similar<br />
to a great degree and in this case many factors<br />
raised the doubt of a good prognosis.<br />
To declare a patient to have been ‘cured’ the<br />
patient must be free from every sign of Cancer for<br />
at least five years following a homœopathic<br />
treatment. Only a small number of patients can be<br />
followed up. So it is difficult to say how many<br />
were ‘cured’. Also many patients who had already<br />
been treated by conventional medicine come to<br />
Homœopathy in a very weak state. There are<br />
patients who simultaneously undergo both<br />
conventional as well as homœopathic treatment.<br />
Patients who are in a very advanced stage of the<br />
disease come and it is too difficult to find a suitable<br />
remedy. It is always good to carefully select a<br />
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remedy to suit the symptoms presented. Each time<br />
if a remedy to suit the symptom is carefully<br />
selected there will be good reaction. What we do<br />
not know is, the measure of reaction.<br />
There is a fine line of demarcation between<br />
palliation and cure in the treatment of patients with<br />
Homœopathy. Often the patient would say that he<br />
felt better with the medicine given, but the Cancer<br />
spreads further. That is a complicated situation.<br />
The physician must decide whether the Cancer has<br />
no more energy and whether with the same<br />
medicine – in increased dosage – must be<br />
proceeded with or a complimentary medicine to suit<br />
the later disease state must be searched for. We can<br />
see the situation an inexperienced person<br />
encounters. To treat Cancer patients, one must, in<br />
the first instance be a good clinician, secondly a<br />
very good homœopath and thirdly must have had<br />
some experience in treating Cancer patients. If one<br />
could combine all these preconditions then his<br />
results will be high. When I say results I mean that<br />
he finds a suitable remedy for every altered<br />
different phases of the disease. When I recall my<br />
21 years practice, I cannot say exactly how many<br />
Cancer patients have been followed up for 5 years<br />
after their cure. I am not sure but perhaps five or<br />
ten. For many different reasons patients do not stay<br />
connected to their doctors after they are restored.<br />
There are some persons who I have accompanied<br />
until their end. Many of these react well to the<br />
remedy, but in the course of the treatment<br />
complications develop, often without reference to<br />
Cancer, some other disease and die. I recall a<br />
young man in the mid 20s with recurrence of an<br />
Acute Lymphatic Leukaemia refused further<br />
conventional treatment. He came to me (André<br />
SAINE) in a very bad state. We went through<br />
severe times. I treated him for about two years. He<br />
became seemingly much better and soon he took up<br />
his job again as a long distance lorry driver. Many<br />
months later one late night in the course of his<br />
work, he suffered a severe blow on the abdomen.<br />
Around midnight he rang me. It appeared as if he<br />
had internal bleeding. I told him that he should go<br />
to a hospital but he declined. Instead he went to<br />
bed and died in sleep. No autopsy was done. I had<br />
a pair of such cases in which the patient, the family,<br />
friends and I worked very hard and the patients died<br />
due to other reasons.<br />
In many other cases a reaction did come about,<br />
but then a point in which either I was unable to or<br />
the organism was not possible to recover. I pursue<br />
to acquire the capability to thoroughly overcome<br />
this limitation. Homœopaths with less years of<br />
experience in solid practice should not undertake<br />
these patients alone by themselves.
What can be said about incurable cases? I do<br />
not use the word “incurable”. The word often<br />
indicates again simply our present knowledge of<br />
what is incurable. History teaches us that the limits<br />
of Homœopathy have widened. What goes as<br />
“incurable” is only an opinion and therefore is not<br />
to be taken at its word. Rather what kinds of<br />
disease states has been cured gives a reliable mark<br />
in regard to curability as the opinion of one<br />
homœopath in his practice as a singular reference<br />
point. Many patients of whom it was thought as not<br />
curable by Homœopathy have become healthy.<br />
Many professional homœopaths have said that<br />
Cancer patients are not curable by Homœopathy,<br />
but that is not true. Patients with Cancer can be<br />
made healthy again with Homœopathy as the only<br />
mode of treatment. We cannot always know<br />
apriori as to who is curable who is not. I do not<br />
assert that I have masterly control over the<br />
treatment of Cancer patients. But I can predict that<br />
in future, we will excel. I have seen some unusual<br />
successes in men with bad prognosis but restored to<br />
normalcy under homœopathic treatment. We have<br />
only scratched superficially upto now of what<br />
happens to those who are treated for Cancer. I have<br />
seen great potential, but also many failures and<br />
disappointments. I do not teach beginners about the<br />
treatment of Cancer patients while not many<br />
homœopaths are capable to treat Cancer thoroughly<br />
good. Only experienced homœopaths with<br />
advanced knowledge should do this. The room for<br />
errors is too small. To remain successful in such<br />
cases the physician must, every time, work with<br />
100% precision.<br />
With regard to Auto-immune diseases when we<br />
have favorable circumstances, that means when the<br />
homœopath find the right remedy, 100% patients<br />
with severe Auto-immune disease must recover;<br />
this means that the inflammatory process does not<br />
go on and a true regeneration of the tissues occur<br />
within the limits of the recovery limits of the<br />
organism. Particular tissues could have died<br />
permanently and even with the best homœopathic<br />
treatment cannot be renewed. We observe that<br />
within the curative possibilities of the body, under<br />
good homœopathic treatment, recovery can be had.<br />
If the capability of the homœopath is not<br />
sufficiently rich or if the patient does not cooperate<br />
or if the symptom of the patient cannot be well<br />
defined, as a result of allopathic medications, the<br />
results are affected. There are disease states which<br />
cannot be restored to health either by Homœopathy<br />
or Allopathy. Cases of fully developed Lupus or<br />
obstinate Psoriasis come under this. Only a wellexperienced<br />
homœopath will know how to go about<br />
successfully with such cases. For purposes of<br />
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demonstration we can have a study of Autoimmune<br />
diseases with regard to homœopathic<br />
treatment in comparison to other modes. A large<br />
number of patients will not only be restored to<br />
healthy state and be free from medicines and their<br />
side effects, but also the relative low costs and with<br />
minimal burden upon the Society.<br />
About the treatment of children with Epilepsy<br />
and Cerebral Paresis: If these cases are treated with<br />
suitable homœopathic medicines the chances are<br />
excellent for restoration of health. Many cases of<br />
Cerebral Paresis have been followed up for many<br />
years. Nevertheless there are limitations. The<br />
chances of the Nervous system to recover their<br />
efficiency are restricted. But within these limits,<br />
the recovery of Epilepsy patients is excellent.<br />
Severe psychiatric diseases: The outcome is<br />
similar to Cancer patients, not every patient of this<br />
disease could be treated. You have to improvise in<br />
cases of severe psychotic patients. An error could<br />
be severer. One must be a good clinician. Just as<br />
in any other serious disease state one must be<br />
thorough in Homœopathy in accordance with the<br />
rules of this art and with patience get good results.<br />
Again one must be a good homœopath, and a<br />
patient who works well with him and the<br />
appropriate support from the relations and family to<br />
obtain success; most of us do not get this. There<br />
are some cases of Autism which have responded<br />
wonderfully well. On the other side we have idiotic<br />
or imbecile person with neurological hindrances<br />
whose prognosis is bad. With neurotic patients it is<br />
another story. §§ 17 and 208 are very relevant<br />
here. Such cases need more than Homœopathy.<br />
How to obtain such very good results as you<br />
(André SAINE) are getting? A better training and<br />
learning is the answer. The history of Homœopathy<br />
teaches us clearly that the successful homœopaths<br />
were those who studied HAHNEMANN’s work<br />
thoroughly, understood it and applied it<br />
scrupulously. History also reveals that the teaching<br />
and training of Homœopathy is in a very weak<br />
state. Very small number of homœopaths are well<br />
taught and done the essential exercises so that<br />
mastery could be got. It is the nature of men to take<br />
to fast and easy and short methods to overcome<br />
laborious methods. These would lead to failures.<br />
Discipline in thorough learning of<br />
HAHNEMANN’s works as also of the great<br />
Hahnemannians would bring forth the best results.<br />
Many homœopaths have learnt Homœopathy<br />
through Seminars and much less by study of<br />
HAHNEMANN’s work. A turn about can come<br />
about by founding institutions which have teachers<br />
and practitioners who have well done their home<br />
work and thus capable of training and building up
good students. High standards can be obtained<br />
thus.<br />
Already established homœopaths also must<br />
follow the same path, if they have not already, of<br />
learning HAHNEMANN’s work well and work<br />
rigorously as laid down by HAHNEMANN and his<br />
genuine followers. With discipline and hard work<br />
alone this can be achieved. There is no reason why<br />
one cannot do so. The most useful is the study of<br />
HAHNEMANN’s works and the works of the past<br />
masters.<br />
Regarding use of Nosodes André SAINE uses<br />
them rarely for the reason that very few of them<br />
have been well proven. Most of these Nosodes<br />
give only clinical symptoms, and few of these<br />
symptoms are clear, complete and give<br />
characteristic symptom. Take for example<br />
Carcinosinum. BURNETT’s original proving has<br />
only few symptoms. But now we have hundreds of<br />
symptoms and pathological many of them. From<br />
where do we suddenly get all the whole<br />
information? It is said “proven Nosodes like<br />
Tuberculinum”. Strictly speaking SWAN’s<br />
symptoms are clinical symptoms and not based on<br />
Tuberculinum Proving. Take for example the wellknown<br />
symptoms ‘Fear of dogs’ and ‘Desire to<br />
Travel’. The fear of dog is from BURNETT’s case<br />
of a two-year-old boy who was easily frightened<br />
particularly by dogs and many other remedies other<br />
than Tuberculinum was also used. It has not been<br />
told whether the symptom was cleared after the<br />
remedy. Regarding the ‘Desire for Travel’ of<br />
BURNETT, is an exaggeration. BURNETT wrote<br />
of a man who went from place to place, to escape<br />
from cold since he had tendency to catch lung<br />
inflammation in cold weather. It is clear that the<br />
Proving of Tuberculinum and most of the Nosodes<br />
are very scanty and unreliable.<br />
There are however, some interesting aspects<br />
about Nosodes. One aspect is that more people<br />
react to Nosodes than to other remedies, although<br />
such reactions are not deep often as one would<br />
expect from ‘similia’ and not from a remedy with<br />
greater similarity. Great prescribers like LIPPE,<br />
GUERNSEY or WELLS seldom used Nosodes.<br />
Once LIPPE who doubted the clinical value of<br />
Nosodes said that over the years he had treated<br />
Gonorrhoea and Syphilis without using<br />
Medorrhinum and Syphilinum, and his cases did<br />
not, even once, fail. He had predicted that<br />
SWAN’s Isopathy would not withstand, that it was<br />
in opposition to every experience. And he was<br />
right. Likewise, it is interesting to note that<br />
HAHNEMANN did not publish his proving of<br />
Psorinum in his Chronic Diseases, since he found<br />
that it had not been proven thoroughly. In 1834,<br />
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HAHNEMANN wrote to a physician in Lyon that<br />
the results which one gets through Nosodes were<br />
not lasting enough, and that it was premature to put<br />
up Hydrophobinum for Rabies, since there were<br />
already useful medicines for that.<br />
In his experience, said André SAINE best<br />
results from Nosodes were obtained when it was<br />
used like every other homœopathic medicine, that<br />
is, according to symptom similarity with the patient<br />
and the prover. In the cases published in respect of<br />
the Nosodes, it has been found that as a rule, it was<br />
prescribed on keynote symptoms of case history of<br />
family anamnesis and seldom on the basis of<br />
comparison with the Provings. Many Nosodes<br />
have been applied in an inverse way so to say, that<br />
is on the basis of clinical cases without thorough<br />
Proving.<br />
There are cases in which one requires more<br />
than one remedy; it depends of the intensity in<br />
which the disease state is at a particular time. At<br />
the same time there are patients who need the same<br />
remedy in several altered states.<br />
In a fully blown AIDS, the patient may have<br />
several infections at the same time. Typically one<br />
infection will be dissimilar to another, and the next<br />
and the next, so on. It may be so that every time a<br />
different remedy may be called for.<br />
HAHNEMANN has said, in the light of his<br />
experience that not only that for the complete cure<br />
more antipsorics may be indicated, but also for<br />
acute complaints apsoric medicines were needed.<br />
What he has observed has not changed until now.<br />
For some reason Homœopathy is drawn up as<br />
fanatic, that it is a Faith System, a Religion or a<br />
Cult and much less as a Science. They look up to<br />
their teacher as a Guru. Then they relinquish<br />
themselves to faith rather than to factual<br />
observations and reason. In reality Homœopathy is<br />
a Science and it cannot be anything else.<br />
VIII. AIH member Sandra M. CHASE received<br />
the prestigious Henry N. Williams Professional<br />
Service Award on 28 April 2004. (AJHM. 97,<br />
3/2004)<br />
IX. Planting Seeds WINSTON, Julian (HT. 23,<br />
10/2003) In a weekly documentary about the<br />
Auckland Zoo in New Zealand, a segment was the<br />
story of a female Gibbon (small ape) who had given<br />
birth to twins but was refusing to nurse them. It<br />
was an uphill struggle to keep them alive.<br />
WINSTON remembered some of his successful<br />
cases with Sepia, e-mailed the head veterinarian of<br />
the Zoo and suggested Sepia. The head<br />
veterinarian thanked and told he would contact<br />
veterinary homœopath.
WINSTON trusts it was a well-planted seed.<br />
[Indeed it is. More of us should do = KSS]<br />
X. From the Editor WINSTON, Julian (HT. 23,<br />
11/2003) The Repertory is not a Materia Medica<br />
and should not be used as such. We cannot view<br />
the context of a symptom in the Repertory. The<br />
rubric and remedy found in the Repertory should<br />
always be referenced to the Provings to decide if<br />
the choice of remedy is appropriate.<br />
Information from new provings should be<br />
added with great care and forethought.<br />
A Repertory is only as reliable as the<br />
information from which it was gleaned. Examples<br />
are cited.<br />
XI. In the Homœopathic Materia Medica<br />
Salicylicum acidum is mentioned mostly with<br />
reference to Rheumatic diseases. Respiratory<br />
symptoms do not find place in the Repertory or<br />
Materia Medica although it belongs to the drug<br />
picture. In a review, the works for 1964-2002 have<br />
been considered, the authors have come to the<br />
opinion that Aspirin-induced Asthma occur<br />
frequently. The study mentions that in grown-ups it<br />
occurs in 21% and children 5% of cases and that<br />
Aspirin-induced Asthma is the singular syndrome,<br />
which can become life-threatening. It will be<br />
worthwhile if this finding is included in the<br />
appropriate place in the Materia Medica. (From the<br />
BMJ. 2004: 328: 434-437, by C. JENKINS et al.<br />
Report by Reiner APPEL in the AHZ. 249, 4/2004)<br />
Valuable HAHNEMANN Manuscript<br />
acquired – report by Prof. Dr. Martin<br />
DINGES: The Institute for History of<br />
Medicine of the Robert Bosch<br />
Foundation in Stuttgart acquired the large<br />
collection of original manuscripts of the<br />
founder of Homœopathy, Dr. Samuel<br />
HAHNEMANN. Latest is the acquirement<br />
of a complete manuscript – the second<br />
corrected and extended edition of the Vol.<br />
VI of the Pure Materia Medica (which<br />
appeared in print in 1827). The<br />
auctioneers Reiss & Sohn put this to<br />
auction in the Spring 2004.<br />
HAHNEMANN manuscripts are rare and<br />
are priced high. The Institute for History<br />
of Medicine of the Robert Bosch<br />
Foundation, Stuttgart has now almost<br />
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complete works of HAHNEMANN. (AHZ.<br />
249, 4/2004)<br />
HAHNEMANN’s Torgau house<br />
rediscovered: The house in which<br />
HAHNEMANN lived during the years<br />
1805-1811 in Torgau, has been<br />
rediscovered. The Organon (I edition)<br />
was published during this period. The<br />
house needs to be repaired extensively<br />
both internally and outwardly and<br />
renovated fully so that there can be a Trust<br />
to use the place suitably, internationally.<br />
From 24.05.2004 to 10.10.2004 it is open<br />
for visitors between 10 to 18 hours. (AHZ.<br />
249, 4/2004)<br />
XIV. Practice and Limits of mental<br />
symptoms GUERMONPREZ M. The<br />
author gives example of acute diseases<br />
such as sore throat treated with<br />
Belladonna, Ignatia or Pulsatilla<br />
according to their typical psychic<br />
symptoms. In Chronic diseases, the mind<br />
has to be studied twice: to find psychic<br />
symptoms which have been changed by, or<br />
have appeared with the disease; but also<br />
the constitutional character, and not only<br />
the current mood: for example a<br />
Lycopodium patient may have recurrent<br />
carbuncles requiring Sulphur. (L’<br />
Homéopathie Européenne 2004 in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 3/2004)<br />
XV. Staphysagria: an increasingly<br />
important medicine: GARCIA C. A<br />
complete description of this medicine is set<br />
out in this article. A section is devoted to<br />
the child. Staphysagria is compared with<br />
many other medicines. Staphysagria is<br />
more and more useful because of the<br />
increase of frustration and indignation in<br />
our modern life styles. (L’ Homéopathie<br />
Européenne 2004; 2: in HOMEOPATHY,<br />
93, 3/2004)
XVI. HAHNEMANN and LEIBNIZ:<br />
COLIN P., POITEVIN B. LEIBNIZ was a<br />
philosopher and scientist and attached a lot<br />
of importance to experimentation. Lot of<br />
concepts were shared by LEIBNIZ and<br />
HAHNEMANN. The similarities in the<br />
thought allow us to see how Homœopathy<br />
can open doors to other fields of Science<br />
ad Philosophy.<br />
HAHNEMANN studied medicine in<br />
Leipzig only 60 years after LEIBNIZ. (L’<br />
Homéopathie Européenne 2004; 2: in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 3/2004)<br />
XVII. Samuel HAHNEMANN and<br />
KANT’s Critique of Pure Reason:<br />
COLIN P.: The Critique of Pure Reason<br />
emphasizes the importance of<br />
individualization, of infinitesimal, of<br />
simultaneity, of unity, of finality. The two<br />
men agreed on the dangers of dogmatism,<br />
on the importance of scientific<br />
development but also on the limits of<br />
Science. KANT repeated the concept of<br />
division ad infinitum, which was already<br />
developed by LEIBNIZ.<br />
HAHNEMANN’s knowledge of this<br />
concept may have contributed to his<br />
infinitesimal doses. (L’ Homéopathie<br />
Européenne 2004; 1: in HOMEOPATHY,<br />
93, 3/2004)<br />
XVIII. An Osmium Case: PAYEN G. A<br />
47-year-old woman with oedema legs and<br />
spondylitis. Treated successfully with<br />
Osmium metallicum, because she was very<br />
obstinate. The Materia Medica of this<br />
remedy is set out. (Les Echos du Centre<br />
Liegeois d’ Homéopathie, 100, 2004 in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 3/2004)<br />
XIX. The HL. 16, 3/2003 carried two<br />
‘Letters to the Editors’: one by Dr. A.S.<br />
MANN from India which has been written<br />
in a flippant manner. Dr. MANN ridicules<br />
those who hold HAHNEMANN in<br />
reverence; he wants the Organon to be<br />
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rewritten. He says “Homœopathy is<br />
Similia Similibus Curentur” and leaving<br />
this basic law “all associated laws can be<br />
changed from time to time”. He wants “a<br />
committee must be constituted to rewrite<br />
the Organon of Homœopathy”. Why<br />
shouldn’t Dr. MANN and his likes found a<br />
new medicine? He quotes Otto LEESER<br />
“had HAHNEMANN lived he might have<br />
written 600 editions of the Organon,<br />
considering he wrote six editions in a short<br />
span of life”. MANN further says that<br />
bacteriology and virology have fully<br />
developed and Vital Force, Miasms have<br />
no place. If Virology, Bacteriology<br />
displaces Vital Force, Miasm, we can<br />
simply drop Homœopathy and take to<br />
allopathy.<br />
But then who will write the Materia Medica to<br />
suit the ‘modern’ virology, bacteriology masters.<br />
MANN wants to displace a Philosophy and<br />
Therapeutics which was quite useful to render<br />
excellent cure by von BŒNNINGHAUSEN,<br />
WELLS, DUNHAM, KENT and a large host of<br />
others, until recently.<br />
It is unfortunate that the journal – The<br />
Homœopathic Links published this and a<br />
subsequent letter from Gabriella Serban, Sweden.<br />
This is a lengthy rambling essay – of<br />
HAHNEMANN’s Pathology and FREUD’s<br />
Pathology, that HAHNEMANN was an Arsenicum<br />
while FREUD a Lachesis! I have read of another<br />
analysis of FREUD in which the conclusion was<br />
that he was an Arsenic. These speculations are of<br />
no use whatever. It is none of our business to<br />
besmear these great personalities.<br />
Gabriella says that while classical<br />
Homœopathy worked well for her for sometime and<br />
then “it did not work anymore”. So she took to<br />
other methods and her advice is that others also<br />
understand this and become “creative”. All wise<br />
people. They would also quote “Aude sapere” to<br />
justify caricatures of Homœopathy.<br />
The journal (Homœopathic Links) just<br />
publishes whatever received without any comment<br />
by the Editor. Does HL. Support such views?<br />
If I say that I am a homœopath but that I<br />
disown HAHNEMANN excepting his “Similia<br />
Similibus Curantur” am I not a great hypocrite?<br />
There is another letter to the Editor in the same<br />
HL. 3/2003 in which Peter BERRYMAN, Australia<br />
refers to an article in HL. 3/2003 by Walisinghe
PATHIRANA of Sri Lanka about “Summation<br />
Potencies”. PATHIRANA has said that<br />
HAHNEMANN introduced the decimal potencies!<br />
People write such wholly wrong things without<br />
citing the source of the information. In<br />
Homœopathy one can write any nonsense and get<br />
away with it. In actual personal practice many of<br />
us have found the existing C and LM, as quite<br />
serviceable. Such mongrel attempts as putting<br />
different potencies in one vial and claiming success<br />
is preposterous. BERRYMAN says: “the subject of<br />
posology is so badly understood”. How can he say<br />
so? Probably he has understood it so badly. = KSS<br />
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LIST OF JOURNALS<br />
Full addresses of the Journals covered by this Quarterly Homœopathic<br />
Digest are given below:<br />
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1. AH: The Journal of the North American Society of Homeopaths,<br />
1122 East Pike Street, #1122, Seattle, WA 98122, USA.<br />
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2. AHZ: Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung, Karl F. Haug Verlag,<br />
Hüthig GmbH, im Weiher 10, 69121, HEIDELBERG,<br />
GERMANY.<br />
3. AJHM: American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine, formerly<br />
Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy (JAIH). 801 N.<br />
Fairfax Street, Suite 306 Alexandria, VA 22314.<br />
4. THE HINDU: Newspaper, Chennai–600 002.<br />
5. HL: Homœopathic Links, Homœopathic Research & Charities, F/s,<br />
Saraswat Colony, Linking Road, Santacruz (W), MUMBAI – 400<br />
054.<br />
6. HOMEOPATHY: Formerly British Homeopathic Journal (BHJ),<br />
Homeopathy, Faculty of Homeopathy, 29 Park Street West, Luton,<br />
Bedfordshire, LU13BE, UK.<br />
7. HT: Homeopathy Today, National Center for Homeopathy, 801,<br />
North Fairfax Street, Suite 306, ALEXANDRIA, VA. 22314, USA.<br />
8. S & C : Science & Culture, Indian Science News Association, 92,<br />
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, KOLKATA – 700 009.<br />
9. SIM: Simillimum, The Journal of the Homeopathic Academy of<br />
Naturopathic Physicians, P.O. Box 8341, Covington, WA 98042,<br />
USA.<br />
10. ZKH: Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie, Karl F. Haug<br />
Verlag, Hüthig GmbH, Im Weiher 10, D-69121 HEIDELBERG,<br />
GERMANY.<br />
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(This section contains abstracts/extracts from selected articles; even the entire article in some case)<br />
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1. Processionary Caterpillars<br />
FABRE J.H. (From The Story Book of<br />
Science, HODDER & STOUGHTON<br />
PUBLISHERS, Workwick Square, London,<br />
E.C. 4)<br />
Beware of caterpillars which have bodies all<br />
bristly with hairs, sometimes very sharp and<br />
barbed, which can lodge in the skin, leave their<br />
points there, and thus produce lively itching or even<br />
painful swellings. It is well then to mistrust velvety<br />
caterpillars, particularly those living in companies<br />
on Oaks and Pines, in large silk nests, and called<br />
Processionary Caterpillars.<br />
We frequently see, at the ends of pine<br />
branches, voluminous bags of white silk intermixed<br />
with leaves. These bags are, generally, puffed out<br />
at the top and narrow at the bottom, pear-shaped.<br />
They are sometimes as large as a person’s head.<br />
They are nests where live together a kind of very<br />
velvety Caterpillars with red hairs. A family of<br />
caterpillars, coming from the eggs laid by one<br />
butterfly, construct a silk lodging in common. All<br />
take part in the work, all spin and weave in the<br />
general interest. The interior of the nest is divided<br />
by thin silk partitions into a number of<br />
compartments. At the large end, sometimes<br />
elsewhere, is seen a wide funnel-shaped opening; it<br />
is the large door for entering and departing. Other<br />
doors, smaller, are distributed here and there. The<br />
caterpillars pass the winter in their nest, well<br />
sheltered from bad weather. In summer they take<br />
refuge there at night and during the great heat.<br />
As soon as it is day, they set out to spread<br />
themselves on the pine and eat the leaves. After<br />
eating their fill they re-enter their silk dwelling,<br />
sheltered from the heat of the sun. Now, when they<br />
are out on a campaign, be it on the tree that bears<br />
the nest, or on the ground passing from one pine to<br />
another, these caterpillars march in a singular<br />
fashion, which has given them the name of<br />
processionaries, because, in fact, they defile in a<br />
procession, one after the other, and in the finest<br />
order.<br />
One, the first come – for amongst them there is<br />
perfect equality – starts on the way and serves as<br />
head of the expedition. A second follows, without<br />
a space between; a third follows the second in the<br />
same way; and always thus, as many as there are<br />
caterpillars in the nest. The procession, numbering<br />
several hundreds, is now on the march. It defiles in<br />
one line, sometimes straight, sometimes winding,<br />
but always continuous, for each caterpillar that<br />
follows touches with its head the rear end of the<br />
preceding caterpillar. The procession describes on<br />
the ground a long and pleasing garland, which<br />
undulates to the right and left with unceasing<br />
variation. When several nests are near together and<br />
their processions happen to meet, the spectacle<br />
attains its highest interest. Then the different living<br />
garlands cross each other, get entangled and
disentangled, knotted up and unknotted, forming<br />
the most capricious figures. The encounter does<br />
not lead to confusion. All the caterpillars of the<br />
same file march with a uniform and almost grave<br />
step; not one hastens to get before the others, not<br />
one remains behind, not one makes a mistake in the<br />
procession. Each one keeps its rank and<br />
scrupulously regulates its march by the one that<br />
precedes it. The file-leader of the troop directs the<br />
evolutions. When it turns to the right, all the<br />
caterpillars of the same line, one after the other,<br />
turn to the right; when it turns to the left, all, one<br />
after the other, turn to the left. If it stops, the whole<br />
procession stops, but not simultaneously; the<br />
second caterpillar first, then the third, fourth, fifth,<br />
and so on until the last. They would be called welltrained<br />
troops that, when defiling in order, stop at<br />
the word of command and close their ranks.<br />
The expedition, simply a promenade, or a<br />
journey in search of provisions, is now finished.<br />
They have gone far away from their nest. It is time<br />
to go home. How can they find it, through the grass<br />
and underbrush, and over all the obstacles of the<br />
road they have just travelled? Will they let<br />
themselves be guided by sight, obstructed though it<br />
be by every little tuft of grass; by the sense of<br />
smell, which wafted odours of every sort may put at<br />
fault? No; processionary caterpillars have for their<br />
guidance in travelling something better than sight<br />
or smell. They have instinct, which inspires them<br />
with infallible resources. Without taking account<br />
of what they do, they call to their service means<br />
that seem dictated by reason. Without doubt, they<br />
do not reason, but they obey the secret impulse of<br />
the eternal Reason, in whom and through whom all<br />
live.<br />
Now, this is what the processionary caterpillars<br />
do in order not to lose their way home again after a<br />
distant expedition. We pave our roads with crushed<br />
stone; caterpillars are more luxurious in their<br />
highways; they spread on their road a carpet of silk,<br />
they walk on nothing but silk. They spin<br />
continually on the journey and glue their silk all<br />
along the road. In fact, each caterpillar of the<br />
procession can be seen lowering and raising its<br />
head alternately. In the first movement, the<br />
spinneret, situated in the lower lip, glues the thread<br />
to the road that the procession is following; in the<br />
second, the spinneret lets the thread run out while<br />
the caterpillar is taking several steps. Then the<br />
head is lowered and lifted again, and a second<br />
length of thread is put in place. Each caterpillar<br />
that follows walks on the threads left by the<br />
preceding ones and adds its own thread to the silk,<br />
so that in all its length the road passed over is<br />
carpeted with a silky ribbon. It is by following this<br />
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ribbon conductor that the processionaries get back<br />
to their home without ever losing their way,<br />
however tortuous the road may be.<br />
If one wishes to embarrass the procession, it<br />
suffices to pass the finger over the track so as to cut<br />
the silk road. The procession stops before the cut<br />
with every indication of fear and mistrust. Shall<br />
they go on? Shall they not go on? The heads rise<br />
and fall in anxious quest of the conductor threads.<br />
At last, one caterpillar bolder than the others, or<br />
perhaps more impatient, crosses the bad place and<br />
stretches its thread from one end of the cut to the<br />
other. A second, without hesitating, passes over on<br />
the thread left by the first, and in passing adds its<br />
own thread to the bridge. The others in turn all do<br />
the same. Soon the broken road is repaired and the<br />
defile of the procession continues.<br />
The processionary caterpillar of the oak<br />
marches in another way. It is covered with white<br />
hairs turned back and very long. One nest contains<br />
from seven to eight hundred individuals. When an<br />
expedition is decided on, a caterpillar leaves the<br />
nest and pauses at a certain distance to give the<br />
others time to arrange themselves in rank and file<br />
and form a battalion. This first caterpillar has to<br />
start the march. Following it, others place<br />
themselves, not one after another, like the<br />
processionaries of the pine, but in rows of two,<br />
three, four, and more. The troop, completed, begins<br />
to move in obedience to the evolutions of its fileleader,<br />
which always marches alone at the head of<br />
the legion, while the other caterpillars advance<br />
several abreast, dressing their ranks in perfect<br />
order. The first ranks of the army corps are always<br />
arranged in wedge formation, because of the<br />
gradual increase in the number of the caterpillars<br />
composing it; the remainder are more or less<br />
expanded in different places. There are sometimes<br />
rows of from fifteen to twenty caterpillars marching<br />
in step, like well-trained soldiers so that the head of<br />
one is never beyond the head of another. Of course<br />
the troop carpets its road with silk as it marches, so<br />
as to find its way back to its nest.<br />
The processionaries, especially those of the<br />
oak, retire to their nests to slough their skins, and<br />
these nests finally become filled with a fine dust of<br />
broken hairs. When you touch them the dust of the<br />
hairs sticks to your hands and face, causes an<br />
inflammation that lasts several days if the skin is<br />
delicate. One has only to stand at the foot of an oak<br />
where the processionaries have established<br />
themselves, to receive the irritating dust blown by<br />
the wind, and to feel a smart itching.<br />
If owners of pines understood their interests<br />
better, they would, in the winter, when the<br />
caterpillars are assembled in their silk bags, have
the nests collected and burn them, in order to<br />
destroy the detestable breed that will gnaw the<br />
young shoots, eat the buds, and arrest the tree’s<br />
development. The harm is much greater in our<br />
orchards. Various caterpillars live in companies on<br />
our fruit trees and spin nests in the same way as the<br />
processionaries. When summer comes, the<br />
starveling vermin scatter all over the trees,<br />
destroying leaves, buds, shoots. In a few hours the<br />
orchard is shorn and the crop is destroyed in its<br />
budding. So it is necessary to keep a careful<br />
lookout for caterpillar nests, remove them from the<br />
tree before spring, and burn them, so that nothing<br />
can escape; the future of the crop depends on it. It<br />
is fortunate that several kinds of creatures, little<br />
birds especially, come to our aid in this war to the<br />
death between man and the caterpillar; otherwise<br />
the worm, stronger than man on account of its<br />
infinite number, would ravage our crops.<br />
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2. Mothers’ Concepts of Normality, Behavioural<br />
change and Illness in their Children<br />
(Sandy IRVINE & Sarah CUNNINGHAM-<br />
BURLEY, British Journal of General Practice,<br />
September 1991)<br />
Summary: Several sociological models have<br />
been put forward to explain illness behaviour.<br />
However, little research has examined general<br />
practitioners’ understanding of mothers’<br />
perceptions of their children’s health and illness.<br />
The aim of this study was to attempt to understand<br />
the cultural context of children’s illness. Mothers’<br />
concerns about their children’s health and illnesses<br />
were examined by describing the mothers’ own<br />
perceptions of alterations in their children’s<br />
behaviour. The mothers’ perceptions of normality<br />
appeared to underpin their negotiation of illness.<br />
The concept of normality was found to change over<br />
time, to be uniquely based on individual<br />
experience, to be related to health, and to a process<br />
of normalization. The mothers’ perceived<br />
importance of children’s behavioural changes are<br />
discussed: they may be precursors or results of<br />
illness, causes for concern in their own right, or a<br />
management problem for the household.<br />
Identifying and acknowledging the unique way in<br />
which mothers perceive health and illness in their<br />
children may lead to enhanced understanding and<br />
satisfaction for both the general practitioner and<br />
mother in the consultation process.<br />
Introduction: It is probably a common<br />
experience at the end of a consultation for a general<br />
practitioner to feel that, inexplicably, the patient is<br />
dissatisfied, despite the general practitioner having<br />
done all the right things. Recent literature has<br />
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highlighted the differing perceptions of health<br />
between professionals and lay people, and about the<br />
relationship between symptoms and illness 1 ,<br />
Helman 2, 3 outlined the concepts of illness held by<br />
middle class Londoners, which were at variance<br />
with conventional medical beliefs. Blaxter 1<br />
reported that mothers in deprived families ‘may<br />
have cultural values and definitions of health and<br />
illness which may differ from those of the medical<br />
profession’. The Royal College of General<br />
Practitioners’ report Health and prevention in<br />
primary care 4 stressed that careful attention<br />
should be paid to patients’ beliefs about health<br />
and disease.<br />
Over the past 50 years several sociological<br />
models have been advanced to account for illness<br />
behaviour. 5-7 However, authors such as<br />
SUCHMAN 8 have assumed that there is an<br />
established process through which every individual<br />
passes in becoming ill. In the case of mothers of<br />
young children, writers have sought to measure<br />
knowledge of illness and reaction to professionally<br />
pre-defined symptom categories. 9, 10 They have<br />
seldom addressed the problems of lay perception or<br />
definition of illness. Most studies have focused on<br />
particular medical encounters, 11-13 or interactions<br />
with services. 14-16 In addition, there has been a<br />
tendency to study deprived populations 15-17 or to<br />
focus on symptoms heralding potentially life<br />
threatening disease. 10-18 This paper is based on a<br />
Scottish study of the cultural context of childhood<br />
illness 19-21 and it examines mothers’ perceptions of<br />
childhood health and illness. A qualitative<br />
approach is used to examine the process of defining<br />
health and illness and the concepts and beliefs<br />
underlying such negotiation. Through this kind of<br />
intensive data collection and analysis the processes<br />
that are otherwise implicit or ‘taken for granted’<br />
can be explored. 22<br />
Method: The study sample was drawn from a<br />
non-deprived predominantly lower middle/working<br />
class community in a new town in Scotland. Fiftysix<br />
women with at least one child under five years<br />
of age were randomly selected for the study from<br />
one health centre’s register. Each mother was<br />
initially visited at home and invited to take part in<br />
the study. Having gained consent, each mother was<br />
then asked to complete a health diary for her family<br />
over a four-week period, and be interviewed by one<br />
of the researchers (SC-B) in the mother’s own<br />
home. The interviews were tape-recorded. The<br />
study employed qualitative, sociological techniques<br />
to explore the mother’s perspective in relation to<br />
childhood health and illness, and to examine this<br />
within the context of the family.
After piloting, a broad topic guide for<br />
interviews was developed, covering a range of<br />
issues including recognition of illness, self-care, lay<br />
referral and health maintenance activities. The<br />
mothers were encouraged to talk about their own<br />
concerns, and to describe how they went about<br />
dealing with the various illnesses and health<br />
problems, however minor, that occurred in their<br />
children. An informal, unstructured approach to the<br />
research interviews was used to encourage the<br />
women to talk freely, and in depth. The health<br />
diaries were used to examine how the mothers<br />
recognized and managed symptoms on specific<br />
occasions. The form of the diaries was relatively<br />
unstructured. The mothers were asked to make<br />
daily entries in a booklet over a four-week period,<br />
and were visited twice during this period by one of<br />
the researchers (S C-B) to encourage completion of<br />
the diaries and to discuss any health issues raised.<br />
The mothers were asked to note down each day<br />
whether they had noticed any symptoms in their<br />
children and whether they had taken any action, and<br />
to comment on the day in general.<br />
The data were analysed inductively, using<br />
techniques of coding and indexing with categories<br />
that were data driven rather than predefined by the<br />
researcher. Thus professional definitions are<br />
avoided in the results and the analysis is grounded<br />
in the point of view of the mothers. Quoted from<br />
the interviews and diaries are used to illustrate<br />
points.<br />
Results: Fifty-four of the 56 mothers contacted<br />
agreed to take part in the study. The median age of<br />
the sample was 28 years; 53 of the women were<br />
married. The families were not necessarily<br />
involved in any professional encounters, or<br />
experiencing episodes of illness at the time of<br />
sampling. Forty-two of the 54 women interviewed<br />
filled in the diary, although not all managed to do<br />
so for the whole four-week study period. A total of<br />
927 days were collected in all. There were<br />
differences in the amount of data obtained<br />
depending on the morbidity experience of different<br />
families. However, the range of concerns was<br />
consistent across the sample.<br />
Normality: The recognition of illness and<br />
symptoms appeared to be embedded in a<br />
commonsense knowledge about what was normal<br />
and acceptable, particularly in relation to a child’s<br />
behaviour. Normality was not a static concept. For<br />
these mothers it changed over time as the child<br />
developed from baby, to infant, to school child.<br />
Thus, for example, a baby not eating was a<br />
worrying deviation from the normal, and a cause<br />
for concern:<br />
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‘When she was a baby … she couldn’t tell<br />
you that she wasn’t hungry and you used to<br />
worry because you would think there was<br />
something wrong with her’.<br />
A toddler not eating was seen as being part of a<br />
normal ‘fad’, and not anything to worry about.<br />
‘He is a wee bit of a picky eater … depends<br />
on what kind of mood he’s in as to what he<br />
eats’.<br />
Thus, normality was related to the<br />
developmental stage of the child.<br />
The concept of normality, while having<br />
similarities across the sample, was embedded in<br />
everyday experience. The mother’s perception of<br />
what was normal was closely related to her child’s<br />
individual behaviour, and to that mother’s unique<br />
knowledge of her child or children. This element<br />
of the concept of normality was important in the<br />
process of recognizing illness. Mothers said they<br />
could tell if something was wrong because the child<br />
differed from his or her normal self:<br />
‘She gets kind of cross if she is getting<br />
anything. C used to go off his food for a<br />
whole week and … he was bad with eating<br />
but he went right off it if he was going to be<br />
ill. L gets fretty and under the weather, you<br />
can tell’.<br />
The mothers’ ideas of normality were related to<br />
health; a normal child who developed well, ate well<br />
and slept well, was healthy. The mothers were<br />
guardians of their children’s well-being and a<br />
concern for health in a general sense underpinned<br />
their notion of normality. A healthy child was not<br />
necessarily one who was never ill since a range of<br />
minor illnesses were considered normal, and<br />
unrelated to health as such:<br />
‘Well, they quite often just get the runny<br />
nose, but as I say they are quite healthy<br />
children’.<br />
‘They’ve never had anything to really worry<br />
about other than normal childhood illness.’<br />
Similarly, some illnesses became normalized,<br />
even though they were not routine. In the<br />
following example, M’s croup became normalized,<br />
and the mother’s overall assessment of her child as<br />
healthy was left intact:<br />
‘They have been great. They catch colds<br />
like every other child. M’s bothered with<br />
croup, but apart from that, that’s all’.<br />
One mother described her daughter’s fit as a<br />
‘one off thing’:<br />
‘S took a fit, but it was just a one off thing,<br />
you know, she was in Sick Children’s and<br />
she has got a wee touch of Eczema just now<br />
but that’s about all. They get coughs and<br />
colds and … but they are very healthy’.
