CHLOROSIS, CHLOROTIC FEMALES - AN EXTREMELY THOROUGH, EXHAUSTIVE AND ACCURATE GUIDE TO SUCCESSFUL PRACTICE OF HOMOEOPATHY

- Prof. V. Krishnamurthy  

[Note:   No patient would come and tell you that she has chlorosis.  What the patient tells is merely cotton, and the practitioner has to make thread out of it, weave it into a cloth and then stitch a dress out of it. 

 

The patient tells certain complaints and upon your asking how long she has it, she replies that it is for five years.  You note down her age (at the beginning of case taking) and suppose her present age is twenty years.  Her complaints having started five years ago means it was around 15 years of age.  You have to ask her, at this stage, at what age she got her first periods (menarche) and if she replies it was anywhere between 14-15 years, you may ask whether her present five-year old complaints started around the period of getting her first periods and if she gives an affirmative reply you may make use of the rubric 'chlorosis'.  You have to first work out the case with Kent 's Repertory etc. and after having finally selected one or a few remedies, to confirm one from among them,  you may refer to the following list.]

 

 

Remedies having the symptom 'CHLOROSIS' 'CHLOROTIC':

 

Abrotanum (Dyspepsia, weakness of stomach) - chlorosis; disturbed digestion; weak, sinking feeling in bowels; food passes undigested; distended abdomen; great weakness and prostration; gnawing hunger, craves bread boiled in milk.

Absinth - especially younger patients ---chlorosis

Acetic acid - chlorosis; anemia; wasting away; great emaciation       (cont’d)

 

WHITHER HOMOEOPATHY?

 

The three corner stones or backbone  of homoeopathic practice are contained the three sections of the Organon viz., section 84 to 90, 153 and 213.

 

Section 84 to 90 pertains to case taking and we would come to this later.

 

Section 153 states that we have to prescribe (or, select the remedy) on ‘uncommon-rare-strange-peculiar symptoms’. Section 213 says that without basing our prescription on ‘mind’ symptoms a cure is not possible.

 

When Section 153 is read with Section 213 we come to the logical conclusion that we have to prescribe on ‘uncommon mind symptoms.’

 

We read case reports where homoeopaths write that they had taken the rubrics ‘anger’, ‘grief’, ‘memory-weak’ etc. etc. Dear reader, these are common symptoms of mind.

What do we mean by “uncommon mind symptoms.” Actual cured cases alone can illustrate this:

 

Case 21: In the Union Carbide factory in Chennai (around the year 1975) fine carbon powder (kept for making torch light batteries were kept about five feet in height,) caught fire and started burning from below upwards. Fire squad was summoned and they cordoned off the area saying that if anyone would try to salvage the unburnt portion at the top, the fire may flare up destroying the entire factory and said it should be allowed to burn completely for a day or two.

One security officer with another employee by using a ladder tried to take out from the top portion and accidentally he fell into it. Another employee who tried to rescue him too fell into the burning carbon and both were severely burnt up to middle of thigh and they were admitted in the nearby government hospital. Since it is only superficial burns and rest cure alone is the answer, the house surgeon did not call in any specialist.

The security officer was heard saying repeatedly that no doctor had come and examined him. (As a layman he did not know that superficial burn means only rest cure.) Thinking that it was carelessness on the part of hospital staff for not inviting a specialist immediately, he shifted himself to a private hospital and by that time it was midnight and there also the duty doctor merely admitted him and here also the patient was telling that no doctor has rushed to examine him.

 

 

How did I select the remedy for this case?

The procedure for selecting the similimum in acute disease is simple and sure. In Boericke’s Repertory, in the last chapter GENERALITIES—INJURIES (traumatisms) under “Burns, scalds” I find twenty-one remedies. I note these names on a paper and start reading them one by one in Boericke’s mat. medica (only the first para, and the paras ‘Mind’ and ‘Skin’). While doing this, the following lines under the remedy Hamamelis caught my attention.