Behavioural change: Much of the process of<br />
recognizing illness was grounded in behavioural<br />
changes in the child, instead of or in addition to<br />
physical symptoms such as a runny nose or<br />
stomach ache. The noting of behavioural changes,<br />
and the extent to which these were concerns for<br />
mothers were built on the concept of normality.<br />
The diaries provided a clear statement of the<br />
mothers’ concerns, and of how they monitored their<br />
children. Overall, something was noticed about a<br />
child on 49% of all the diary days. Often more than<br />
one change was noted on the same day, and the<br />
mothers were as alert to behavioural changes as<br />
they were to traditional physical symptoms.<br />
Physical symptoms were noted on 311<br />
occasions, with cough, runny nose, cuts and bruises<br />
being the most common. Fever/temperature was<br />
noted occasionally, and was regarded with concern,<br />
especially in a very young child, Pallor was not<br />
noted.<br />
Behavioural changes were recorded 315 times,<br />
with changes in sleep patterns, either sleepy, tired,<br />
or wakeful, figuring prominently (124 recordings in<br />
the diaries). From a doctor’s point of view,<br />
tiredness may be considered to be a specific<br />
symptom, but for the mothers it was seen as a<br />
behavioural change, important because the child<br />
was not his or her normal self. Concerns about<br />
eating were particularly important for these<br />
mothers, and although recorded in the health diaries<br />
only 39 times, were mentioned by mothers in all of<br />
the interviews, together with concerns about<br />
sleeping. Changes in mood were also recorded in<br />
the diaries, with irritable/grumpy behaviour noted<br />
88 times, and positive behaviour (indicating<br />
positive health or recovery) noted 52 times. Other<br />
behaviours were noted 12 times. Remarks from the<br />
mothers’ health diaries show the various ways in<br />
which behavioural changes were related to health,<br />
illness and everyday experience. (Figure 1)<br />
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Sleep patterns/tiredness (n= 124)<br />
‘S a bit tired late afternoon. She wanted to lie<br />
down on the sofa. Bit of a cold starting.’<br />
‘I noticed A was very tired and irritable and<br />
hanging around me all the time. M was his usual<br />
soft but only slept one hour in the afternoon to his<br />
usual 2½ hours.’<br />
Eating/not eating (n=39)<br />
‘Slightly sore bottom, not eating much. (She often<br />
goes off food for a day or two then gets back to<br />
normal).’<br />
‘S’s throat still sore. Still off food and drink.’<br />
Irritable/grumpy (n= 88)<br />
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‘He seemed grumpier than usual, as though he was<br />
sickening for something, but nothing came of it.’<br />
‘P pretty bad tempered today and cried a lot.’<br />
Positive behaviour (n=52)<br />
‘He’s picking up nicely although his appetite is not<br />
back to normal.’<br />
‘L’s cough is slightly worse, but she is otherwise<br />
just the same, bright and quite cheerful.’<br />
Figure 1. Examples of children’s behavioural<br />
changes recorded in mothers’ health diaries. n =<br />
total number of times recorded in all of the diaries.<br />
Deviation from normal behaviour could be<br />
perceived in any one of the four following ways<br />
and could be a reason for going to the doctor, if the<br />
mother was worried enough, as illustrated in these<br />
quotes from the interviews.<br />
It could be seen as a precursor to illness:<br />
‘But you ken when he’s no well when he<br />
does nae want sweeties and crisps, that’s<br />
sure sign there is something wrong with<br />
him’.<br />
‘If you had a couple of broken nights then<br />
you knew there was something wrong with<br />
the wee one and then it would stop because<br />
they slept very well and quite good through<br />
the day.’<br />
It could be perceived as concomitant or a<br />
result of illness, as illustrated by statements<br />
interpreting both positive and negative<br />
behaviour:<br />
‘Well she never really went off her<br />
eating, I think that was why the doctor<br />
never bothered because she was still<br />
eating and drinking and running about’.<br />
‘And I kept on thinking it is not natural<br />
to have this cough. I mean he couldn’t<br />
sleep at night for this cough’.<br />
or as an illness or problem in itself:<br />
‘He could eat and eat for about three<br />
days and for the next three days he’ll<br />
just pick. He just has days off and on<br />
… it did bother me at first. I used to get<br />
bothered that he would lose weight and<br />
they would think I’m no feeding him.’<br />
‘She has been really good, I have not<br />
really had any bother, apart from not<br />
sleeping. That was a great big problem<br />
at the time’.<br />
or as a problem for the family:<br />
‘It got to the stage that my husband was<br />
coming out of work at tea time and I<br />
was going to bed until he was ready for<br />
bed because it was the only way I was
getting a sleep. She just doesn’t need<br />
sleep.’<br />
‘He’s the kind of child that you’ve got<br />
to sit with and you’ve got to be with<br />
him and that puts a strain on you all.’<br />
Discussion<br />
This investigation focused on the meanings<br />
which the mothers attached to children’s symptoms<br />
and behaviours seen as relevant to health and<br />
illness. The strength of the qualitative method<br />
employed here lay in the researcher’s ability to<br />
elicit the respondent’s (research subject’s)<br />
viewpoint. It would have been counter productive<br />
to begin data collection with a predefined set of<br />
issues and questions: ‘appropriate or relevant<br />
questions are seen to emerge from the process of<br />
interaction that occurs between the interviewer and<br />
interviewees’. 22<br />
The limitations of the method lie in its inability<br />
to test hypotheses, and to produce statistically<br />
significant results, and the results cannot be<br />
presented in the traditional scientific manner.<br />
However, through the use of illustrative quotes<br />
from both the health diaries and interviews, the way<br />
in which the mothers in this sample routinely<br />
negotiated health and illness within the family is<br />
demonstrated. The identification of the specific<br />
dimensions of normality, and the development of<br />
the four categories interpreting behavioural change<br />
may be useful in practice.<br />
In common with other studies, 23, 24 the<br />
mothers’ recognition of illness and symptoms<br />
appeared to be embedded in a commonsense<br />
knowledge about what was normal and acceptable.<br />
The mothers’ perceptions of normality underpinned<br />
negotiation of their children’s illnesses. Normality<br />
could be interpreted as a yardstick that operated in a<br />
variety of ways, as a measure of whether or not the<br />
child was ‘ill’ with the condition, for example a<br />
cough, whether the child was sickening for<br />
something, was experiencing normal illness or was<br />
experiencing illness normally. It was only through<br />
understanding the features of their concept of<br />
normality that deviation in their children’s<br />
behaviour took on any meaning. Interpreting what<br />
the women said in this way helped to provide some<br />
understanding of how they constructed illness,<br />
other than simply recognizing predefined or<br />
commonly known conditions.<br />
As we have reported elsewhere, 21 mothers<br />
closely monitor their children’s well-being. It is<br />
important to examine the recorded behavioural<br />
changes in detail because these are based on the<br />
mother’s unique knowledge and may not be readily<br />
perceived by the doctor. These behavioural<br />
changes, especially regarding eating and sleeping,<br />
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were found to be problematical concerns for the<br />
mothers. Given the emphasis which society places<br />
on the nurturing role of the mother, and on the<br />
adequate physical and emotional development of<br />
children, it is not surprising that changes in eating<br />
and sleeping emerged as major concerns among the<br />
mothers. A concern for healthy development, and<br />
the ability to resist disease seemed implicit in their<br />
concern for good eating and sleeping behaviours.<br />
However, the relationship between these<br />
behaviours and illness was found to be varied and<br />
complex. Unlike previous investigations, 23-25<br />
behavioural changes were not simply interpreted as<br />
clues to an underlying problem. Although they<br />
were sometimes interpreted as a symptom of<br />
illness, their relationship to health and illness was<br />
more complicated. In fact, whether or not illness<br />
was present was not necessarily the primary<br />
concern for the mother.<br />
While some illnesses were normalized by the<br />
mothers, 24 deviation from normal behaviour could<br />
be recognized as a precursor, concomitant or result<br />
of illness, as illness itself, or as a problem because<br />
of its effect on the well being of the child and of<br />
other family members. Such changes in behaviour<br />
may be all of these things at different times or some<br />
of these at the same time.<br />
Although general practitioners may make a<br />
rapid global assessment of a child’s state of health,<br />
they are searching for the presence or absence of<br />
specific signs and symptoms of high discriminative<br />
value, for example dysuria or a red eardrum. On<br />
some occasions this will allow a definite diagnosis<br />
to be made; on many others the diagnosis will<br />
remain tentative, but collaboration of whatever<br />
‘hard’ information is available should allow the<br />
general practitioner to decide how to act. Mothers,<br />
on the other hand, recognize illness largely through<br />
behavioural change, that is, data of low<br />
discriminative value from a medical diagnostic<br />
point of view, for example, changes in eating and<br />
sleeping. This variation in the meaning of a ‘soft’<br />
non-specific symptom is not necessarily recognized<br />
by those professionals to whom the mother goes for<br />
help.<br />
What are the consequences of these potentially<br />
divergent needs and viewpoints? The doctor’s<br />
response is critically important. If he or she<br />
operates solely on the basis of signs and symptoms,<br />
he or she may be perplexed to find a mother<br />
worrying excessively over a seemingly trivial<br />
diagnosis such as a cold. If he or she is aware that<br />
the consultation has been unsatisfactory despite, in<br />
his or her terms, having done all the right things,<br />
feelings of anxiety and inadequacy may be<br />
engendered, particularly in the less experienced
doctor. Alternatively, the doctor may make a<br />
judgement about the coping skills of mothers who<br />
seem to bother him with trivia, thus creating and<br />
sustaining the stereotype of the neurotic or<br />
inadequate mother. Cartwright recognized that<br />
general practitioners often respond to perceived<br />
trivia with a prescription. 26 Children with Upper<br />
Respiratory Tract Infections form the largest single<br />
component of general practice workload, and<br />
consume a vast quantity of prescribed medicines. 19<br />
Might this cost be reduced if general practitioners<br />
had a different understanding of the processes<br />
involved when mothers consult with young<br />
children? The argument that busy general<br />
practitioners must prescribe to keep going is not<br />
valid, as there is evidence that short term gains are<br />
offset by increased overall workload. 27 It ignores<br />
the potential within the consultation for education<br />
and for the enhancement of help seeking<br />
behaviour, 28 and is not compatible with aspirations<br />
for a quality service. 29<br />
What are the consequences for the mother if<br />
she feels that she has been unable to communicate<br />
her concerns or that her concerns have not been<br />
acknowledged? If she has been made to feel that<br />
she has wasted the general practitioner’s time she<br />
may be left with doubts and anxieties about her<br />
own adequacy as a mother. The sense of rejection<br />
is likely to be felt most keenly by those whose self<br />
esteem is already vulnerable, such as the depressed<br />
or the young first-time mother, the more so if she is<br />
no nearer to resolving the anxieties about her child<br />
which caused her to consult initially. The more<br />
experienced and confident mother may feel anger<br />
that her legitimate status as the expert on her child’s<br />
behaviour is not being acknowledged. Her<br />
perception of being fobbed off may be heightened<br />
if, in addition, she receives an unlooked for<br />
prescription. In both instances, the process of<br />
deciding to seek professional help on a subsequent<br />
occasion will be much more fraught and might<br />
involve significant delay. Creditability, trust and<br />
respect will have vanished from the relationship.<br />
It was possible to test the validity of our<br />
findings in practice, and one off us (S I) did so<br />
while working as a general practitioner. This<br />
consisted of focusing on what the mother presented<br />
as her major concerns, no matter how ‘soft’ these<br />
were from a diagnostic point of view. The method<br />
was not time consuming and is likely to be used<br />
already by doctors who are good communicators. It<br />
was in keeping with the observations of<br />
ILLINGWORTH and ILLINGWORTH, that failure<br />
to determine the cause of mother’s concern is a<br />
potent source of further anxiety. 30 After further<br />
direct questioning and then examination of the<br />
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child, the findings, diagnosis, advice or treatment<br />
were discussed in the context of the mother’s<br />
concerns. On the basis of a subjective and informal<br />
assessment this appeared to result in successful<br />
consultations. Eating and sleeping difficulties<br />
arising during the course of a minor illness, such as<br />
a cold, were often mentioned by mothers. If<br />
concerns about these particular issues were not<br />
volunteered, but their discussion was subsequently<br />
initiated by the doctor, this also appeared to<br />
increase the chances of a mutually satisfactory<br />
consultations.<br />
Mothers have a unique and intimate knowledge<br />
of their children, and their concept of normality in<br />
their children’s behaviour underpins their<br />
negotiation of illness. Although much illness in<br />
children is taken for granted, considered normal,<br />
and treated at home, 21 changes in eating and<br />
sleeping were of particular concern to mothers,<br />
even when these behaviours were not overtly<br />
related to illness. These are important and emotive<br />
issues, linked to ideas of the mothers’ competence,<br />
and to their perceptions of the general health and<br />
development of their children. If health<br />
professionals can become more sensitive to these<br />
issues and recognize mothers’ concerns, their<br />
quality of communication with mothers of small<br />
children can be enhanced, resulting in more<br />
effective client-professional relationships, and<br />
greater satisfaction to both parties.<br />
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Acknowledgements:<br />
The study on which this paper is based was<br />
undertaken at the Department of Community<br />
Medicine, University of Edinburgh and supported<br />
by a grant from the Scottish Home and Health<br />
Department, Health Services Research Committee.<br />
We would like to thank Una MACLEAN and John<br />
DAVIES for their support, and Neil McKEGANEY<br />
and Sally WYKE for helpful comments on an<br />
earlier draft.<br />
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3. Changes Caused by Succussion on N.M.R.<br />
Patterns and Bioassay of Bradykinin Triacetate<br />
(BKTA) Succussions and Dilutions *<br />
Rudolph B. SMITH, Jr. M.T. and Garth W.<br />
BOERICKE, M.D. **<br />
Department of Special Therapeutics<br />
Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia,<br />
Penna. (JAIH. 61, 10-11-12/1968)<br />
Summary: This paper records continuing work<br />
using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (N.M.R.) to<br />
study succussed serial dilutions and serial dilutions<br />
to 60x together with bioassays on homœopathicproduced<br />
Bradykinin Triacetate up to 30x.<br />
It can be concluded that the act of succussion<br />
will increase the area of the N.M.R. hydroxyl<br />
* Supported by a grant from the Harrington Fund<br />
and the Research Committee of the American<br />
Institute of Homœopathy.<br />
** Dr.Boericke died on January 8, 1968. He was<br />
very active on the early work recorded in this<br />
paper.<br />
Presented to the American Institute of<br />
Homœopathy, 124 th Annual Meeting, Bal Harbour,<br />
Florida, June 23-27, 1968.
spectrum in 87% EtOH, 13% H2O when compared<br />
to identical unsuccussed dilutions containing the<br />
same solute (drug). The hydroxyl areas become<br />
large and small in cyclic order as the dilution of the<br />
solute is carried to as high as 60x, and the CH3 and<br />
CH2 hydrogen spectrum does not change except the<br />
CH2 area of tincture of Sulphur 1/5000 in absolute<br />
EtOH.<br />
The area under the hydroxyl curve (which is<br />
related to hydrogen) is most probably supplied by<br />
the water component of the mixed solvent when<br />
one component is EtOH. How these additional<br />
hydrogen are coupled or combined<br />
“These all died in faith, not having received<br />
the promises, but having seen them afar off,<br />
and were persuaded of them, and embraced<br />
them..”<br />
HEBREWS 11:13<br />
to produce these changes has not, as yet, been<br />
determined. There are several probabilities<br />
possible. One good probability is they may be<br />
water polymers (1) .<br />
It is reasonable to suppose that the<br />
homœopathic act of succussion, which is the<br />
variable factor in the experiments, does, in some<br />
way, change the physical structure of the solvent<br />
(which is always a part of the dose) even when the<br />
order of dilution is higher than 6.023 x 10 -23<br />
(approximately 24x). If, therefore, these changes<br />
are related to drug action, then high potencies can,<br />
by an accepted scientific method (N.M.R.), be<br />
proven active therapeutic agents; that is, when the<br />
additional hydrogen in the succussed hydroxyl<br />
spectrum is greater than that in the dilutions or<br />
controls. (These additional hydrogen are related to<br />
the calculated area under the OH curve of the<br />
spectrum, see Data Sheets.) [not given here = KSS]<br />
It was established, during a period of five years<br />
of research, that there is a definite recurring<br />
reproducible change in N.M.R. patterns by<br />
succussion and that these patterns are reproducible<br />
and may be caused by water polymers. It was then<br />
decided to begin a series of biological studies that<br />
might indicate that these structures postulated by<br />
N.M.R. studies would, by bioassay, begin to prove<br />
the therapeutic action of homœopathic drugs. The<br />
first series of these bioassays that was studied was<br />
BKTA.<br />
Additional proof of the effect of succussion,<br />
compared to identical dilution, was carried out by<br />
studying the effect of serial succussions and<br />
dilutions of BKTA (2) . The experimental procedure<br />
of this bioassay was suggested by Dr. M. John<br />
BOYD of Hahnemann Medical College. The<br />
results of these bioassays are given later in this<br />
paper (Graph IV). It should be noted that they are<br />
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the first of a series of bioassays and although the<br />
results look favorable, it is far too early to draw<br />
definite conclusions. It can be noted that the drug,<br />
Veratrum viride, which was suggested to possess<br />
some properties of BKTA, did not show any results<br />
using identical assay procedures.<br />
It is worth noting, to those of you who are not<br />
familiar with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance<br />
(N.M.R.), that in all the chemicals used in these<br />
experiments which included water, alcohol,<br />
sulphur, lithium chloride and deuterium oxide, no<br />
chemical elements in the above can be observed on<br />
the Varian 60 HR N.M.R. spectrum except<br />
hydrogen. These resulting N.M.R. spectra are then<br />
basically fingerprints of hydrogen. The changes<br />
thus observed in the hydroxyl end of the spectrum,<br />
which are not like the controls, are probably<br />
additional hydrogen nuclei attached to or grouped<br />
around the hydroxyl radical of the spectrum. They,<br />
in turn, (hydrogen nuclei) are probably bound to<br />
oxygen, as water or water polymers from the water<br />
phase of the solution.<br />
METHODS<br />
These data which were assembled to produce<br />
Graph I and II were based upon the following<br />
experimental values:<br />
1. A series of dilutions and succussed serial<br />
dilutions were prepared using throughout the<br />
experiment the same 100% EtOH (a) , 99.7% D2O (b) ,<br />
Distilled H2O (c) , BKTA (d) , and Tincture of<br />
Sulphur (e) .<br />
2. All the dilutions and succussed serial dilutions<br />
were made using the same volumetric glassware,<br />
and were made according to U.S.H.P. VII methods,<br />
that is, 87% EtOH by volume and 13% H2O or D2O<br />
by volume, and 5% EtOH and 95% H2O.<br />
3. The basic solutions were all prepared from the<br />
same alcohol, water, deuterium oxide, and tincture<br />
of Sulphur and BKTA, so that the only change<br />
throughout the experiment was imparted to the<br />
solvent through serial succcussion.<br />
4. The dilutions and serial succussions were made<br />
by pipetting 4.5 ml of solution into small bottles<br />
(from the low to the high x) except the first bottle<br />
of the series which contained 5.0 ml of solution.<br />
From this first bottle, 0.5 ml was pipetted into the<br />
next bottle and so forth until the entire series was<br />
produced. If the sample was succussed (40 times),<br />
it was left standing one minute before the next<br />
transfer; and if diluted, it was left standing three<br />
minutes before the next transfer. This procedure<br />
was carried out on the H2O dilutions and<br />
succussions and on the D2O dilutions and<br />
succussions and on the BKTA dilutions and<br />
succussions.
5. The entire series was renumbered and then the<br />
N.M.R. graphs were produced (at the University of<br />
Delaware) and matched with their laboratory<br />
numbers to the corresponding dilutions and<br />
succussions. The entire series OH spectrums were<br />
xeroxed (see this paper for Method) and the curves<br />
were cut and weighed and their weights were<br />
recorded on Data Sheets Number 1 and Number 2.<br />
6. After these data were assembled, and the OH<br />
areas calculated, the Sulphur D2O potency was<br />
subtracted from the Sulphur H2O potency, and the<br />
Sulphur D2O dilution was subtracted from the<br />
Sulphur H2O dilution. Then the entire results of the<br />
dilutions were subtracted from the potencies (Data<br />
Sheet Number 3 and 4 and Graph II).<br />
It was reasoned as follows: The D2O, H2O and<br />
EtOH, N.M.R. spectrograms would give no<br />
hydrogen signal except that due to the H in the OH,<br />
CH2 and CH3 and since the CH2 and CH3 signals<br />
did not change during the experiments, except in<br />
one case, any change in the OH would be pertinent<br />
to the problem. If, on the other hand, a change in<br />
the OH of the H2O and EtOH, N.M.R. spectrum<br />
would result, it was due to hydrogen supplied from<br />
the H2O Graph II shows very vividly this change.<br />
In the earlier papers, the calculated areas of the<br />
curves were made by Amsler’s planimeter method;<br />
although very accurate, this method did not satisfy<br />
more meticulous work.<br />
In this paper, the curves used were calculated<br />
by a new, more rapid, more accurate method which<br />
is as follows:<br />
The N.M.R. spectrograms were stapled<br />
together to form a collage, which was then<br />
accurately copied on a Xerox copier. The<br />
individual xeroxed sheets had a one inch square<br />
ruled on them which was used as a control. The<br />
curves were then carefully cut and weighed against<br />
the standard from each sheet and their areas<br />
calculated by weight (weight of standard: weight of<br />
curve: 1:x). When a curve, picked at random, had<br />
its area calculated, this area compared favorably to<br />
the xeroxed method.<br />
With the weighing procedure, several<br />
experimental precautions were observed. As the<br />
weighing was carried out on an analytical balance,<br />
the sensitivity of the balance was checked daily.<br />
The weights used were also checked against<br />
themselves, and the one high and two low weights<br />
were checked on a Mettler Balance. The one<br />
milligram weight was exactly equal to one<br />
milligram on the Mettler. The ten milligram weight<br />
was exactly equal to the ten milligram weight on<br />
the Mettler. The hundred milligram weight was<br />
equal to 99.9 milligrams on the Mettler.<br />
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The areas under the curves were then evaluated<br />
to 0.2 spectrum amplification as standard. The<br />
calculations appear in the data.<br />
(We believe this experimental work to be as<br />
accurate as it is possible to obtained, except if the<br />
areas were calculated by the Disc Integrator<br />
method. Several various ways to calculate<br />
(compute) peak areas are as follows: 1) Length x<br />
Width at ½ Height; 2) Triangulation; 3) Planimetry;<br />
4) Cut and Weight; and 5) Disc Integration.)<br />
DISCUSSION<br />
The changes caused by succussion are always<br />
best produced when the original low dilutions<br />
contain a solute (drug). We have used both an<br />
ionizing and non-ionizing solute in our<br />
experiments.<br />
If these changes in total hydrogen are caused<br />
by succussion, we would have water polymers<br />
present as proposed by G.P. BARNARD and James<br />
H. STEPHENSON (3) , Microdose Paradox: a New<br />
Biophysical Concept, “…water polymers as<br />
proposed, then these will be of low mobility as<br />
compared with free water molecules. They will,<br />
because of their greater viscosity, stay in the<br />
vicinity of alcohol molecules for relatively longer<br />
times and so increase the rate of exchange of the<br />
hydroxyl group protons between the neighbors.”<br />
[see JAIH. 58, No. 7-8/1965 = KSS]. This concept<br />
could account for the changed alcohol OH areas in<br />
the N.M.R. graphs.<br />
The physical structure of these water polymers<br />
is not known. There is an agreement that water<br />
differs from other liquids in that it has a<br />
considerable amount of structure; but no agreement<br />
on what such structure is. Stanley L. MILLER (4)<br />
states, “Ethyl alcohol forms a clathrate hydrate – it<br />
is not clear whether the OH of the alcohol is<br />
bonded into the water lattice or not.” It is my<br />
theory that since succussed N.M.R. dilutions show<br />
this OH change (increased hydrogen) that a new<br />
H2O group, Figure III, is produced and this could<br />
explain the therapeutic activity of succussed serial<br />
dilutions.<br />
This water group shown in Figure III is a<br />
hexakaidecahedron and is formed by 28 water<br />
molecules. There are four hexagonal and twelve<br />
pentagonal faces. This water group could couple<br />
with the OH of Ethanol and thus show the patterns<br />
in Graph II. There are, however, other structures<br />
theoretically possible.<br />
Succussion and resulting water structure<br />
appears to be the practical answer to explain<br />
Homœopathic drug action.<br />
BRADYKININ TRIACETATE BIOASSAY
A succussed serial dilution and a serial dilution<br />
of BKTA was produced to the 30x in 5% EtOH and<br />
95% H2O. Using an assay procedure which<br />
measured a muscular displacement under 2.0 grams<br />
tension, the above serial succussion and serial<br />
dilution were tested. The muscle was the uterine<br />
horn of a 200 to 250 gram white rat. The muscular<br />
reaction was measured against 10 µl. * This dose<br />
gave an average displacement of about 6.1 cm.<br />
Against this control, the succussed serial dilution<br />
and the serial dilution were plotted on Graph IV.<br />
This very definitely shows some reaction above the<br />
20x potency. The apparatus used in the experiment<br />
is shown in Figure I and II and the chemical<br />
structure L-Bradykinin, which is a polypeptide,<br />
Figure IV.<br />
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<br />
1. Research Committee, A.I.H. and Dr. James<br />
STEPHENSON, its Chairman.<br />
2. Dr. M. John BOYD, Em. Professor of<br />
Chemistry, Hahnemann Medical College, for his<br />
work and advice on the study of BKTA.<br />
3. Dr. William A. MOSHER, Professor of<br />
Chemistry and Head of the Department of<br />
Chemistry, University of Delaware for his constant<br />
constructive criticism of N.M.R. studies and<br />
experimental advice.<br />
4. Mr. Dale M. CROUSE, Graduate Student at the<br />
University of Delaware for his work on N.M.R.<br />
5. Dr. Z. Stuart CHANCE for many months of<br />
valuable help on experimental work and help in<br />
producing the Homœopathic drugs used in this<br />
study.<br />
6. Dr. John C. SCOTT, Professor of Physiology<br />
and Head of the Department of Physiology,<br />
Hahnemann Medical College, for supplying<br />
laboratory space and some apparatus.<br />
REFERENCES:<br />
1. JAIH, Sept-Oct. 1963: JAIH, Sept.-Oct. 1966;<br />
AIH Convention, 1967 (paper not published as of<br />
this date).<br />
2. BKTA, Bradykinin Bioassay, British Journal of<br />
Pharmacy Chemother, 29: 367, (modified by Dr.<br />
Boyd).<br />
3. Barnard, G.P., D. Sc., Ph. D., M.I.E.E., F. Isnt.<br />
P. 53 Woodside Road, New Maiden, Surrey,<br />
England.<br />
Stephenson, J.H., M.D., Dir. Res. AIH, 66 East<br />
83 rd Street, New York City, New York.<br />
4. Miller, S. L., Effects of Anesthetics on Water<br />
Structure. Volume 27, No. 3, May-June 1968, Fed.<br />
Prov., Fed. Of Amer. Soc. Exptl. Biol.<br />
* 1 µl= 1 manogram = 1 billionth gram = 10 -9 gms.<br />
10µl = 10 manograms = 10 -8 gms.<br />
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(a) EtOH, U.S.P., 200 Proof, Publicker Industries,<br />
Inc., Phila., Pa. DSP-PA-160.<br />
(b) D2O, Chemi. Standards, Inc., 4027 New Castle<br />
Ave., New Castle, Del., Lot B-2, 19720.<br />
(c) Distilled H2O, sterile, nonpyrogenic (water for<br />
injection). Baxter Laboratories, Inc., Morton Grove,<br />
Illinois, 14165OB.<br />
(d) Tincture of Sulphur, Boericke and Tafel, 1011<br />
Arch Street, Phila., Pa.<br />
(e) BKTA, Bradykinin Triacetate, Sigma Chemical<br />
Company, St. Louis, Mo.<br />
ADDITIONAL LITERATURE REVIEWED<br />
1. Water H2O or H180O90? Gregory R. Choppin,<br />
Professor of Chemistry, Florida State University,<br />
Welch Physics and Chemistry Digest, Volume 16,<br />
No. 1.<br />
2. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, John D. Roberts,<br />
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1959.<br />
3. Lecture Notes in N.M.R. Beach and Vogel,<br />
Rutgers University, 1953.<br />
4. Ion-Solvent Interaction, Frank and Wen,<br />
University of Pittsburgh, Discussions Faraday Soc.<br />
24: 133-140, 1957.<br />
5. Soc. Exptl. Biol. Symposium, Federation<br />
Proceedings (Water, etc.), University of Vermont,<br />
Volume 25: 951-1002.<br />
6. N.M.R. Studies of Ions in Pure and Mixed<br />
Solvents. Hinton and Amis, Chemical Reviews,<br />
Volume 67: 367, 1967.<br />
7. High-Resolution N.M.R. Spectroscopy.<br />
Ferguson and Phillips, Science, Volume 157, No.<br />
3786, 1967.<br />
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Following Rudy Smith’s paper.<br />
Discussion by Professor Mosher of Rudy Smith’s Paper.<br />
Ladies and Gentlemen:<br />
This is the second of your conventions I have had<br />
the rare pleasure of attending; I am getting educated.<br />
Yesterday someone told me that he was getting<br />
brainwashed by the chemists. You must remember that<br />
the great Paracelsus, a chemist, spent his life developing<br />
his hypothesis of medicine and that Dr. HAHNEMANN,<br />
whom you greatly revere and whom I know very little<br />
about was also a chemist. This morning I had the<br />
pleasure of hearing some of your people talk about drugs<br />
in chemical terms and this is very good. The chemists<br />
are not here in the United States or anywhere else in the<br />
world to prove or disprove HAHNEMANN or anyone<br />
else. We are here for only one thing: to find the truth in<br />
the hope that the truth from scientific studies may, in the<br />
hands of practitioners such as yourselves, be of value in<br />
man’s life.<br />
Some years ago, Rudy came down to see me and<br />
asked if I could have some N.M.R. curves run for him
and I told him that I would be pleased to do so. Then he<br />
started talking about succussions, potentiations, serial<br />
dilutions and potencies, and I thought he was a nut and I<br />
told him so. So we ran the spectra for him; we ran them<br />
again and again. I want you to know that this work has<br />
been done completely blind. My operators who did this<br />
work had no idea what was in the samples, but it wasn’t<br />
long before they came to me and told me what was in a<br />
particular sample. They could tell the differences by the<br />
slight changes in the curves. Because of the small<br />
differences, I was afraid of artifacts, contaminants from<br />
the bottles, the pipettes, the alcohol and that sort of thing.<br />
I think we satisfied ourselves and Rudy satisfied himself<br />
that we were not dealing with artifacts. Differences exist<br />
between the materials given us by Mr. Smith, between<br />
succussed and non-succussed materials.<br />
After I had seen a few of these results, I was<br />
reminded of a couple of experiments which had been<br />
carried out by some of my students a number of years<br />
ago. Some pepsin-containing material was ground in a<br />
Waring Blendor and it showed much less enzymatic<br />
activity than it was supposed to. We ran a few tests and<br />
we found that the action of this machine was able to<br />
destroy the activity of the enzyme. Believe it or not, we<br />
even found that the activity of the enzyme was destroyed<br />
simply by bubbling an inert gas such as nitrogen through<br />
the enzyme solution. We have also demonstrated that the<br />
structure of nucleic acids can be materially effected by<br />
very gentle mechanical treatment. It is clear that very<br />
mild treatments may have profound biological or biochemical<br />
effects. As yet, I do not know what physical or<br />
chemical changes have been produced by Mr. SMITH’s<br />
treatments, but changes have been produced. I do<br />
believe, however, that this proposed studies will shed<br />
considerable light on this problem as well as on many of<br />
the things you have been working with.<br />
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PART III<br />
(While Part II features articles from other journals, Part III contains the editor’s own contribution and other<br />
original articles.)<br />
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BOOK SHELF:<br />
1. Homœopathy in Cancer Treatment, by Dr.<br />
Ranjeet K. ROY, B. Jain and Co., I Edition,<br />
Reprinted 2003, Rs. 85/- ISBN-81-7021-832-2<br />
The author is a scientist converted to<br />
Homœopathy and his book is one of the most<br />
comprehensive texts that I have read so far on<br />
Cancer. The book is divided into 23 chapters and<br />
each chapter deals extensively with all aspects of<br />
this disease. Chapter 1 first deals with the<br />
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biological mechanism and causation of Cancer<br />
wherein the role of external carcinogens and the<br />
role of internal defects in the gene due to intrinsic<br />
errors and DNA replication have been prominently<br />
conveyed. The role of DNA tumour virus<br />
particularly Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) with its<br />
subtypes are also highlighted in this chapter.<br />
Majority of the human Cancers according to the<br />
author are known to be the results of mutations in<br />
P-53 gene. Secondary factors in this Mutation are a<br />
high fat, high protein meat diet and cooking food in
aluminium utensils are also factors in the formation<br />
of some Cancers, particularly Colon Cancer. The<br />
aspect of metastasis occupies a second. Subchapter<br />
and the progress of disease from Dysplasia<br />
to Leukoplakia to obvious Polyp formation and the<br />
various stages from stage ‘0’ to stage ‘IV’ have<br />
been satisfactorily explained. The stage ‘III’, ‘IV’<br />
malignancies – therapies like Radiotherapy and<br />
Surgery fail to effect a cure in most cases while<br />
Chemotherapy can control the disease for a short<br />
term effect but is very often very toxic to the<br />
human body producing a million of adverse side<br />
effects. It is important to not that a particular<br />
normally functioning nm 23 gene can present<br />
metastasis by about 90%.<br />
Chapter 2 deals with warning signals of<br />
Cancer, the presence of unusual carcinogens and<br />
the role of electricity, sunlight and electromagnetic<br />
fields in homes of people that can make them<br />
vulnerable to the development of Cancer. There are<br />
some plant carcinogens whose role has not been<br />
adequately evaluated. Croton tiglium is one such<br />
plant and may have a curative effect in certain types<br />
of Cancer.<br />
Chapter 3 covers the topic in a broad outline of<br />
modern treatment paradigm of Cancer which are<br />
namely Radiotherapy, Chemotherapy,<br />
Immunotherapy, surgical procedures etc. But the<br />
actual reality of such therapy shows almost 90% of<br />
such patients die with in 5 years of diagnosis due to<br />
various causes. The latest field of research known<br />
as Gene therapy involving insertion of a functional<br />
gene to correct either hereditary errors or restore<br />
functions of an inactivated gene.<br />
Chapter 4 deals with pre-cancer states<br />
including signs and symptoms of such a state and<br />
its treatment by homœopathic remedies. Seven<br />
case reports treated by the author are given in this<br />
chapter. The case reports however do not reveal a<br />
long-term follow-up.<br />
The role of irritation and Cancer is given in<br />
Chapter 5 and the role of Miasms also has been<br />
adequately explained.<br />
Chapter-6 deals with the major type of Cancer<br />
tumours in various parts of body with its clinical<br />
symptoms while Chapter-7 gives a broad role of<br />
vitamins and diet in Cancer. This includes the<br />
common usage of Vitamin C and E as anti-oxidants<br />
and the role of selenium as a protective agent along<br />
with Vitamin C and Vitamin E. Similarly, various<br />
forms of retinoids in Vitamin A, B-vitamins have<br />
also been found to be effective. Improper diet and<br />
what is proper diet is also given in this chapter and<br />
a special mention has been made of the role of high<br />
fibre diet, deeply pigmented fruits, plenty of<br />
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vegetables and consumption of black tea and<br />
avoidance of tobacco, alcohol, smoked, salty and<br />
artificially preserved food etc.<br />
Chapter 8 gives further details of signs and<br />
symptoms of Cancer in various parts of body.<br />
Chapter 9 is an exhaustive one giving a total<br />
concept of present status of homœopathic treatment<br />
in Cancer. This includes the various lines of<br />
approach from HAHNEMANN, KENT,<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN, VITHOULKAS and<br />
SANKARAN and gives the method suggested by<br />
Dr. J.H. CLARKE, BURNETT, J.H. ALLEN, R.T.<br />
COOPER, A.H. GRIMMER, FORTIER-<br />
BERNOVILLE, ELI JONES, Farokh MASTER<br />
and some others. The specific aspects of each<br />
one’s method has been adequately explained. The<br />
role of constitutional medicines has been given and<br />
20 of these medicines starting from Ars. alb., Calc<br />
fluor., Carbon group, Caust., etc. to Thuja has been<br />
mentioned. Some specific Cancer remedies<br />
according to BERNOVILLE is now given along<br />
with specific location remedies and drainage and<br />
canalization remedies. The role of special Cancer<br />
Nosodes like Carcinosinum, Scirrhinum and the<br />
non-specific Nosodes like the Bowel Nosodes and<br />
the Nosodes Medorrhinum, Tuberculinum,<br />
Syphilinum occupy relevant paragraphs in this<br />
chapter. Dr. A.H. GRIMMER was one of the<br />
greatest homœopathic physician who has treated<br />
Cancers with astounding success of all types and in<br />
all locations. Some aspects of his observation, the<br />
author has mentioned in this chapter.<br />
Chapter 10 deals with the known Cancer<br />
remedies of Homœopathic Materia Medica<br />
arranged alphabetically from Acetic acid to Viola<br />
odorata.<br />
Chapter 11 deals with the relationship of the<br />
mental state to the Cancer evolution and genetic<br />
attributes.<br />
Chapter 12 deals with two basic types of<br />
Cancer medicines what is known as Organ specific<br />
and systemic remedies based on organ sensitivity<br />
and generalized sensitivity.<br />
In Chapter 13 the author has given schematised<br />
strategy of Cancer based on four types of<br />
categories.<br />
I Category – Patients whose diagnosis is confirmed<br />
and who are treated with Radiation or<br />
Chemotherapy or Surgery.<br />
II Category – Confirmed diagnosis but have not<br />
been given the above therapies.<br />
III Category – Patients who can be diagnosed as<br />
Cancer clinically but not confirmed by<br />
histopathological studies.<br />
IV Category – Patients with pre-cancer states.
For all four categories one important factor is<br />
the vitality of patient and for the first three<br />
categories another important variable is the clinical<br />
stage of the disease. The author has then given the<br />
further details of the treatment of patients in these<br />
categories. One important factor that he has<br />
stressed in the treatment of patients in Category ‘I’<br />
is the role of potentised X-ray, Radium brom.,<br />
Okubaka, Cadmium-iod., Phosphorus to minimize<br />
the side-effects of Category I patients who have had<br />
Radio and Chemotherapy. He says that, the rest of<br />
the category II, III and IV patients can be<br />
successfully and adequately treated with<br />
Homœopathy.<br />
Chapter 14 gives out a multi method approach<br />
for Cancer therapy whether palliative or curative.<br />
All available methods from HAHNEMANN,<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN to KENT, VITHOULKAS,<br />
SANKARAN etc can be initiated and the starting<br />
point often is either the latest symptoms or gravest<br />
symptoms or those symptoms which the patient<br />
desires to be relieved of first. So, we then have an<br />
acute situational treatment, the treatment by<br />
constitutional remedies and the treatment by<br />
inducting some Nosodes. These 3 steps are<br />
elaborated in Chapter 15.<br />
Chapter 16 seems to be the author’s own<br />
unique contribution which he calls as ‘Thematic<br />
Determination of Cancer Remedies’. The themes<br />
behind the clinical characteristics of malignancy<br />
and the dynamic behaviour of malignant cells can<br />
be used to transform into reportorial rubrics of<br />
mind to give us certain groups of Cancer<br />
susceptible remedies and their degrees of<br />
effectiveness. To give an example, a fundamental<br />
tendency to malignancy is its tendency to hide in<br />
early stages, deceiving its host. This is translated<br />
into mental rubrics – Hide, desire to; Deceitful, sly<br />
and Dishonest. Remedies in these rubrics are then<br />
selected from such a thematic principle based on<br />
either a concomitant symptom or an individualising<br />
symptom. Similarly, the uncontrollable behaviour<br />
of Cancer cells can be thematically represented by<br />
rubrics – Defiant, Obstinate and Disobedience and<br />
11 remedies occur in the rubrics Defiant and<br />
Obstinate which are useful Cancer remedies.<br />
Similarly, the rubric Irritability can be utilized for<br />
the aggressive nature of Cancer cells. There are<br />
various rubrics like Destructiveness, Violence,<br />
Rage, Fury, Cruelty, Hatred, Malicious and<br />
Spiteful, Desire to kill, Threatening and Desire to<br />
destroy. Also, the wandering behaviour of Cancer<br />
cells that forms metastasis could have the theme of<br />
desire to travel giving us remedies under this rubric.<br />
Elaboration of this particular topic is given in<br />
Chapter 17 wherein all the rubrics with their<br />
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remedies have been mentioned. In the terminal<br />
stage the author has mentioned Tarent., Hep.and<br />
Ars .as the most often indicated remedies.<br />
Chapter 18 gives us the degree of susceptibility<br />
of some good remedies like Graph., Ars., Thuja,<br />
Belladonna, etc. Some 16 such remedies are<br />
described.<br />
Chapter 19 deals with the application of<br />
medicine in Cancer treatment. The period of<br />
remedial action, when to repeat or change the<br />
medicine, the choice of potency, number of doses,<br />
the management of acute emergency situation, the<br />
aspect of aggravation, the role of peculiar<br />
concomitants as symptoms of vital importance and<br />
clinical behaviour of metastasized Cancer.<br />
Chapter 20 deals with 7 case reports managed<br />
by the author though cases no. 4 and 6 obviously<br />
needed further follow-up on their condition. What<br />
are the future possibilities in Cancer treatment is<br />
dealt in Chapter 21. Chapter 22 is a very brief one<br />
which deals with prognosis in malignancy and<br />
Chapter 23 is an epilogue on the whole topic of<br />
Cancer, its Miasms and management.<br />
An extensive Bibiliography of around 116<br />
References is given at the end of the book. This<br />
book is very cheaply priced compared to the wealth<br />
of information available in it and Dr. Ranjeet K.<br />
Roy must be congratulated for giving his readers a<br />
vast amount of information and treatment<br />
methodology and his own contribution to the<br />
treatment for all types of Cancers in just 242 pages.<br />
- Dr. D.E. MISTRY<br />
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2. Iconography of HAHNEMANN – A<br />
Pilgrimage by Dr. Diwan HARISHCHAND, Indian<br />
Books and Periodicals Publishers, New Delhi – 110<br />
005, <strong>2005</strong>. ISBN 81-7467-161-7 price not<br />
mentioned.<br />
Samuel HAHNEMANN (1755-1843) was a<br />
celebrity of his times to such an extent that the<br />
sculptor Pierre Jean DAVID who sculpted ‘famous’<br />
personalities like GOETHE did a bust of<br />
HAHNEMANN. There have also been several<br />
paintings, engravings, etc., of HAHNEMANN<br />
during his life-time itself. Such tributes are rare<br />
and one can count them on one’s fingers.<br />
We have HAHNEMANN monuments in<br />
several parts of the world. To this date, no one<br />
person has been honored so to the best of our<br />
knowledge.<br />
HAHNEMANN founded not just a therapeutic<br />
technique which is complete in itself but gave a<br />
totally new concept of health, disease,<br />
pharmacology and a purpose for being alive,
healthy in body and mind, viz. for higher purpose,<br />
higher good, of humankind. It is just right and<br />
proper that one who vows to follow him has great<br />
reverence for HAHNEMANN. One speaks of him<br />
with awe and reverence. It is therefore most<br />
befitting that Dr. Diwan HARISHCHAND has<br />
titled his travels looking about for HAHNEMANN<br />
Memorabilia as a ‘pilgrimage’. It indeed is so.<br />
The ‘frontispiece’ itself is a photograph of Dr.<br />
Diwan HARISHCHAND touching the feet of the<br />
Master’s statue in the Monument in Washington<br />
D.C., U.S.A. Under this picture is written “The<br />
author touching the Master’s feet, an Indian<br />
tradition to express reverence …” A very good<br />
beginning. The ‘dedication’ of the book reads “In<br />
worshipful homage to the Prime Guru (Master) and<br />
Founder of Homœopathy …”<br />
I mention these so that we understand the<br />
author’s approach to this historical record.<br />
A ‘Time’ Table of HAHNEMANN’s life – the<br />
period of his stay at various places, the authoring of<br />
his great works etc. – is given at the beginning.<br />
The book has 3 sections covering<br />
HAHNEMANN’s places of stay and practice:<br />
Meissen, Köthen, Leipzig to Paris; pictures of the<br />
houses where the Master lived, memorial busts and<br />
Plaques erected at these places, some memorabilia<br />
of Meissen pottery are covered in these three<br />
sections – 36 pages. The town Meissen on the<br />
banks of the river Elbe as it now is, is the beautiful<br />
picture opening this Section. The photograph of the<br />
narrow road leading to the school where<br />
HAHNEMANN studied (‘Princes School’) is<br />
beautifully pictured; also the full view of the<br />
School, and its entry with the inscription ‘Sapere<br />
Aude’ at its entrance.<br />
The next Section titled ‘Koethen’ covers pp. 16<br />
to 24. The interior of the house where<br />
HAHNEMANN lived, the small garden where he<br />
sat and wrote his Chronic Diseases, the monument<br />
in the grounds of the Lutze Hospital, are all<br />
represented here.<br />
The next Section from p. 26 to 36 titled<br />
‘Leipzig, Gommern, Königslutter, Paris’ gives the<br />
beautiful statue in Leipzig, HAHNEMANN sitting<br />
slightly bent in thought. This monument is in a<br />
Public Square. The house where HAHNEMANN<br />
lived in Paris has been pictured beautifully.<br />
Now we come to the Chapter ‘Objects of<br />
Veneration’ a grand round of medallions, lock of<br />
HAHNEMANN’s hair, a chair used by him, his<br />
Cap, Smoking pipes, Stethoscope, Office table, his<br />
Seal, Pocket medicine case, Medicine Chests.<br />
The Chapter ‘Monuments, Statues, Busts,<br />
Profiles’ opens with the grandest HAHNEMANN<br />
Monument in Washington D.C., USA which has<br />
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been renovated in the year 2000 – 100 years after it<br />
was first dedicated to the Nation by the then<br />
President of USA. The pictures of this Monument<br />
cover 8 pages. We then have pictures of statues,<br />
busts at Mexico City, Oaxaca (Mexico), a Park in a<br />
Square with bust of HAHNEMANN in Sao Paulo,<br />
Brazil, another in Rio de Janeiro, then the panels,<br />
and other artistic works in Barcelona, Spain. Then<br />
we have glimpses of the busts and statuettes in<br />
other private hands, (Dr. Pierre SCHMIDT; the<br />
Nelsons Pharmacy, London; Rome, Paris,<br />
Argentina, Lahore). A grand panorama indeed.<br />
Next section “Books, Registers & Writings of<br />
Historical Importance”. This is a nice collection -<br />
right from HAHNEMANN’s writing in 1782, the<br />
collections of original manuscripts of<br />
HAHNEMANN’s Case Registers, Materia Medica,<br />
Chronic Diseases, the Cover pages of the several<br />
editions of the Organon, some letters of<br />
HAHNEMANN. These cover 13 pages.<br />
Next we have ‘Paintings’. This section carries<br />
the several Paintings, Steel engraving, Embroidery,<br />
a Photograph, etc.<br />
‘Stamps and Streets’ is the next – 10 pages.<br />
We see stamps issued in Germany, Brazil, India,<br />
Monaco, Greece, etc. There are streets named after<br />
HAHNEMANN – in Stuttgart, Germany, Buenos<br />
Aires (Argentina), Sao Paulo (Brazil). There is a<br />
special chapter on Monuments, Busts, Squares,<br />
Streets, in India – Delhi, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar,<br />
Lucknow, Baroda, Gangtok, Eluru (A.P.),<br />
Tirunelveli (Tamil Nadu), Ludhiana.<br />
The book ends with pictures of<br />
HAHNEMANN’s Grave and Monument at the Peré<br />
Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.<br />
And so the pilgrimage ends.<br />
Printed in good moonlight glaze paper, pictures<br />
clear, inscriptions readable, with very few printing<br />
errors, sturdily bound. Nothing short of complete<br />
dedicated devotion to the great Master and his work<br />
could have produced a book of this kind.<br />
To the best of my knowledge there has so far<br />
been no work comparable with this. I frequently go<br />
through the pages and it tones me up like nothing<br />
else. I feel that one should go through the<br />
HAHNEMANN biography (Richard HAEHL,<br />
Rudolf TISCHNER, Gumpert MARTIN, et al) and<br />
gaze at these pictures. It is a great feeling.<br />
The Publishers have done a good job.<br />
I earnestly wish that all colleagues possess a<br />
copy.<br />
Thank you Dr. Diwan, Thank you very much.<br />
- K.S.SRINIVASAN<br />
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OBITUARY<br />
Julian WINSTON (1941-<strong>2005</strong>)<br />
The World of Homœopathy has been getting<br />
poorer and poorer in that that it has lost some of its<br />
treasured personalities within the last two-three<br />
years. Some of them were well-known to me; and<br />
so the sadness is much personal too.<br />
It came as a bolt from the blue when I learnt of<br />
the expiry of Julian WINSTON (1941-<strong>2005</strong>). I sent<br />
an e-mail and Neil TESSLER, Editor, Simillimum<br />
confirmed.<br />
Julian WINSTON was only 64. Silently he<br />
had been suffering from Prostate Cancer and<br />
Scleroderma since 1998, for seven years cheerfully<br />
putting up with this disease, slowing down its<br />
march.<br />
I had not recovered from the sense of great loss<br />
of D.LAKSHMINARAYANAN, Will KLUNKER,<br />
Jacques BAUR, S.M. GUNAVANTE, H.L.<br />
CHITKARA – all my very good friends since many<br />
years and with whom had very frequent exchange<br />
of correspondance on everything homœopathic, for<br />
over 20 years. There was lasting bond between us.<br />
It was genuine Homœopathy which bound us<br />
together.<br />
Prof. Dr. LAKSHMINARAYANAN, was truly<br />
a ‘musketeer’ who never left a challenge to<br />
Homœopathy go scotfree; he gallantly picked up<br />
the gauntlet. I miss him sorely now in the<br />
circumstances of the BBC repeatedly showing in its<br />
TV programme falsehood about Homœopathy; also<br />
the ‘ignorance’ of the ‘scientists’ who attempt to<br />
put Homœopathy on the pillory via the ‘Lancet’.<br />
LAKSHMINARAYANAN would have surely<br />
written no less sharply than HAHNEMANN.<br />
However, age creeps upon everything and the call<br />
came to him on 23 rd January, 2001.<br />
Sri GUNAWANTE was quiet and unassuming<br />
but a very learned person and who wrote such<br />
books on Homœopathy which could be studied by<br />
all; for those who found BOGER et al difficult to<br />
comprehend, his works were very much welcome.<br />
His books have been translated into German. His<br />
life of four score and ten years was worthy.<br />
Dr. H.L. CHITKARA who was ‘resident<br />
editor’ of the ‘Homœopathic Heritage’, was a<br />
devoted homœopath and he stoically bore the<br />
Parkinson’s disease during his last years. He was<br />
in his 81 st year when he passed on. His books too<br />
were very welcome. He was spiritually inclined.<br />
Drs. Will KLUNKER and Jacques BAUR were<br />
both students of Dr. Pierre SCHMIDT, and they<br />
wrote and taught and practiced exactly what<br />
they were taught. In turn they taught their<br />
students genuine Homœopathy. It was my<br />
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privilege to have had regular correspondance for<br />
many years with these two great personalities.<br />
KLUNKER wrote, in the Zeitschrift für<br />
klassische Homöopathie whose Editor he was for<br />
some years, several articles which are all very<br />
instructive. He fell ill in from which he did not<br />
recover and passed on 26 March 2002. He was 79.<br />
Dr. Jacques BAUR was editor of the journal<br />
‘Cahiers du Groupment Hahnemannien du Dr.<br />
Pierre SCHMIDT’ for many years. This journal<br />
carries articles of high quality classical<br />
Homœopathy. His major works are (1)<br />
‘L’enseignement du Dr.Pierre Schmidt’ being a<br />
two volume compilation of Pierre SCHMIDT’s<br />
teachings, (2) ‘Un livre sans frontiers, - histoire<br />
et metamorphoses de l’ Organon’, which is about<br />
the Organon in all the world languages in its<br />
several editions. (3) ‘Les Manuscrits du Docteur<br />
Comte Sébastian des Guidi’ – The Case Registers<br />
of Dr. Sebastian des Guidi –. and (4)<br />
‘Homéopathie médecine de l’individu’.<br />
Homœopathy Medicine of the Individual – a<br />
comprehensive work on the history of Medicine<br />
and Homœopathy in particular and all its aspects.<br />
This is his lifetime work.<br />
Nearing 80-year-age Dr. BAUR was well and<br />
healthy but suffered the loss of his dear wife. This<br />
loss was followed within about three weeks by the<br />
death of his sister. These two calamities shattered<br />
him. Shortly after, he became ill, suffered a<br />
cancerous growth in his back which was not in any<br />
way relieved by Homœopathy or hospitalization<br />
and he left this world. He was 83. He left behind a<br />
vast library.<br />
Apart from the fact that these giants of<br />
Homœopathy left a great void when they passed on,<br />
it was a still greater personal loss to me since I<br />
knew personally all of them well and had many<br />
years of enlightening communication. I have found<br />
it very difficult to come off these griefs.<br />
I have known Julian WINSTON only through<br />
his writings in the ‘Homœopathy Today’, the<br />
journal of the National Center for Homœopathy,<br />
USA. I have been reading Julian for the past<br />
several years through the Homeopathy Today. In<br />
these years, I have found no one else who wrote for<br />
genuine Homœopathy so clearly as Julian. He did<br />
much to recover homœopathic treasures – works of<br />
masters, many memorabilias, etc. – and store them<br />
carefully. Unfortunately much had already been lost<br />
before Julian came on the scene, “We have lost a<br />
true Renaissance man”. He became a legend in his<br />
own time. His devotion to Homœopathy was so<br />
great. Karl ROBINSON rightly says that Julian<br />
WINSTON was “the central figure of American<br />
Homœopathy of the last 40 years. There simply
has been no one of his caliber, his diligence, his<br />
understanding, his kindness, his all-encompassing<br />
love of pure Homœopathy. It is a rare event when<br />
so much talent gets born into one body”. Christian<br />
KURZ of Austria says “Talking to Julian about<br />
Homœopathy is akin to drinking water from a fire<br />
hose. There is so much information and<br />
knowledge, insight and clarity, that I didn’t want to<br />
miss a word.” George GUESS sums up the feelings<br />
of some of us: “He was always the ready and<br />
available recourse to settle a question on almost any<br />
topic involving our Science and Art, especially the<br />
history of Homœopathy and the lives of those who<br />
populated it. Who will I ask now? I feel adrift….<br />
You always feel that if you strayed too far from<br />
Hahnemannian doctrine, Julian would be there to<br />
nudge you back on path.” Julian was “hypervigilant<br />
about the misuse of the word<br />
“Homœopathy” by those who were advocates for<br />
Homœopathy”. It was not only Julian’s knowledge<br />
but that he gave it to whomsoever asked him. “If<br />
there is a homœopathic paradise, then Julian<br />
WINSTON is there with the great ones. May his<br />
soul soar amongst the great homœopaths of all time<br />
and with his loved ones awaiting him beyond the<br />
heavens.”<br />
- K.S. SRINIVASAN<br />
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II. Dr. B.N. CHAKRABARTY (1925 – <strong>2005</strong>).<br />
One of the great luminaries of Homœopathy in<br />
India, Dr.Bhola Nath CHAKRABARTY was born<br />
on 26 August 1925. His father was a reputed<br />
homœopath and social worker and he was also the<br />
Principal of the Sankarmath Homœopathic Medical<br />
College, Howrah, later named as Mahesh<br />
Bhattacharya Homœopathic Medical College.<br />
As a student he was good in athletics, sports and<br />
music. He graduated in Science and joined the<br />
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Calcutta Homœopathic Medical College and<br />
obtained his DMS. Soon he handled a problematic<br />
case of childbirth of his friend’s wife. His friend<br />
Sailendranath Khan’s father Ray Bahadur<br />
Panchanan Khan was so pleased that he sent<br />
Bholanath CHAKRABARTY to England for higher<br />
education. Bholanath obtained his D.F. (Hom),<br />
London in 1953, and subsequently M.M. Dublin in<br />
Gynaecology. However Bholanath was a staunch<br />
homœopath. After return to his motherland he had<br />
extensive Practice and teaching.<br />
Dr.CHAKRABARTY had a very busy practice and<br />
earned name, fame and wealth. He enjoyed good<br />
sports and was a supporter of the Mohan Bagan<br />
Club (Football). His list of VIP patients is long.<br />
He was Physician to the President of India and also<br />
the Governor of West Bengal. He was also<br />
member of the Central Council of Homœopathy<br />
and the LMHI.<br />
He was suffering from a lingering illness and<br />
breathed his last on March 3, <strong>2005</strong>, leaving behind<br />
his wife and son, Dr. Rathin CHAKRABARTY and<br />
a daughter. His passing away is a great loss.<br />
- M. DEY<br />
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Table for page no. 132<br />
Table: Commencement/Reactive remedy (“Injury medicine”) in Chronic headaches<br />
Remedy<br />
Causative/Key<br />
symptom<br />
V. Aconitum Sunstroke,<br />
situation<br />
remaining before<br />
eyes<br />
VI. Arnica Injury with<br />
extravasation of<br />
blood<br />
Calcium sulfuricum Brain<br />
concussion,<br />
suppression of<br />
sweat<br />
Causticum Burns,<br />
suppression of<br />
eruptions<br />
VII. Hypericum Splitter injury,<br />
Numbness with<br />
chill<br />
Natrum muriaticum Accident,<br />
herpes, mapped<br />
tongue<br />
Spinal/lumbar<br />
Natrum sulfuricum puncture,<br />
electric shock<br />
Opium Fright/shock,<br />
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Modalities<br />
> rest,<br />
excretions<br />
> rest,<br />
epistaxis<br />
> pressure, in<br />
open air<br />
> humid<br />
weather, (Bed)<br />
warmth<br />
< light, noise,<br />
motion<br />
< shock,<br />
concussion<br />
< alcohol,<br />
motion,<br />
concussion,<br />
eating<br />
< coldness,<br />
draught, thinking<br />
of pain<br />
> stretching < mist, chill,<br />
touch<br />
> sweat, sea<br />
air<br />
> lying,<br />
pressure<br />
sleeplessness<br />
> chill,<br />
sweating<br />
Rhus toxicodendron Exertion, sprain > heat, motion,<br />
massage, sweat<br />
< motion,<br />
warmth<br />
<<br />
sitting/standing,<br />
cold, mist, music<br />
Observations<br />
Like boiling<br />
water, sees as<br />
through water<br />
Sportsman with<br />
risks<br />
Tension<br />
headache,<br />
Scoliosis<br />
Scars become<br />
sore, breaks<br />
open<br />
Head sweat,<br />
hairfall<br />
School<br />
headache,<br />
“Mallorca-<br />
acne”<br />
Chilly, sensitive<br />
to cold/chill<br />
< heat Mouth dryness<br />
< cold, rest Stiffness of<br />
nape
CONTINUING HOMŒOPATHIC MEDICAL EDUCATION SERVICES<br />
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QUARTERLY HOMŒOPATHIC DIGEST<br />
VOL. XXII, 4, <strong>2005</strong><br />
Part I Current Literature Listing<br />
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Part I of the journal lists the current literature in Homœopathy drawn from the wellknown<br />
homœopathic journals published world-over - India, England, Germany, France,<br />
Brazil, USA, etc., - discipline-wise, with brief abstracts/extracts. Readers may refer to<br />
the original articles for detailed study. The full names and addresses of the journals<br />
covered by this compilation are given at the end of Part I. Part II contains selected<br />
essays/articles/extracts, while Part III carries original articles for this journal, Book<br />
Reviews, etc.<br />
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I. PHILOSOPHY<br />
1. The Importance of HAHNEMANN’s<br />
Organon<br />
DIMITRIADIS, George (AJHM. 97,<br />
4/2004)<br />
In this article Dr. DIMITRIADIS<br />
extols the many virtues of a thorough study<br />
of and familiarity with HAHNEMANN’s<br />
Organon, as well as his other writings. It<br />
provides an essential foundation of<br />
knowledge for the successful practice of<br />
Homœopathy.<br />
Organon is the distillation of<br />
HAHNEMANN’s constant thoughts and<br />
significant experiences in the practice of<br />
medicine. It is a highly condensed<br />
expression of a methodical and practical<br />
application of his discovery of a single and<br />
general therapeutic principle (similars) to<br />
the clinical situation for the specific<br />
purpose of healing the sick in the simplest,<br />
most gentle and reliable manner.<br />
The need to study the Organon<br />
carefully again and again and throughout<br />
one’s learning and practice can never be<br />
overemphasized.<br />
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2. Homœopathy Serving Spirituality<br />
Spirituality Serving Homœopathy<br />
LENNIHAN, Begabati (SIM. XVII,<br />
4/2004)<br />
Spirituality is something practical, for<br />
it refers to a powerful dimension of<br />
reality, albeit one we cannot see with our<br />
human eyes. Our healing<br />
paradigm rests on the workings of Vital<br />
Force, and we routinely assess its strength<br />
in our patients without able to see or<br />
measure it. Objectively quantifiable<br />
physical symptoms are often the visible,<br />
palpable manifestation of an inner<br />
energetic mistunement. To deny the<br />
spiritual underpinnings of the<br />
homœopathic paradigm for fear of<br />
appearing unscientific, is to limit our own<br />
potential.<br />
Once we perceive the infinite<br />
Consciousness, we realize we are on a<br />
journey towards the awakening of this<br />
Consciousness within us and we realize we<br />
have a higher purpose, that life on earth<br />
does have a meaning and direction as<br />
mentioned by HAHNEMANN in § 9.
VITHOULKAS uses the word Teleosis<br />
to the process by which a human being<br />
becomes more and more organized in his<br />
spiritual and psychic level.<br />
LENNIHAN meditates for ten minutes<br />
in the office to silence busy-day mind, set<br />
aside ego to fully receive each patient.<br />
She often asks patients how<br />
Homœopathy can help them fulfill their<br />
highest purpose on earth or what they feel<br />
is the purpose of their illness, what are<br />
they learning from it.<br />
She often recommends books<br />
depending on the patient.<br />
She meditates briefly between each<br />
patient and at the end of the day, thanking<br />
and giving responsibility to the Supreme<br />
Consciousness who is the real healer.<br />
3. The Immateriality and Material<br />
Alchemy of Homœopathy<br />
GRIMES, Melanie J. (SIM. XVII,<br />
4/2004)<br />
HAHNEMANN’s life and philosophy<br />
echo the dichotomy between material and<br />
immaterial that we all face as homœopaths<br />
everyday. HAHNEMANN took<br />
inspiration from KANT, SCHELLING and<br />
the School of Natural Philosophy and also<br />
DESCARTES, SPINOZA, LEIBNITZ and<br />
HEGEL.<br />
In potentizing remedies,<br />
HAHNEMANN spoke of the process as to<br />
“liberate the medicinal power from its<br />
material bonds.”<br />
Homœopathy has an immaterial<br />
element. To practice Homœopathy is to<br />
delve into a subterranean realm, a realm of<br />
great sensitivity, where insight and<br />
extensive listening on a profound channel<br />
leading to a remedy correctly selected, can<br />
bring about physical changes so profound<br />
as to confound logic.<br />
The author has seen Homœopathy<br />
change people’s lives, make decisions to<br />
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marry, to procreate, to deal with the death<br />
of a loved one. Certainly these are<br />
spiritual aspects of human life.<br />
Homœopathy liberates the deepest<br />
elements of our being, an essential<br />
change that effects the person entirely;<br />
the ability to make amends with the<br />
family.<br />
4. Archetype in a Medicine Bottle<br />
Re-integration of Mind and Brain in<br />
the Homœopathic Treatment of Mental<br />
Illness<br />
BROWN, Doug (HL. 16, 4/2003)<br />
Modern medicine considers mental and<br />
emotional illness as a biologically caused,<br />
chemically treatable illness, expressed by<br />
neurohumoral imbalances with roots in genetic<br />
inheritance.<br />
Depth Psychology describes this as<br />
mythic power struggles between cosmic<br />
forces of instinct and Super-Ego, Self and<br />
Ego, individuation vs. regression.<br />
Psychopharmacology and Depth<br />
Psychology operate from two<br />
fundamentally different paradigms.<br />
A truly holistic medicine would not act<br />
by manipulation of brain chemistry to<br />
suppress end-stage symptoms of clinical<br />
syndromes, but would rather reflect back<br />
to the patient an image which resonated<br />
with his or her own particular way of<br />
becoming off-balance, thereby helping the<br />
individual return to a place of<br />
psychological equilibrium.<br />
Homœopathy is becoming understood<br />
as just such a medicine. Many speak of<br />
Mind-Body Connection – as if they are<br />
two separables. Suffering is not merely an<br />
epiphenomenon of organic malfunction. It<br />
is an expression of consciousness.<br />
Symptoms form a detailed, descriptive<br />
statement of the inner condition of the<br />
organism. Symptoms in their essential<br />
nature are not haphazard sequella of faulty<br />
wiring or pathological processes. The
organism is expressing its state, and the<br />
symptoms are the working materials of its<br />
expression.<br />
5. One, Two, Three – Miasms … Light<br />
SWOBODA, Fransz (HL. 16, 4/2003)<br />
Three steps in the understanding of the<br />
concept of Miasms.<br />
Step one: All the single events of<br />
disease in one’s life are but one chronic<br />
disease, sometimes mingled with venereal<br />
Miasms, Sycosis or Syphilis, but mainly<br />
one, called Psora.<br />
Step two: Different diseases of each<br />
individual patients overlap in one or more<br />
aspects; for example – A may suffer form<br />
Asthma, Eczema and Melancholy; B from<br />
Asthma, Arthritis, Weakness; C from<br />
Eczema, Asthma and Joint pains. They not<br />
only suffer from one chronic disease each,<br />
but altogether from the same disease<br />
named Psora. By finding antiPsoric<br />
remedies against the chronic disease the<br />
Psora is eradicated.<br />
Step three: From the very beginning<br />
on, mankind has suffered from Psora.<br />
The article is in the form of an<br />
imaginary dialogue between a medical<br />
(Homœopathy) student and<br />
HAHNEMANN and Madam<br />
HAHNEMANN. Interesting indeed!<br />
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II. MATERIA MEDICA<br />
Himmel und Holle - Opium in der<br />
Literatur und im vorgeburtlichen<br />
Erleben (Heaven and Hell – Opium in<br />
the literature and in pre-natal<br />
experience)<br />
MICHELS, Hans-Lothar (AHZ. 249,<br />
6/2004)<br />
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Opium was formerly described as a<br />
small remedy for acute conditions such as<br />
complaints from fright, cramps and<br />
paralysis. The examination of the drug<br />
literature and the analysis of the prenatal<br />
experiences of patients show that a special<br />
feeling of life is the basis for these human<br />
suffering: the feeling to be expulsed from<br />
paradise into hell.<br />
This study is with particular reference<br />
to the ideas of MASI ELIZALDE, Rajan<br />
SANKARAN, VAN DER ZEE.<br />
2. Lac humanum: der Junge Ödipus auf<br />
dem Berg Kithainon (Lac humanum:<br />
the young OEDIPUS on the Kithainon<br />
mountain)<br />
HADULLA, Michael and PROKOP,<br />
Ines<br />
(AHZ. 249, 6/2004)<br />
During the last few years, a growing<br />
number of well-documented cases have<br />
come up which were treated successfully<br />
with Lac caninum (or milk of other<br />
animals) and Lac humanum. It is<br />
interesting when we consider the great<br />
antique Greek heroes and their probable<br />
homœopathic medicines. This article<br />
attempts to relate one phase of OEDIPUS’<br />
life, when he was an abandoned child on<br />
the mountain of Kithainon, to Lac<br />
humanum.<br />
3. Diospyros kaki - Der Weltbaum. Ein<br />
neues homöopathisches Mittel (Diospyros<br />
kaki: Tree of the World - A New<br />
Homœopathic Remedy)<br />
CREVELD, Marijke (AHZ. 249,<br />
5/2004)<br />
A species of the tree Diospyros kaki,<br />
survived the Plutonium bomb on Nagasaki.<br />
A new homœopathic remedy was made<br />
from this tree.
While three Provers took the C200, 20<br />
persons slept with the remedy under their<br />
pillows. The ‘dream proving’ in this<br />
manner was worked out and the author<br />
treated 30 persons with Diospyros kaki<br />
Creveld. The results were ‘positive’.<br />
Some others also used the remedy and<br />
obtained positive results. The remedy was<br />
prescribed for patients who had mental and<br />
physical complaints caused by a trauma on<br />
account of war, disaster and burning,<br />
problems caused by Chemotherapy and<br />
Radiotherapy and by toxic substances.<br />
[What would have happened if the<br />
‘Provers’ had simply carried a powder in<br />
their pocket or put it close to the chest or<br />
under the bed sheet instead of under the<br />
pillow?; would there have been similar<br />
dreams if the powder had been simply kept<br />
somewhere in the bedroom. Can this be<br />
considered as ‘homœopathic Proving’ by<br />
any stretch of imagination? And yet ‘cures’<br />
are obtained! = KSS]<br />
4. Chamomilla – the Parents’ Friend<br />
FULLER, Diane (HT. 24, 3/2004)<br />
The characteristic symptoms of the<br />
remedy are discussed in brief from<br />
different sources.<br />
5. The Toxicology of Amanita virosa:<br />
The Destroying Angel<br />
BONNET M.S. and BASSON P.W.<br />
(HOMEOPATHY, 93, 4/2004)<br />
This paper examines the biology and<br />
medical consequences of ingesting the potentially<br />
lethal poisonous mushroom, Amanita virosa, the<br />
Destroying Angel. The fungus, its structure,<br />
distribution and toxic components are described.<br />
Symptoms of human poisoning by A. virosa are<br />
described, following the order of Homœopathic<br />
Repertories. Laboratory values for comparison<br />
with normal values of haematology,<br />
biochemistry and urine analyses are given.<br />
Materia Medica based on the human poisoning by<br />
A. virosa<br />
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The symptomatology of A. virosa is similar<br />
to that of A. phalloides. The symptoms start at<br />
about 10-12 h after ingestion, initially lasting for<br />
1 or 2 days. This is followed by a few days of<br />
apparent remission only to recur with severe,<br />
sometimes irreversible, hepatic and renal<br />
damage. After a relatively short gastrointestinal<br />
presentation of vomiting, diarrhoea and<br />
abdominal pains, the actions of A. virosa<br />
concentrates on the liver, blood cells and<br />
kidneys.<br />
Mind<br />
Alert and oriented.<br />
Distress, mild.<br />
Drowsiness.<br />
Lethargic but awake and oriented.<br />
Drowsy but easily aroused.<br />
Face<br />
Pale complexion (adult & child).<br />
Nausea & vomiting<br />
Nausea, first symptom.<br />
Vomiting, 10-12 hours after ingestion.<br />
Bilious vomiting (early symptom).<br />
Abdomen<br />
Abdomen soft with mild tenderness and<br />
bowel sounds slightly hyperactive.<br />
Abdomen tender without localizing<br />
character and diminished bowel sounds.<br />
Abdomen tender in upper right quadrant<br />
but soft and liver not enlarged.<br />
Abdominal cramps/discomfort, severe but<br />
not tender.<br />
Abdominal pain, mild, right upperquadrant.<br />
Abdominal pain, severe, intense, diffuse<br />
colic with vomiting.<br />
Epigastric pains; acute, non-radiating<br />
pains, associated with nausea, bilious<br />
emesis and frequent watery stools,<br />
persisting for 8h or more.<br />
Epigastric tenderness; minimal.<br />
Liver enlarged (child), tender to pressure,<br />
together with anuria and disturbances of<br />
consciousness.<br />
Rectum<br />
Diarrhoea, acute, severe, profuse, about<br />
10-12 h after ingestion.<br />
Diarrhoea with vomiting.
Persistent bloody diarrhoea with mucous<br />
(child).<br />
Stools<br />
Copious brown liquid diarrhoea, strongly<br />
positive for occult blood.<br />
Diarrhoea negative for faecal occult blood<br />
(FOB).<br />
Trace positive for blood.<br />
Urinary system<br />
Oliguria.<br />
Bilirubinuria: 1+ (normal: negative).<br />
Blood (occult): 2 + (normal: negative).<br />
Colour: deep yellow.<br />
Microscopy: erythrocytes (adult): 50-100/<br />
high- power field. (normal: ≤ 3/ highpower<br />
field).<br />
Microscopy: leucocytes (adult & child): 3<br />
– 15/high-power field. (normal: ≤ 5/ highpower<br />
field).<br />
Protein: 3+ (normal: negative).<br />
Specific gravity: 1.018 – 1.023. (normal:<br />
1.035).<br />
Respiration<br />
Respiration rate 24/ min.<br />
Cardiovascular<br />
Hypertension, with a BP of 160/112<br />
(adult).<br />
Hypotension, with a BP of 84/60 (adult).<br />
Pulse rate of 88-150 beats per minute.<br />
Extremities<br />
Cold and cyanotic distally.<br />
Muscular movement in limbs difficult<br />
(second day of illness).<br />
Spasm in legs, severe.<br />
Fever<br />
Shaking chills.<br />
Temperature of 36.9-37.5ºC (adult);<br />
38.1ºC (child).<br />
Perspiration<br />
Diaphoresis.<br />
Skin<br />
Jaundice, yet no hepatosplenomegaly<br />
(adult & child).<br />
Jaundice develops on the 4 th or 5 th day of<br />
illness.<br />
Haematology<br />
Factor V: 11.5% (normal: 50-150%).<br />
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Haemoglobin (m): 16.2 g/dl (normal: m:<br />
13.0-18.0 g/dl).<br />
Haemoglobin (f): 17.8-18.3 g/dl (normal f:<br />
12.0-15.0 g/dl).<br />
Haematocrit (m): 47.5% (normal: m: 38.0-<br />
52.0%).<br />
Haematocrit (f): 48-55% (normal (f): 37.0-<br />
47.0%).<br />
Leucocyte count: 13,320-13,324,100/µl.<br />
(normal: 4,800-10,800/µl). 5,800-<br />
17,600/µl. (normal: 4,800-10,800/µl).<br />
Lymphocytes: 5% of WBC count (adult);<br />
22% (child). (normal: 20-45% of total<br />
WBC count).<br />
Lymphocytes, atypical: 1% of WBC count<br />
(child).<br />
Neutrophils: 94% of WBC count (adult);<br />
77% (child). (normal: 40-75% of total<br />
WBC count).<br />
Platelet count: 144,000-421,000/µl.<br />
(normal: 150,000-450,000/µl).<br />
Prothrombin time (PT): 22.3s (control:<br />
12.2s).<br />
Prothrombin time (PT): 13-30% (normal:<br />
80-120%)<br />
Biochemistry<br />
Biochemical parameters of liver function<br />
may take 25 days to normalize.<br />
Alanine amino transferase (ALT): up to<br />
4,875 IU/l (normal: 7-43 IU/l).<br />
Alkaline phosphatase: 60 U/l. (normal: 48-<br />
125 U/l).<br />
Ammonia (blood): 30-100 µmol/l.<br />
(normal: 21-51 µmol/l).<br />
Amylase: 334-532 IU/l (normal: 25-115<br />
IU/l)<br />
Aspartate amino transferase (AST): up to<br />
9360 IU/l (normal: 13-37 IU/l).<br />
Bilirubin, total: from normal to 22 mg/dl.<br />
(normal: 0.2-1.3 mg/dl).<br />
Bilirubin, total: 11 mg/l reaching a peak of<br />
50 mg/l (85 µmol/l) (normal: 2-12 mg/l).<br />
Blood urea nitrogen (BUN): 33 mg/dl<br />
(adult); 5 mg/dl (child) (normal: 8-23<br />
mg/dl).<br />
Chloride: 103 mmol/l (adult); 108 mmol/l<br />
(child). (normal: 95-105 mmol/l).
Creatinine: 11 mg/l (normal: 6-10 mg/l).<br />
Creatinine: 1.5-6.1 mg/dl (adult); 0.4 mg/dl<br />
(child) (normal: 0.6-1.2 mg/dl).<br />
Globulin: 1.7 g/dl (adult); 0.9 g/dl (child).<br />
(normal IgG: 5.3-16.5 g/dl).<br />
Glucose: 129-186 mg/dl (adult); 81 mg/dl<br />
(child). (normal: 70-120 mg/dl).<br />
Glucose: 2.4 g/l (normal: 0.65-1.1 g/l).<br />
Lactate dehydrogenase: 322-4,540 IU/l<br />
normal: 270-560 IU/l).<br />
Partial thromboplastin time (PTT): 165.7s<br />
(control: 28-51s) (normal: 19.6-34.0s).<br />
Partial thromboplastin time, activated<br />
(aPTT): 51.7s (normal: 29-45 s).<br />
Potassium (K+): 2.7 mmol/l (adult); 4.4<br />
mmol/l (child) (normal: 3.5-5.2 mmol/l).<br />
Protein, total: 4.6 g/dl (child) (normal: 6.3-<br />
8.2 g/dl).<br />
Prothrombin time (PT): 45 sec., but can<br />
exceed 600s (normal: 12-14s).<br />
Urea nitrogen level (serum): from normal<br />
to 77-86 mg/dl. (normal: 6-20 mg/dl).<br />
Uric acid: 15.6 mg/100 ml (normal: 3-7<br />
mg/100ml).<br />
Arterial blood gases<br />
HCO3 – (venous): 17 mmol/l (normal: 22-<br />
30 mmol/l).<br />
Lactic acid: 3.09 (normal: 2.0).<br />
Metabolic acidosis.<br />
pCO2: 16 mmHg (normal: 35-45 mmHg).<br />
pH: 7.31 (normal: 7.35-7.05).<br />
Histopathology<br />
Liver: bile duct proliferation.<br />
Liver: hepatocytic vacuolization.<br />
Liver: massive haemorrhagic necrosis.<br />
Liver: postnecrotic fibrous accumulation.<br />
Kidneys: distal convoluted tubules normal<br />
(generally).<br />
Kidneys: thin loop of Henle: eosinophilic<br />
casts.<br />
US (female): Kidneys: tubules necrosis,<br />
mild: scattered along inner, border of outer<br />
stripe of outer medullary zone; severe:<br />
straight & convoluted tubules: necrosis as<br />
continuous belt, same zone.<br />
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III. THERAPEUTICS<br />
1. Hydrophobinum - A miracle that<br />
brought a child’s life back from fatality<br />
KUMAR (HH. 29, 12/2004)<br />
3-year-old child was given by mistake<br />
a spoonful of acidified liquid (that is<br />
generally used to clean silver and other<br />
metals) in place of cough syrup. As soon<br />
as the liquid was in the mouth, child began<br />
coughing so loudly that all liquid fell off.<br />
A small part entered his esophagus and<br />
made him unconscious. The child was<br />
hospitalized for a week. Examination<br />
(from different angles) was done. No<br />
abnormality was found. The radiology<br />
showed the stomach was pushed anteriorly<br />
by a retro-gastric mass and secondly,<br />
circoesophageal junction was narrowing.<br />
Constricted state of oesophagus was still<br />
beyond control of physicians and surgeons.<br />
However, another surgeon began to<br />
dilate the oesophagus. The technique of<br />
dilating the oesophagus had to be repeated<br />
more than four times. That technique too<br />
failed due to intolerable condition of the<br />
child. Last time, while dilating the<br />
oesophagus began to bleed.<br />
Many homœopaths were consulted<br />
without satisfactory result. Then the case<br />
came to this author. Hydrophobinum M, a<br />
well-selected remedy expelled a lot of<br />
saliva from the esophagus. Next morning<br />
the child longed for milk with a piece of<br />
bread. Within 2 months much improved.<br />
At present, he is running 5th year having a<br />
sound physic and sound mind.<br />
Hydrophobinum a miraculous remedy that<br />
brought the child’s life back from fatality.<br />
Hydrophobinum 1M was given weekly for<br />
a month and then fortnightly. And in 2<br />
months he came to normality.
Symptoms that led to Hydrophobia.<br />
2. Konjunktivitis infolge<br />
Farbkontamination<br />
(Conjunctivitis from Contamination of<br />
Color paint)<br />
BÜNDNER, Martin (ZKH. 48, 4/2004)<br />
28-year-old lady was painting a picture<br />
with the ‘window-colors’, on 2.08.2002.<br />
Small drops of the paint were sprinkled<br />
accidentally when the color tube was<br />
squeezed. The drops fell on the left half of<br />
her hair, face and on the dress.<br />
Immediately the face and hair were<br />
cleaned but not the eyes since her eyes had<br />
not got the color droplets.<br />
Two days later she felt a foreignparticle<br />
in the left eye. The troubles began<br />
slowly. The eye became sensitive to<br />
touch. Rub was felt when she blinked.<br />
The eye became red a little but around it<br />
there was a circular discolored swelling.<br />
Lachrymation heavy; extreme pain like<br />
never before. The pain was far more than<br />
the redness of the eye indicated. The eyeball<br />
burnt; photophobic; put on sunglasses<br />
in her room.<br />
Pulsatilla came out as her remedy after<br />
repertorisation. (Eyes inflammation after<br />
injury: Eyes consequences of injuries,<br />
modalities; alternating states; Eyes,<br />
swelling, lids; Eye pains, boring).<br />
Ref. to NASH’s “Leaders in<br />
Homœopathic Therapeutics”, “There is<br />
another condition of Pulsatilla which may<br />
be considered characteristic, and which<br />
HERING does not mention in his cards,<br />
viz., changeableness of symptoms (Ignat.,<br />
Nux mosch.). All that HERING said was<br />
“wandering pains shift rapidly from one<br />
part to another, also with swelling and<br />
redness of the joints.” Now if this occurs<br />
in rheumatism (Manganum acet., Lac<br />
caninum, Kali bichrom., Kalmia lat.), and<br />
especially if in the Pulsatilla temperament<br />
we may perform a miracle of curing with<br />
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this remedy. But this shifting or<br />
changeableness is not confined to the<br />
pains, which may be either rheumatic or<br />
neuralgic, but is found in the disposition.<br />
The patient is now irritable, then tearful<br />
again, or mild and pleasant; but, even with<br />
the irritableness, is easily made to cry. The<br />
haemorrhages flow, and stop, and flow<br />
again; continually changing. The stools in<br />
diarrhoea constantly change in color; they<br />
are green, yellow, white, watery or slimy;<br />
as GUERNSEY expresses it - “no two<br />
stools alike.” (Sanicula.) This is often<br />
found in the so-called cholera-infantum or<br />
entero-colitis of children in hot weather.”<br />
On 4.08.2002. two globules of<br />
Pulsatilla 30 dry under the tongue. By<br />
evening improvement was<br />
felt alround. On 6.08.2002. there was<br />
again some setback and two globules of<br />
Pulsatilla 200 and soon complete cure.<br />
3. von Fall zu Fall: Falldokumentation<br />
und Fallredaktion: Clemens von<br />
BÖNNINGHAUSEN und Annette von<br />
DROSTE-HÜLSHOFF (From Case to<br />
Case: Case documentation and Case<br />
Editing: Clemens von<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN and Annette von<br />
DROSTE-HÜLSHOFF)<br />
DINGES, Martin and HOLZAPFEL,<br />
Klaus (ZKH. 48, 4/2004)<br />
A manuscript case of<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN is studied<br />
thoroughly and is presented as a case<br />
history; the characterization of the person,<br />
evaluation of contemporary medicine and<br />
Homœopathy. The course of the disease,<br />
correction of an error, problematic<br />
reflections form part of this study. A<br />
detailed and interesting study.<br />
4. Ten Remedies for Simple Insomnia<br />
DOOLEY, Timothy R. (HT. 24,<br />
1/2004)
Homœopathy can often help by finding<br />
a similar remedy to the specific type of<br />
Insomnia to which the patient is suffering<br />
from. By correcting the underlying state in<br />
the patient’s nervous system, improved<br />
sleep will follow at its own pace.<br />
The indications for Coffea cruda, Nux<br />
vomica, Aconite, Chamomilla, Arnica,<br />
Cocculus, Belladonna, Gelsemium,<br />
Capsicum and Staphysagria are given.<br />
5. The Flu, the Vaccine, the treatment<br />
options<br />
ASPINWALL, Mary (HT. 24, 1/2004)<br />
It makes sense to seek advise on the<br />
risks and benefits of Flu shot from<br />
independent sources that will neither profit<br />
nor lose from your decision. Flu vaccine is<br />
relatively ineffective in those patients most<br />
at risk of Flu complications because of the<br />
inherent weakness of their immune system.<br />
Homœopaths can greatly help one<br />
another by sharing information on<br />
symptom patterns and remedies they have<br />
found effective in their patients. “Genus<br />
epidemicus” has the potential to greatly<br />
reduce suffering and save lives.<br />
A Case of Post-vaccination Blues<br />
Woman, 35, ill since the Flu<br />
vaccination nine months earlier. Shooting<br />
pain behind her left breast and pain in right<br />
breast extending down right arm.<br />
Developed strong fear of Cancer, anxious<br />
and bit<br />
nails. Prone to ‘colds’ and chilly person.<br />
Silica 30. Initially the pain in breasts<br />
worsened and some old symptoms<br />
reappeared briefly. Two months later the<br />
pains disappeared, mind more focused,<br />
fear of death diminished and generally less<br />
anxious. Eighteen months later, continues<br />
to be well.<br />
6. The Flu: What you can do<br />
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CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 24, 1/2004)<br />
Influenzinum as preventive.<br />
Oscillococcinum at the very beginning<br />
of feeling ill.<br />
Aconite in the first few hours of fast<br />
developing Flu.<br />
Ferrum phosphoricum if Aconite hasn’t<br />
helped and no other symptoms yet.<br />
The indications for Arsenicum album,<br />
Baptisia, Bryonia, Eupatorium<br />
perfoliatum, Gelsemium, Mercurius<br />
solubilis, Nux vomica, Pyrogenium and<br />
Rhus toxicodendron are given.<br />
Kali phosphoricum: General<br />
exhaustion and depressed after Flu.<br />
China: Debilitated after the Flu.<br />
Gelsemium: Continue to feel dull,<br />
apathetic, heavy and trembly even after<br />
acute flu symptoms have passed.<br />
7. More than the Sum of our Physical<br />
Parts<br />
Understanding Stress: the Key to Good<br />
Homœopathic Prescribing<br />
CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 24, 1/2004)<br />
There is almost unlimited help<br />
available in the homœopathic medicine<br />
chest for life’s multitude of stresses<br />
whether the stress is physical, emotional or<br />
mental.<br />
It is always important to think about<br />
the stresses that which preceded the illness<br />
developing - in yourself or those close to<br />
you.<br />
Case 1: David, suffered from mild but<br />
annoying cough and cold every winter<br />
from the age of three until seven. He had<br />
been treated but without relief. Careful<br />
observation revealed that winter caused it,<br />
cold, wet weather. He is generally sensitive<br />
to cold and always needed wrapping.<br />
Smelly, sweaty feet, shy and sensitive.<br />
Silica 6 three times daily. By day four, his<br />
cough and runny nose cleared.
Case 2: 78-year-old female<br />
complaining of burning pain when she<br />
urinated; incontinence. She was getting up<br />
every hour at night to urinate. Recurrent<br />
UTI in the past but this time the tests were<br />
clear. She suffered from food poisoning at<br />
a party and lost control of her bowels and<br />
was mortified with embarrassment. She<br />
was forgetful of late.<br />
After few doses of Baryta carbonica<br />
30, she slept well, burning and<br />
incontinence cleared and started enjoying<br />
her life again.<br />
8. My top Ten Stressbusters<br />
CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 24, 1/2004)<br />
The indications are tabulated under<br />
heads - Remedy, Stress, Summary and<br />
Keynote symptoms - for Aconite, Arnica,<br />
Arsenicum, Coffea, Gelsemium, Ignatia,<br />
Kali phos, Nux vomica, Phosphoric acid,<br />
Staphysagria and Rescue remedy.<br />
9. Stress isn’t all bad!<br />
ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 24,<br />
1/2004)<br />
How we handle stress and what we do<br />
to minimize it are important factors in<br />
many of the illnesses homœopaths treat.<br />
Understanding the cycle of stress and the<br />
pathology it generates helps the author to<br />
the correct remedy. The nature of the<br />
stress itself is less important than the<br />
individual response to it.<br />
Sheila, a 45-year-old lawyer working<br />
80 hours a week, suffering from severe<br />
CostoChondritis. Constant sharp pain in a<br />
small area. Worse in the middle of the<br />
night. Minimal improvement with<br />
Chiropractors and Physical Therapists.<br />
Job expectations causing tremendous<br />
anxiety and in turn pain worsens. Worried<br />
about her own death and insomnia.<br />
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Kali carbonicum 200, one dose. Six<br />
weeks later, milder episodes and feeling<br />
much better. Sleep improved dramatically.<br />
Anxiety reduced. Six months later flare up<br />
and another dose. For next two years no<br />
problem.<br />
Through her own efforts, her work<br />
with a counselor and her constitutional<br />
homœopathic treatment, she recognizes her<br />
early signs of too much stress and acts by<br />
cutting back at work and doing things that<br />
help her relax.<br />
Stress isn’t all bad - it’s what we do<br />
with it and how we use it that counts!<br />
10. The Stress of Chronic Illness<br />
Homœopathy helps a Debilitating Case<br />
of Crohn’s disease<br />
PAPSO, Cindy (HT. 24, 1/2004)<br />
Long-term chronic illness affects all<br />
aspects of a person’s life - family<br />
relationships, social life, finances, physical<br />
activities, sleep, energy and moods.<br />
David, 32, with Crohn’s disease of 10<br />
years, with sudden, watery and bloody<br />
diarrhoea was accompanied by ‘never<br />
done’ sensation and a feeling of ‘openness’<br />
of rectum. Stools 10-30 times a day. < by<br />
spicy food and fruits. Feverishness and<br />
chills before stools as well as dry cough.<br />
Pain, stiffness in joints and muscle<br />
tightness of back on waking or after<br />
getting chilled.<br />
At 19, he coughed up blood and on<br />
extraction of wisdom teeth, had bleeding<br />
for 3 days.<br />
Phosphorus 30. After 4 weeks,<br />
frequency of diarrhoea began to diminish.<br />
After 3 months, no back or joint pain,<br />
occasional episode of diarrhoea with fever<br />
and at six months rare episodes.<br />
Phosphorus 30 every 3-4 weeks.<br />
After nine months, all the symptoms of<br />
Crohn’s disease abated. He started playing<br />
and injured hamstring. The author<br />
recommended the Feldenkrais Method, as
she did not want to interfere with an<br />
additional homœopathic remedy.<br />
David, after two years, takes<br />
Phosphorus 30 whenever he has a bout of<br />
mild feverishness which in the past was a<br />
precursor. [Would higher potencies of<br />
Phosphorus have ‘Cured’ the condition? =<br />
KSS].<br />
11. A Case of Traumatic Emotional stress<br />
MESSER, Stephen (HT. 24, 1/2004)<br />
Judy, 45, being treated for life long<br />
Depression and Bulimia, stemming from<br />
severe sexual and emotional abuse in her<br />
childhood. She made great strides over the<br />
year, significantly with Phosphorus.<br />
Unfortunately after series of traumatic<br />
events she looked horrible. She was<br />
severely dehydrated, given intravenous<br />
drip and Phosphoric acid as she was<br />
depleted and emotionally flat.<br />
Few days later looking better but was<br />
experiencing intense terror with a feeling<br />
that she will die in 5 minutes. Sensation of<br />
blood being cold. Aconite 10M every two<br />
hours until better and then to take as<br />
needed. Next day she reported 50% better<br />
and slept well. She started eating and<br />
drinking normally. In the next two weeks<br />
she took Aconite as and when needed.<br />
Steady improvement.<br />
12. Top Ten Remedies for Loss and Shock<br />
CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 24, 1/2004)<br />
For the treatment of acute loss and<br />
shock, the indications for Aconite, Arnica,<br />
Aurum metallicum, Causticum,<br />
Gelsemium, Ignatia, Natrum muriaticum,<br />
Opium, Phosphoric acid and Pulsatilla are<br />
given.<br />
13. Ankle Sprain: Taking the Right Steps<br />
OWEN, Jonice (HT. 24, 1/2004)<br />
Jim, 40 twisted right ankle outside his<br />
mother’s home after visiting her and<br />
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planning to stay elsewhere for which he<br />
felt guilty. He thought his injury might<br />
have been emotionally related. Arnica 30<br />
several times for 2 days, followed by Rhus<br />
tox 30 several times for 2 days. They<br />
helped little and sprain remained.<br />
Strontium carbonicum 30, three times a<br />
day for three days or until the swelling<br />
subsided. Strontium carbonicum covered<br />
the ‘anxiety of conscience’ (guilt) also.<br />
Three days later pain and swelling<br />
completely subsided. If you sprain your<br />
ankle, remember to: Protect, Rest, Ice,<br />
Compress and Elevate.<br />
Inserting shoe cushions take pressure<br />
off the joint when walking or standing.<br />
Therapeutic massage can help the joint,<br />
ligaments and muscles to recover its<br />
motility and stability.<br />
Stretching gently before and after<br />
exercising is mandatory after a sprain to<br />
avoid re-injury and prevent chronic<br />
stiffness.<br />
The indications for six sprain remedies<br />
- Arnica, Bryonia, Ledum, Rhus<br />
toxicodendron, Ruta and Strontium<br />
carbonicum - are given.<br />
14. Toilet training made easier<br />
DOOLEY, Timothy R. (HT. 24,<br />
3/2004)<br />
There are a lot of factors involved in<br />
toilet training. The readiness of the child,<br />
the comfort of the environment and the<br />
attitude of the caregivers all make a<br />
difference. Toilet training must be<br />
tactfully encouraged and never forced.<br />
Case: Carmen, 3 years old, already<br />
toilet trained but suddenly regressed and<br />
was experiencing extreme fear and anxiety<br />
about using a toilet and fear of actually<br />
passing the stool. Mother thought it was<br />
more related to the new baby sitter and not<br />
getting enough time with her.
She also began to crave salt and startle<br />
easily from noises. Natrum muriaticum<br />
brought back normalcy for about a month<br />
and then regression and not responding to<br />
subsequent doses. Now she was having<br />
many fears and anxieties and craving sugar<br />
and sweets. The Paediatrician opined that<br />
it was painful, hard stool and aversion to<br />
this pain was causing everything else and<br />
recommended stool softeners for at least<br />
six months to allow Carmen to forget the<br />
painful experience of passing stool and to<br />
allow time for her colon to contract so that<br />
the stool will be smaller.<br />
The case was reconsidered and<br />
Argentum nitricum was given and then no<br />
fears and anxieties and no toilet problem<br />
for many months [How is this healing vis a<br />
vis stool softeners for 6 months!<br />
Homœopathy is placebo therapy? = KSS]<br />
15. Natural remedies for Colic<br />
ROTHENBERG, Amy (HT. 24,<br />
3/2004)<br />
To treat babies with colic, the<br />
indication for Chamomilla, Pulsatilla, Nux<br />
vomica, Lycopodium, Colocynthis,<br />
Magnesium phosphoricum and Ignatia are<br />
given.<br />
Some naturopathic recommendations<br />
are also given.<br />
16. Baby boy avoids surgery<br />
Severe acid reflux healed with<br />
Homœopathy<br />
GRILL, Yolande (HT. 24, 3/2004)<br />
Ethan, five-month-old baby boy with<br />
Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disorder since 3<br />
weeks of age. Vomiting 1-3 hrs after<br />
every feed. Consultation with many<br />
paediatricians did not help and he was<br />
scheduled to have exploratory surgery.<br />
Sour vomiting. Grunting before<br />
vomiting and at other times. Hard stools<br />
once a week. Sleeps on back with his arms<br />
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and legs spread-eagled. He loves being<br />
outside in fresh air.<br />
A single dose of Pulsatilla 30. One<br />
week later, no vomiting. He was trying to<br />
crawl for the first time. He didn’t grunt.<br />
Daily bowel movements and soft stool.<br />
Two more doses as and when needed<br />
were given and he was thriving and had<br />
not needed any further treatment. “There<br />
is nothing more satisfying than watching a<br />
baby stop in mid-scream as the pellets<br />
touch their tongue – or in this case, nothing<br />
more rewarding than averting surgery on a<br />
five-month-old baby. When Homœopathy<br />
works on an infant, it always affirms for<br />
that our remedies are really not placebo!”<br />
17. A 7-week-old total fusspot … and his<br />
mother<br />
GAHLES, Nancy (HT. 24, 3/2004)<br />
Infants can communicate only through<br />
crying and other body language. So the<br />
cardinal rule is to take the case of the<br />
mother. Understanding the state of the<br />
mother at conception and during<br />
pregnancy and delivery is often crucial to<br />
find the remedy for the child.<br />
Nicholas, seven-weeks-old, liked to be<br />
held over the shoulder and walked around.<br />
Sleeps little and wakes up screaming.<br />
Looks angry and fearful all the time.<br />
Easily startled. Doesn’t like to be touched.<br />
Mother revealed that he was a surprise<br />
conception and she was in shock. During<br />
the pregnancy she was told that she could<br />
have a Stroke and die. There was lot of<br />
fear.<br />
Nicholas was born three-and-a-half<br />
weeks premature, with low oxygen and<br />
low blood sugar.<br />
Chamomilla 30 did not help. The child<br />
was “cross, almost mean”. Cina 30 and he<br />
was better immediately – his mood, his<br />
sleep, everything. He never needed<br />
another dose.
18. Castle turrets in the gums<br />
Teething babies<br />
CASTRO, Miranda (HT. 24, 3/2004)<br />
Case 1: Jacob, a plump nine-month-old<br />
baby, drooling copiously and screaming<br />
every now and then in pain. Has 4 teeth<br />
and several “castle turrets” in his gums:<br />
big, red, swollen bumps of teeth trying to<br />
come through for several months now.<br />
Wants to be carried the whole time and has<br />
been coughing a lot. Chamomilla given<br />
many times seemed to help for a short<br />
time.<br />
Calcarea carbonica XM, based on<br />
slow, difficult, painful dentition, cough<br />
during dentition and salivation.<br />
A week later, Jacob is sleeping well,<br />
not coughing and no need of another dose.<br />
Case 2: Luke, two-year-old, sweaty<br />
head and feet, loved boiled eggs, and<br />
taking ages to bring each tooth out and<br />
producing diarrhoea, coughs and colds all<br />
the while.<br />
Calcarea carbonica helped him. At<br />
age 2 all four back molars trying to erupt at<br />
the same time. Very painful and could not<br />
sleep because of pain and cold turning into<br />
Bronchitis. Many remedies did not help<br />
and he had been sick for about 10 days.<br />
Search through Reference Works for<br />
very painful teething and cough during<br />
dentition produced 8 remedies and<br />
Kreosotum fitted Luke’s state. A dose of<br />
200 and his cough cleared overnight, his<br />
health stabilized and he returned to his<br />
former sunny self. All four teeth came<br />
through within days!<br />
Indications for Aconite, Belladonna,<br />
Calcarea carbonica, Calcarea<br />
phosphorica, Chamomilla, Kreosotum,<br />
Magnesia muriaticum, Magnesia<br />
phosphoricum, Phytolacca, Pulsatilla,<br />
Rheum and Silica are given.<br />
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19. A toddler with Hand, Foot and Mouth<br />
disease<br />
POWERS, Donna (HT. 24, 3/2004)<br />
Rebecca, 27 months old, having great<br />
difficulty in nursing because of very painful<br />
sores inside her mouth. Developed rash on her<br />
feet, knees and buttocks. Blisters on the inside<br />
of lower lip and inner cheek, as well as palms<br />
and back of hands. She is cuddling more and<br />
desired apples.<br />
Antimonium tartaricum 30 hourly, 3<br />
doses.<br />
Within minutes, her mood changed<br />
remarkably and fell asleep. Within three<br />
hours, she was nursing. The symptoms<br />
disappeared in the opposite order in which<br />
they appeared.<br />
A week later, very loose rattly cough, no<br />
mucus was coming up and infact, this was how<br />
the whole illness had begun.<br />
Antimonium tartaricum repeated and<br />
within 3 hours her cough completely<br />
disappeared.<br />
20. Homœopathy and Dreams: Functions<br />
or Purposes of the Dream<br />
SCHEPPER, Luc De (AJHM. 97,<br />
4/2004)<br />
Dr. De SCHEPPER catalogs a wide<br />
variety of dreams, describing both their<br />
psychodynamics and their great utility in<br />
analyzing clinical cases homœopathically.<br />
Several options of purposes are<br />
presented.<br />
1. Showing repressed and suppressed<br />
feelings,<br />
leading mainly to parallel dreams.<br />
2. Resolving a long-lasting painful issue.<br />
3. Showing the shadow side of the patient.<br />
4. Showing the action of the simillimum<br />
5. The next prescription appears.<br />
6. Showing the patient’s real-intentions or<br />
feelings<br />
7. Showing the active miasmatic state.<br />
8. Showing the diagnosis and prognosis
9. Showing the etiology<br />
10. Prospective dreams<br />
11. Reductive dreams<br />
12. Reaction dreams<br />
21. Anxiety and Depression<br />
SHANNON, Tim (SIM. XVII, 4/2004)<br />
69 year-old female, a childhood<br />
survivor of a concentration camp<br />
presenting with chronic panic attacks.<br />
Awakened easily by a feeling of being<br />
scared to death. Tightness and constriction<br />
at the chest and throat. Panic in closed<br />
places and small rooms. Shaking and<br />
suffocating during panic attacks. Bad<br />
dreams about horses.<br />
Headaches and sick feeling after milk.<br />
Always cleaning.<br />
Lac equinum 200. Five weeks later,<br />
anxiety better. Sleep better. Intensity of<br />
panic and tightness less and relapse since 3<br />
days. Lac equinum 200 weekly once.<br />
Six weeks later – Still doing well. Lac<br />
equinum 1M for possible use.<br />
5 months later, was advised Gall<br />
bladder surgery for pain and she was<br />
agitated about the Cancer possibility. Lac<br />
equinum 1M, one dose a week.<br />
3 months later, did not undergo surgery<br />
and no need of medicine since 2 months.<br />
Note: The author feels that the patient<br />
clearly had the “signature” of the substance<br />
she needed and these types of cases are<br />
thirty per cent in his practice.<br />
22. Miasms: The I.C.R. View<br />
VELJANOVSKI, Jim (SIM. XVII,<br />
4/2004)<br />
The author explains about the Miasms<br />
as viewed by I.C.R., Mumbai and from<br />
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other sources. We can regard the theory of<br />
Miasms as HAHNEMANN’s scientific<br />
approach to the classification of Chronic<br />
Diseases (as illustrated by ROBERTS,<br />
1942) to facilitate homœopathic<br />
prescribing. Miasms, from that part of<br />
view, are just figments of imaginations;<br />
they are not real, since they cannot be<br />
demonstrated in a patient; Miasms are<br />
inferential, they owe their existence to our<br />
acceptance of a theoretical explanation of a<br />
certain phenomena, which are observable<br />
and hence real. The symptoms are real,<br />
their miasmatic interpretation, theoretical<br />
(DHAWALE 1994). Using this method;<br />
Miasm theory becomes an integral part of<br />
every prescription, a real aid at the<br />
bedside, not merely a theoretically<br />
confusing concept.<br />
23. A Case of Atopic Nummular<br />
Dermatitis<br />
MEHER, Subhash (CCR. 11, 2/2004)<br />
9-year-old girl with Atopic Nummular<br />
Dermatitis in her extremities and buttocks<br />
since 3-4 years, not responding to the<br />
conventional treatment. The eruptions<br />
were vesiculo-pustular, suppurating,<br />
bleeding, burning, scaly, cracked, scratchy,<br />
erythematous, circular lesions. Itching <<br />
night, > uncovering. Appetite ravenous.<br />
Bowels constipated.<br />
The child looked very sad. She was<br />
irritable, obstinate, intelligent, abusive.<br />
Fearless, except for<br />
darkness. Grinding teeth in sleep. Craves<br />
appreciation.<br />
Pneumonia at 6-month age, Measles at<br />
3 years.<br />
Several remedies were given over a<br />
period of 20 days without desired result.<br />
Case retaken. The mother suffered much
forsaken feeling during the pregnancy; fear<br />
of being deserted or that life will be ruined,<br />
fear of poverty.<br />
The child was now very ill but putting<br />
up without complaining. She was chilly.<br />
Psorinum 200 followed by Hepar<br />
sulphur 6, then 200.<br />
Report a month later. Child<br />
completely well.<br />
24. Bronchitis due to Failure of Love<br />
MAMGAIN (CCR. 11, 2/2004)<br />
23-year-old young lady with Bronchitis<br />
since 5 years. No improvement with<br />
allopathic treatment.<br />
She was deeply affected when her<br />
parents did not accept her marriage with a<br />
boy whom she loved. She became easily<br />
affected by change of climate. Caught<br />
cold easily. Sneezings, dyspnoea, craving<br />
for salt, Vertigo, great weakness.<br />
Hyoscyamus 200, Natrum muriaticum<br />
200, Tuberculinum 200, Arsenicum album<br />
30.<br />
Fully restored.<br />
25. A Case of Dysuria<br />
MAMGAIN (CCR. 11, 2/2004)<br />
46-year-old lady, Dysuria since 7<br />
years; very scanty, deep yellow urine.<br />
Obese, copious sweat, body cold, clammy.<br />
Cramps in calves < walking, night;<br />
tenderness right calcaneal bone since two<br />
years.<br />
All joints painful. Right-sided<br />
headaches. Feels puffed up.<br />
Plumbum 200 repeated at suitable<br />
intervals made her urination normal.<br />
Still under treatment for other<br />
complaints.<br />
26. Varicose Ulcer<br />
MAMGAIN (CCR. 11, 2/2004)<br />
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Case 1: 50-year-old male, Varicose<br />
Ulcer about 3" above right malleolus.<br />
Varicose veins +. Copious bleeding from<br />
the ulcer. Large area around the skin,<br />
black discoloration. Itching all around the<br />
ulcer.<br />
Lachesis 30 t.d.s. for 4 days. Rapid<br />
improvement. Lachesis 200 at longer<br />
intervals. Improved.<br />
Case 2: 33-year-old male with Varicose<br />
Veins of left leg, swollen. Recurrent<br />
Varicose Ulcer above left ankle inner side.<br />
Skin all around dark. Ulcer is painless and<br />
no profuse bleeding.<br />
Heavy feeling in abdomen; much flatulence.<br />
Carbo vegetabilis M followed by<br />
Lachesis 200 at ‘long-interval’. Lachesis<br />
continued and in three months there was<br />
very good improvement.<br />
27. Retro Calcaneal Bursitis<br />
MAMGAIN (CCR. 11, 2/2004)<br />
57-year-old male, pain left heel since<br />
six months. Diagnosed Retro Calcaneal<br />
Bursitis.<br />
No relief with conventional treatment.<br />
Cyclamen 30, then 200, M followed by<br />
Mercurius M, Rhus toxicodendron 30.<br />
Completely cured. (Follow up 18 years,<br />
remains cured)<br />
28. Trauma<br />
MAMGAIN (CCR. 11, 2/2004)<br />
First case is of a woman, 45, who<br />
suffered a fracture treated by Surgeon, but<br />
wound healing was wanting because of<br />
which skin grafting could not be done.<br />
Silicea healed rapidly after which the<br />
grafting also was done successfully.<br />
A boy of 12 fell from the first floor on<br />
to the roof of the ground floor (10 feet) and<br />
suffered head injury. The usual Surgical,<br />
neurological treatments helped some way
ut did not regain consciousness. He was<br />
discharged with very poor prognosis.<br />
Remedies as indicated by the symptom -<br />
Kali bichromicum (Cough, ropy<br />
expectoration), Alum. (Constipation),<br />
Conium, later Arnica made him recover<br />
over a period, to normalcy.<br />
Two cases of girls, 8 years age, who<br />
both had fish bone stuck in the throat, in<br />
the evening. Silica 30 relieved the pain in<br />
half an hour. No further troubles at all.<br />
29. Uterine Fibroids: A Clinical Study with<br />
USG Follow-up<br />
GUPTA, Girish et al (NJH. 5, 3/2003)<br />
217 cases of Uterine Fibroids (single and<br />
multiple) were registered and treated. These<br />
were followed up. Timely diagnosis with<br />
Ultrasonography followed by homœopathic<br />
treatment showed excellent response in<br />
significant number of cases avoiding surgery. 74<br />
patients were cured, 21 were best improving,<br />
showing more than 50% reduction in the size of<br />
Fibroid. 64 showed significant improvement, 31<br />
maintained status quo<br />
and 21 did not improve. The overall results of<br />
this study are encouraging.<br />
149 cases were of single Fibroid, 26 two<br />
Fibroids and 40 multiple Fibroids. Married<br />
women were more prone to Fibroids than<br />
unmarried. Occurrence was maximum between<br />
age 21-50. Maximum (120) were between 36-50<br />
year age, 89 between 21-35 year age.<br />
Nulliparous and multiparous were more<br />
prone to Fibroids in comparison to those with<br />
one child. 179 patient were from urban and 27<br />
from rural.<br />
30. Cancer<br />
DHAR, Bansi and BHATNAGAR,<br />
Pankaj<br />
(NJH. 5, 3/2003)<br />
Misuse of homœopathic medicines at<br />
the hands of untrained, unqualified or illequipped<br />
homœopaths can equally result<br />
or bring about adverse effects beyond<br />
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repair or reversal. Few case reports have<br />
been given.<br />
Trauma is an important exciting cause<br />
of Cancer. Cancer of Gall bladder is due<br />
to constant irritation by the stones on the<br />
inner lining of the Gall bladder.<br />
Cancer of Prostate due to repeated<br />
trauma to prostatic path of urethra.<br />
Glans penis gets traumatized if the<br />
cervix of the female is hard or soft.<br />
Breast Cancer due to trauma to the<br />
breast.<br />
Side effects of Chemotherapy: Nausea<br />
and vomiting, Alopecia, Depression and<br />
Anxiety, Altered Growth, Impaired<br />
fertility, Insomnia, Loss of weight.<br />
31. Aggravation<br />
MAMGAIN (CCR. 11, 2/2004)<br />
Male, with recurring Stye (single Stye<br />
always). Someone had given him<br />
Staphysagria 30. The patient took the<br />
remedy indiscriminately and in two weeks<br />
he consumed 4 vials of 5ml bottles<br />
globules. Developed several Styes both<br />
eyes, the lids were studded fully with<br />
Styes, some suppurating, some in process<br />
of developing. Camphora 30 and soon all<br />
the Styes vanished permanently. [An<br />
interesting question arises from this. A<br />
30 th potency has no molecule and far<br />
beyond the Avogadro number. With<br />
nothing ‘material’ in the 30 potency is it<br />
capable of ‘producing’ a ‘pathology’ such<br />
as Stye? In the ‘Provings’ (ref.<br />
Encyclopaedia of T.F.ALLEN) there is no<br />
Stye produced in the course of the<br />
‘Proving’. There is no indication whether<br />
the Provers took the mother tinctures or<br />
low potency etc. If a 30 of Staphysagria<br />
can produce Stye it would mean that it is<br />
not placebo effect. That it was<br />
Staphysagria 30 which produced the crops<br />
of Styes is beyond doubt since the antidote<br />
Camphora succeeded in averting the
further aggravation and also cured the<br />
‘tendency to get Styes’. = KSS]<br />
Acute Sore Mouth, whole mouth raw<br />
and painful was given Carbolic acid 30<br />
t.d.s. Patient reported that he was rid of<br />
the complaints but insisted for some more<br />
of the medicines and six more doses were<br />
sent with two doses of this there was<br />
recurrence of the complaint and worser<br />
than it was at first. Placebo given and he<br />
became well. [In the Staphysagria case<br />
above, antidoting was done and patient got<br />
over the aggravation and ‘cure’ of the<br />
ailments also. In this case of Carbolic acid<br />
no antidote was given but the aggravation<br />
came down by itself and patient was free<br />
from the complaints. Is it that the<br />
aggravation was not by the pathological<br />
organisms but only a ‘tendency’ and on<br />
stopping the medicine, the tendency also<br />
went away? = KSS]<br />
32. Allergy to Wood<br />
MANN (CCR. 11, 2/2004)<br />
35 year-old Carpenter who suffered<br />
“allergy” to a particular wood which<br />
affected his earnings.<br />
Based on SEHGAL method, Sepia 30<br />
one dose was given and he rapidly<br />
improved and he did not suffer “allergy”<br />
after that even though he worked with the<br />
same wood.<br />
33. Vocal Cord Paralysis – Zincum<br />
metallicum<br />
MHAMANE, Vaibhav K. (CCR. 11,<br />
2/2004)<br />
75 year-old man whose voice was<br />
hardly a whisper due to paralysis of the<br />
Vocal Cord. His work in a cloth mill<br />
involved blowing into a contraption<br />
constantly.<br />
He was found constantly moving his<br />
legs. While Causticum, Kali carbonicum,<br />
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Zincum metallicum, Phosphorus came up<br />
in repertorisation, Zincum 200 was given<br />
and the patient began to improve promptly.<br />
34. A Case of Dysfunctional Uterine<br />
Bleeding<br />
MHAMANE, Maeesha (CCR. 11,<br />
2/2004)<br />
42 year-old female; since 8-9 months<br />
heavy bleeding p.v., profuse. Bright red<br />
clots, Protracted 10-15 days, intermits 4<br />
days and again bleeding. Allopaths treated<br />
4 months; advised hysterectomy.<br />
Sudden stiffness in any part of body<br />
with pains. Headache severe; < sour,<br />
tension, spicy food, vomiting, > tight<br />
binding. Irritable. Lightning before eyes<br />
as if sparks.<br />
Lot of worries, stresses. Anaemic.<br />
Kali carbonicum 200. Phosphorus 200<br />
for acute.<br />
35. Lachesis.<br />
SINGH, Bhupinder (CCR. 11, 2/2004)<br />
48 year-old female, became vindictive,<br />
swore to kill her husband since he was<br />
having an illegitimate affair with another<br />
woman and lied to her. She also swore to<br />
kill the other woman.<br />
Lachesis. (Remedy Selection on<br />
‘SEHGAL method’)<br />
36. Phosphorus<br />
SINGH, Bhupinder (CCR. 11, 2/2004)<br />
This is a case of a ‘childless’ couple.<br />
Phosphorus the woman became pregnant.<br />
[This case too has been prescribed on<br />
SEHGAL Method. The ‘rubrics’ selected are<br />
beyond comprehension of a normal homœopath.<br />
It seems that one must have a wild and bizarre<br />
thinking to work with this method. = KSS.]<br />
37. A Case of Wilson’s Disease<br />
MISTRY D.E. (NAMAH. 12, 1/2004)
A six-year-old boy diagnosed of Wilson’s<br />
Disease. Wilson’s Disease is an inherited,<br />
autosomal recessive disorder that results in<br />
abnormal copper metabolism, causing excessive<br />
copper to be deposited in several organs leading<br />
to damage in their respective functions. The<br />
predominant clinical features are symptoms of<br />
serious hepatic disease, neurological damage,<br />
dementia, haemolysis, osteoporosis and renal<br />
tubular damage. The observation of Kayser-<br />
Felischer sign in the eyes is characteristic of this<br />
particular disease.<br />
In this case the child was brought in an<br />
advanced stage and despite the best under the<br />
circumstances (Nux vomica and then<br />
Antimonium tartaricum), he passed away.<br />
38. Homöopathische Behandlung von<br />
Krebserkrankungen durch der Allgemeinarzt<br />
(Homœopathic Treatment of Cancer patients<br />
by General Practitioners)<br />
MATEU-RATERA, Manuel<br />
(AHZ. 249, 5/2004)<br />
This very interesting article discusses<br />
the experience of 6 General Practitioners in<br />
the homœopathic treatment of Cancer.<br />
A retrospective observation study of 72<br />
patients suffering from Cancer in their own<br />
consultations. Good effect of<br />
Homœopathy was observed in Stages I and<br />
II, in some cases full remission, in Stages<br />
III and IV, a palliation in about half of the<br />
cases, especially reduction of pain. The<br />
significance of family history is exposed.<br />
The paper ends with 5 exemplary cases.<br />
The article discusses many aspects –<br />
the kinds of Cancer, results of<br />
conventional treatment, the cases that may<br />
be treated with Homœopathy combined<br />
with the Conventional Therapy, whether<br />
there is a pre-cancerous state, whether<br />
patients under homœopathic treatment for<br />
some other ailments are not free from<br />
contracting Cancer, whether there is a<br />
Cancer Miasm, the beneficial effects of the<br />
‘Plussing’ method, etc.<br />
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The relevance of BURNETT, ELI<br />
JONES, CLARKE, Robert COOPER,<br />
GRIMMER, RAMAKRISHNAN is also<br />
discussed.<br />
39. Erfahrungen bei der Krebsbehandlung in der<br />
Clinica Santa Croce (Orselina, Schweiz)<br />
(Experiences in Cancer treatment in the<br />
Clinic Santa Croce)<br />
TAKÁCS, Miklós (AHZ. 249, 5/2004)<br />
This article again documents homœopathic<br />
treatment of Cancer in Clinic at Santa Croce, in<br />
Orselina, Switzerland.<br />
The article says how Dr. Dario<br />
SPINEDI got the facility in the Santa<br />
Croce Clinic to treat Cancer patients and<br />
how Dr. SPINEDI and his team of<br />
dedicated Homœopathy doctors treat.<br />
The planning, the methodology, the use<br />
of the Q potency (50-millesimal potency)<br />
and its excellent results are detailed.<br />
The rare application of the D Potency<br />
(where an ‘Organ remedy’ is considered<br />
necessary) or still rarer ‘mother tincture’<br />
are used in exceptional circumstances; but<br />
the Q and C Potencies are the normal.<br />
The treatment of pains, treatment of<br />
iatrogenous disorders, palliative measures,<br />
the question of dosage, psychological<br />
support to the seriously ill, the role of other<br />
therapeutic methodologies, along with<br />
Homœopathy, the co-operation with the<br />
specialist Oncologists are all briefly given.<br />
The ‘model’ adopted in the St. Croce<br />
clinic in the treatment of Cancer is well<br />
worth consideration<br />
by hospitals where homœopathic treatment<br />
are proposed.<br />
40. Homöopathische Behandlung von<br />
Krebs in der Allgemeinarzt praxis<br />
(Homœopathic Treatment of Cancer in<br />
General Medical Practice)<br />
KUHLMANN-CUSTODIS, Frank
(AHZ. 249, 5/2004)<br />
This again is a very interesting article on<br />
homœopathic treatment of Cancer by a General<br />
Medical Practitioner.<br />
The author studied with Dr. Alfons<br />
GEUKENS who taught that irrespective of<br />
the name of the diagnosis, be it Cancer,<br />
individualize and treat. Be flexible in that<br />
that every case is singular and therefore<br />
take the case and find the appropriate<br />
medicine for the patient at that time in the<br />
life of the patient from our Materia<br />
Medica.<br />
Few cases of Cancer treated by the<br />
author explains.<br />
41. Using Vital Sensations to Connect the<br />
Disturbed Vital Force and the<br />
Simillimum<br />
An Example of the Use of Vital<br />
Sensations in Practice<br />
BAKER, Jeff (HL. 16, 4/2003)<br />
A case to illustrate a somewhat ‘new way’ of<br />
practising Homœopathy according to Rajan<br />
SANKARAN’s latest teaching.<br />
In the new approach the idea is to go<br />
from the specific to the broad, to build the<br />
edifice of the case upon the chief or<br />
presenting complaint.<br />
The author says that excellent results<br />
are much more consistently obtainable and<br />
along with that, confidence in how to<br />
proceed in the management of cases is<br />
greatly enhanced, since the correct remedy<br />
has been mapped from two directions and<br />
then reconfirmed.<br />
Case: 56-year-old lady with very<br />
sharp, stinging, pain in the medial aspect<br />
of left upper chest. Pain feels like several<br />
probes of stinging. Feels this could be<br />
something serious and would have to have<br />
a different life. Father was very violent.<br />
Husband a negative person. When he<br />
yells, it is like an assault. “By living with<br />
him I feel I am settling some account of<br />
Karma”.<br />
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Analysis: Easy movement from one<br />
complaint to another, from one subject to<br />
another and expression of complaints using<br />
sensations indicates plant kingdom.<br />
The vital sensation of stinging, sharp,<br />
probes and jabs come under the family of<br />
Araceae.<br />
The feeling that she has to live with the<br />
problems, accept things as they are and<br />
lead a rather restricted life indicates<br />
Sycotic Miasm.<br />
The remedy for the Sycotic Miasm in<br />
the family of Araceae is Caladium<br />
seguinum.<br />
A dose of 200 th potency was given.<br />
Brief aggravation, followed by an<br />
extra-ordinary response. Significant<br />
improvement was obvious in all her<br />
physical complaints. She was even finding<br />
it somewhat easier to cope with her<br />
husband.<br />
Eight months follow-up is given.<br />
This method gets its impetus directly from<br />
dissatisfaction with failures in practice. [This<br />
seems to be in accordance with Rajan<br />
SANKARAN’s latest theory. In this case, the<br />
author ends his report “Although the results,<br />
thus far, are impressive, I believe my patient has<br />
still a long way to go, but I do not see another<br />
remedy in the horizon. In two or three more<br />
years, she should be much more healthy…” Does<br />
this mean that the patient is only partly cured?<br />
There is no reference to the Materia<br />
Medica or Proving. The Guiding<br />
Symptoms mentions ‘stinging’, ‘stitching’<br />
pains.<br />
The patient is still as at time of<br />
reporting the case not completely free of<br />
her ‘sharp’ feeling in the upper area of the<br />
chest, not so frequent as when she came to<br />
the doctor first. = KSS]<br />
42. Insight into § 84<br />
Voluntary Detail … its Meaning and<br />
Importance
SHETYE, Prasad S. &<br />
KHARIWALA, Falguni K. (HL. 16,<br />
4/2003)<br />
A person’s individuality is expressed<br />
through the language he uses and through it we<br />
reach to the innermost essence of where the<br />
individual is stuck … where his ‘state’ is stuck.<br />
A man aged 49 years, consulted in<br />
1990 with severe Osteoarthritis of the knee<br />
joints since 5 years, after his daughter<br />
eloped with a muslim boy. He was very<br />
angry as he had a ‘generational’ hatred<br />
towards muslims. Earlier he was religious,<br />
now not so as he felt let down by God.<br />
Angry form contradiction and throws,<br />
breaks things in anger. “I have a strong<br />
feeling that I have supported everyone but<br />
everyone has bitten me like a snake.”<br />
Crepitations in knee joints. Severe<br />
acidity and nausea after fatty food and very<br />
severe cough < 3 a.m. since 8 months.<br />
Left sub-mandibular lymphadenitis.<br />
The expression ‘bitten by a snake’ is<br />
interpreted as Delusions, deceived being<br />
which is there in Drosera and Ruta in the<br />
PHATAK’s Repertory.<br />
Delusions, persecution – for his<br />
feelings towards his brother.<br />
Drosera 200 on 25 th March 1990.<br />
Two weeks later, pain knees better and<br />
his cough disappeared.<br />
A month later, No knee pain. No<br />
crepitations.<br />
Two months later, cough since 2 days<br />
as he smoked. Severe Sinusitis with pain<br />
and tenderness above the eyes and green<br />
nasal discharge. Drosera 1M and reported<br />
consistently better. In the next 6 years,<br />
Drosera 10M and 50M infrequently. Later<br />
Sulphur as his totality of state changed.<br />
The case explains what is said in § 84:<br />
how a case is taken, how to listen without<br />
interruption, etc. etc.<br />
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43. Alice<br />
KOSTER, Dick (HL. 16, 4/2003)<br />
Alice, 42-year-old woman with<br />
trembling hands, alternating with pain in<br />
her hands. Can’t hold anything and drops<br />
with a feeling of weakness, a diminished<br />
muscle strength. Feet tremble while<br />
driving and restless feeling in feet.<br />
Became gloomy with the trembling.<br />
Lolium temulentum 200. Five days<br />
later, the trembling worse for a day or two<br />
and then hands became more and more<br />
quiet. No usual Migraine, Vertigo, better<br />
by closing the eyes and a cold stiffening of<br />
her arms and legs, both existing before the<br />
remedy was given. One dose to be taken<br />
when necessary.<br />
Seven months later, frequent Migraine<br />
and trembling of hands. She panics easily,<br />
is restless and feels powerless on the left<br />
side of the body. Third dose.<br />
After 18 months, headache more often.<br />
Now she tells about her clairvoyance since<br />
childhood and feels the pain from other<br />
people and her sympathetic nature and<br />
about people dependent on her for help.<br />
Guilt feeling because of leading a dualistic<br />
life for directing choir at church and using<br />
her special power to help others, which<br />
will not be accepted by the church.<br />
Fourth dose and a month later a dose of<br />
1M.<br />
Three months later, no headache.<br />
Comfortably calm. The details about this<br />
plant are discussed and other grass<br />
remedies are mentioned. [The author has<br />
used 25 rubrics – Mac Repertory and<br />
Complete Repertory. This is rather a<br />
mechanical method. = KSS]<br />
44. Medorrhinum – a Remedy for Modern<br />
Children Management of Allergic and<br />
Nervous Children
GNAIGER-RATHMANNER, Jutta &<br />
BÖHLER, Mirjam (HL. 16, 4/2003)<br />
This is the lecture at 56 th Congress of<br />
LIGA in 2001. This is regarding the<br />
successful prescription of Medorrhinum in<br />
42 cases during the period 1988 to 2000,<br />
37 of them children. Various tabular<br />
columns of the cases regarding distribution<br />
of age, frequency of prescription,<br />
diagnoses, birth and infantile development<br />
and related remedies are given.<br />
The author concludes Medorrhinum is<br />
a remedy for wide range of allergic or<br />
atopic children.<br />
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IV. PHARMACOLOGY<br />
1. Homöopathie und Phytotherapie<br />
(Homœopathy and Phytotherapy)<br />
GRIMM, Andreas (ZKH. 48, 4/2004)<br />
2. CERES AG Schweiz und ALCEA<br />
GmbH Deutschland Die Verbindung von<br />
Homöopathie und Phytotherapie<br />
(CERES AG Switzerland and ALCEA<br />
GmbH Germany. The blending of<br />
Homœopathy and Phytotherapy)<br />
UNDORF, Klaus (ZKH. 48, 4/2004)<br />
A medicinal plant as such is neither<br />
homœopathic nor phytotherapic, but it depends<br />
upon its preparation. Similarly the ‘mothertincture’<br />
if it is prepared in same manner. In<br />
the case of phyto-therapeutic application the<br />
preparation will be from dry plant parts, while<br />
in respect of homœopathic it will be from fresh<br />
plant parts. However we cannot obtain fresh<br />
plant, we will use the dry ones (e.g. Cinchona<br />
bark). Only when applied in accordance with<br />
the Laws of Similarity, it becomes homœopathic.<br />
CERES uses a specially constructed<br />
apparatus for squeezing out the plants,<br />
pressing, etc., ethanol extraction and<br />
trituration.<br />
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A review of the history of<br />
homœopathic remedy manufacture shows<br />
the long path from HAHNEMANN’s in<br />
the manufacture and dosage of remedy<br />
from the ‘moderate’ prescribing (1796), to<br />
the minute-long succussion (1801) to the<br />
exact preparation of the 50,000 potencies<br />
in the Organon VI (1842). Between these<br />
was big time gap of intensive work, the<br />
remedy preparation and dosage<br />
instructions continuously improved.<br />
A great deal of care goes into<br />
producing CERES and ALCEA mother<br />
tincture. Space and Time (the most<br />
important principles underlying the effect)<br />
are at the focus of attention in preparing<br />
medicinal plants. Pharmacological studies<br />
have shown that the fresh plant tincture<br />
most probably constitutes the most<br />
effective form of preparation of medicinal<br />
plant medication and the most efficient<br />
way of taking the medication. This is<br />
based on the observation that the space<br />
between the molecules of the active<br />
ingredient, which are filled with watery<br />
alcohol, has a significant effect. The same<br />
thing applies with respect to the factor<br />
time: grinding the medicinal plants in a<br />
slow, correct rhythm with a mortar and<br />
pestle leads to a sustained stabilization of<br />
the fluid structure, thus enhancing the<br />
effectiveness of the mother tincture.<br />
Mother tinctures of CERES and ALCEA<br />
are probably the only mother tincture in<br />
the world, which conform not only to the<br />
currently applicable, simplified HAB<br />
(Pharmacopæia) methods - they are also in<br />
full conformity with the original HAB<br />
methods.<br />
V. RESEARCH<br />
1. Rapid Induction of Protective<br />
Tolerance to Potential Terrorist
Agents: A Systematic Review of Low-<br />
and Ultra-low Dose Research<br />
SZETO A.L.; ROLLWAGEN F. and<br />
JONAS W.B. (HOMEOPATHY, 93,<br />
4/2004)<br />
Objective: To systematically review<br />
the literature on the ability of low-dose<br />
(LD) and ultra-low-dose (ULD) toxin<br />
exposure to prevent and treat biological<br />
and chemical threats.<br />
Methods: Laboratory research articles<br />
on protection or treatment from LD or<br />
ULD exposure for the 13 high-risk<br />
chemical and biological warfare threats<br />
were collected and systematically<br />
evaluated for quantity and scientific<br />
quality using pre-defined methodological<br />
criteria.<br />
Results: Over 2600 articles were<br />
screened. Only five studies met the<br />
inclusion criteria examining stimulation<br />
and protective effects of LD- or ULD-<br />
exposures to the 13 pre-identified<br />
biological and chemical agents. The<br />
quality evaluation (QE) of these studies<br />
was above average with a mean QE score<br />
of 70.6% of maximum. Two articles of<br />
fair to good quality reported both<br />
protective and treatment efficacy from<br />
exposure of<br />
animals or humans to LD- and ULD-<br />
exposures to toxins of risk in biochemical<br />
warfare.<br />
Conclusion: There is little research on<br />
agents of biological and chemical warfare<br />
investigating the possible use of LD- and<br />
ULD- toxins for protection and treatment.<br />
The existing literature is generally of good<br />
quality and indicates that rapid induction<br />
of protective tolerance is a feasible but<br />
under-investigated approach to bioterrorist<br />
or biowarfare defense. In our opinion,<br />
further research into the role of induced<br />
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protection with LD- and ULD- toxic agents<br />
is needed.<br />
2. Homœopathic Proving Symptoms:<br />
Result of a Local, Non-local, or<br />
Placebo Process? A Blinded, Placebocontrolled<br />
Pilot Study<br />
WALACH H.; SHERR J.; SCHNEIDER R.;<br />
SHABI R.; BOND A. and RIEBERER G.<br />
(HOMEOPATHY, 93, 4/2004)<br />
Background: Homœopathic<br />
pathogenetic trials (HPTs) (provings) are<br />
the pillar of Homœopathy. Symptoms<br />
experienced by healthy volunteers are used<br />
to find the correct medicine for therapy. It<br />
is unclear whether these symptoms are<br />
specific or due to placebo noise.<br />
Furthermore, it is uncertain whether<br />
proving effects, if present at all, are due to<br />
a local or non-local process.<br />
Objectives: To develop a test model<br />
which allows for testing if homœopathic<br />
proving symptoms are caused by placebo<br />
or causative mechanisms, and if these<br />
symptoms are due to local or non-local<br />
processes.<br />
Design: Randomised, blinded,<br />
placebo-controlled, parallel-group study,<br />
with 1-week baseline and 2-weeks proving<br />
period.<br />
Subjects: 11 healthy volunteers from<br />
two different homœopathic schools.<br />
Proving substance: A homœopathic<br />
medicine (Cantharis 30), blindly chosen<br />
from 12 potential medicines, compared to<br />
placebo.<br />
Outcome measure: Number of<br />
symptoms typical for the medicine in the<br />
experimental and control group during<br />
baseline and proving period.<br />
Results: During baseline there was no<br />
difference in the number of typical or<br />
atypical symptoms in either group. During<br />
the proving period, both more typical<br />
symptoms for Cantharis (P=0.03) and<br />
more atypical symptoms (P=0.02) were
observed compared to baseline. Betweengroup<br />
differences were not significant.<br />
Effect sizes for the difference between the<br />
proving and control group for typical<br />
symptoms was d=0.4, and for atypical<br />
symptoms d=0.6.<br />
Discussion: This proving model could be<br />
valuable in studying the validity of proving<br />
symptoms of homœopathic substances in<br />
healthy volunteers.<br />
Conclusion: Homœopathic proving<br />
symptoms appear to be specific to the<br />
medicine and do not seem to be due to a<br />
local process. Since this was a pilot study<br />
using a small number of provers, rival<br />
hypotheses cannot be ruled out and the<br />
study needs replication.<br />
3. The Placebo-controlled Trial as a Test<br />
of Complementary and Alternative<br />
Medicine: Observations from Research<br />
Experience of Individualised<br />
Homœopathic Treatment<br />
WEATHERLEY-JONES E.;<br />
THOMPSON E.A. & THOMAS K.J.<br />
(HOMEOPATHY, 93, 4/2004)<br />
The authors’ experience of conducting<br />
clinical trials in Homœopathy and<br />
analysing data from these has drawn<br />
attention to a fundamental problem with<br />
the interpretation of results from placebo<br />
controlled trials in Homœopathy: It is not<br />
reasonable to assume that the specific<br />
effects of homœopathic medicine and the<br />
non-specific effects of consultations are<br />
independent of each other - specific effects<br />
of the medicine (as manifested by patients’<br />
reactions) may influence the nature of<br />
subsequent consultations and the nonspecific<br />
effects of the consultation may<br />
enhance or diminish the effects of the<br />
medicine.<br />
For clinical trials of Homœopathy to be<br />
accurate representations of practice, we<br />
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need modified designs that take into<br />
account the complexity of the<br />
homœopathic intervention. Only with such<br />
trials will the results be generalisable to<br />
homœopathic practice in the real world.<br />
The authors propose that comparative trials<br />
are a meaningful way of evaluating the<br />
effectiveness of homœopathic treatment.<br />
[All the tests for evidence are generally<br />
modelled after the Hegemony Medicine -<br />
Allopathy. ‘Medicine’ is taken to<br />
exclusively mean the Allopathic System.<br />
All the other time-tested, people-friendly,<br />
less cumbersome, far less cost, noninvasive<br />
methodologies are lumped<br />
together as ‘Complementary Medicine’,<br />
‘Alternative Medicine’. For two hundred<br />
years, if not more, Homœopathy has been<br />
curing, including many so-called<br />
incurables. As many years since there<br />
have been enough and more ‘evidences’,<br />
but they are not accepted. Ever and more<br />
repeatedly ‘evidence’ is demanded. In this<br />
very journal there have been, over the<br />
years, several papers published to<br />
‘evidence’ yet in this journal again such<br />
papers are published. = KSS]<br />
4. Repertory and the Symptom Loquacity:<br />
Some Results From A Pilot Study on<br />
Likelihood Ratio<br />
RUTTEN A.L.B; STOLPER C.F.;<br />
LUGTEN R.F.G. and BARTHELS<br />
R.W.J.M. (HOMEOPATHY, 93,<br />
4/2004)<br />
Treatment outcome in a pilot study<br />
indicates that it is possible to assess<br />
likelihood ratios of homœopathic<br />
symptoms. Entries in Repertory rubrics<br />
can be validated, but must still be handled<br />
carefully. Prospective research is the only<br />
acceptable way. Software to support this<br />
research must be carefully designed to<br />
export correct data.
5. Effect of Atropa belladonna and<br />
Echinacea angustifolia in<br />
Homœopathic Dilution on<br />
Experimental Peritonitis<br />
PEDALINO C.M.V.; PERAZZO F.F.;<br />
CARVALHO J.C.T.; MARTINHO<br />
K.S.; MASSOCO C de O and<br />
BONAMIN L.V. (HOMEOPATHY,<br />
93, 4/2004)<br />
Atropa belladonna and Echinacea<br />
angustifolia have been used in<br />
Homœopathy as modulators of<br />
inflammatory processes, in simple potency<br />
or ‘accord of potencies’, as recommended<br />
by homotoxicology. We evaluated their<br />
effects on leukocyte migration and<br />
macrophage activity induced by<br />
experimental Peritonitis in vivo. Mice were<br />
injected (i.p.) with LPS (1.0mg/kg) and<br />
treated (0.3ml/10g/day, s.c.) with different<br />
commercial forms of these medicines.<br />
Echinacea angustifolia D4 – a simple<br />
potency preparation – and Belladonna<br />
homaccord, Belladonna injeel, Belladona<br />
injeel forte, Echinacea injeel and<br />
Echinacea injeel forte- all in ‘accord of<br />
potencies’ – were tested.<br />
The association of Atropa belladonna<br />
and Echinacea angustifolia in ‘accord of<br />
potencies’ produced an increase of<br />
polymorphonuclear cell migration<br />
(Kruskal-Wallis, P=0.03) and a decrease<br />
of mononuclear cell percentages (Kruskal-<br />
Wallis, P≤ 0.04), when compared with<br />
control, mainly in preparations containing<br />
low potencies. The proportion of<br />
degenerate leukocytes was lower in the<br />
treated groups, compared to a control<br />
group (P≤ 0.05). The treated groups<br />
showed increased phagocytosis (P≤ 0.05),<br />
mainly in preparations containing high<br />
potencies. Our results suggest that Atropa<br />
belladonna and Echinacea angustifolia,<br />
when prepared in ‘accord of potencies’,<br />
modulate peritoneal inflammatory reaction<br />
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and have a cytoprotective action on<br />
leukocytes.<br />
6. On the Dynamics of Water Molecules<br />
at the Protein Solute Interfaces<br />
BERNINI A.; SPIGA O.; CIUTTI A.;<br />
CHIELLINI S.; MENCIASSI N.;<br />
VENDITTI V. and NICCOLAI N.<br />
(HOMEOPATHY, 93, 4/2004)<br />
Proteins, with the large variety of<br />
chemical groups they present at their<br />
molecular surface, are a class of molecules<br />
which can be very informative on most of<br />
the possible solute-solvent interactions.<br />
Hen egg white lysozyme has been used as<br />
a probe to investigate the complex solvent<br />
dynamics occurring at the protein surface,<br />
by analysing the results obtained from<br />
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, X-ray<br />
diffractometry and Molecular Dynamics<br />
simulations. A consistent overall picture<br />
for the dynamics of water molecules close<br />
to the protein is obtained, suggesting that a<br />
rapid exchange occurs, in a picosecond<br />
timescale, among all the possible hydration<br />
surface sites both in solution and the solid<br />
state, excluding the possibility that solvent<br />
molecules can form liquid-crystal-like<br />
supramolecular adducts, which have been<br />
proposed as a molecular basis of 'memory<br />
of water'.<br />
7. A Preliminary Audit Investigating Remedy<br />
Reactions Including Adverse Events in Routine<br />
Homœopathic Practice<br />
THOMPSON E.; BARRON S. and<br />
SPENCE D. (HOMEOPATHY, 93,<br />
4/2004)<br />
Homœopathic medicines are regarded<br />
as safe but practitioners report several<br />
types of healing or remedy reactions<br />
including aggravations, new symptoms and<br />
recurrence of old symptoms, some of<br />
which could be regarded as side effects or
unwanted effects. Some remedy reactions<br />
may be regarded as adverse events.<br />
Audit Questions: Do such reactions<br />
occur within our unit, and if so, how<br />
frequently? Do patients regard these events<br />
as “adverse”?<br />
Methods: The audit was carried out in<br />
the Bristol Homœopathic Hospital<br />
Outpatient Department. All patients were<br />
given a questionnaire to complete when at<br />
their first follow-up consultation approx 6-<br />
10 weeks after their first appointment.<br />
One hundred and sixteen patients were<br />
sampled over a 2-month period.<br />
Results: Reactions were frequent: 28<br />
out of the 116 (24%) patients, experienced<br />
an aggravation.<br />
Thirteen patients (11%) reported an<br />
adverse event even though 5 of those were<br />
patients who also reported an aggravation<br />
followed by an overall improvement of<br />
their symptoms. Thirty-one patients<br />
described new symptoms (27%) and<br />
21(18%), a return of old symptoms. Those<br />
experiencing the latter appeared to have<br />
better outcomes.<br />
Conclusions: Remedy reactions are<br />
common in clinical practice; some patients<br />
experience them as adverse events.<br />
Systematically recording side effects<br />
would facilitate our understanding of these<br />
reactions and would enable standards to be<br />
set for audit of information and patient<br />
care.<br />
8. Homœopathic Treatment of Radiationinduced<br />
Itching in Breast Cancer<br />
Patients. A Prospective<br />
Observational Study<br />
SCHLAPPACK O. (HOMEOPATHY,<br />
93, 4/2004)<br />
Following surgery for Carcinoma of<br />
the breast, patients receive local<br />
Radiotherapy. This can cause itching,<br />
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which may be severe, in the radiation field.<br />
The affected skin usually is dry, rough and<br />
red. Twenty-five patients were treated<br />
homœopathically for radiation-induced<br />
itching. Fourteen patients developed<br />
itching during their course of postoperative<br />
radiation at 27 days median<br />
(range: 14-40). Eleven patients<br />
experienced itching in the radiation field<br />
after completion of treatment (median 21<br />
days) after the end of their radiation<br />
treatment. A single dose of an individually<br />
selected homœopathic medicine in 30<br />
dilution was given in the clinic, on the<br />
basis of repertorisation. Patients were<br />
asked to record a visual analogue scale<br />
(VAS) before prescription of the<br />
homœopathic medicine and at follow-up.<br />
Patients were evaluated at median 3<br />
days (range: 1-27 days) after<br />
administration of the homœopathic<br />
medicine. In total, 14 of 25 patients (56%)<br />
responded to the first medicine. Nine<br />
patients had a second medicine, seven<br />
responded. Altogether 21 of 25 (84%)<br />
patients were successfully treated. The<br />
following medicines were employed<br />
successfully: Fl-ac 9/13, Rhus-t 3/5, Caust<br />
2/3, Ign 2/2, Psor 2/2, .γ.-ray 2/2 and Kalibi.<br />
1/1. The VAS measurements before<br />
and after homœopathic treatment showed a<br />
reduction of the median value of 64 mm<br />
(range: 20-100mm) to 34 mm (median;<br />
range: 0-84mm). Homœopathic treatment<br />
of radiation-induced itching appears quite<br />
successful. The most frequently indicated<br />
and most frequently effective medicine<br />
was Fluoric acid. An<br />
approach that allows greater understanding<br />
of the patient as a whole in the short time<br />
available in a busy clinic may be required.<br />
Three cases are presented.<br />
Case 1: 62-year-old woman with Stage<br />
1 Breast Cancer and Post-operative
adiation of right breast. The skin is dry,<br />
hot and itchy 3 . Worse at night because of<br />
warmth of bed clothes and hot flushes. ><br />
by cold water. Fagopyrum 30. 4 days<br />
later, no change. Fluoric acid 30. 3 days<br />
later, 60% better.<br />
Case 2: 59-year-old woman with Stage<br />
1 Cancer of right breast, reported itching of<br />
irradiated skin on the 30 th day. The skin<br />
was dry, red and itching and better by cold<br />
application. Fluoric acid 30 and itching<br />
stopped after 4 hours and has not come<br />
back.<br />
Case 3: 44-year-old woman with Stage<br />
0 Cancer of left breast. The nipple of the<br />
irradiated breast hurt and itched. Skin was<br />
rough and itching cold shower.<br />
Fluoric acid 30. Next day no change.<br />
Rhus tox 30. Three days later, substantial<br />
improvement.<br />
9. Research suggests Homœopathy is<br />
Clinically Effective (HT. 24, 2/2004)<br />
There is a growing body of research<br />
demonstrating that Homœopathy does work!<br />
The following is a compilation of major studies<br />
from the past two decades.<br />
Hay Fever and Allergic Asthma<br />
Results from a group of researchers in<br />
Scotland have shown homœopathic<br />
preparations effective in the treatment of<br />
Allergic Asthma and Hay Fever (Lancet,<br />
1986 and 1994). Their most recent study<br />
in the British Medical Journal (2000)<br />
showed that Hay Fever sufferers given a<br />
homœopathic preparation had a 28%<br />
improvement in nasal airflow compared to<br />
placebo.<br />
Influenza and Fibrositis<br />
Homœopathy has also been found<br />
effective for the treatment of Influenza<br />
(British Journal of Clinical<br />
Pharmacology, 1989) and Fibrositis<br />
(British Medical Journal, 1989).<br />
Diarrhea<br />
The May 1994 issue of Paediatrics<br />
published a randomized double-blind<br />
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clinical trial showing Homœopathy<br />
effective in the treatment of acute<br />
childhood diarrhea. This was the first<br />
study of Homœopathy published in a<br />
mainstream peer-reviewed American<br />
Medical Journal. Since that time, the<br />
authors have published a second study<br />
confirming these results in the Journal of<br />
Alternative and Complementary<br />
Medicine (March 2000).<br />
Head injury studies<br />
A study in an AMA publication,<br />
Archives of Otolaryngology Head and<br />
neck Surgery (August 1998), found that a<br />
homœopathic medicine produced a<br />
reduction in symptoms that was equivalent<br />
to conventional medicine in the treatment<br />
of patients with vertigo. The National<br />
Institutes of Health Office of Alternative<br />
Medicine funded a double-blind, placebocontrolled<br />
study on the homœopathic<br />
treatment of mild traumatic brain injury<br />
which found a significant improvement in<br />
some of the measures used. (Journal of<br />
Head Trauma Rehabilitation, December<br />
1999)<br />
Miscellaneous studies<br />
More recently, a study of Homœopathy<br />
for Acute Otitis Media in children found a<br />
significant decrease in symptoms within<br />
the first 24 hours of treatment. (Pediatric<br />
Infectious Disease Journal, February<br />
2001). There have also been several<br />
studies showing no difference between<br />
Homœopathy and placebo in the treatment<br />
of dental pain (British Medical Journal,<br />
1995), muscle soreness in long-distance<br />
runners (Clinical Journal of Pain, 1998),<br />
and Rheumatoid Arthritis (Rheumatology,<br />
2001).<br />
Meta-analyses<br />
A meta-analysis combining results<br />
from the two diarrhea studies above and a<br />
third pilot project found highly significant
esults (Pediatric Infectious Disease<br />
Journal, 2003).<br />
The Lancet (1997) published a<br />
comprehensive review of 89 double-blind<br />
and placebo-controlled studies on<br />
Homœopathy. On average, those patients<br />
who were given a homœopathic medicine<br />
were 2.45 times more likely to experience<br />
a therapeutically beneficial result than<br />
those patients given a placebo.<br />
The British Medical Journal (1991)<br />
published a meta-analysis of 107 clinical<br />
trials of Homœopathy; of the 22 bestquality<br />
studies, 15 showed positive results<br />
in conditions such as Hay Fever, Influenza,<br />
Migraine headache, Trauma, and duration<br />
of delivery.<br />
The nature of remedies<br />
Several different physical-chemistry<br />
techniques have reproducibly<br />
demonstrated that, despite the lack of<br />
source molecules at dilutions beyond<br />
Avogadro’s number (at potencies higher<br />
than 12C), homœopathic remedies<br />
prepared with succussion do possess<br />
measurable ordered differences in their<br />
solvent structure compared with plain<br />
solvent (Journal of Alternative &<br />
Complementary Medicine, 2003; Annals<br />
of the New York Academy of Sciences,<br />
1999; Physica A: Statistical mechanics<br />
and its applications, 2003).<br />
200 years of use<br />
Homœopathy has stood the test of time<br />
with literally millions of satisfied patients<br />
world-wide. More research will surely<br />
further confirm its efficacy.<br />
10. The General Iteration Theory of<br />
Homœopathic Potentisation<br />
The Iterative Paradox of Potentised<br />
Remedies<br />
ZOEBL, August (HL. 16, 4/2003)<br />
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The General Iteration Theory shows the<br />
(quantum) physical basis of potentising and<br />
explains how there can be effects when there is<br />
no substance and why potentised remedies:<br />
• Get amplified despite dilution<br />
• Do not follow the Law of Mass Action<br />
• Are independent of Avogadro’s<br />
number<br />
Iteration – is a process where in a<br />
feedback loop the result of the last step<br />
becomes the initial condition of the next so<br />
that at the end of the process all preceding<br />
steps are contained in the final result.<br />
Iteration is a well-known process in<br />
Chaos Theory and Quantum Physics with<br />
its non-linear equations.<br />
11. Avogadro’s Number and Homœopathy<br />
MOROZOV A. (HL. 16, 4/2003)<br />
Experimental data show that dissolving<br />
substrate changes a chemical composition<br />
of impurities in a solvent and these<br />
changes are specific for dissolving<br />
substances. Due to this fact, an organism<br />
can ‘know’ about the appearance of a<br />
dangerous compound in the environment<br />
before-hand by changes in impurities in the<br />
basic component of the environment<br />
(water, air, food). Homœopathic<br />
potentisation disrupts the link between<br />
excess concentration of a dangerous<br />
substance and changed composition of<br />
impurities. As it is shown in the<br />
experiments, the changes in patterns of the<br />
components of impurities are presented in<br />
very low concentrations, when even single<br />
molecules of a primary substance are<br />
absent. Hence, the reaction of the<br />
organism on the changed pattern of<br />
components of impurities in a<br />
homœopathic remedy is a response to the<br />
absence of a toxic agent in a remedy.<br />
12. Improving the Success of Homœopathy – 4<br />
Or Why is it so difficult to prove how good<br />
we are?
KOSTER, Dick (HL. 16, 4/2003)<br />
The author explores the various possibilities<br />
of why we are not able to prove the effects we see<br />
in daily practice and suggests that we should be<br />
looking more for the things we don’t know and<br />
explore our terra incognita, filling in all the<br />
white spots instead of proving how good we are.<br />
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VI. HISTORY<br />
1. A Sound and Reliable Witness:<br />
Wilhelm AMEKE<br />
MORRELL, Peter (AJHM. 97,<br />
4/2004).<br />
This short piece brings to the attention<br />
of others the useful work of Wilhelm<br />
AMEKE from his little known book A<br />
History of Homœopathy. Being out of<br />
print for over a century and hard to obtain,<br />
this useful text illuminates<br />
HAHNEMANN’s life in a fresh and<br />
masterful way. This is an interim piece<br />
Mr. MORRELL compiled recently for<br />
some lectures, and which will be extended<br />
as time permits. In due course, it is hoped<br />
that the full text of AMEKE might be<br />
placed online where all can admire its<br />
many gems. This selection mostly focuses<br />
upon AMEKE’s description of<br />
HAHNEMANN’s views on many clinical<br />
matters and snippets regarding the origin<br />
of Homœopathy. It also highlights what is<br />
unusual, important and remarkable in his<br />
character as a physician. [It would be a<br />
great service if the work of AMEKE is<br />
placed ‘on line’ = KSS]<br />
VII. EDUCATION<br />
1. Keeping Homœopathy Education<br />
Relevant<br />
Searching for Issues<br />
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HOWDEN, Ian (HL. 16, 4/2003)<br />
The potentially radical idea floated in<br />
this paper is that ‘contemporary’<br />
Homœopathy students need a broader<br />
education and include Naturopathy, Herbal<br />
medicine, Phytotherapy, Massage and<br />
Nutrition. This can only strengthen our<br />
understanding and practice of our<br />
discipline.<br />
The author encourages students to find<br />
examples of the principle ‘like cures like’<br />
in fields<br />
beyond the boundaries of Homœopathy as<br />
found in Biomedicine – Hormesis and in<br />
Systems Theory – Harmonics.<br />
The corroboration of the information in<br />
Materia Medica from the nonhomœopathic<br />
world is another aspect of<br />
this paper. Information about each remedy<br />
gleaned from Science, Mythology, Popular<br />
culture and many other sources has been<br />
given in the recent publication of ‘Prisma’<br />
(VERMEULEN, 2002).<br />
The author concludes homœopathic<br />
education must continue to encourage a<br />
spirit of enquiry in order that the valuable<br />
additions to our knowledge from other<br />
disciplines may be used to enhance our<br />
field. [HAHNEMANN has said that the<br />
curative powers of a medicine can be<br />
known only by proving what that medicine<br />
is capable of producing in a healthy<br />
person; and in no other way. Imaginations,<br />
stories etc. will only be ‘junk’ information<br />
in so far as homœopathic therapeutics is<br />
concerned. = KSS]<br />
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VIII. GENERAL<br />
1. Fontane und die Homöopathie<br />
(FONTANE and Homœopathy)
SAUERBECK, Hare Otto (AHZ. 249,<br />
6/2004)<br />
In FONTANE’s works Homœopathy<br />
plays a great part where medical actions<br />
are described although the author himself<br />
had not used Homœopathy for himself. He<br />
does not make any allusion to<br />
Homœopathy in his verses. But he speaks<br />
of it in his Novels with exact knowledge<br />
(FONTANE was an Apothecary) of the<br />
primitive traditional Homœopathy of<br />
female herbalists in “Der Stechlin”, and as<br />
well as HAHNEMANN’s doctrine in<br />
“Unwiederbringlich” (irremediable). He<br />
takes into consideration more points of<br />
view than the other writers of his time.<br />
The reader is much impressed of his<br />
discussions and portrayal of the persons<br />
and discusses them, though all seem, at<br />
first sight, as small-talk uttered in Society<br />
for pastime. The present day reader sees<br />
that Homœopathy occupied the Victorian<br />
Age.<br />
2. Stress-proof your daily life<br />
OWEN, Jonice (HT. 24, 1/2004)<br />
To help build a strong immune system<br />
that can deal with everyday stresses more<br />
easily, the author who is also a Chiropractitioner<br />
suggests the following<br />
reminders.<br />
- Daily exercise is essential to disperse<br />
Adrenaline<br />
- Breathing deeply and evenly<br />
- Eat good food in moderation. Cut out<br />
refined, processed foods. Cut caffeinated<br />
and carbonated drinks.<br />
- Before sleep turn off all phones and<br />
leave TV and Computer outside the room.<br />
- Proper posture will decrease stress to<br />
your muscles and reduce wear and tear on<br />
your joints. Follow the rule of 90-degree<br />
angles while sitting.<br />
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- Worn out shoes cause bio-mechanical<br />
problems.<br />
- Build some relaxation time into your<br />
everyday.<br />
- Limit TV time before bed.<br />
3. We need a remedy<br />
SMITH, Jennifer and JENSEN, Carol<br />
(SIM. XVII, 4/2004)<br />
Technology and other discoveries have<br />
accelerated many aspects of our lives and also<br />
catapulted us into uncharted territory. The<br />
practice of Homœopathy has remained steady<br />
but with different techniques of prescribing.<br />
What has not held steady is the<br />
acceptance or non-acceptance of it as a<br />
legitimate medical practice.<br />
The authors appeal to the homœopaths<br />
to prove the legitimacy by offering in what<br />
they are good at to the profession.<br />
4. Future Psychology – A New Paradigm<br />
of Man<br />
PANDEY, Alok (NAMAH. 11,<br />
4/2004)<br />
In the latter part of the 20 th century<br />
arose new paradigms in many aspect of life<br />
including and mostly on the health and<br />
well-being of mankind. Understanding the<br />
past, the future and the lessons to be learnt<br />
and further elevation have been subject of<br />
many thinkers including the great<br />
physicians from Erwin SCHROEDINGER<br />
to EINSTEIN and further.<br />
In India we have great thinkers in this<br />
area and one of the foremost is Sri<br />
AUROBINDO. The author of this article<br />
Dr. Alok PANDEY is a Psychiatrist and<br />
Editor of the journal NAMAH (New<br />
Approaches to Medicine and Health).<br />
In the recent years homœopaths of<br />
repute have shown great interest in<br />
Psychology.<br />
In this interesting article Dr. PANDEY<br />
says that while in the past Psychology
focused on Man’s atavistic, unconscious<br />
past, the yogic wisdom of India focuses on<br />
the Super Conscious that hold’s one’s<br />
potentialities that are yet to manifest. At<br />
any moment in Time, man is not only<br />
propelled by the<br />
unconscious forces of the nadir but also<br />
influenced by the superconscient forces of<br />
the zenith. A Psychology of the future is<br />
needed to span the hierarchies of<br />
Consciousness.<br />
5. The Individuation Process and Care of<br />
the Self<br />
JOHNSTON, David (NAMAH. 12,<br />
1/2004)<br />
The author is a clinical Psychologist<br />
practicing Jungian.<br />
This paper is about the care of Self. It<br />
is observed that there is an evolution of<br />
consciousness and that, today, we are<br />
being asked to make a quantum leap in<br />
consciousness. Some comments on the<br />
contemporary ‘spirit of the times’ and its<br />
pathology, are made. Then JUNG’s path<br />
of individuation which has two aspects,<br />
one involving the search for vocation and<br />
surrender to a higher will and the other<br />
involving Alchemy and in-depth<br />
transformation of Nature with the goal of<br />
realizing the chthonic (of, belonging to, or<br />
inhabiting the underworld) Spirit.<br />
6. Health Management<br />
PANDEY, Alok (NAMAH. 12,<br />
1/2004)<br />
This small article is based on the<br />
Philosophy of Sri AUROBINDO and the<br />
MOTHER.<br />
Can an individual take care of his or<br />
her own health? Nowadays, it is certainly<br />
in vogue. Health is in our own hands.<br />
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This article discusses the various aspects of<br />
health management with an in-look.<br />
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IX. BOOKS<br />
1. Homœopathic Diagnosis:<br />
HAHNEMANN through<br />
BÖNNINGHAUSEN by George<br />
DIMITRIADIS, Hahnemann Institute<br />
Sidney. 2004. ISBN 0-646-43380-6. 159<br />
pages Paperback. $79 (AU). Review by<br />
George GUESS. (AJHM. 97, 4/2004):<br />
“The goal of the homœopath in pursuit of<br />
the suitable homœopathic diagnosis is to<br />
identify symptom(s), which when<br />
sufficiently defined in all of its essential<br />
characteristics, accurately reflects the<br />
essential nature of the patient’s disease<br />
process….”<br />
“Part One - Conceptual” covers many<br />
additional aspects of the history,<br />
construction, conceptualization and<br />
application of the Therapeutic Pocket<br />
Book of BŒNNINGHAUSEN (TBR).<br />
Part two – Practical, provides a large<br />
number of case studies analysed<br />
using the TBR and cases in which remedy<br />
concordances helped identify the<br />
simillimum.”<br />
The case taking approach is the precise<br />
definition of the chief complaint or complaints,<br />
which itself alone (or in conjunction with one or<br />
two concomitant symptoms) - again, if<br />
adequately expressed - serves to sufficiently<br />
represent the patient’s illness.<br />
This book is ripe with fascinating<br />
clinical observations and an example is his<br />
resurrection of the utility of sequence of<br />
febrile symptoms in achieving accurate<br />
remedy selection.<br />
In analysis DIMITRIADIS ranks<br />
highest those remedies displaying both the<br />
highest number of rubrics and surprisingly
the greatest consistency of remedy grading<br />
through the rubrics chosen.<br />
The book closes with three interesting<br />
appendices - “The sources of our Materia<br />
Medica,” “Primary and Secondary<br />
Reactions”, and “Facsimiles: The<br />
Repertorial lineage of TBR”.<br />
“I strongly recommend this book to all<br />
practicing homœopaths and homœopathic<br />
students. I believe that it will some day be<br />
regarded as a classic homœopathic text.<br />
“Homœopathic Diagnosis” is a work of<br />
impeccable scholarship and a perfect<br />
companion piece to TBR, almost essential,<br />
in my opinion for the proper application of<br />
TBR”.<br />
2. Homœopathy: How it Really Works<br />
by Jay W. SHELTON Amherst NY:<br />
Prometheus Books. 2004. Paper back<br />
(6"x 9") 319 pages. ISBN 1-59102-109 –<br />
X $ 22. Review by George GUESS.<br />
(AJHM. 97, 4/2004): “If your belief in the<br />
curative efficacy of homœopathic medicine<br />
is at all fragile, be wary of reading this<br />
book! It should, perhaps, be more aptly<br />
named “Homœopathy; Does it really<br />
work?” ... He questions the precision with<br />
which we can reliably attribute a symptom<br />
to the remedy as opposed to other factors,<br />
bringing into focus the especially<br />
improbable assertion that everything that<br />
transpires in a proving subject is the result<br />
of the remedy (an<br />
assertion I have doubted for some time)”<br />
[One’s doubts are endless. One who has<br />
read HAHNEMANN’s own Cinchona<br />
Proving will see how he, HAHNEMANN,<br />
concluded that whatever transpired after<br />
his taking the infusion of the Peruvian bark<br />
were due to that only. Moreover,<br />
according to our understanding whatever<br />
that transpired which were unusual,<br />
uncommon, in so far as that Prover was<br />
concerned alone were reckoned as<br />
“Proving symptom”. This was<br />
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HAHNEMANN’s method. He asked<br />
question “to the left and right” and after<br />
ensuring that these symptoms came up<br />
only after taking the proving medicine, he<br />
entered them. Whether this same<br />
exactitude can be said of latter day<br />
Provings and more so of the Provings with<br />
the medicine packet under the pillow or<br />
symptoms from holding a vial (of Proving<br />
substance) in hand, is an open question.<br />
The “fringe Provings” are not<br />
Homœopathy, let us be clear about it. =<br />
KSS]<br />
3. New Lights: Lectures on Homœopathy and<br />
Philosophy, Dr. E.S. RAJENDRAN, published by<br />
Mohna Publications, P.B. No. 1, Kayanna (P.O.)<br />
Calicut – 673526. Rs. 500/- Review by D.E.<br />
MISTRY (CCR. 11, 2/2004): “This is a book in<br />
which Dr. RAJENDRAN has given a collection<br />
of a series of lectures which he has been doing<br />
for homœopathic students and postgraduates. …<br />
However it is a book that should be read very<br />
slowly though senior practitioner may well find<br />
it fit to omit the chapters on Philosophy and<br />
evolutionary history.”<br />
4. Teachings – Psychiatric Patients – Pure<br />
Classical Homœopathy by Andre SAINE. B. Jain<br />
Publishers (P) Ltd. 2004. Rs. 300/- Review by D.E.<br />
MISTRY (CCR. 11, 2/2004): “The publishers<br />
have brought out in one bound edition both<br />
parts of Dr. SAINE’s book. In Part I, which<br />
runs up to 336 pages deals entirely with<br />
psychiatric patients. … He begins his psychiatric<br />
lectures by a full article on what is known as the<br />
HERING’s Law and he has attempted not only<br />
to understand the Law but has attempted to find<br />
out how psychosomatic diseases fit in HERING’s<br />
Law. ... In every chapter Dr. SAINE gives<br />
examples of cured cases by GRIMMER,<br />
BULLER and others … In Part II which is pure<br />
classical Homœopathy covering almost 179<br />
pages, he has repeated his chapters on<br />
HERING’s Law and has then given<br />
classification of symptoms, presenting symptoms<br />
of the disease and the aspect of skin eruptions at<br />
the end of the cure. ... deals with case taking,<br />
case analysis and case management with<br />
relevant quotations from various aphorisms of<br />
the Organon. He has specifically mentioned<br />
paragraphs that deal with dissimilar diseases,<br />
treatment of severe acute situations, and<br />
different stages of infectious diseases and
different indispositions. Here he has mentioned<br />
many case reports. ... Part III of this section<br />
deals exclusively with evaluation of symptoms.<br />
… an excellent book for all of us to read which I<br />
think we should read again and yet again.”<br />
5. The Homœopathic Proving of Lac maternum.<br />
HEATHERLY, Patricia. Amamusus<br />
Publications 2002. Є22. Review by HARRY van<br />
der Zee. (HL. 16, 4/2003): “Lac maternum is<br />
made from the milk of nine women collected<br />
from day three to ten months following<br />
parturition.<br />
In her book, she starts by giving information<br />
on milk and the change in its constituents during<br />
the lactation period.<br />
The second and major part of the book is<br />
about the proving. Five themes:<br />
• Disconnection between the Spirit and the<br />
physical body<br />
• Alternating states and sides<br />
• Confusion of mind<br />
• Indifference; detachment<br />
• Heightened senses; sensitive to.<br />
The author then continues with a synthesis<br />
of<br />
Tinus SMIT’s picture of Lac maternum.”<br />
X. NEWS & NOTES<br />
I. In the Editorial (ZKH. 48, 4/2004)<br />
Klaus HOLZAPFEL refers to the increased<br />
interest in von BŒNNINGHAUSEN’s<br />
Therapeutic Pocket Book, in the recent<br />
years. The modern repertories have<br />
become so voluminous and contain several<br />
errors and it is felt by many that von<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN is more dependable.<br />
In so far as KENT Repertory is concerned<br />
much errors that crept into the translations<br />
from German to English, and also the<br />
Therapeutic Pocket Book itself from<br />
which KENT drew much contained many<br />
errors. In the recent past PATEL’s version<br />
of KENT Repertory carried out many<br />
errors pointed out in the several issues of<br />
the ZKH. as well as correction to SR. and<br />
SY. The interpretations given by<br />
SEHGAL regarding the ‘Mind’ symptoms<br />
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in the KENT as well as in the SR has<br />
motivated a careful examination of the<br />
correctness of the entries in the several<br />
repertories extant.<br />
With regard to the revision of the<br />
Therapeutic Pocket book much doubts<br />
have to be cleared. For example,<br />
BŒNNINGHAUSEN prescribed to many<br />
during his tours of the countryside and<br />
whom he did not meet further, how far<br />
these can be ‘verified’? He also repeated,<br />
or followed with other remedies at short<br />
intervals, gave intercurrent remedies, had<br />
‘fixed’ course of remedies - series, followup,<br />
etc. How much of these can be taken<br />
into the Repertory?<br />
Confusions in remedy names, grades,<br />
etc. must be cleared; after these<br />
corrections, KENT could be taken up.<br />
II. In a Letter to the Editor Klaus<br />
HOLZAPFEL refers to some<br />
interpretations of SEHGAL (LANG, in<br />
ZKH. 48, 3/2004. p 141-142). The<br />
symptom ‘alert’ is based on the Proving<br />
Symptoms Nos. 83, 91, 94 in<br />
Encyclopaedia of T.F. ALLEN, which is a<br />
response to crude doses of Opium. As far<br />
the rubric ‘Recognises everything but<br />
cannot move’, this too needs to be<br />
examined with the proving and verified<br />
symptom complex.<br />
III. A prize of Є1000 has been announced<br />
for a single person or group for significant<br />
contribution for research on<br />
HAHNEMANN’s life, establishment of<br />
Homœopathy as an acknowledged curative<br />
method, popularization of Homœopathy<br />
through interdisciplinary scientific work.<br />
This Prize is in celebration of the 250 th<br />
year of birth of the founder of<br />
Homœopathy, Dr. Christian Fredrich<br />
Samuel HAHNEMANN and offered by his<br />
birth town Meissen. The Prize is of the<br />
Porcelain manufactury “Großer Meißner
Globulus” funded by the State Porcelain<br />
Manufacturers Meißen.<br />
The relevant recommendation should<br />
be not more than two A4 size pages and<br />
should be sent before 31.01.<strong>2005</strong>.” (ZKH.<br />
48, 4/2004)<br />
IV. The Board of Directors of NCH<br />
congratulates Julian WINSTON for<br />
completing 20 years as Editor of<br />
Homeopathy Today. (HT. 24, 1/2004)<br />
V. Remedies prepared according to the<br />
methodologies peculiar to Homœopathy<br />
can be called ‘homœopathic’ only if they<br />
have been prescribed according to the Law<br />
of Similars and have cured the patient.<br />
From the Editor … Julian WINSTON (HT.<br />
24, 1/2004)<br />
VI. Flu Vaccine Facts. The Flu vaccine is<br />
prepared from the fluids of chick embryos<br />
inoculated with specific types of Influenza<br />
virus. It only protects against the three<br />
specific viral strains that are included in<br />
any given year’s Flu vaccine.<br />
The most common reactions which<br />
begin within 12 hours of vaccination are<br />
fever, fatigue, painful joints, and headache.<br />
The most serious affection is Guillain-<br />
Barre Syndrome.<br />
Vulnerable groups for serious<br />
complications from Flu are pregnant<br />
women and the elderly.<br />
A Live-virus Nasal Flu Vaccine was<br />
approved in June 2003 for healthy people<br />
between the ages 5 and 49. This nasalspray<br />
vaccine is squirted up the nose and<br />
contains a diluted, live virus that could<br />
endanger people with weak immune<br />
systems. (HT. 24, 1/2004)<br />
VII. Promoting Homœopathy at the Grassroots<br />
(HT. 24, 2/2004) National Center for<br />
Homœopathy (NCH) was founded in 1974 and is<br />
not-for-profit. It has the largest grassroots<br />
membership in US. The magazine Homeopathy<br />
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Today published by NCH is widely read and is<br />
available online. More than 150 study groups are<br />
affiliated to NCH. NCH conducts annual<br />
conferences with plethora of homœopathic experts.<br />
NCH conducts weekend and week-long summer<br />
school courses. NCH Website –<br />
www.homeopathic.org.<br />
VIII. Homœopathy – it’s<br />
transformational! From the Editor Julian<br />
WINSTON, (HT. 24, 2/2004) The visit to<br />
Dr. Raymond SEIDEL in 1971 changed<br />
the life of Julian WINSTON. The first<br />
transformation was the realization that<br />
non-dependence on many over-the-counter<br />
drugs, as the conditions went away after<br />
homœopathic medicine and never came<br />
back.<br />
The second transformation was that he<br />
slowed down. Gained new tolerance for<br />
people whom he used to find annoying.<br />
Homœopathy changed his outlook and his<br />
life. [I’m sure that many of us will aver to<br />
this = KSS].<br />
IX. Whereas much has been written from<br />
time immemorial on the heroism of<br />
partisans in war and epics have been<br />
written, the fact remains that much cruelty<br />
and wanton destruction happen in any war.<br />
HAHNEMANN said war is a disease. The<br />
world has seen the brutality of Hydrogen<br />
and Plutonium bombs on Hiroshima and<br />
Nagasaki. We read of the destruction by<br />
Napam bombs in the Vietnam War. And<br />
now in the Iraq war the criminality of<br />
using the White Phosphorus! (See The<br />
Hindu, Nov. 23, <strong>2005</strong>) Documentary<br />
broadcast was made in the Italian Network<br />
RAI called Falluja: The Hidden<br />
Massacre. “It claimed that the corpses in<br />
the pictures it ran showed strange injuries,<br />
some burnt to the bone, others with skin<br />
hanging from the flesh … The faces have<br />
literally melted away, just like other parts<br />
of the body. The clothes are strangely<br />
intact.” White Phosphorus is an illegal<br />
weapon.
How can one be so heartless, so<br />
vicious! And who are the ‘scientists’ who<br />
do such researches as to produce such<br />
horrendous weaponry? No scientist worth<br />
his salt should be a party to such<br />
inventions. = KSS<br />
X. Most money does not come from just<br />
armament sale, which seems to be<br />
America’s main industry, but by creating<br />
scares of epidemics. For example, says<br />
Maneka GANDHI in her article ‘Fear<br />
Factor’ (The New Sunday Express, Dec.<br />
11, <strong>2005</strong>) “Bird Flu, the latest scare<br />
“perpetrated by the American government<br />
and the Pharmaceutical companies.” She<br />
writes - “In eight years since the H5N1<br />
Virus was supposedly detected in poultry<br />
birds, 53 people have died - 37 in Vietnam,<br />
12 in Thailand and 4 in Cambodia. Seven<br />
thousand people the world over are struck<br />
by lightning-strike. [As many thousands<br />
still die of Typhoid = KSS] Are 54 deaths<br />
an epidemic - or worse still a Pandemic?”<br />
Billions of dollars are amassed by the<br />
Pharmaceutical Companies which hold the<br />
patent for so-called vaccinations against<br />
‘Bird Flu’. Many of the high level<br />
members of the Government in America<br />
are in the Pharmaceutical trade. For each<br />
vial of the ‘vaccine’ Tamiflu sold there is<br />
royalty. “WHO warns of human Flu<br />
pandemic. How many cases reported in<br />
Europe so far by WHO? Not one. The<br />
only thing that is mutating is the<br />
propaganda line, and the resulting fear<br />
factor.”<br />
So where do all these point to?<br />
Money-making by simply creating a panic.<br />
And the ‘scientific’ community play along<br />
with these people!<br />
XI. Surviving The Monsoon, Kalpana<br />
SHARMA (The Hindu, Chennai, 17 June,<br />
<strong>2005</strong>): In the remote rural areas and tribal<br />
hamlets there is no access to health care as<br />
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such especially to the poor. It is these<br />
people who need health care the most, but<br />
in fact are deprived of it. Some NGOs<br />
have been doing very dedicated service in<br />
these areas, quietly.<br />
During the monsoon season, there is a<br />
spurt in the number of child deaths,<br />
especially of infants within the first 28<br />
days of their birth. The Infant Mortality<br />
Rate (IMR) is 68 per 1000 live births at<br />
present.<br />
Decentralised health care seems to be a<br />
good answer to the rural health problems.<br />
This involves local women. Accredited<br />
Social Health Activists (ASHAs), as they<br />
will be termed.<br />
The pioneers in this work is the doctor<br />
couple Rani and Abhay BANG, and their<br />
organization, Society for Education,<br />
Action and Research in Community Health<br />
(SEARCH) based in the tribal-dominated<br />
Gadchiroli district.<br />
Recognising the problems, the BANGs<br />
trained village women as Village Health<br />
Workers (VHWs). It was observed that it<br />
was neonatal mortality that was pushing up<br />
the IMR figures. One of the crucial factors<br />
causing death, apart from Asphyxia during<br />
the birthing process and low birth weight,<br />
was Pneumonia.<br />
The BANGs work has reduced the<br />
mortality significantly. Their work was<br />
recognized internationally.<br />
The one important factor that has a<br />
particular bearing on rural health mission,<br />
in the experience of the BANGs is the<br />
selection Of Village Health Worker<br />
(VHW), selection of the right person<br />
“probably the single most important<br />
decision for ensuring success at the<br />
community level”. The BANGs involved<br />
the community in selecting the VHWs.<br />
The VHWs were all women. They were<br />
well-trained. Supervision every 15 days
was built into the programme. The<br />
VHW’s salary was pegged at an amount<br />
marginally higher than what she could earn<br />
as an agricultural labourer. This ensured<br />
that only the poorer women applied for the<br />
job. They were trained in routine ailments<br />
even in adults and not just in infants.<br />
By picking up and training women<br />
from the villages where the problem<br />
occurs, the BANGs have shown a practical<br />
way to deal with the problem of lack of<br />
access to health care. [It is high time that<br />
the Homœopathy practicing community<br />
rises up to the occasion and provide similar<br />
health care in rural areas, with<br />
Homœopathy. Don’t we have young<br />
talents, committed to the welfare of the<br />
poor who need the health care the most.<br />
And is not Homœopathy the most cost<br />
effective? = KSS]<br />
XII. Health care and Homœopathy.<br />
Where do we fit? (HT. 23, 10/2003, 24,<br />
1/2004): ‘Notes from the Board of<br />
Director’, NCH says that homœopathic<br />
community is composed of numerous<br />
constituencies, each with its own agenda<br />
and needs; “in this way it is not dissimilar<br />
to the way it was in the 1880s” [When<br />
Constantin HERING passed away = KSS]<br />
Paul STARR in his 1984 Pulitzer prize<br />
winning book The Social Transformation<br />
of American Medicine while analyzing<br />
the rise and fall of Homœopathy in the<br />
U.S. says that “divisions within the<br />
homœopathic school caused a crisis of<br />
identity - with some homœopathic<br />
practitioners becoming too politically<br />
extreme to communicate to the rest of the<br />
medical world and others being slowly coopted,<br />
eventually evolving into allopaths<br />
themselves”.<br />
Several questions are raised by the<br />
‘Board of Directors’ of the NCH of<br />
licensing of Homœopathy because of other<br />
disciplines within (Medical Doctors,<br />
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Osteopathic physicians, Chiro-practice<br />
physicians, Nurse Practitioners, etc.).<br />
There are also questions of clinical drug<br />
trials. Can we embrace completely, the<br />
slowly emerging changes in the Health<br />
Care and can we maintain our identity as<br />
homœopaths?<br />
In reference to the above Robert<br />
STEWART writes that the allopathic<br />
Medicine has become a world, a world<br />
unto itself, and as if everything must<br />
fit within its view, and everyone is forced<br />
to frame their discourse in terms of it.<br />
[The recent Lancet condemnation of<br />
Homœopathy is most relevant in this<br />
context = KSS.] This coup by Allopathy<br />
has been made by the Licensing Laws [In<br />
India although the licensing is separate and<br />
exclusive, the “medical education” is<br />
mostly embracing Allopathy and the<br />
licensed homœopathic doctor wishes to be<br />
recognised within this hegemonic group of<br />
‘Doctors’. The present trend in India of<br />
Post Graduate degrees in several branches<br />
- Pharmacology, Gynaecology, etc. -<br />
would lead to these becoming a mongrel<br />
group = KSS]. Robert STEWART rightly<br />
calls attention to the fact that medical<br />
licensing laws were never put in place by<br />
consumers looking for protection … but by<br />
a medical profession seeking to establish<br />
positions of power and privilege.<br />
“An aware, egalitarian, and pluralistic<br />
society should find all medical licensing<br />
laws abhorrent. It has to do with a basic<br />
constitutional understanding of the<br />
difference between inalienable rights and<br />
practitioner freedoms.”<br />
XIII. President’s Message. FRYE,<br />
Joyce (AJHM. 97, 4/2004) There was a<br />
two-day conference on the homœopathic<br />
treatment of the patient with Pneumonia<br />
led by Andre SAINE. He provided two<br />
full days of cured cases of Pneumonia
from his own practice as well as the<br />
historical literature with the remedies<br />
removed so the audience could work<br />
through the remedy selection with him.<br />
The cases focused primarily on physical<br />
signs and symptoms for both baseline<br />
assessment and follow-up e.g. changes in<br />
fever, pulse rate and temperature along<br />
with the usual search for peculiar<br />
symptoms and without the “psychobabble<br />
that has come to dominate too much of<br />
modern Homœopathy.” It is said that<br />
“200,000 people are hospitalized annually,<br />
and 36,000 die from Influenza each year.”<br />
XIV. Hahnemann Monument<br />
Restoration Report. CHASE, Sandra<br />
(AJHM. 97, 4/2004) The project started on<br />
15 September 2004. Colored mosaic glass<br />
to renovate the arch was obtained from Ori<br />
Colorati from Italy. Several formulations<br />
of grout were made to match what is there<br />
on the arch. The Senior Conservator Judy<br />
JACOB is in charge of the work.<br />
XV. Homœopathy and Spirituality: A Practical<br />
View TESSLER, Neil (SIM. XVII, 4/2004) The<br />
author recognized Spirituality in the Philosophy<br />
when he became interested in Homœopathy<br />
thirty years ago. It seemed to him there was a<br />
natural harmony between a spiritual point of<br />
view and Homœopathy as a system of medicine.<br />
Certainly, a spiritual consideration of the<br />
implications of Homœopathy, will be found in<br />
the writings and thinking of every major<br />
homœopath from HAHNEMANN, through<br />
KENT to VITHOULKAS, etc.<br />
A journey down into the assumptions, notions,<br />
interpretations, sensations and images that form our<br />
inner world can be as startling, awesome and<br />
liberating as transcendent visions of light, love and<br />
truth reaching down to us.<br />
The personal journey to wholeness of the<br />
physician becomes a significant and practical<br />
intersection of Spirituality and Homœopathy. It<br />
requires only the willingness to do the exploration<br />
we expect of our patients.<br />
XVI. CHC Exam preparation SHORR, Heidi<br />
(SIM. XVII, 4/2004) Instructions for the<br />
preparation for the examination of Council for<br />
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Homœopathic Certification are given. A case is<br />
presented.<br />
54-year-old man with a lively, chatty<br />
presentation. Pain in testicles as being squashed.<br />
More on left side. Worse by tight clothing. First<br />
started on waking in the morning one day. Feeling<br />
as if bed is sinking on the left side on waking.<br />
History of Rheumatic Fever as a child with weak<br />
heart. Occasional chest pain extending to left<br />
axilla. Fear of water.<br />
Analysis: The center of gravity in the case is<br />
physical. No predominant indications of any<br />
typical miasmatic patterns. What needs to be<br />
healed is the limitation of the state by the Orchitis<br />
and delusion of bed sinking.<br />
Remedies considered were Lach., Merc., Phos.,<br />
Con., Spong., Rhod.<br />
Lachesis was chosen and given in 1M potency.<br />
The pain increased for 6 hours and then stopped. A<br />
week later, pain in left arm and hand that reminded<br />
him of when he had been ill as a child; this resolved<br />
in few days. No recurrence.<br />
XVII. An Interview with Begabati<br />
LENNIHAN by TESSLER, Neil. (SIM. XVII,<br />
4/2004) Begabati LENNIHAN is the Director of<br />
Teleosis School of Homœopathy in Cambridge,<br />
MA.<br />
She graduated in History from Harvard and<br />
opened a health food store through which she was<br />
familiar with about every alternate healing modality<br />
and was convinced that Homœopathy had the<br />
greatest power to heal on all levels.<br />
Most of the homœopathic schools teach in a<br />
lecture format and not encouraging students to<br />
think for themselves because of the highly<br />
individualized nature of the homœopathic process.<br />
In the Teleosis school founded by Joel<br />
KREISBERG teaching consists of conveying<br />
knowledge, skills and attitudes. Most of the time is<br />
spent practising skills. Homœopathic process is<br />
broken into manageable chunks and exercises<br />
created to practice and master one of those chunks<br />
at a time. The result is a classroom in which<br />
students are active and lecturing is kept to a<br />
minimum.<br />
Supportive environment is created by forming<br />
groups of three to try out their ideas and come up<br />
with answers.<br />
Placing the focus of power and energy in the<br />
students rather than the teacher reflects the<br />
homœopath-patient relationship.<br />
Homœopaths need to have some kind of<br />
spiritual or self-reflective practice that helps them<br />
to stay centered and inwardly attuned while with<br />
patients. If we can become inwardly silent, we can
e receptive to the patient’s energy. There can be<br />
tremendous learning from this.<br />
Meditating before a class or a case helps to<br />
focus and be more receptive and at the end<br />
consolidates learning.<br />
LENNIHAN would like to develop the positive<br />
aspects of remedies and the notion of Homœopathy<br />
as a way to support people in their spiritual growth<br />
and helping them to fulfill their own highest<br />
purpose on earth.<br />
XVIII. HERON, Krista (SIM. XVII, 4/2004) The<br />
author has attended 30 seminars of Massimo<br />
MANGIALAVORI in 8 years. Massimo teaches<br />
from his experience and his cured cases. He<br />
presents cases that have a minimum of two years<br />
follow-up. The remedy acting both constitutionally<br />
as well as acutely.<br />
By comparing cases, he builds an<br />
understanding of the family themes as a whole<br />
while individuating the remedies within the family.<br />
In addition, he teaches case analysis and<br />
methodology. The main goal is to understand the<br />
strategies in the patient that have been present<br />
throughout their life, particularly those that are<br />
related to the basic needs of the system and the<br />
patient’s essential themes.<br />
XIX. Pathogenesy of Cisplatinum JULIAN O.A.<br />
This Proving was originally published in 1983 in<br />
the same journal – La Revue Belge. This<br />
republication is linked to another article about<br />
Cisplatinum in Flemish by Dr De GROOTE, which<br />
gives several clinical cases and a Repertory.<br />
The Cisplatinum patient is irritable,<br />
changeable, restless, and more active in the<br />
evening. The patient dreams about journeys,<br />
meetings, accidents or suicides. She or he suffers a<br />
lot of headaches and neurological symptoms,<br />
including tremor, paraesthesia, loss of coordination<br />
of hands, and decrease of knee jerk. Other<br />
interesting symptoms are bleeding gums,<br />
Leucopaenia, Thrombocytopenia, Asthma, Rhinitis<br />
with sneezing or nasal blockage, Renal<br />
insufficiency, Cramps, muscular pains, skin allergy,<br />
Acne, and loss of hair. (La Revue Belge 2004; 2: in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 4/2004)<br />
XX. Cocculus indicus IRIGOYEN E. Cocculus<br />
indicus is well known for travel sickness, but has<br />
many other symptoms. The patient is anxious<br />
about the health of sick persons and very<br />
susceptible to all mental disturbances. He answers<br />
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slowly, reflects long, and dwells on past<br />
disagreeable events. Everything is slowed down.<br />
There may also be: vertigo when sitting up;<br />
metallic taste with loss of appetite and inclination<br />
to vomit; amenorrhea with headache or faintness<br />
with nausea; faintness from pain during stool;<br />
weakness in cervical or lumbar region; paralysis<br />
from the small of the back downward; paraesthesia<br />
alternatively in feet and hands; totters when<br />
walking. (La Revue Belge 2004; 2: in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 4/2004)<br />
XXI. Polychrests indicated in maturity-onset<br />
Diabetes DECAIX E. Homœopathy is useful in<br />
maturity-onset Diabetes, alongside the allopathic<br />
treatment, because it helps to stabilize the disease.<br />
Homœopathy might also help to avoid some<br />
complications (an assessment should be<br />
undertaken).<br />
Some medicines are particularly indicated.<br />
Different ‘Sulphur types’ are described, especially<br />
the ‘fat Sulphur’, which should be compared to<br />
Antimonium crudum, and the ‘thin Sulphur’ which<br />
should make one consider whether the patient has<br />
developed Insulin-Dependent Diabetes (as well as<br />
Arsenicum album, Phosphorus, Psorinum or the<br />
different acids). Other potential medicines include<br />
Graphites, Thuja, Calcarea carbonica and Baryta<br />
carbonica. (Homéopathie Européenne 2004; 3: in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 4/2004)<br />
XXII. Study of 4553 cases in a homœopathic<br />
practice COLIN P. This study was done between<br />
1999 and 2001, and confirms a previous study,<br />
published in the British Homeopathic Journal<br />
(2000; 89: 116-121). Paediatrics constituted 28.7%<br />
of the cases; of which group, 60.5% are infectious<br />
diseases, and 16% are psychic disorders. In the<br />
adult group, 31.9% of the cases are psychological<br />
disorders, 15.2% infectious diseases and 10% are<br />
rheumatological. The other main diseases are<br />
cardiovascular (8.62% of adult cases), gynaecology<br />
(7.7% of adult cases), digestive diseases (6.3% of<br />
adult cases), dermatology (5% in both child and<br />
adult group), and allergy (2.5 % in children and<br />
1.7% in the adult group).<br />
The results show that Homœopathy is useful in<br />
a lot of diseases, and can avoid side effects of<br />
allopathic medicines and iatrogenic diseases. The<br />
very low percentage of allopathy used in this study,<br />
particularly in infectious, allergic, rheumatological,<br />
and psychological ailments, seems to be a strong<br />
argument for the efficacy of Homœopathy in these<br />
diseases. In the conclusion the status of<br />
homœopathic doctors and the problem of
homœopathic training are mentioned.<br />
(Homéopathie Européenne 2004; 3: in<br />
HOMEOPATHY, 93, 4/2004)<br />
XXIII. Obituary Dr. John Stephen HUGHES-<br />
GAMES 26 May 1927 - 22 July 2004 by David<br />
SPENCE. John qualified from Bristol University<br />
in 1954. His first homœopathic course was in the<br />
early 1960s and met Dr. Margery BLACKIE with<br />
whom he established a warm friendship. For 18<br />
months he studied Homœopathy in the morning and<br />
helped her practice in the evenings. He spent a<br />
great deal of time and energy in promoting medical<br />
Homœopathy and had local radio broadcasts. He<br />
also wrote a number of original articles. 15 years<br />
ago he started Bristol Medical Homœopathic Group<br />
which had about 200 members. He was an<br />
enthusiastic lecturer and inspired generations of<br />
doctors to take up Homœopathy.<br />
(HOMEOPATHY, 93, 4/2004)<br />
XXIV. Obituary George Patrick KINSELLA 16<br />
April 1958 - 27 July 2004 by Peter GREGORY.<br />
George KINSELLA graduated as a Vet fromTrinity<br />
College, Dublin in 1981. George always needed to<br />
learn more and to share what he knew and his sheer<br />
energy and love for people commanded the<br />
attention and respect of anyone prepared to listen.<br />
He obtained Vet MFHom in 1999. His great<br />
passion in life was to spread the word of<br />
Homœopathy, its practice and its philosophy. He<br />
brought humour, enthusiasm, passion, commitment<br />
and love, he had a spiritual view of the Universe of<br />
great depth and wisdom and this world will be less<br />
rich for his leaving it. (HOMEOPATHY, 93,<br />
4/2004)<br />
XXV. After a Stroke, Artistic Transformation.<br />
New research has shown that minor brain damage<br />
can modify a person’s approach to creativity.<br />
Dr. Jean-Marie ANNONI and colleagues at<br />
Lausanne University in Switzerland have<br />
documented a change in the work of two skilled<br />
Swiss painters who suffered mild strokes. The<br />
artists’ use of colour and line has altered<br />
significantly. This is due to the subtle losses of<br />
emotional control and executive function –<br />
intellectual self-editing skills.<br />
The lack of strict formal rules in artistic<br />
creativity allows the development of new abilities<br />
after brain dysfunction, which depend not only on<br />
the artists’ personality, but also on the lesion site<br />
and the brain’s ability to reorganize.<br />
Bruce MILLER, a neurologist at the University<br />
of California, San Francisco, has documented a<br />
variety of creative changes in people who suffer<br />
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brain damage, said that much of the brain was<br />
involved in inhibition, and that damage to one area<br />
might free activity in another. CAREY, Benedict<br />
(The Hindu, 25 May <strong>2005</strong>)<br />
XXVI. It is machine indeed. It seems that some<br />
libraries in the U.S. have book bound in human<br />
skin! “Infact, a number of finest libraries in the<br />
U.S. including Harvard’s, have such books. ….<br />
Wealthy bibliophiles acquired skin from executed<br />
criminals, medical school cadavers, and people who<br />
died in the poor house. “The Boston Athenaeum, a<br />
private library, has an 1837 copy of George<br />
Walton’s memoirs bound in his own skin. Walton<br />
was a highwayman and left the volume to one of<br />
his victims ...” (The Hindu, Chennai, 12 Jan.<br />
2006). [How mad and insensitive can one be! It is<br />
said that skins of some of Jews who were in death<br />
camps of Nazi Germany were used to make<br />
pouches, wallets, hand bags! And all these have<br />
happened only with connivance of the<br />
doctors=KSS.]<br />
XXVII. When Science Turns to Wishful<br />
Thinking: (Tim RADFORD, Guardian<br />
Newspapers, The Hindu, Chennai 12 Jan. 2006):<br />
narrates some of the ‘frauds’, ‘hoaxes’ played by<br />
‘scientists’ craving to get rich, fame and name by<br />
announcing grand experimental results. The ‘Stem<br />
cell Therapy and advances in cloning’ in May <strong>2005</strong>,<br />
which he retracted later, the claim of two Scientists<br />
in Utah, USA to have achieved cold fusion, which<br />
later proved to be ‘illusory’, the American<br />
“discovery” of the HIV virus; also that in 1999 a<br />
famous U.S. laboratory extended the periodic table,<br />
which ‘discoveries’ were later withdrawn and a<br />
physicist fired for cooking the books; that the<br />
British Psychologist Cyril Burt used respect data to<br />
“prove” that IQ was inherited, and “warped<br />
academic thinking for at least a decade”; and “in<br />
the Philippines in 1971 a Government expert<br />
claimed to have found a Stone Age tribe untouched<br />
by modern civilization ….. it turned out to be a<br />
hoax and their discoverer disappeared 12 years later<br />
with millions of dollars raised to ‘protect’ them<br />
from modernity.” (Guardian Newspapers, in The<br />
Hindu, Jan. 12, 2006)<br />
XXVIII. It is well known that cruel unethical<br />
“medical” experiments have been going on since<br />
decades mostly to quench the scientist’s passion.<br />
These experiments were performed ostensibly in<br />
the ‘promotion’ of Medicine, upon hapless animals<br />
mostly and sometimes upon humans. The<br />
experiments during the Nazi regime is unbeatable<br />
in cruelty.
A report in The Hindu, 29 Sept., 1998 reads<br />
“The only surviving man to have practiced<br />
Medicine at Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz<br />
concentration camp during World War II Hans<br />
MUENCH said he had no regrets and defended his<br />
work as “important for science” (!). MUENCH<br />
defended his superior Josef MENGELE who was<br />
charged with “torturing thousands of children while<br />
conducting genetic experiments”. MUENCH said<br />
he was lucky to have been able to conduct ‘cuttingedge<br />
experiments’ previously possible only on<br />
rabbits”!<br />
[And what benefits indeed have flown to the<br />
humans from these horrific experiments, pray? It is<br />
a blessing that Homœopathy does not at all need<br />
such experiments and we keep far, far away from<br />
the Hegemony Medicine=KSS]<br />
XXIX. Internationaler Coethener Erfahrungs-<br />
austausch (Koethen International Discussion of<br />
the experiences) (ICE 3) 11-13 Sept. 2003.<br />
Homœopathic treatment of Cancer Patients: Five<br />
participants from four countries reported in Koethen<br />
theirpractical experiences in homœopathic treatment<br />
of Cancer patients during the course of three days.<br />
Over 100 delegates visited the Congress and<br />
discussed enthusiastically the encouraging results.<br />
Manuel MATEU-RATERA (Barcelona, Spain)<br />
presented a study of a 60 Cancer patients with<br />
statistics and with 10 cases presented the course of<br />
the treatment and results. A short form of this is<br />
published in this issue of the Journal (AHZ. 249,<br />
5/2004). Frank KUHLMANN-CUSTODIS<br />
(Walbröl, Germany) spoke.<br />
XXX. Vaccines: Are they Really Safe and<br />
Effective (CCR. 11, 2/2004). This is a collection<br />
of some information from periodicals and books.<br />
India Today – Hindi version edition 4 October<br />
2004 gives statistic to show that in so far as U.P.<br />
State in India is concerned Polio cases are more in<br />
the Muslim community which may perhaps be due<br />
to non-vaccination (for Polio) of Muslim children<br />
due to the fear that this immunization would make<br />
their children infertile and perhaps it is a conspiracy<br />
against Muslims.<br />
There is an extract from the book “Vaccines:<br />
Are they Really Safe and Effective? A Parent’s<br />
Guide to Childhood Shots” by Neil Z. MILLER”.<br />
The Foreword by Harold E. BUTTRAM to the<br />
above books is given. This Foreword questions the<br />
efficacy and safety of the “current childhood<br />
vaccination programs”.<br />
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This is followed a small write-up about the<br />
“Mandatory” vaccines and also a brief about the<br />
history and efficacy of the Polio Vaccine (The Salk<br />
Vaccine).<br />
Dr. Subhash MEHER “ponders” over the<br />
vaccinations and the role of Homœopathy.<br />
Dr. MISTRY writes on the ‘Pros and Cons’ of<br />
vaccines. Also mentions the homœopathic<br />
medicines which will give immunity to the many<br />
childhood illnesses for which they are now given<br />
several vaccinations.<br />
XXXI. Address by Prime Minister Dr.<br />
Manmohan SINGH at the CSIR Diamond<br />
Jubilee Technology Award and S.S. Bhatnagar<br />
Prizes Presentation Function. Excerpts relevant to<br />
health and Medicine: “Last week, I was informed of<br />
a breakthrough discovery, of a new molecule to<br />
treat a dreadful disease like Tuberculosis. I am told<br />
that this is the first new molecule to appear since<br />
1963. …Since Tuberculosis takes a toll of 5 lakh<br />
lives every year in our country, this discovery could<br />
be of immense social and economic significance.<br />
… I assure you that in so far our Government has a<br />
role, our Government is fully committed to give<br />
Science and Technology a place of pride in all our<br />
national endeavors. … Let me recall what Louis<br />
PASTEUR said in 1871. He said, “There does not<br />
exist a category of Science to which one can give<br />
the name Applied Science. There are Science and<br />
the application of Science, bound together as the<br />
fruit of the tree which bears it”. This has<br />
historically been characteristic of our approach in<br />
India. … Therefore, I wish to rest today the debate<br />
about what our priority should be – basic or applied<br />
Science. I think the answer is both”<br />
[In so far as Homœopathy is concerned it is<br />
Practical Therapeutics = KSS] (Source: CSIR<br />
News. Oct. 15, 2004, Science & Culture, 70, 9-<br />
10/2004)<br />
XXXII. Health at the Cross Roads<br />
– the Indian Scene Dr. D.B. BISHT with<br />
his decades of experience in high offices in<br />
the Health Ministry of the Government of<br />
India writes (NAMAH. 11, 4/2004) that<br />
India has “on the one hand the most<br />
modern sophisticated institutions and on<br />
the other the most primitive health centers<br />
where even the bare minimum of facilities<br />
for health and sickness are yet to be<br />
provided”. “As long as hunger and
poverty stalk our population, enjoyment of<br />
health, human dignity and quality of life<br />
will remain a distant dream”. In spite of<br />
“planning”, over the years the distinction<br />
between the affluent and deprived classes<br />
has become more sharp. Suicides, even<br />
group suicides due to primary economic<br />
strains have increased manifold; such as<br />
amongst farmers.” [Exactly contrary to<br />
what Louis PASTEUR is quoted to have<br />
said (see … above), Dr. BISHT says<br />
“Health is an applied Science.”<br />
The cure of the whole problem is that<br />
‘doctors’ who get medical college<br />
admission at a high cost (some Universities<br />
are above Rs. 25 lakh for a seat) have to<br />
make all the money as soon as possible.<br />
Hence the high costs. Hence the medical<br />
graduates throng the city. In a rural set up<br />
they cannot get much money. All is<br />
“professional”, no dedication to “Serve”<br />
and be served. Grab as much as you can as<br />
early as you can. Let specialty hospital<br />
spring up in all cities and in the name of<br />
investigations milk the patient dry and<br />
dead, is the motto. As for the farmers<br />
suicides, they have not only lost their crops<br />
but their sickness has costed them a hefty<br />
expenditure (without appropriate benefit)<br />
leading to borrow more from private<br />
money lenders at exhorbitant interest rates<br />
which even their next generation cannot<br />
pay off. This is the “medical” scenario in<br />
same parts of India.<br />
And such cost effective, benign<br />
Medicine like Homœopathy also attempts<br />
to join this club of Health looters “for<br />
fraternity sake”. It is all quite sad.=KSS]<br />
XXXIII. Dr. BISHT, Editor NAMAH says<br />
(NAMAH. 12, 2/2004) that while many talk of<br />
‘holistic Medicine’, a holistic approach etc.,<br />
neither is it taught in the medical school, nor it is<br />
practiced. Only lip service is given. “It is<br />
doubtful if there is a single text book on holistic<br />
medicine for medical students.”<br />
Dr. BIGHT suggests a “unified” system.<br />
“Attempts were made in India by the Director<br />
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General of Health Services, to bring top<br />
Practitioners of different systems under one roof<br />
so that they could consider ways and means of<br />
achieving something which might be called a<br />
‘national system’. But what was the result?<br />
Chaos. The so-called system Practitioners<br />
started high-lighting the pitfalls of all the others<br />
and the meetings could achieve nothing.”<br />
“A question is posed: which alternative<br />
system will survive? Only time will tell, but<br />
meanwhile we should continue to study in an<br />
unbiased manner the outcome of various<br />
therapies. Truth cures and Truth survives.” [We<br />
agree. Truth alone will succeed. Satyameva<br />
Jayathe = KSS]<br />
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LIST OF JOURNALS<br />
Full addresses of the Journals covered by<br />
this Quarterly Homœopathic Digest are<br />
given below:<br />
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1. AHZ: Allgemeine Homöopathische<br />
Zeitung, Karl F. Haug Verlag, Hüthig<br />
GmbH, im Weiher 10, 69121,<br />
HEIDELBERG, GERMANY.<br />
2. AJHM: American Journal of<br />
Homeopathic Medicine, formerly<br />
Journal of the American Institute of<br />
Homeopathy (JAIH). 801 N. Fairfax<br />
Street, Suite 306 Alexandria, VA<br />
22314.<br />
3. CCR: Homoeopathic Clinical Case<br />
Recorder, Dr. Subhash Meher, Near<br />
Hotel Chanakya, Anandrishiji Marg,<br />
Burudgaon Road, AHMEDNAGAR-<br />
414001.<br />
4. THE HINDU: Newspaper, Chennai–<br />
600 002.<br />
5. HH: Homœopathic Heritage, B. Jain<br />
Publishers Overseas, 1920, Street<br />
No.10, Chuna Mandi, Paharganj, Post<br />
Box 5775, New Delhi - 110 055.
6. HL: Homœopathic Links,<br />
Homœopathic<br />
Research & Charities, F/s, Saraswat<br />
Colony,<br />
Linking Road, Santacruz (W),<br />
Mumbai<br />
400054.<br />
7. HOMEOPATHY: Formerly British<br />
Homeopathic Journal (BHJ),<br />
Homeopathy, Faculty of Homeopathy,<br />
29 Park Street West, Luton,<br />
Bedfordshire, LU13BE, UK.<br />
8. HT: Homeopathy Today, National<br />
Center for Homeopathy, 801, North<br />
Fairfax Street, Suite 306,<br />
ALEXANDRIA, VA. 22314, USA.<br />
9. NAMAH: New Approches to<br />
Medicine and Health, Sri Aurobindo<br />
Society, PONDICHERRY – 605 001.<br />
PART II<br />
(This section contains abstracts/extracts<br />
from selected articles; even the entire<br />
article in some case)<br />
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1. Dr. HERING’s Preface<br />
(to HAHNEMANN’s Chronic<br />
Diseases)<br />
(AH. 6/2000)<br />
[Original publisher’s note:<br />
The following article has been kindly<br />
furnished by Dr. HERING of Philadelphia,<br />
in German. The Editor, Dr. HEMPEL, is<br />
responsible for the translation.].<br />
HAHNEMANN’s work on Chronic<br />
diseases may be considered a continuation<br />
of his Organon; the medicines which will<br />
follow the present volume may therefore<br />
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10. NJH: National Journal of<br />
Homœopathy, 71B Saraswati Road,<br />
Near Gokul Icecream,, Santacruz (W),<br />
MUMBAI – 400 054.<br />
11. S&C: Science and Culture, Indian<br />
Science News Association, 92,<br />
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road,<br />
KOLKATA – 700 009.<br />
12. SIM: Simillimum, The Journal of the<br />
Homeopathic Academy of<br />
Naturopathic Physicians, P.O. Box<br />
8341, Covington, WA 98042, USA.<br />
13. ZKH: Zeitschrift für Klassische<br />
Homöopathie, Karl F. Haug Verlag,<br />
Hüthig GmbH, Im Weiher 10, D-69121<br />
HEIDELBERG, GERMANY.<br />
be considered a continuation of his<br />
Materia Medica Pura. As the principles<br />
and rules of general therapeutics have been<br />
developed in the Organon, so does<br />
HAHNEMANN develop, in the present<br />
treatise, the principles and rules which<br />
ought to prevail in the treatment of chronic<br />
diseases, whose name is legion. In the<br />
Materia Medica Pura HAHNEMANN<br />
describes to us the symptoms which the<br />
general remedies that he tried upon healthy<br />
persons, are capable of producing; the<br />
present treatise, on the contrary, will be<br />
succeeded by an account of those<br />
remedies, which HAHNMANN especially<br />
employed in the treatment of chronic<br />
diseases, and which he therefore called<br />
anti-psorics. In the Organon<br />
HAHNEMANN tries to establish the fact<br />
that the principle Similia Similibus<br />
Curentur is the supreme rule in every true<br />
method of cure, and he shows how this
ule is to be followed in the treatment of<br />
disease; whereas in his treatise on the<br />
chronic diseases, which is based upon the<br />
Organon and does not, in the least, modify<br />
or alter its teachings, HAHNEMANN<br />
shows that most chronic diseases,<br />
originating in a common source and being<br />
related amongst each other, a special class<br />
of remedies designated by HAHNEMANN<br />
anti-psorics, should be used in the<br />
treatment of those diseases. This common<br />
source of most chronic diseases, according<br />
to HAHNEMANN, is Psora.<br />
The shallow opponents of<br />
Homœopathy - and we never had any<br />
other! - pounced upon the theory<br />
of the Psoric Miasm with a view of<br />
attacking it with their hollow and<br />
unmeaning sarcasms. Making Psora to be<br />
identical with itch, they sneeringly<br />
pretended that according to<br />
HAHNEMANN’s doctrine the itch was the<br />
primitive evil, and that this doctrine was<br />
akin to the<br />
doctrine of the original sin recognized by<br />
the Christian Faith.*<br />
With the same impudence with which<br />
they had, on former occasions, asserted,<br />
that HAHNEMANN rejects all pathology<br />
in his Organon, they now asserted that he<br />
himself advanced a pathological<br />
hypothesis, and “that the true which it<br />
contained was not new, nor the new true.”<br />
Equitable judges will not fail to<br />
recognize in this treatise on chronic<br />
diseases the same carefulness of study and<br />
observation which the great author of<br />
Homœopathy has shown in all his other<br />
writings. HAHNEMANN had no other<br />
object in view except to cure. All the<br />
energies of his great soul were directed to<br />
this one end. His object was not to<br />
overthrow pathology, although the<br />
pathology of his time had been set aside as<br />
a heap of foolish speculations, and has<br />
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been replaced by other systems, that may<br />
perhaps suffer the same fate in fifty years;<br />
he merely contended against the foolish<br />
and presumptuous application of<br />
pathological hypotheses to the treatment of<br />
disease. He rejected and overthrew the<br />
foolish belief which had been driven like a<br />
rusty nail, into the minds of the Profession<br />
and, by their instrumentality, into the<br />
minds of the people, that the remedies<br />
should be given against a name, against an<br />
imaginary disease, and that the name of<br />
this imaginary disease indicated the<br />
remedy. Up to this day physicians have<br />
been engaged in accrediting that<br />
superstition. Whence should otherwise<br />
spring the desire which so many patients<br />
manifest, of inquiring into the name of the<br />
disease, as if a knowledge of that name<br />
were sufficient to discover the true remedy<br />
against the disease. Many patients are<br />
disconsolate when the doctor cannot tell<br />
them what is the matter with them. Do we<br />
gain anything by being able to say that the<br />
disease is Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, Livercomplaint?<br />
Does it avail the patient any to<br />
be able to repeat his doctor’s ipse dixit<br />
“that he is bilious, nervous, etc.?” Do<br />
these words mean anything definite? Are<br />
there yet physicians foolish enough to<br />
believe that their speculative explanations<br />
mean any thing? Does not every body<br />
acknowledge that they are mere ignes fatui<br />
(Wills o’ wisp - Ed.) flitting to and fro<br />
upon the quagmire of the old decayed<br />
systems of pathology?<br />
Assuredly, a physician of modern date,<br />
who has not remained altogether ignorant,<br />
would be<br />
ashamed of assuring his patients with the<br />
air of a deep thinker, that one has a disease<br />
of the spine, another consumption, a third a<br />
uterine affection, etc. Every tyro in<br />
pathology knows that all this means<br />
nothing definite, and that it is only to very
ignorant persons that such assertions can<br />
be given as science. Every tyro knows that<br />
the question is, to find out what are the<br />
symptoms and the nature of that disease of<br />
the spine or the uterus. It is moreover<br />
known that this more precise knowledge is<br />
necessary as respects prognosis, and for<br />
the purpose of regulating the mode of life<br />
of the patient; but it is also settled that to<br />
know merely the variety, to which the<br />
disease belongs, is not sufficient to cure it.<br />
All the successful and celebrated<br />
practitioners of the old school have been<br />
such as have constantly modified and<br />
individualized the treatment of disease.<br />
This is all that HAHNEMANN has tried to<br />
accomplish; with this difference that he has<br />
individualized every case of disease with<br />
much more precision than any of the older<br />
physicians had done. HAHNEMANN had<br />
courage enough, at once to face the<br />
contradictions which constantly existed<br />
between practice and theory; he declare<br />
that the speculative knowledge of<br />
physicians was merely learned dust which<br />
they were in the habit of throwing into<br />
people’s eyes for the purpose of blinding<br />
them and inducing them to consider the<br />
ignorance of the doctors and the<br />
insufficiency of their knowledge as<br />
something respectable. HAHNEMANN<br />
dared to lay down this maxim: that, in<br />
treating disease, he had nothing to do with<br />
its name.<br />
HAHNEMANN teaches that the<br />
remedies should be chosen according to<br />
the symptoms of the patient. The<br />
physician should be governed by what is<br />
certain and safe, not by that which is more<br />
or less uncertain and unsafe, and which is<br />
changed according to fashion. Both in the<br />
Organon and in his treatise on the<br />
Chronic Diseases, HAHNEMANN insists<br />
upon the remedies being chosen in<br />
accordance with the symptoms.<br />
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It is not an easy matter to choose a<br />
remedy according to symptoms. This may<br />
be inferred from the manner in which tyros<br />
in Homœopathy and physicians of the old<br />
school who come over to us, go to work.<br />
They constantly rely upon names, giving a<br />
certain remedy in Scarlet fever, because<br />
some one else had found it useful; or a<br />
certain remedy in pulmonary<br />
inflammation, because it had been<br />
successfully exhibited upon a former<br />
occasion; whereas HAHNEMANN teaches<br />
that, because a remedy has helped before,<br />
this is no reason why it should help again<br />
in a similar disease. The symptoms and<br />
not the name are to point out the<br />
remedy. This is also the case in chronic<br />
diseases. In the treatment of chronic<br />
diseases HAHNEMANN has been taught<br />
by experience to give preference to the<br />
anti-psoric remedies. This preference is<br />
not theoretical, and is constantly<br />
subordinate to the general principle.<br />
HAHNEMANN has never said that the<br />
principal constituents of mountains, which<br />
are the most important materials in nature -<br />
the metals, for instance - are the most<br />
important remedies for the cure of the most<br />
universal diseases. However, he has<br />
pointed out the oxides salts of Ammonium,<br />
Potassium, Sodium, Calcium, Aluminium,<br />
Magnesium, as the most important antipsoric<br />
remedies. HAHNEMANN has said<br />
nowhere that the most important<br />
metalloids constitute the most important<br />
remedial agents, although he has<br />
introduced Sulphur, Phosphorus, Silicea,<br />
Chlorine, and Iodine, in one form or<br />
another, as anti-psoric remedies. In<br />
selecting a remedy HAHNEMANN has<br />
never been guided by theories, but always<br />
by experience. He chose his remedies<br />
agreeably to the symptoms which they had<br />
produced upon healthy persons, looking at<br />
the same time to their remedial virtues
having been tested by practice. This is the<br />
reason why the general views which have<br />
been expressed just now did not prevent<br />
him from admitting as chief anti-psorics<br />
Borax and Ammonium carbonicum,<br />
Anacardium and Clematis.<br />
Why, it may be asked, has a great<br />
number of homœopathic physicians,<br />
neither recognized HAHNEMANN’s<br />
theory of Psora, nor the specific character<br />
of the anti-psoric remedies? Why have<br />
some even gone so far as to set the theory<br />
sneeringly aside, and to decry the antipsorics<br />
as less trustworthy than the other<br />
remedies?<br />
For the same reason that the astronomical<br />
discoveries of our Herschel are doubted by<br />
people who have no faith in the discoverer, and<br />
are not able to verify his discoveries. To do this,<br />
knowledge, instruments, talent, care,<br />
perseverance, opportunities, and many other<br />
things are required. Not one of all these<br />
requisites can be found with those who are mere<br />
dabblers in practice, scribbling authors<br />
opposing their own opinions and imaginations to<br />
facts and observation.<br />
Or, for the same reason the Ehrenberg’s<br />
discoveries cannot be appreciated by those who<br />
have either no microscope, or who have one<br />
which is not good, or who have a microscope<br />
without understanding the difficult art of using<br />
it; or else who know how to use it, but do not use<br />
it with the same exactness and carefulness as<br />
Ehrenberg, who discovered in the chalk-dust of<br />
visiting cards the shells of new species of<br />
animals, by simply making the cards<br />
transparent by means of the Oil of Turpentine.<br />
Or lastly, for the simple reason that<br />
physicians find it more easy to write<br />
something for print, that to observe nature;<br />
that it is more easy to impose upon people<br />
than to cure the sick, and because the<br />
greater number of physicians is affected<br />
with the delusion that things which they do<br />
not see, do not exist.<br />
If such physicians succeed in effecting<br />
a cure, they are at once ready to boast of<br />
their exploits, whereas the cure was due to<br />
HAHNEMANN’s doctrine, to the<br />
remedies which he has discovered, to the<br />
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researches of other physicians, to their<br />
instructions or example, or to so-called<br />
chance. But if they do not succeed, they<br />
impute their failure to anything but<br />
themselves: it is Homœopathy that is<br />
deficient; this or that rule is not correct; the<br />
Materia Medica is at fault; or, if<br />
something in HAHNEMANN’s system<br />
does not suit them, they are prone to say<br />
that they have never seen this or that, that<br />
they cannot agree with it. And in talking<br />
in this way, they really imagine to have<br />
said something against the matter itself.<br />
Upon the same ground that<br />
HAHNEMANN carefully distinguished<br />
from the disease the symptoms which<br />
owed their existence to dietetic<br />
transgressions, or to medicinal<br />
aggravations; upon the same grounds that<br />
he acknowledged as standing and<br />
independent diseases the acute Miasms,<br />
known as Purpura, Measles, Scarlatina,<br />
Small pox, Whooping cough, etc., or that<br />
he distinguished the venereal Miasm into<br />
Syphilis and Sycosis, we may afterwards,<br />
if experience should demand it, subdivide<br />
Psora into several species and varieties.<br />
This is no objection to HAHNEMANN’s<br />
theory. HAHNEMANN has taken the first<br />
great step without denying the faculty of<br />
progressive development inherent in his<br />
system. But let improvements be made in<br />
such a way as to become useful, not<br />
prejudicial, to the patients. We ought to<br />
raise our super-structure upon<br />
HAHNEMANN’s own ground, in the<br />
direction which he has first imparted to his<br />
doctrine.<br />
Although it matters little what opinions<br />
the respective disciples of HAHNEMANN<br />
hold relatively to the theory of Psora, I<br />
will nevertheless, communicate a short<br />
extract from my essay, Guide to the<br />
Progressive Development of<br />
Homœopathy.
Guide to the Progressive Development of<br />
Homœopathy:<br />
“As acute diseases terminate in an<br />
eruption upon the skin, which divides,<br />
dries up, and then passes off, so it is with<br />
many chronic diseases. All diseases<br />
diminish in intensity, improve, and are<br />
cured by the internal organism freeing<br />
itself from them little by little; the internal<br />
disease approaches more and more to the<br />
external tissues, until it finally arrives at<br />
the skin.”<br />
“Every homœopathic physician must<br />
have observed that the improvement in<br />
pain takes place from above downward;<br />
and in diseases, from within outward. This<br />
is the reason why chronic diseases, if they<br />
are thoroughly cured, always terminate in<br />
some cutaneous eruption, which differs<br />
according to the different constitutions of<br />
the patients. This cutaneous eruption may<br />
be even perceived when a cure is<br />
impossible, and even when the remedies<br />
have been improperly chosen. The skin<br />
being the outermost surface of the body, it<br />
receives upon itself the extreme<br />
termination of the disease. This cutaneous<br />
eruption is not a mere morbid secretion<br />
having been chemically separated from the<br />
internal organism in the form of a gas, a<br />
liquid, or a solid; it is the whole of the<br />
morbid action which is pressed from<br />
within outward, and it is characteristic of a<br />
thorough and really curative treatment.<br />
The morbid action of the internal organism<br />
may continue either entirely, or more or<br />
less in spite of this cutaneous eruption.<br />
Nevertheless, this eruption always is a<br />
favourable symptom; it alleviates the<br />
sufferings of the patient, and generally<br />
prevents a more dangerous affection.<br />
“The thorough cure of a widely<br />
ramified chronic disease in the organism is<br />
indicated by the most important organs<br />
being first relieved; the affection passes off<br />
in the order in which the organs had been<br />
affected, the more important being relieved<br />
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first, the less important next, and the skin<br />
last.”<br />
“Even the superficial observer will not<br />
fail in recognizing this law of order. An<br />
improvement which takes place in a<br />
different order can never be relied upon. A<br />
fit of hysteria may terminate in a flow of<br />
urine; other fits may either terminate in the<br />
same way, or in haemorrhage; the next<br />
succeeding fit shows how little the<br />
affection had been cured. The disease may<br />
take a different turn, it may change its<br />
form and, in this new form, it may be less<br />
troublesome; but the general state of the<br />
organism will suffer in consequence of this<br />
transformation.”<br />
“Hence it is that HAHNEMANN<br />
inculcates with so much care the important<br />
rule to attend to the moral symptoms, and<br />
to judge of the degree of homœopathic<br />
adaptation, existing between the remedy<br />
and the disease, by the improvement which<br />
takes place in the moral condition, and the<br />
general well-being of the patient.”<br />
“The law of order which we have<br />
pointed out above, accounts for the<br />
numerous cutaneous eruptions consequent<br />
upon homœopathic treatment, even where<br />
they never had been seen before; it<br />
accounts for the obstinacy with which<br />
many kinds of herpes and ulcers remain<br />
upon the skin, whereas others are<br />
dissipated like snow. Those which remain,<br />
do remain because the internal disease is<br />
yet existing. This law of order also<br />
accounts for the insufficiency of violent<br />
sweats, when the internal disease is not yet<br />
disposed to leave its hiding-place. It lastly<br />
accounts for one cutaneous affection being<br />
substituted for another.”<br />
“This transformation of the internal<br />
affection of such parts of the organism as<br />
are essential to important functions, to a<br />
cutaneous affection - a transformation<br />
which is entirely different from the violent<br />
change effected by means of Autenrieth’s
ointment, ammonium, croton-oil,<br />
cantharides, mustard, etc. -is chiefly<br />
effected by the anti-psoric remedies.<br />
“Other remedies may sometimes effect<br />
that transformation, even the use of water,<br />
change of climate, of occupation, etc; but it<br />
is more safely, more mildly and more<br />
thoroughly effected by the anti-psoric<br />
remedies.”<br />
This latter is altogether an individual<br />
opinion; others may have different<br />
opinions relative to the same subject; this<br />
needs not to prevent us from aiming all of<br />
us at the same end, side by side, in perfect<br />
harmony.<br />
But alas! the rules which the<br />
experienced founder of Homœopathy lays<br />
down in the subsequent work with so much<br />
emphasis, are not always practiced, and<br />
therefore, cannot be appreciated. Many<br />
oppose them; cures which otherwise might<br />
be speedy and certain, are delayed; much<br />
injury is being done by the wiseacres who<br />
intrude themselves into our literature and<br />
mix with it as chaff with the wheat. On all<br />
this we may console ourselves with the<br />
expectation that also in the history of<br />
science there will be those great days of<br />
harvest, when the tares shall be gathered in<br />
bundles and thrown into the fire.<br />
It is the duty of all of us to go farther in<br />
the theory and practice of Homœopathy<br />
than HAHNEMANN has done. We ought<br />
to seek the truth which is before us and<br />
forsake the errors of the past. But woe<br />
unto him who, on that account, should<br />
personally attack the author of our<br />
doctrine; he would burthen himself with<br />
infamy. HAHNEMANN was a great<br />
savant, inquirer, and discoverer; he was as<br />
true a man, without falsity, candid and<br />
open as a child, and inspired with pure<br />
benevolence and with a holy zeal for<br />
science.<br />
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When at last the fatal hour had struck<br />
for the sublime old man who had preserved<br />
his vigour almost to his last moments, then<br />
it was that the heart of his consort who had<br />
made his last years the brightest of his life,<br />
was on the point of breaking. Many of us,<br />
seeing those who are dearest to us engaged<br />
in the death-struggle, would exclaim:<br />
“Why should’st thou suffer so much! So<br />
too exclaimed HAHNEMANN’s consort:<br />
“Why should’st thou who hast alleviated<br />
so much suffering, suffer in thy last hour?<br />
This is unjust. Providence have allotted to<br />
thee a painless death.”<br />
Then he raised his voice as he had<br />
often done when he exhorted his disciples<br />
to hold fast to the great principles of<br />
Homœopathy. “Why should I have been<br />
thus distinguished? Each of us should here<br />
attend to the duties which God has<br />
imposed upon him. Although men may<br />
distinguish a more or less, yet no one has<br />
any merit. God owes nothing to me, I to<br />
him all.”<br />
With these words he took leave of the<br />
world, of his friends, and his foes. And<br />
here we take leave of you, reader, whether<br />
our friend or our opponent.<br />
To him who believes that there may yet<br />
be truths which he does not know and<br />
which he desires to know, will be pointed<br />
out such paths as will lead him to the light<br />
he needs. If he who has sincere<br />
benevolence and wishes to work for the<br />
benefit of all, be considered by Providence<br />
a fit instrument for the accomplishment of<br />
the divine will, he will be called upon to<br />
fulfill his mission and will be led to truth<br />
evermore.<br />
It is the spirit of Truth that tries to unite<br />
us all; but the father of Lies keeps us<br />
separate and divided.<br />
Philadelphia, April 22, 1845.<br />
C. Hg.<br />
* * *
* Note of the editor, Dr. HEMPEL: I beg<br />
pardon of my distinguished and learned<br />
friend for annexing a few remarks to this<br />
passage. In doing so I merely anticipate<br />
what I intend to express more fully on this<br />
subject some other occasion.<br />
As it would be absurd for a<br />
philosophical Christian to reject the<br />
doctrine of original sin, so it is absurd for<br />
any one who professes to have a clear<br />
perception of Homœopathy, to reject the<br />
doctrine of an hereditary morbific Miasm.<br />
Both these doctrines must stand and fall<br />
together; and, as truth is one and<br />
indivisible, they both hold and illustrate<br />
each other. If we admit with ROUSSEAU<br />
that everything which leaves the hand of<br />
God, is perfectly holy, then the first<br />
created man must have been perfectly<br />
pure, and must have appeared in the image<br />
and likeness of his maker. It seems to me<br />
absurd to suppose that something perfectly<br />
pure can, of itself,<br />
by its own free and orderly development,<br />
produce things impure and evil. We do not<br />
know how far God permitted an adaptation<br />
to evil to co-exist in the first man together<br />
with an adaptation to goodness. But this<br />
we certainly know that evil fruits must be<br />
the result of evil forces. In a certain<br />
moment man, or God through man,<br />
permitted the adaptation to evil to prevail<br />
in his nature; and instantaneously the<br />
forces of evil, be they called serpent, devil,<br />
or otherwise, invaded man’s nature,<br />
engrafted themselves upon it, and have, up<br />
to this moment, perpetuated their existence<br />
in it. This is relatively speaking, a fall,<br />
although, this fall, having been the first<br />
necessary phasis of human development, it<br />
may, in reality, be considered a progress.<br />
Man’s destiny consists in reuniting himself<br />
again with the Divine Life through the<br />
universal expansion of all the faculties of<br />
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his soul, and the realization of all the<br />
celestial harmonies the germs of which<br />
God had deposited in his nature, and<br />
towards the construction of which Science<br />
and Art will furnish him the means. The<br />
principle of division or dissolution which<br />
man had suffered to be introduced into his<br />
spiritual nature, must necessarily have<br />
embodied itself in a corresponding<br />
principle in the material organism. It is<br />
this principle which HAHNEMANN calls<br />
Psora. In proportion as man’s spiritual<br />
nature become developed and purified, this<br />
Psoric Miasm will be diminished, and will<br />
finally be completely removed from the<br />
life of humanity. This complete physical<br />
regeneration of human nature will<br />
necessarily be attended with great changes<br />
in all the external relations of man,<br />
education, mode of labouring, living, etc.,<br />
etc.<br />
The principle of division or dissolution in<br />
the human organism as an established and<br />
constituted fact, does not preclude the possibility<br />
of this organism being invaded by acute Miasms.<br />
The Psoric principle marks the general<br />
adaptation to evil, recognized and inherently<br />
received by the human organism; acute diseases<br />
are violent and sudden invasions of the organism<br />
by the forces of evil - which I have named<br />
subversive forces in my Preface. Those sudden<br />
invasions could never have taken place without<br />
man having first admitted the Psoric principle to<br />
be constitutional in his organism.<br />
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Editor’s Note:<br />
This Preface was first published in<br />
1845 in New York by William RADDE, in<br />
Samuel HAHNEMANN’s The Chronic<br />
Diseases: Their<br />
Specific Nature and Homœopathic<br />
Treatment, translated and edited by Dr.<br />
Charles J. HEMPEL. It was omitted form<br />
the 1896 translation by Prof. Louis H.<br />
TAFEL which has a Prefatory Note by Dr.
Richard HUGHES. It is reprinted here<br />
without any editorial changes except<br />
punctuation.<br />
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2. Behold the Whole: Case Analysis/Case<br />
Dynamics/Case Wholeness<br />
SHEPPERD, Joel (AJHM. 97, 4/2004)<br />
1.0. Introduction<br />
Homœopaths labor hard to master the<br />
techniques of proper case taking. They<br />
learn a unique skill and apply it to the best<br />
of their ability. They study what to do and<br />
how to do it. After gathering the<br />
information about the sick person,<br />
homœopaths begin the case analysis. They<br />
decide what is important or characteristic<br />
in the diseased person. But wait. What is<br />
it that we are doing while we do a case?<br />
What are we doing when we analyze<br />
something?<br />
This paper will explore what it is to do<br />
a case. In addition, this paper will expand<br />
on what case analysis is doing, and why<br />
analyzing is only one of the steps in<br />
deciding on the remedy.<br />
2.0. Doing the Case<br />
Doctors must do certain things when<br />
the patient is before them. They must ask<br />
questions; so they memorize which<br />
questions are necessary. If they know the<br />
remedies well, they know more exactly<br />
which questions are pertinent. With<br />
experience, they develop a technique or a<br />
skill. Physical examination is also an<br />
acquired craft. If the doctor interacts<br />
appropriately with the patient, he can apply<br />
these capabilities usefully. No one should<br />
assume that he has a natural aptitude for<br />
people communication. It is also a skill to<br />
be mastered.<br />
2.1. Listening<br />
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There are whole books written about<br />
interpersonal communication. How many<br />
homœopathic schools include this<br />
knowledge in their curriculum? Such<br />
courses would develop interviewing skills<br />
and listening skills. “Before we go any<br />
further, it is important to offer a clear<br />
definition of listening. There is more to<br />
this activity than passively absorbing a<br />
speaker’s words. In truth, listening is a<br />
process that consists of five elements:<br />
hearing, attending, understanding,<br />
responding, and remembering.” (1) “How<br />
do I listen? How do I listen to others? As if<br />
everyone<br />
were my Master speaking to me his<br />
cherished last words.” (2) The art of<br />
listening is part of a larger technique<br />
required by the homœopath: the doctor as<br />
observer.<br />
2.2. Objective/subjective observing<br />
In mainstream science, the first<br />
presupposition is that the subject is<br />
separate from the object. This is the<br />
starting point and purpose of the research.<br />
“Science represents the attempt to describe<br />
the world to the extent that it is<br />
independent of our thought and action.<br />
Our senses rank only as more or less<br />
imperfect aids enabling us to acquire<br />
knowledge about the objective world.” (3)<br />
This division of the world into two<br />
sections creates a very crude image of<br />
reality. Science is further and further away<br />
from the immediate world of the senses -<br />
more abstract and remote from the<br />
common experience.<br />
Mainstream science creates a myth of<br />
objectivity. The act of observing always<br />
changes the observed. “It was originally<br />
the aim of all science to describe nature as<br />
far as possible as it is; i.e. without our<br />
interference and our observation. We now<br />
realize that this is an unattainable
goal…we decide by our selection of the<br />
type of observation employed, which<br />
aspects of nature are to be determined and<br />
which are to be blurred.” (4) Modern<br />
science equates objective observation with<br />
quantitative measurements and<br />
mathematical descriptions.<br />
Subjective observations include<br />
sensations from seeing, hearing, tasting,<br />
touching or smelling; feelings as of anger<br />
or sadness; thoughts as of memory,<br />
judgment or truth. These are qualitative<br />
phenomena experienced within people.<br />
The homœopath does not doubt that<br />
subjective data are part of reality and a<br />
necessary part of the research of people<br />
with disease. …He sees in any given case<br />
of disease only the disturbances to the<br />
senses: subjective symptoms, incidental<br />
symptoms, objective symptoms.” (5)<br />
Scientific truth does not reside with the<br />
objective observer who misses<br />
complexities and multiple perspectives of<br />
the “Object.” There is an interrelationship<br />
of the subject and the object, and it cannot<br />
be ignored.<br />
2.2.1. The homœopathic observer<br />
The goal of a good homœopathic<br />
observer is not to be objective, but to be<br />
accurate. “This capability of observing<br />
accurately is never quite an innate faculty;<br />
it must be chiefly acquired by practice, by<br />
refining and regulating the perceptions of<br />
the senses … together with a constant<br />
distrust of our own powers of<br />
apprehension.” (6) The<br />
subjective perception can create unwanted<br />
assumptions, prejudices or theories; so we<br />
must question repeatedly to verify the<br />
reliability of the data. “The first step to<br />
freeing oneself from the limitations of<br />
one’s perspective is to become aware of<br />
what that perspective is.” (7) Allopathic<br />
physicians are taught that scientific<br />
objectivity makes them most effective.<br />
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They believe that mental distance protects<br />
them from becoming wounded by this<br />
difficult work. “Yet objectivity makes us<br />
far more vulnerable emotionally than<br />
compassion or a simple humanity.<br />
Objectivity separates us from the life<br />
around us and within us … Objectivity is<br />
not whole … No one who is untouched by<br />
it can really understand the life around<br />
them either.” (8) Inner calm or inner peace<br />
is needed instead. “It is more a spiritual<br />
quality than a mental quality.” (9) Self<br />
knowledge is a necessary prerequisite to<br />
this state. Introspection, meditation and<br />
experience help us attain it. “The essence<br />
of all true wisdom: know thyself.” (10)<br />
2.2.2. Participatory observing<br />
The observer is not detached, aloof or<br />
disinterested. She is not impartial or<br />
objective. To be an accurate observer, she<br />
needs to exert an active attention and not to<br />
remain a passive onlooker. She needs to<br />
be receptive, not an aggressive intruder.<br />
She needs to be interactive, not overly<br />
open or quietly closed. She is not<br />
objective or subjective, but a participant<br />
who dialogs in a reciprocal relationship.<br />
She does not take the case, but gives and<br />
takes the case.<br />
The participatory stance of the<br />
observer is an integral part of the holistic<br />
view of nature. The doctor and patient<br />
constitute an indivisible whole. The<br />
patient’s illness is not complete until it is<br />
known. The observer recognizes (recognizes)<br />
and re-presents the totality of the<br />
sick person. The observer acts as a<br />
mediator between the phenomena of the<br />
sickness and its continuity with the<br />
substances of nature that can heal. The<br />
observer does so from the perspective of<br />
the human being, the whole organism, not<br />
from the perspective of tissue pathology<br />
and not from the starting point of<br />
categories.
2.2.3. Observing without interpretation<br />
It is not so hard to be an observer of<br />
mere objects and about things assumed to<br />
be wholly unconnected to us. But we have<br />
to distinguish within ourselves the qualities<br />
that are merely our own from those<br />
belonging also to the phenomena under<br />
study. (11) “Poetic fancy, fantastic wit and<br />
speculation must for the time be<br />
suspended, and all<br />
over-strained reasoning, forced<br />
interpretation and tendency to explain<br />
away things must be suppressed. The duty<br />
of the observer is only to take notice of the<br />
phenomena and their course.” (12)<br />
In the tradition of Zen, there is the<br />
expression of the “beginner’s mind.” A person<br />
sees something for the first time with no<br />
presumptions or expectations, and this enables a<br />
seeing as it is. Oliver Sacks uses the expression,<br />
“The literalness of this child’s-eye vision.” (13)<br />
In another tradition of knowledge it is said, “The<br />
phenomenologist approaches the phenomenon as<br />
a beginner - in fact, phenomenology is often<br />
defined as a ‘science of beginnings.’ Whereas in<br />
positivist research, the student typically begins<br />
her inquiry knowing what she doesn’t know; the<br />
phenomenologist does not know what she<br />
doesn’t know.” (14) After the homœopath<br />
becomes self-consciously aware of the best<br />
mental stance and internal attitude, he can begin<br />
the case.<br />
3.0. Case analysis/case dynamics/case<br />
wholism<br />
The modern definition of the word<br />
“analysis” does not agree with the actual<br />
experience of working with a case. “The<br />
breaking up of something complex into its<br />
various single elements” (15) is only the<br />
first step in case study, case assessment,<br />
case evaluation, and case review. The first<br />
step is an investigation of all pertinent<br />
data. The second step is to arrange the<br />
meaningful information. This step is for<br />
the purpose of “the discovery of general<br />
principles underlying concrete<br />
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phenomena,” (16) which is another<br />
dictionary definition of “analysis.” The<br />
second step is to dynamically arrange and<br />
re-arrange the symptoms without going<br />
behind or underneath the symptoms to look<br />
for explanations. The third step is to see<br />
the picture of the whole sickness; so that<br />
the analog of this sick state can be found in<br />
the Materia Medica.<br />
The phrase “case analysis” or<br />
“analyzing the case” is not found in the<br />
original homœopathic literature. It is<br />
borrowed from mainstream positivist<br />
science. The original homœopathic<br />
scientific methodology rejects mechanistic<br />
thinking, and it rejects theories and<br />
hypothetical generalities. These days<br />
every homœopathic teacher seems to<br />
“analyze the case” in a different way. This<br />
means that analysis has lost its depth of<br />
meaning in Homœopathy. The novice<br />
homœopath has not enough experience to<br />
judge the usefulness and accuracy of these<br />
different methods. I hope to clarify the<br />
process of case study with more explicit<br />
descriptions of three steps.<br />
4.0. The Sherlock step - the first step<br />
Like the detective Sherlock Holmes,<br />
the homœopath first gathers all the clues.<br />
The most minute detail is investigated as is<br />
directed in §83 to §103 of the Organon.<br />
The prescriber gathers in information with<br />
thorough depth and breadth. Every fact is<br />
itemized. All the signs, symptoms and<br />
circumstances are noted. The objective<br />
data such as color and size are noted. The<br />
subjective phenomena such as sensation<br />
and intensity are included. The observers<br />
of the signs and symptoms include the<br />
doctor, family and friends, and the patient<br />
himself. The practitioner records all the<br />
units of information including proximate<br />
causes, modalities, concomitants,<br />
locations, and times. All of the senses are<br />
required to register a precise description.
Without all the clues even the celebrated<br />
Sherlock admitted, “I had come to an<br />
entirely erroneous conclusion; which<br />
shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it<br />
always is to reason from insufficient data.”<br />
(17). Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a doctor<br />
and he used one of his teachers, Joseph<br />
Bell, as a model. Sherlock’s companion in<br />
detection was a doctor of the everyman<br />
type. The homœopath aspires to be more.<br />
He needs to master the skill of exact<br />
looking. “’How did you ever see that?’<br />
Holmes answers, ‘Because I looked for<br />
it.’” (18)<br />
At this stage, all the facts are recorded<br />
without value judgments or interpretations.<br />
The observer has resisted the tendency to<br />
filter the observations or select only some<br />
facts and transform them into a rigid<br />
system that resists further questioning.<br />
The data are like separate, unrelated parts<br />
of a jigsaw puzzle. (See Figure 1.) The<br />
case of the sick person is taken apart in an<br />
attempt to understand it. “From the<br />
mathematician we must learn the<br />
meticulous care required to connect things<br />
in unbroken succession, or rather, to derive<br />
things step by step.” (19) This step cannot<br />
be skipped over or taken lightly. In the<br />
homœopathic literature, it is advised, “a<br />
knowledge of mathematics gives us the<br />
requisite severity in forming a judgment.”<br />
(20) Homœopaths are not to weave theory<br />
or formulate explanations to fit the facts.<br />
However, endless analysis can lead us<br />
further and further away from the unity.<br />
How do we order the material? The<br />
homœopathic method is to construct the<br />
totality of the disease case into a total<br />
disease image.<br />
5.0. Nonlinear step - the second step<br />
The first mode of case taking<br />
investigates and collects the data point by<br />
point in a complete but linear way. Points<br />
can be arranged to form a straight line or<br />
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they can be arranged in a nonlinear way.<br />
How the symptoms are sorted occupies the<br />
second step of case appraisal.<br />
5.1. Not just synthesis<br />
The homœopath, at first, takes apart the<br />
disease symptom by symptom. Simply<br />
adding all these symptoms together is not<br />
enough. It is like throwing many objects<br />
in a box and randomly pouring them on a<br />
table. The objects of the investigation<br />
must be ordered in some meaningful way.<br />
“Separating and coordinating are two<br />
inseparable acts of life … And the more<br />
vitally these two functions of mind are<br />
conjoined, like breathing in and out, the<br />
better it will be for science … An<br />
important point is apparently overlooked<br />
when analysis is used alone: every analysis<br />
presupposes a synthesis … Why would we<br />
submit ourselves to the torment of<br />
anatomy, physiology, and psychology if<br />
not to reach some concept of the whole, a<br />
concept which can restore itself to<br />
wholeness no matter how it is torn to<br />
pieces? … The analytical thinker ought to<br />
begin by examining or rather by noting<br />
whether he is really working with a<br />
synthesis or only an aggregation, a<br />
juxtaposition, a composite or something of<br />
the sort.” (21)<br />
A synthesis is often defined as an<br />
opposite of analysis, but both words have<br />
been appropriated by mainstream science<br />
and lose their unique meaning for<br />
Homœopathy. The dictionary says that to<br />
synthesize is “unifying isolated sense-data<br />
into a complex whole.” (22) We are not<br />
looking for just any complicated whole<br />
that can be imagined. Synthesis is not just<br />
putting together again all the parts that<br />
analysis has laid out side by side, but it is<br />
starting with living wholes. “Disease is<br />
not to be considered … separate from the<br />
living whole,” says HAHNEMANN (§13,<br />
Organon).
5.2. Not theoretical<br />
In the practical method of<br />
Homœopathy, we do not pretend to<br />
understand the “inner nature” of the<br />
disease. The ultimate nature of disease<br />
may never be fully uncovered, and we do<br />
not pretend to explain causes. “The<br />
physician’s calling is not to spin so-called<br />
systems from empty conceits and<br />
hypothesis concerning the inner nature of<br />
the life process … to which the name<br />
theoretical medicine is given …” (23)<br />
Goethe, a contemporary of<br />
HAHNEMANN expresses the same<br />
beliefs, “Any attempt to express the inner<br />
nature of a thing is fruitless. What we<br />
perceive are effects, and a complete record<br />
of these effects ought to encompass this<br />
inner nature. We labor in vain to describe<br />
a person’s character, but when we draw<br />
together his actions, his deeds, a picture of<br />
his character will emerge.” (24)<br />
Goethe compares the analytical man<br />
and the theoretical thinking person. He<br />
says that practical man notes details and<br />
draws distinctions, and he is at home in his<br />
labyrinth. The theoretical person is one<br />
who has a higher vantage point and is<br />
quick to disdain detail; he creates a lethal<br />
(deadening) generality by lumping things<br />
together that live only in separation. (25)<br />
5.2.1. Seeing the elephant<br />
I will modify the parable of the blind<br />
men examining an elephant to serve as an<br />
example of the analytic approach versus<br />
the theoretical approach. The analytical<br />
researchers are very nearsighted and<br />
without their glasses in my story. One<br />
scientist sees the trunk as a flexible hose;<br />
another myopic scientist experiences the<br />
tusk as a sharp spear; another feels the ear<br />
is like a flapping fan; a fourth finds the leg<br />
to be like a tree trunk; the fifth finds the<br />
elephant’s side to be like a rough wall; a<br />
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sixth researcher, who also forgot his<br />
glasses, is sure the elephant resembles a<br />
rope when he touches the tail. “And so<br />
these men of Indostan disputed loud and<br />
long, each in his own opinion exceedingly<br />
stiff and strong; though each was partly in<br />
the right, and all were in the wrong.” (26)<br />
They could not see the whole elephant.<br />
Imagine if they tried to see the elephant<br />
with microscopes.<br />
On the other hand, there are the<br />
farsighted scientists who are not satisfied<br />
with their corrective glasses. These<br />
observers are interested in their elegant<br />
theories. They stand back from the<br />
phenomena like someone flying in a<br />
helicopter with a pair of binoculars,<br />
interested in getting an overview of<br />
elephants. No matter how good the pilot or<br />
how powerful the telescope, can these<br />
scientists smell the musk, feel the skin or<br />
hear the low vibrations emitted that allow<br />
elephants to communicate for miles?<br />
Instead, they come up with wide<br />
generalizations from their distant<br />
perspective or they detach from the<br />
experiences intellectually. They categorize<br />
elephants as machines or survival<br />
strategies; or knowingly conclude that<br />
elephants incarnate for learning to control<br />
their massive ego and engage in<br />
appropriate social behavior.<br />
This is in contrast to the true<br />
homœopathic approach, which includes<br />
living with the elephants, knowing them<br />
individually and observing their habits<br />
over time. This is more comparable to<br />
what in the past a naturalist would do.<br />
5.2.2. No hypothesis<br />
Here are quotes from various authors<br />
on the problems of forming hypotheses.<br />
“Theories are<br />
usually the premature conclusions of an<br />
impatient understanding which would<br />
prefer to get the phenomena out of the
way.” (27) For example, in Homœopathy,<br />
the idea that a practitioner can decide<br />
whether any patient needs a plant, mineral<br />
or animal remedy is called a prior<br />
hypotheses because it is assumed to be true<br />
before the concrete observations of a new<br />
case. The hypothesis takes precedence<br />
over the phenomena they were designed to<br />
represent. The hypothesis starts as only an<br />
approximate representation, but then<br />
substitutes itself for the observed<br />
phenomena and overpowers and<br />
immobilizes the actual symptoms.<br />
Theory is merely the surface<br />
rationalizations of a set of beliefs,<br />
conscious or unconscious, about the nature<br />
of the world. It invents does not find and<br />
accept the world as it is. (28)<br />
The brain is an organ of perception and<br />
of thinking. We see with the bodily eye,<br />
and we have ideas with the intellectual eye.<br />
The “sensory mind” has percepts and<br />
sensory embodiments (pictures). The<br />
“thinking mind” has concepts and schema<br />
(abstractions). (29) The signs and<br />
symptoms of a disease are known by the<br />
senses; hypotheses are imagined in the<br />
mind.<br />
5.3. Immerse oneself<br />
The homœopath must be like the<br />
naturalist observer who participates with<br />
the elephants to know them. This requires<br />
a particular kind of attention and inner<br />
activity. The observer directs his total<br />
awareness into the details of the signs and<br />
symptoms. He steps into the experience<br />
and stays only with the perceived<br />
phenomena. He does not try to explain or<br />
find a supposed cause of the phenomena,<br />
which fixes the mind in narrow pathways.<br />
All possible paths are kept open. See<br />
Figure 2. The jigsaw puzzle can be<br />
arranged in different ways.<br />
The signs and symptoms of the disease<br />
are not separate things. They have a<br />
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relationship and we shift our consciousness<br />
from possibility to possibility until we see.<br />
In Homœopathy, we help ourselves in this<br />
task by noting all of the modalities,<br />
concomitants, locations, sensations and<br />
timings related to the symptoms. We<br />
actively enter the phenomena as an<br />
experience and see the phenomena<br />
concretely. We do not look beyond the<br />
symptoms for reasons. We do not look<br />
behind the data for hidden mechanisms.<br />
We do not search under the sensory<br />
appearances for inner nature theories.<br />
We can compare all the perceptible<br />
phenomena to a body of water. The signs,<br />
symptoms and circumstances make up the<br />
constituent elements of<br />
the water. “The formative mobility of<br />
water is a more independent aspect of its<br />
quality. It supplements the analytical<br />
investigations by contributing to a holistic<br />
understanding of quality. … Here we are<br />
concerned with picture creating, not an<br />
analytical method.”(30)<br />
Stand in the experience. Immerse the<br />
awareness. Plunge into the phenomena.<br />
This fluid participation shifts the mode of<br />
consciousness.<br />
5.4. Living pictures<br />
Each case “demands of the physician<br />
only impartiality, sound senses, attentive<br />
observation, and faithfulness in recording<br />
the disease picture.” (§83, Organon) The<br />
homœopath investigates every detail and<br />
then makes exact pictures in the mind’s<br />
eye of every useful symptom. He builds<br />
exact, concrete images over and over,<br />
moving from one pattern to another until<br />
the interconnected whole or unity reveals<br />
itself. The isolated symptoms are within a<br />
context that fits together. We may find<br />
this coherent expression individualized in<br />
any one symptom - the characteristic
symptoms - just as we find something of<br />
each symptom permeating the whole.<br />
One problem is the language of modern<br />
psychology. It confuses the language of<br />
mental and emotional symptoms in<br />
Homœopathy. The pictures in psychology<br />
are general categories of fixed types, like<br />
stereotypes or archetypes. For instance,<br />
the terms “paranoid” or “co-dependent”<br />
are not meaningful enough for a<br />
homœopath. If someone says they have<br />
low self-esteem, the homœopath must<br />
investigate further and determine if this<br />
means low self-confidence or timidity or<br />
humiliation, etc. These general categories<br />
are ideas or concepts, not direct sensual<br />
perceptions. These so-called pictures are<br />
static types and not living pictures. To a<br />
psychologist, the pictures of remedies<br />
become fixed types rather than dynamic,<br />
living portraits. Some remedies have<br />
physical symptoms that may form no<br />
psychological picture, but the sum of the<br />
symptoms is still a portrait of a disease<br />
image.<br />
It takes training and experience to see<br />
the pattern of the disease image. There is<br />
no short cut to diligent practice. A chess<br />
master can play twenty games at once<br />
because he sees the dynamic patterns, not<br />
because he analyses every possible move<br />
or has a fixed preconception of how he will<br />
move. The homœopathic prescriber does<br />
not arrange the symptoms in just any way.<br />
It is not like connecting the dots<br />
(symptoms) at random. The dots must<br />
form an accurate living picture.<br />
5.5. Dynamic pictures<br />
At this second step in studying the case<br />
the homœopath’s perspective remains<br />
many-sided as possible. This is the time of<br />
active indetermination on the part of the<br />
observer. He is freely active in the<br />
oscillation between self-reflection and<br />
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selfless immersion in the phenomena.<br />
There is a constant tension within. The<br />
desire to see permanent forms conflicts<br />
with the unceasing changes that reveal the<br />
process of life. There are no fixed<br />
contours in living forms; there are no<br />
straight lines in nature. Every living form<br />
must transform to stay alive. In modern<br />
movies there is a special effect called<br />
“morphing”. Metamorphosis is part of<br />
health. In modern mathematics, nonlinear<br />
dynamics more closely describes living<br />
systems. (31) After the left-brain linear<br />
analysis of the first step, “it is as if the leftcerebral<br />
hemisphere is not involved - as if<br />
all is achieved by the right cerebrum with<br />
its structural ‘geometric’ vision, its holistic<br />
gestalt view.” (32)<br />
6.0. The integral seeing step - the third<br />
step<br />
The first step in studying the case<br />
involves investigating each symptom in<br />
detail point by point. This separation of<br />
the disease case into its component parts<br />
requires analysis. The second step in case<br />
evaluation is to arrange the data in a<br />
meaningful way. This requires a fluid,<br />
dynamic immersion into the perceptible<br />
signs and symptoms, and does not<br />
introduce interpretations beyond. The<br />
third step reveals the whole of the<br />
particular disease case.<br />
6.1. Grasp the whole<br />
Seeing the whole requires a new mode<br />
of perception by the observer. He knows<br />
the whole by reorganizing the parts, but a<br />
sum of the parts is not the same as<br />
integrating the parts. Integral seeing<br />
reveals the unity of seeing and knowing.<br />
This new perception requires skill and<br />
effort of practice. This wholeness focuses<br />
on the sensory phenomena rather than on<br />
general formulas.<br />
The signs and symptoms are brought<br />
into perceptual clarity. The homœopath
experiences the evidence until it carries a<br />
force of conviction. It is a seeing all at<br />
once - a gut feeling, a just right feeling, the<br />
moment of “aha”. The homœopath is now<br />
a “see-r” or seer. He grasps the whole of<br />
the case. The practitioner feels this<br />
moment of actualization. The case shows<br />
itself in its original entirety.<br />
6.2. The wrong whole<br />
In Homœopathy, case wholeness is<br />
usually called “the totality of the<br />
symptoms”. Each homœopath means<br />
something different when he<br />
uses this term. One homœopath might<br />
look at the symptoms more and more<br />
closely and just see pieces. Figure 3 of the<br />
jigsaw puzzle shows a totality of the pieces<br />
fitting together nicely but blankly. This is<br />
an analytical whole. The authentic whole<br />
“avoids fragmenting reality into sheer<br />
multiplicity. It allows the uniqueness of<br />
the particular to appear within the light of<br />
the unity of the whole.”(33). The<br />
analytical homœopath should learn to<br />
experience the quality of the group of<br />
phenomena that determines the unity.<br />
The theoretical or neo-platonic<br />
homœopath (34) removes himself from the<br />
phenomena and engages the realm of<br />
generalities. “Seeing comprehensively is<br />
not to be confused with seeing generally.<br />
The essential point about this is that it is<br />
the capacity to comprehend differences as<br />
a unity in a concrete way, whereas seeing<br />
generally is abstract and looks for unity by<br />
removing differences. Seeing<br />
comprehensively is a higher cognitive<br />
function than abstracting what is<br />
common.”(35) Seeing generally involves<br />
the mind in ideas, and ideas are<br />
independent of time and space - they have<br />
no real context. Seeing comprehensively<br />
looks at only the experience of the signs<br />
and symptoms that are rooted in time and<br />
space.<br />
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6.3. Parts and wholes<br />
The homœopath encounters a whole<br />
person first. The separate signs and<br />
symptoms are discerned later. The<br />
belonging together of the symptoms is<br />
first. The characteristic symptoms lead to<br />
the identity of the whole that is already<br />
there. The perception of the best possible<br />
remedy follows after the whole is known.<br />
The separate symptoms are not arranged<br />
and rearranged to fit a predetermined<br />
remedy picture. Each person’s unique<br />
disease is not a type of remedy. The<br />
remedies, whether we have 4,000 or<br />
40,000, are only close approximations to<br />
the completely new disease process never<br />
before seen in creation.<br />
The whole picture of the disease case<br />
cannot be seen accurately without every<br />
one of its parts. To ignore the parts is to<br />
ignore half of the creative dynamics that<br />
defines the system. The parts are the<br />
content; the whole is the context. (36) That<br />
is, the content is like the trees and the<br />
context is like the forest. You cannot see a<br />
real forest unless you have all the trees. “If<br />
you would seek comfort in the whole, you<br />
must learn to discover the whole in the<br />
smallest part.” (37)<br />
Why do so many homœopaths<br />
trivialize the detailed physical symptoms?<br />
“Perhaps we can liken the scientist who<br />
leaves the field of direct sense-impression<br />
in order to see nature as a whole, to a<br />
climber who wants to master the highest<br />
peak of a mighty mountain in order to<br />
survey the country below him in all its<br />
variety …… Eventually he reaches a<br />
dazzling, clear region of ice and snow in<br />
which all life has died and where he can<br />
only breathe with great difficulty, and only<br />
by traversing this region can he reach the<br />
top.”(38) These homœopaths may be on an<br />
important personal quest, but they do not
ing back verifiable homœopathic<br />
information.<br />
Other homœopaths build their<br />
homœopathic case on every analytical<br />
detail, but do not look for a unity. “It is<br />
not by mere addition of brick to brick, that<br />
we try to construct this building, but it is<br />
rather the actual Gestalt of the intrinsic<br />
architecture of this building that we try to<br />
discover, a Gestalt from which the<br />
phenomena, which were formerly<br />
equivocal, would now become [seen] as<br />
belonging to a unitary, ordered … whole in<br />
which one can differentiate, among the<br />
observed phenomena, between the<br />
‘members’ which really belong to it and<br />
the less relevant, contingent connections of<br />
arbitrary parts.” (39) The characteristic<br />
symptoms, the rare and significant<br />
symptoms cannot be recognized without a<br />
meaningful whole in which to see them.<br />
Figure 4 shows a collection of meaningful<br />
parts, but they do not make an integral<br />
unity.<br />
6.4.Seeing and seeing<br />
The following quotes point out that<br />
seeing is an every day function, but that<br />
the true observer sees in an integral way.<br />
“The question is not what you look at - but<br />
how you look and whether you see.”(39)<br />
“There is a difference between seeing and<br />
seeing; he failed to recognize that the<br />
intellectual eye must work in constant and<br />
spirited harmony with the bodily eye, for<br />
otherwise the scholar might run the risk of<br />
looking and yet overlooking.” (40) In<br />
German, there is the quote, “zum sehen<br />
geboren, zum schauen bestellt.”(41) This is<br />
interpreted to mean, “Born to see, to see<br />
integrally is a disposition.” Other authors<br />
further describe the type of seeing called<br />
Schauen. “Goethe’s scientific method -<br />
‘steady, clear-sighted perception, Schauen,<br />
will reveal what no amount of speculative<br />
enthusiasm, Schwärmen, can convey;<br />
certainty is accessible to informed and<br />
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painstaking observation, not abstract<br />
conjecture.” (42)<br />
HAHNEMANN also mentions a<br />
Schauen, a Durchschauen, in §104. The<br />
homœopath first records exactly the<br />
defining and distinguishing totality of<br />
symptoms, which is the picture of the<br />
disease case. Then, “he can behold it in all<br />
of its parts and lift out the characteristic<br />
signs.” (43) The<br />
specific way to see the whole is “to<br />
behold” according to this translator. In<br />
Figure 5, we behold the whole.<br />
Thoreau has said, “The true man of<br />
science will know nature better by his finer<br />
organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear,<br />
feel, better than other men … We do not<br />
learn by inference and deduction …<br />
Wisdom does not inspect, but behold. We<br />
must look a long time before we can<br />
see.”(44)<br />
7.0. Conclusion<br />
The original homœopathic method of<br />
science is not unique in the history of<br />
science. Many quotes have been cited to<br />
show that the method of Homœopathy<br />
connects with a scientific way of knowing<br />
that continues to this day. It may not be<br />
part of the mainstream, but it exists from<br />
HAHNEMANN’s time until the present.<br />
Three steps describe the specific and<br />
exacting method of studying a<br />
homœopathic case. Case analysis, case<br />
dynamics and case wholism complete the<br />
assessment of a sick person. The<br />
homœopathic prescriber succeeds if he is a<br />
proper observer: he sees; he participates;<br />
he beholds.<br />
Acknowledgements<br />
I thank Gregory Vlamis for searching<br />
out and finding the sources of the<br />
references used in this paper. The<br />
illustrations were created by my wife,<br />
Ileane.
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27. NISBET HB. Goethe and the scientific<br />
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theory and complexity applied to<br />
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32. WILBUSH J. The Sherlock Holmes<br />
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33. BORTOFT H. The wholeness of<br />
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35. BORTOFT H. p.292.<br />
36. ROWLAND H. editor. Goethe, chaos,<br />
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37. NISBET HB, p.20.<br />
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40. MUELLER B. p. 180.<br />
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1982; p.56.<br />
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3. Chronic and Migraine Headache<br />
KENNETH A. Mc. LAREN<br />
(The Homœopathic Prestige, May,<br />
1991)<br />
In a short paper it would be impossible<br />
to fully explore such an extensive subject<br />
as the title suggests. The subject is,<br />
however, of great interest to all physicians<br />
because of the numerous patients who<br />
complain of such headaches, and because<br />
of the difficulty met with in giving<br />
anything like permanent relief to these<br />
sufferers.<br />
OSLER lists headache as relative to its<br />
cause, and gives Migraine headache in a<br />
separate chapter. The layman uses the<br />
term Migraine as descriptive of any<br />
headache which has proved difficult to<br />
relieve and which may show some<br />
evidence of periodicity.<br />
Among the causes listed by OSLER are<br />
Cerebral Tumour, Cerebral Syphilis,<br />
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Mouth breathing, Uraemia and Migraine. I<br />
might add arterial Hypertension. George<br />
ROYAL, in his book Diseases of the Brain<br />
and Nerves, classifies headache into two<br />
general classes direct exogenous and reflex<br />
endogenous. Drugs, excitement, and<br />
shock, may be the cause of these direct or<br />
exogenous headaches – while the cause of<br />
the endogenous or reflex form, may be<br />
many and difficult to ascertain. Injuries;<br />
eye strain; disease of the brain and spinal<br />
cord; remote effects of drugs such as tea,<br />
coffee, quinine; effects of the sun; reflex<br />
symptoms from the digestive tract; the<br />
generative organs; allergic conditions; and<br />
many others including arterial<br />
Hypertension, all come under this<br />
classification and include Migraine.<br />
Migraine headaches appear to have as<br />
well as hereditary back ground. Some<br />
authors claim these are closely related to<br />
Epilepsy, and state that more parents<br />
suffering from Migraine have epileptic<br />
children than do epileptic parents.<br />
Certainly Migraine sufferers have<br />
prodromal symptoms, frequently ocular<br />
with blurred vision, half vision, or<br />
temporary blindness, before the full<br />
violence of the attack is established. More<br />
cases are seen in women than in men and<br />
the attacks tend to decrease in number and<br />
violence, and many cease entirely after<br />
fifty.<br />
Other authors do not subscribe to this<br />
theory and take the position that the<br />
disease is of vasomotor origin, a neurosis.<br />
In support of this, they claim there is a<br />
tendency to arteriosclerosis of the vessels<br />
on the side of the head usually affected.<br />
During the attack the arterial tension may<br />
be considerably raised; while in many<br />
cases in chronic headache, and true<br />
Migraine, there is present an increased<br />
arterial tension. Marked periodicity is
present as a cardinal symptom of true<br />
Migraine.<br />
Because of the numerous causes listed<br />
and unlisted, it behoves every physician to<br />
make a very thorough examination and<br />
enquiry into the past history and present<br />
physical state of these patients. He should<br />
listen carefully to all their subjective<br />
symptoms, and check these and their<br />
objective symptoms against the results of<br />
his complete physical examination. Then<br />
only is he in a position to make a real<br />
diagnosis and offer any reliable prognosis.<br />
The case of Mrs. M. well illustrates<br />
this point. Healthy woman of 38;<br />
throbbing left-sided headache of several<br />
years standing; occipital area most<br />
affected; was worse from jar, stooping; and<br />
strong light; two moderate sized Wens<br />
were found in this area which were tender<br />
to touch and pressure. Belladonna was<br />
given, the Wens removed by surgery, and<br />
the headaches have never recurred.<br />
Belladonna would have relieved this<br />
condition temporarily, but it was evident<br />
that the removal of the Wens produced the<br />
cure.<br />
If no cause can be found your case may<br />
at once become much more difficult of<br />
successful solution; for with no discernible<br />
physical cause you are forced to the<br />
conclusion that you have to deal with a<br />
possible allergic or hereditary neurotic<br />
state. For example, let me quote the short<br />
history of Mrs. R., young matron;healthy<br />
vigorous mother of two sons; violent<br />
headaches from time to time for which no<br />
cause could be ascertained. She went the<br />
round of many physicians of note in our<br />
University Medical Centre without relief.<br />
At last, she consulted an elderly Professor<br />
of Medicine who finally removed apples<br />
from her diet with the result that her<br />
headaches ceased. This conclusion was<br />
brought about by careful questioning and<br />
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not by the use of skin tests. The Professor<br />
was not a member of the<br />
homœopathic fraternity, but he had not<br />
entirely relegated all subjective symptoms<br />
to the care of the waste basket.<br />
From the very first it is your duty to<br />
discover whether your patient merely<br />
wants temporary relief or wants to attain as<br />
nearly as possible the so-called cure. If he<br />
only wants something to take at the<br />
headache, it will not pay you to take the<br />
time for discovery of possible pathology<br />
and a proper study of his history and<br />
subjective symptoms, for these cases are<br />
rarely cured by one or two prescriptions.<br />
The above is not always true but is<br />
generally the case.<br />
To illustrate the cure in one<br />
prescription of a terribly severe case of<br />
chronic headache, I will quote the<br />
following short case history. Mr. S.,<br />
Halifax, N.S., has had terrible chronic<br />
headache for years; had been to a wellknown<br />
clinic and many prominent to be<br />
added as in original text, that any further<br />
examination by me would be pointless, he<br />
is a dapper, dark haired man, commercial<br />
traveler; has had bad foot sweat for years<br />
and history of three carbuncles; wants the<br />
head wrapped up warmly when the<br />
headache is on. Silicea is clearly indicated<br />
and prescribed. Two years after he again<br />
visited me as the headache were beginning<br />
to recur.<br />
The climatic conditions which obtain<br />
in any given section of the country where<br />
the patient resides, may help in the<br />
selection of the acute remedy indicated for<br />
a first prescription; while the results of<br />
your examination and analysis of the<br />
subjective symptoms, will point the way to<br />
the selection of the chronic or<br />
constitutional remedy. ‘ In colder<br />
climates where any exposure to cold winds<br />
may start off a headache of the neuralgic or
congestive type, Aconite or Belladonna<br />
may be quickly palliative. The so-called<br />
sinus headaches are relieved, and<br />
sometimes cured by Belladonna. They are<br />
made worse by jar, stooping, light and<br />
noise. The face is red and flushed, the<br />
pupils are dilated and the carotids throb<br />
visibly. Belladonna in any potency is<br />
marvelous in this type of headache.<br />
In the warmer climates it is probable<br />
that there are more patients who need<br />
Bryonia, Gelsemium and Melilotus.<br />
Bryonia is a truly remarkable remedy, in<br />
that its action is both acute and chronic.<br />
When indicated it will cure permanently<br />
with no second remedy to follow up. The<br />
typical cases are usually found in dark<br />
complexioned, brown-eyed people. The<br />
headache comes on in the morning with<br />
first movement in bed is a dull full feeling<br />
attended with some vertigo, and is made<br />
worse by stooping. It is relieved by<br />
bathing the face and head with cold water.<br />
Mentally, these patients are<br />
irritable, they are also usually constipated,<br />
but with no desire for stool.<br />
Nux vomica patients also have<br />
headaches first thing in the morning and<br />
are constipated, but have frequent<br />
ineffectual urge to stool. They are<br />
irritable, quick, nervous, depressed and the<br />
headache is generally relieved by their<br />
morning cup of coffee.<br />
The Migraine patient with terrible<br />
morning headache attended by a great deal<br />
of nausea, and more nausea, is frequently<br />
cured by Ipecacuanha. In my experience,<br />
the presence of a clean tongue and a great<br />
deal of nausea, plus periodicity, points the<br />
way to Ipecacuanha. It is quite able to<br />
cure this type of case.<br />
When the headache is found to change<br />
sides each time it returns, Lac caninum is<br />
indicated, or the headache may change to<br />
the other side during the same day. The<br />
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headache is extremely violent, probably<br />
because these patients are neurotic and<br />
fanciful. They are attended with a peculiar<br />
type of vertigo which is described as if<br />
floating on the bed, or walking on air,<br />
when walking.<br />
Iris versicolor produces a periodical<br />
type of sick headache attended with<br />
salivation and burning in the stomach with<br />
vomiting of very acid, burning, watery or<br />
ropy mucus. There is often blurring of the<br />
vision and one sided frontal pain.<br />
Sanguinaria produces the typical sick<br />
headache, periodical, commencing in the<br />
morning and not relieved until evening.<br />
This is attended with hot flushes, vomiting,<br />
and the pain is right sided from the right<br />
eye to the occiput.<br />
Silicea patients sweat profusely,<br />
generally give a history of suppuration or<br />
foot sweat, and the headaches are relieved<br />
by wrapping the head up warmly.<br />
In Spigelia, we usually encounter the<br />
seat of pain over the left eye or in the<br />
eyeball. It is a neuralgic type of pain and<br />
is frequently accompanied by elevation of<br />
the blood pressure and rapid heart action.<br />
The presence of, or history of stabbing<br />
pains in the region of the apex area will<br />
assist in making the decision, and also<br />
assist the patient with the resultant drop in<br />
blood pressure, and relief of both headache<br />
and stabbing pains. This remedy is often<br />
indicated in sinus headaches after<br />
Influenza and acute sinus involvement, and<br />
will cure the postnasal catarrh which<br />
attends such cases.<br />
Sepia patients are easily identified by<br />
their facial appearance, uterine history,<br />
relief of symptoms from moving about,<br />
and by the fact that their headaches are<br />
frequently relieved by eating.<br />
For cases where the only apparent<br />
cause seems to be elevation of the blood
pressure, accessory measures to help in<br />
reduction of the tension are in order.<br />
These include more rest and proper diet,<br />
the elimination of stimulants, the reduction<br />
of salt intake and increase of water and<br />
decrease in fat and protein consumption<br />
must be considered and stressed. In short,<br />
a change in their mode of living is<br />
necessary.<br />
The ideal way to prescribe for your<br />
patient is to take the totality of his<br />
symptoms, work it out in the Repertory,<br />
then look up the resultant remedies in the<br />
Materia Medica, and make your choice.<br />
This becomes easier the oftener it is done.<br />
Personally, I have not the time so essay<br />
some shortcuts.<br />
If your patient has had a history of<br />
Epistaxis, or bleeding, is nervous, likes<br />
cold drinks, has nightmare, is upset by<br />
thunderstorms, you will have possibly two<br />
remedies to consider, namely Phosphorus<br />
and Natrum muriaticum. If the patient has<br />
weak ankles, a red V in the neck, dislikes<br />
consolation, you eliminate Phosphorus. If<br />
mild, tearful, chilly, is upset by fats and<br />
has a catarrhal tendency, you will think of<br />
Pulsatilla with possibly Silicea in the<br />
offing. If a history of car sickness and<br />
uterine disorders, or Tinnitus and Eczema,<br />
you think of Sepia or Petroleum. For those<br />
with heat flushes and blood-pressure, you<br />
think of Natrum muriaticum, Ferrum,<br />
Lachesis, Sulphur, and Sanguinaria. For<br />
the more gastric type, you think of China,<br />
Iris versicolor, Ipecac, Bryonia, etc.<br />
It is really very easy and rather rapid,<br />
of course the more you consult your<br />
Repertory, the better your knowledge of<br />
Materia Medica becomes, and that in the<br />
end determines your choice remedy.<br />
I never see one of these patients oftener<br />
than once every two weeks and the great<br />
majority of all my chronic cases are given<br />
one month’s supply of medicine at each<br />
consultation. This prevents the too<br />
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frequent changing of the prescription. In<br />
an old chronic case it is not reasonable to<br />
expect brilliant results in one or two<br />
weeks.<br />
Here follow a few short illustrative<br />
case reprts:<br />
September, 1945. Mrs. S., age 26;<br />
slender, brown hair and eyes; has suffered<br />
from Migraine headaches for ten years;<br />
was run down and anaemic when they<br />
commenced. She usually wakes with a<br />
headache which may stop from taking<br />
aspirin; when not relieved it becomes<br />
worse and is attended by a great deal of<br />
nausea, but she does not vomit. The<br />
headache is in the middle and left side of<br />
forehead and extends to the occiput; is<br />
worse from light, jar or false step from<br />
stooping, and is a dull headache. It is hard<br />
to decide between Belladonna and Bryonia<br />
CM was given. October 1945, a slight<br />
improvement; the headache is worse<br />
during the menstrual period. Natrum<br />
muriaticum has this symptom in high type.<br />
I find she is afraid to be alone at night,<br />
worse from thunderstorms, and dislikes<br />
sympathy. Nat. mur. is given with great<br />
relief. January 1946, Nat. mur. repeated in<br />
higher potency. April 1946, Nat.mur.<br />
again given in still higher potency. This<br />
girl is now practically well.<br />
January 1944. Mr. R., age 47; fair hair,<br />
blue eyes; complains of attacks of<br />
indigestion from fats, raw fruits, and<br />
sweets; feels bloated and belches a great<br />
deal during the attack; has a weak gone<br />
feeling relieved by eating; and whenever<br />
he is constipated the urine becomes scanty<br />
and objects seem to tremble or print<br />
jiggles; he then gets a severe headache<br />
attended with little nausea but no vomiting.<br />
Three remedies stand out, Sulphur, Carbo<br />
veg., and Cyclamen. Sulphur 200 was<br />
given with several powders of Cyclamen<br />
200 to be taken in case the headache
ecomes severe. Patient returned in April<br />
1944, reports great relief, prescription<br />
repeated. Reported for more medicine<br />
September 1944, did not want any<br />
headache powders as no more headaches;<br />
stomach gas now the only complaint given;<br />
Carbo veg. low twice a day. Every three<br />
of four months since I get a telephone<br />
request for more gas pellets.<br />
January 1939, Mrs. F.S., age 55, stout;<br />
twelve years ago diagnosis made of an<br />
infected gallbladder; has recurring severe<br />
attacks of headaches with vomiting; starts<br />
with a dazzling light in the right eye which<br />
comes suddenly; the vision is reduced to<br />
half of normal within twenty minutes; this<br />
prodromal condition is followed in about<br />
one half hour by terrible headache attended<br />
with nausea and vomiting white stringy<br />
mucus; she never vomits food; the<br />
vomiting stops when all the mucus has<br />
come away; the attack usually commences<br />
about 11 a.m. and lasts for two days; they<br />
are becoming more frequent and intervals<br />
are never more than two months; there is<br />
no vertigo, only a few flushes, some loud<br />
belching. The arterial tension is up<br />
180/110. Kali bichromicum 200 every<br />
four days to report in two months. March<br />
1939, no attack, but was a little dizzy on<br />
stooping when next headache was due;<br />
S.P.B 160/90. There elapsed one year<br />
without any headaches, then she was<br />
persuaded to give a blood transfusion.<br />
Following this she suffered a slight left<br />
sided stroke, and consulted me again in<br />
1941. B.P. 200/120; headaches have<br />
returned; Kali bichromicum 1M once a<br />
week soon put her right again. It is evident<br />
that this woman is suffering from a toxic<br />
condition, probably the focus is in the<br />
gallbladder. She lives 175 miles out in the<br />
country,<br />
refuses operation, and feels she can stand<br />
the very rare headaches she now has.<br />
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Mrs. B. slender; brown hair and eyes age<br />
40; frequent morning headaches on first moving<br />
in bed; no vomiting but a lot of vertigo on<br />
stooping. Bryonia CM one dose a month. Only<br />
slight return of the headache.<br />
February 1942. Mrs. B., slender; fair<br />
haired: mother of two boys, allergic to dust<br />
and house mould; has had hay fever for<br />
years; gets injections for it. Moved to<br />
Toronto from California where Hay fever<br />
is much less, probably due to living in<br />
heated house; Migraine headaches for<br />
years; they come on with a great deal of<br />
nausea but no vomiting. Ipecac 200 once a<br />
week completely cured her in three<br />
months.<br />
- Journal of the American Institute of<br />
Homœopathy, November 1946.<br />
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4. Medorrhinum – a Remedy for Modern<br />
Management of Allergic and Nervous<br />
Children<br />
GNAIGER-RATHMANNER, Jutta &<br />
BÖHLER, Mirjam (HL. 16, 4/2003)<br />
Lecture at the 56 th Congress of the LIGA<br />
MEDICORUM HOMŒOPATHICA<br />
INTERNATIONALIS; Sibiu, Romania, 29 th of<br />
August to 2 nd of September 2001.<br />
I have practiced for almost twenty years as a<br />
homœopathic physician. An important<br />
emphasis in my practice is children. I have<br />
made a file in which I document successful cases<br />
with remedies and diagnosis in a simple form.<br />
Up till now there have been 42 cases of<br />
Medorrhinum that we have evaluated, among<br />
them 37 children and one teenager.<br />
Medorrhinum seems to be a remedy<br />
especially for male patients. Every age was<br />
represented.<br />
I had to discover Medorrhinum as a child’s<br />
remedy first and then gain experience.<br />
Table 1<br />
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Medorrhinum – 42 cases<br />
Distribution among age/sex:<br />
Age Male Female<br />
4 adults 3 1<br />
1 teenager 1 0
37 children total 35 2<br />
0 – 6 a 14 2<br />
7 – 14 a 21 0<br />
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Table 2<br />
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Medorrhinum - 42 cases<br />
Frequency of prescription from 1988 – 2000<br />
1988 – 1996<br />
18 cases = 2 cases/year<br />
Indications:<br />
Allergy 9 cases<br />
Nervousness 5 cases<br />
Other 4 cases<br />
1997 – 2000<br />
24 cases = 6 cases/year<br />
Indications:<br />
Allergy 7 cases<br />
Nervousness 13 cases<br />
Other 4 cases<br />
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This chart shows us how experiences with a<br />
remedy helps us recognize it and helps raise the<br />
number of successful prescriptions. The<br />
indications for Medorrhinum shifted from<br />
allergies to nervous disorders over the years.<br />
Does this very observation correspond with the<br />
increasing number of hyperactive adults and<br />
children nowadays?<br />
I – The 37 case histories of children<br />
All of these case histories documented<br />
children who received vital help with<br />
Medorrhinum at one point of their development.<br />
Medorrhinum was given as a single remedy in<br />
the 200C or MK potency and observed over<br />
several months. Some children needed only<br />
Medorrhinum, which led to obvious success<br />
quickly. Other children received other remedies<br />
before and after Medorrhinum. These remedies<br />
can be possibly examined as related remedies.<br />
For the purpose of documentation one<br />
diagnosis was assigned to each case. These<br />
diagnoses are meant to be descriptive. A more<br />
exact differential diagnosis wasn’t required. I<br />
rather wanted this primary focus (with the<br />
concomitant symptoms and complaints)<br />
according to the phenomenological access of<br />
Homœopathy.<br />
The homœopathic practitioner doesn’t treat<br />
diagnoses, but ill children with their sufferings<br />
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and symptoms – recorded in their totality.<br />
There has to be an improvement in the whole<br />
child and as a result also in their diagnosis and<br />
clinical dates; that’s what I want to discuss.<br />
A. Main diagnoses of the 37 Children<br />
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1. Nervousness: 17x<br />
Restlessness 7x<br />
Lack of concentration 3x<br />
Sleeping problems 2x<br />
Bruxism, biting nails, migraine each 1x<br />
3x<br />
Dyslexia, aggressive behaviour each 1x 2x<br />
2. Allergy: 13x<br />
Allergic Asthma 4x<br />
Recurrent spastic bronchitis 3x<br />
Rhinitis allergica 2x<br />
Neurodermitis 3x<br />
Acute eczema 1x<br />
3. Inflammation: 3x<br />
Frequent infections<br />
(viral, bacterial) 3x<br />
Conjunctivitis neonatorum<br />
(bacterial) frequently*<br />
Diaper rash,<br />
Diaper candidiasis<br />
frequently*<br />
(*several times observed, not documented)<br />
4. Urogenitary-tract: 4x<br />
Recurrent balanitis 1x<br />
Enuresis nocturna 1x<br />
Synechia of labia majoria 1x<br />
Cryptorchism 1x<br />
(treatment had to be stopped because of massive<br />
reaction to the remedy)<br />
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B. Accessory diagnoses of the 37 children<br />
Apart from the main diagnosis per patient,<br />
various accessory diagnoses or concomitant<br />
complaints frequently exist. They have two<br />
meanings.<br />
They improved simultaneously together<br />
with the main complaints, or they belong to the<br />
history of the patient. In this case, they help to<br />
record the process of the disease over a long<br />
period of time, according to the idea of<br />
Constitution and Miasm in Homœopathy. They
show the surroundings that promote the<br />
Medorrhinum pathology.<br />
In revision of the case histories, the<br />
following data attracted attention:<br />
Medorrhinum children often show symptoms<br />
on several organ systems at the same time. The<br />
nervous symptoms, combined with allergic,<br />
atopic symptoms of the skin, the respiratory<br />
tract and the intestines as well as combined with<br />
various recurrent infections.<br />
The main symptom ‘restlessness’ culminates<br />
in symptoms such as biting nails, masturbation,<br />
jerking the face and various malfunctions of<br />
sleep. Furthermore there is a tendency to<br />
dyslexia. There are also many lefties as well as<br />
pupils who refuse to go to school. This is often<br />
the result of learning disabilities and impaired<br />
co-ordination of movement.<br />
Three children out of 37 suffered from<br />
concussion of the brain, one child even twice.<br />
The result of over-daring and uncontrolled<br />
behaviour?<br />
They often suffer from head-and<br />
stomachache.<br />
The infections derive from putrid<br />
inflammations such as putrid tonsillitides and<br />
otitides on one hand to dry spasms as in<br />
laryngitis and asthmatic bronchitis on the other<br />
hand. Some of them had gone through an<br />
adenectomy.<br />
The intestines are also very sensitive in sense<br />
of frequent gastro-enteritides. Some children<br />
fell sick on the respiratory tract as often as on<br />
the gastrointestinal tract.<br />
During the infection the children develop<br />
high fever, or don’t develop fever at all (or not<br />
any more). As a sign of an immunodeficiency<br />
there are also episodes of sub-febrile<br />
temperature.<br />
It is to be concluded that there are all the<br />
symptoms of a typical acute infection, but also<br />
the typical picture of the pure allergic ‘dry’<br />
Asthma. But there are also all stages of subacute<br />
and recurrent infections, with or without<br />
spastic signs. I want to call them a transitional<br />
stage between infectious susceptibility and the<br />
allergic child, in many case histories.<br />
They often suffer from intolerance to food,<br />
especially milk. Children are often very<br />
fastidious and show a bias towards monotonous<br />
nutrition. It’s remarkable that they often switch<br />
their favorites, always with the same exclusive<br />
intensity.<br />
The tendency to diarrhoea described above<br />
has surely to be seen in context with this<br />
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intolerance to food, which was confirmed by<br />
several mothers.<br />
The atopy on skin and mucous membranes<br />
often starts very early: The skin-manifestations<br />
in the first week, Asthma in the first year of life.<br />
You can often find diaper rash and diaper<br />
candidiasis in their history. All of the atopic<br />
children are very restless.<br />
C. The early infantile history<br />
All 37 cases were analysed regarding their<br />
early infantile development. The notes are not<br />
complete records, but they are expressive. This<br />
gives us a clue to the aetiology of the symptoms<br />
of Medorrhinum children.<br />
Pregnancy<br />
In nine cases, problems during pregnancy<br />
were quoted, with the following authentic words:<br />
• Painful injuries of the coccyx<br />
• Of a house in the nearest neighbourhood<br />
• Previous abortion in the past, then difficult<br />
pregnancy with long lasting tendency to<br />
abortion (in two cases)<br />
• Pre-eclampsia<br />
• Haemorrhage since beginning of pregnancy,<br />
chaos and worries, death of the 2 nd twin in<br />
utero<br />
• Psycho terror and mortification of the<br />
mother by the grandmother<br />
• Child was thought to be dead in ultrasonics<br />
• Fear of birth<br />
Table 3<br />
Birth<br />
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Medorrhinum – 37 cases<br />
Perinatal anamnesis<br />
Problems during pregnancy: 3x<br />
Difficult delivery:<br />
13x<br />
Caesarea: 5x<br />
Breech presentation: 3x<br />
Long lasting labours: 3x<br />
Exhausting labours: 1x<br />
Precipitate labour: 1x<br />
Premature birth:<br />
3x<br />
Birth late in time, induced:<br />
2x
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Twenty-seven out of 37 births deviate from<br />
the norm. This must be considered as<br />
remarkable.<br />
Table 4<br />
Early infantile development<br />
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Medorrhinum – 37 cases<br />
Neuro-physiological development in the early<br />
childhood:<br />
Accelerated: 5x<br />
(4 of them without crawling)<br />
Retarded: 7x<br />
Speaking:<br />
Accelerated: 1x<br />
Retarded: 3x<br />
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Twelve out of 37 infants showed disorders of<br />
their neuro-physiological development.<br />
PFEIFER understands this as a sign of deviation<br />
of the ‘normotonic’ tension of muscles. There<br />
are three ‘crying babies’ and the mothers twice<br />
reported that their children have looked ‘old’<br />
since their birth and seemed to be unharmonic.<br />
‘He never looked like a baby and never behaved<br />
helplessly, like a baby.’<br />
As to vaccinations:<br />
There are no spontaneous statements in the<br />
case histories; specific questioning on this topic<br />
has not taken place.<br />
First step of conclusion:<br />
There are many remarkable deviations<br />
regarding the early childhood history.<br />
‘Marching to a different drummer’ – that’s what<br />
Medorrhinum children are inclined towards,<br />
from their birth on.<br />
Table 5<br />
D. Related remedies<br />
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Medorrhinum – 37 cases<br />
Related remedies<br />
For nervousness:<br />
Tuberculinum<br />
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Kalium bromatum<br />
Nux vomica<br />
Staphisagria<br />
Mercurius<br />
Opium<br />
China<br />
For allergy:<br />
Sulphur<br />
Mercurius<br />
Bufo<br />
Mephitis<br />
Tuberculinum<br />
Carcinosinum<br />
For urogenitary disorders:<br />
Sarsaparilla<br />
Coccus cacti<br />
Cantharis<br />
Acidum nitricum<br />
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These are the remedies that the children<br />
received successfully as following or as remedies<br />
for inter-current diseases.<br />
There is much more to say about these<br />
relationships, and much more work to be done<br />
on it. This remains to be elaborated on for<br />
another lecture.<br />
II – Literature<br />
Origin of the remedy<br />
Medorrhinum is a classic Nosode and is<br />
produced from the urethral ichor of an acute<br />
Gonorrhoea. The secretion is extracted before<br />
any treatment and from several persons.<br />
The microscopical analysis shows: many<br />
Neisseriae gonorhoeae, polynuclear leucozytes,<br />
and cells from the epithelium. It involves a<br />
complex biological compound from the microbe<br />
and the reaction products of the surroundings.<br />
The sample is checked for innocuousness and<br />
sterility.<br />
(Materia Medica der Nosoden, O. A. JULIAN)<br />
Medorrhinum as a children’s remedy<br />
O. A. JULIAN:<br />
The children are anaemic, with multiple<br />
adenopathies, they have a large head, a sweating<br />
face and frequent catarrhs. The babies show the<br />
typical sleeping position on the abdomen, with<br />
their buttocks raised up in the air. Further<br />
symptoms are the Eczema perianale, prolapsing<br />
anus, enuresis, infantile asthma, and ailments<br />
from immunization.
D.M. BORLAND and F. VERMEULEN<br />
don’t mention Medorrhinum among ‘children’s<br />
types in Homœopathy’.<br />
In his book ‘The Homœopathic Treatment of<br />
Children’ Paul HERSCU has developed a vivid<br />
picture of Medorrhinum in children. His<br />
experiences in the USA match with my<br />
observations in many aspects.<br />
III – Medorrhinum – a children’s remedy: results<br />
from 37 cases<br />
All of these children, mostly boys, love to<br />
move. Whenever they can ramp outdoors, they<br />
are happy. They love practical things, and feel<br />
utmost bothered by the requirements at school.<br />
Often the intensity on the one hand and the<br />
flightiness and contrariness of the mind<br />
symptoms on the other hand lead to the selection<br />
of the remedy. The same features can also be<br />
found in the children’s appetite: craving for the<br />
very dishes that they refuse immediately<br />
afterwards.<br />
The children often suffer from sensation of<br />
heat. They like to undress and sleep uncovered.<br />
How angry and aggressive are these<br />
children? In our repertories nothing about rage<br />
can be found, but in Medorrhinum children we<br />
often find aggressive behaviour.<br />
In early childhood striking seems to be an<br />
important form of expression of these children<br />
when other ways to express oneself are not<br />
accessible. In school, the aggression seems to be<br />
reactive – followers and ready to join every<br />
nonsense. If there is a storm center, they follow<br />
without doubt. Most of the time the leaders are<br />
other children. Often you can hear the mother<br />
say: ‘I can’t understand his behaviour at school.<br />
If he’s alone with me, he is obedient and a good<br />
boy’.<br />
There are many mind symptoms in the case<br />
histories of these children that can’t be found in<br />
the Repertory under this remedy:<br />
For example:<br />
• Chaotic<br />
• Striking<br />
• Breaking things<br />
• Anger<br />
• Fury<br />
• Morose – morning<br />
• Heat – sensation of<br />
• Shrieking – during sleep<br />
• Throat – inflammation – tonsils<br />
• Male genitalia/sex – phimosis<br />
• Mouth – speech –indistinct<br />
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• Extremities – in-coordination<br />
Medorrhinum: boys who charm their<br />
mothers – possibly in competition with their<br />
fathers?<br />
Medorrhinum: a remedy for boys who feel<br />
attracted by girls, in a premature and excessive<br />
way?<br />
The premature child in the sense of:<br />
• Vigorous denial of all kinds of conformity<br />
and book learning, long before puberty<br />
• Great interest in all kinds of technology<br />
• Precocious curiosity for fashion, trends and<br />
eroticism.<br />
The clairvoyance of the children is revealed<br />
by their ability to detect every weakness and<br />
tension in their surroundings. They are the<br />
children who unerringly expose adults to<br />
ridicule. The negative and disharmonious<br />
moments of life inevitably attract them.<br />
‘Prophesying of disagreeable events’ is a strange<br />
rubric, where only Medorrhinum is named.<br />
Is Medorrhinum well enough known as a<br />
remedy for the allergic child? In addition to the<br />
Nosodes Tuberculinum and Carcinosinum it<br />
proved to be a very useful remedy.<br />
Regarding early infantile development,<br />
many remarkable deviations were found. Also<br />
these children present very particular<br />
disabilities: in the sense of ‘attention deficit<br />
disorder’ also described as ‘frühkindliches<br />
psychoorganisches Syndrom’ i.e. Minimal brain<br />
dysfunction (RUF-BÄCHTIGER). These are<br />
common diagnoses by the neuro-physiologists.<br />
In the picture of Medorrhinum there is a<br />
whole string of symptoms that correspond with<br />
the above observations:<br />
• Sleep – position – genupectoral<br />
• Ophisthotonus<br />
• Motions of head – rolling head<br />
• Awkwardness<br />
• Lack of perseverance<br />
• Concentration – difficult<br />
• Making mistakes – in writing<br />
• Speaking<br />
• Spelling<br />
• In time<br />
On this topic, PFEIFFER has elaborated<br />
much information.<br />
A good physiotherapy, play-therapy or ergotherapy<br />
can supplement the homœopathic<br />
treatment in a significant way.<br />
‘Fighting, raving madness, madness for<br />
writing and reading’ – only Medorrhinum shows
these key symptoms. This describes the summit<br />
of the problems at school, with the well-known<br />
disability in writing that also reminds us of<br />
legasthenia and lefthandedness.<br />
The symptoms of: ‘ailments from<br />
reproaches’, ‘sensitive to reprimands’ and<br />
‘despair from the smallest criticism’ are to be<br />
added for the pupil. This should be taken into<br />
consideration with these children: they need<br />
encouragement and real help, not criticism.<br />
What makes the children requiring<br />
Medorrhinum fall ill?<br />
The question for aetiology arises, in the<br />
sense of ‘ailments from’:<br />
• Anticipation<br />
• Bad news, emotional excitement,<br />
• Reproaches, contradiction<br />
• Mental exertion, fear<br />
• Rudeness of others, egotism (acc. to<br />
RADAR-Program)<br />
From my own observations, it should be added:<br />
• Jealousy of siblings<br />
• Quarrels in the family<br />
• Overcharge at school<br />
• Heavy competition at school<br />
IV – Discussion<br />
Thirty-seven cases on the topic<br />
Medorrhinum were evaluated. They show the<br />
spectrum of diagnoses and clinical symptoms.<br />
Medorrhinum as a Nosode is classed as a<br />
remedy for ‘miasmatic stigmatised’ children<br />
(KENT, HERSCU). I want to say the same in<br />
modern words:<br />
Medorrhinum is a remedy for the wide range<br />
of allergic or atopic children.<br />
For children with neuro-physiological<br />
deficiencies, in the sense of a minimal brain<br />
dysfunction.<br />
For children suffering from behavioural<br />
disorders, for whom it’s difficult to find their<br />
place in modern meritocracy.<br />
Medorrhinum is a big remedy, a real<br />
polychrest and a deep acting Nosode; a<br />
predominant remedy for today’s children.<br />
Literature and references<br />
1. HERSCU Paul: Die homöopathische<br />
Behandlung der Kinder, Kai KRÖGER, Groß<br />
WITTENSEE, 1993<br />
2. JULIAN Othon-Andre: Materia Medica der<br />
Nosoden. Haug Verlag, Heidelberg, 1983, 5.<br />
Aufl.<br />
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3. PFEIFFER Herbert, Hoftheim bei<br />
Frankfurt: Mündliche Mitteilungen in<br />
Kursen über kindliche Entwicklung und<br />
Homöopathie.<br />
4. RUF-BÄCHTIGER Lislott: Das<br />
frühkindliche psychoorganitsche Syndrom.<br />
Thieme, Stuttgart, 1995, 3. Aufl.<br />
5. RADAR – Computer repertorisations<br />
programme<br />
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“Direct your eye right inward, and you’ll<br />
find<br />
A thousand regions in your mind<br />
Yet undiscovered. Travel them and be<br />
Expert in home-cosmography.”<br />
- Henry David THOREAU, in<br />
Walden.<br />
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“Why should the lord of the country<br />
Flit about like a fool?<br />
If you let yourself be blown to and fro,<br />
You lose touch with your root.<br />
If you let restlessness move you,<br />
You lose touch with who you are.”<br />
- Lao-Tzu, in Tao-Te-Ching<br />
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“The Master sees things as they are,<br />
Without trying to control them.<br />
She lets them go their own way,<br />
And resides at the center of the circle.”<br />
- Lao-Tzu, in Tao-Te-Ching<br />
PART III<br />
(While Part II features articles from other<br />
journals, Part III contains the editor’s own<br />
contribution and other original articles.)<br />
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BOOK SHELF
I. The Tongue Symptoms in Clinical Diagnosis<br />
by DEY, M. First Edition 2004. Indian Books and<br />
Periodicals Publishers, New Delhi – 110 005.<br />
ISBN 81-7467-145-4. Rs.35/-.<br />
Internal diseases are reflected via many<br />
organs and their performance. The tongue plays<br />
a very important role in guiding the physician to<br />
proper diagnosis.<br />
The various symptoms of the tongue – its<br />
color, coating, the various tastes etc. are lying<br />
scattered in the Repertory. However, we have<br />
not had any particular book on this. Some years<br />
ago the late Dr. Prakash VAKIL published a<br />
book titled ‘Tongue that does not Lie’ (also<br />
published by Indian Books & Periodicals<br />
Publishers, New Delhi – 110 005) in 1987, a<br />
second edition in 1988 and a reprint in 2000.<br />
The book contains some good color plates. It is a<br />
useful book at the bedside.<br />
The present book by Dr. M. DEY is<br />
differently laid out. In the first Chapter –<br />
General considerations, the anatomy, physiology<br />
of the tongue, and the different changes<br />
manifested on the tongue in certain ailments are<br />
given. Chapter two covers ‘diagnostic<br />
indications’. These Chapters though brief are<br />
useful. Chapter three mentions the ‘Miasmatic<br />
Influence’. Then follows the long Chapter Four<br />
‘Remedy Indications’ wherein over-200<br />
remedies’ ‘tongue symptoms’ are given. Next<br />
Chapter has a repertory of “Sensation of<br />
Tongue, as if”. Chapter Six is also a Repertory<br />
in alphabetical order. Chapter Seven carries<br />
‘Cases’ from the author himself followed by<br />
Cases from the Literature. There is a valuable<br />
Chapter Eight in which Diagnostic<br />
nomenclatures are given – e.g. what is a bifid<br />
tongue? One with a cleft at its anterior end, a<br />
forked tongue. What is a blanket Tongue – The<br />
tongue is dry and swelled with a thick white<br />
coating, as found in rheumatic fever.<br />
Few printing errors may be corrected in the<br />
next edition.<br />
The book is useful to students and also for a<br />
busy practitioner.<br />
My close friend, the late Dr. H. L.<br />
CHITKARA has given a nice ‘Foreword’ to this<br />
book.<br />
The book is low priced. I gladly recommend<br />
it to every homœopath.<br />
-K.S.<br />
SRINIVASAN<br />
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II. Snapshot Prescribing in Homœopathy and<br />
Therapeutic Hints by Dr. E. BALAKRISHNAN<br />
and Dr. (Mrs.) Ramani PRADEEPKUMAR, Indian<br />
Books & Periodicals Publishers, New Delhi – 110<br />
005. <strong>2005</strong>. Price Rs.55/-.<br />
The contents of the book will be self-evident<br />
from the title itself. The author has drawn from<br />
various reliable sources, from rich mines. There<br />
are VII Chapters. In the Chapter II ‘Snap-shot’<br />
prescribing BALAKRISHNAN briefly quotes<br />
many stalwarts on the need to equip oneself with<br />
a good knowledge of the Materia Medica.<br />
“There is only one road by which success in<br />
homœopathic practice may be obtained, and the<br />
name of this road is - WORK. It is only hard<br />
application, intelligent and unremitting, that can<br />
ensure success in the mastery of the infinity of<br />
details comprised in the homœopathic Materia<br />
Medica.” (CLARKE). [Is there any other sure<br />
road at all? = KSS.]<br />
Dr. Dorothy SHEPHERD’s “There are no<br />
stock-mixtures, each patient has to have<br />
individual attention and the indicated medicine<br />
should be found. The doctor must have a<br />
prodigious memory”, is recalled. The galaxy is<br />
called in – ALLEN, GUERNSEY, NASH,<br />
WELLS, BOGER et al. The ‘Key Note’ was the<br />
great clue for ‘snapshot’ prescribing.<br />
While the term ‘Key Note’ in prescribing is<br />
attributed to H.N.GUERNSEY, GUERNSEY<br />
himself credited it to Jacob JEANES.<br />
Homœopathy’s popularity shot up to great<br />
heights in ‘emergency’ cases before the<br />
‘antibiotic’ came upon the scene. Homœopaths<br />
of today are not, in general, masters in this art of<br />
prescription. In these days long hours, 2 hours<br />
or more of ‘Case-taking’, collecting pages and<br />
pages of ‘dreams’ and ‘delusion’ and calling<br />
FREUD, JUNG into consideration has become<br />
the fashion. And of course the “in” thing now is<br />
the “signature”. In this forest of ‘Mind’ the<br />
individual tree (the Key Note) is lost.<br />
BALAKRISHNAN brings you back to the<br />
golden days. Pay heed.<br />
A good amount of material has been drawn<br />
from J.H.CLARKE, the gems.<br />
Chapter IV is ‘A Compilation of<br />
Therapeutic Hints’. These will be useful in dayto-day<br />
prescriptions.<br />
In subsequent Chapters ‘Cases’ from his<br />
own practice are given with some from the<br />
masters.<br />
This small book is of great relevance today.<br />
Every homœopath particularly the freshers from<br />
the colleges will benefit much by reading it<br />
carefully. The older homœopaths who have
een drawn into the floods of signatures,<br />
dreams, etc. also will benefit immensely.<br />
Strongly recommended to all.<br />
-K.S.<br />
SRINIVASAN<br />
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§ 9 of the Organon:<br />
“In the healthy human state, the spirit-like<br />
force (autocracy) that enlivens the material<br />
organism as dynamis, governs without<br />
restriction and keeps all parts of the organism in<br />
admirable, harmonious, vital operation, as<br />
regards both feelings and functions, so that our<br />
indwelling, rational spirit can freely avail itself<br />
of this living, healthy instrument for the higher<br />
purposes of our existence.”<br />
Higher purpose = higher good. What is “higher<br />
good”?<br />
Tao Te Ching says:<br />
“Higher good is like water:<br />
the good in water benefits all,<br />
and does so without contention.<br />
It rests where people dislike to be,<br />
So it is close to the Way.<br />
Where it dwells becomes good ground;<br />
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Profound is the good in its heart,<br />
Benevolent the good it bestows.<br />
Goodness in words is trustworthiness,<br />
Goodness in government is order;<br />
Goodness in work is ability,<br />
Goodness in action is timeliness,<br />
But only by non-contention<br />
Is there nothing extreme.”<br />
- K.S. SRINIVASAN<br />
*****<br />
Tao Te Ching<br />
“Those who know others are wise;<br />
Those who know themselves are enlightened.<br />
Those who overcome others are powerful;<br />
Those who overcome themselves are strong.<br />
Those who are contented are rich;<br />
Those who act strongly have will.<br />
Those who do not lose their place endure;<br />
Those who die without perishing live long.”<br />
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