 

Wants “the respect due to me” shown

 

Any patient with a serious illness needs attention of the specialist in a hospital (of course the patient in case No. 1 above was ignorant that allopaths can do nothing for superficial burns) and he felt that no doctor started immediate treatment. Hamamelis 200 cured him completely.

 

Case 22: During deepavali my three-year old daughter was holding one end of pencil-size sparkler showing the other end at the candle fire to light it. The sparkler is always filled with the powder from one end up to the middle. By mistake she was holding this powder-filled end in her hand and showing the other end at the burning candle. So it did not catch fire. When a stick fails, children would break the stick into two and tap the broken end on the ground to bring the unburnt powder and then lit it. My daughter tapped it on her left palm. Being a child she did not know the risk. She took another sparkler, showed it in fire. One spark fell on her left palm full of powder and the whole hand was burnt with swelling double the size of her hand. She started screaming. I gave cantharis-30 but it did not show any effect. To calm her down we put her in a makeshift cradle (made of long cloth) and gently tilted it to make her sleep. Though it reduced the pain she ended up saying, “Appa, burning pain has not gone... Appa, burning...”.

 

My child said that as a doctor-father I had not relieved her suffering. [Earlier in some acute diseases she has experienced instantaneous cure with one single dose of the indicated homoeopathic remedy.] Hamamelis-30 one single dose stopped her lamentation and she slept. Next morning there was no trace of burns! From case No. 1 and 2 above I learnt the mind symptom of Hamamelis for the first time viz., “wants the respect due to me shown.”

 

Case 23: A lady of forty-five with cancer of uterus was given radiation treatment and it caused profuse leucorrheal discharge and doctors declared that she may live for another six months only and this news spread in the village. She came to me with the reports. After narrating her complaints she concluded in a different but firm tone.

“Doctor, people in my village talk that after all I am going to die soon and so they do not care for me nor give any due respect to me. I want to get cured and go and tell my villages ‘Look, I am now cured. What is your answer?’”

(In most cases mind symptom is revealed at the end, the patient learning her head towards the doctor and with an exclamatory tone.)

Hamamelis 10m cured her and she lived long thereafter.

We now hope that the reader understands what is meant by ‘uncommon mind symptoms.’

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Drop the symptom in Lilienthal and you get the remedy!

In some cases it is of great and instant help. Lilienthal says, “Drop the symptom in Lilienthal and you get the remedy.” Let me illustrate this with two cured cases.

Case 24: A boy of eleven was brought by his mother: She spoke: “Doctor, look at him. The boy is making constant movements of his fingers; becomes violent and restless. This started six months ago. We went to allopathic hospital and they diagnosed his case as worm complaint and gave him santonine, but even double the adult dose of it had no effect. Then we went to a homeopathy specialist. She showed me the prescription: “Cina-30 daily morning and Graphites-30 daily night, (for eruption on forearm with sticky discharge,) for one month”. He has completed one month course of these two remedies but no result.”

I looked at the boy again and the case sheet. (‘Case sheet’ means plain white sheet on which we start writing down one below the other what all the patient and/or his relatives tell us.) After a pause, the mother continued with wide open eyes and learning towards me, “Doctor, ever since he developed worm complaint he often complains of headache and vertigo. Why is it so doctor?” [An observation that we had repeatedly made in the clinic is this: “In some cases when the patient tells ‘uncommon-rare-strange’ symptom, he leans forward towards you with wide open eyes.]

 

The words ‘vertigo and headache’ told by the mother (which is an ‘uncommon’ symptom in worm complaint) were found under one remedy only viz., Cicuta virosa among the thirty-seven remedies given under the chapter WORM AFFECTIONS in Lilienthal. This remedy in 200th potency, single dose, cured worm symptoms as well as his skin complaint.

 

Case 25: A professional singer lost her voice and she came to me. After telling what all homoeo treatment she took, she ended up saying, “Doctor, ever since loss of voice for the last two years, whenever I touch a metallic object, I feel shock.”

 

Lilienthal’s HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS - Aphonia (p. 39)—Sulphur.—“Chronic aphonia... excite the animal electricity.”

 

Sulphur-200, one single dose cured both her aphonia and shocks.

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The above are extracts from the book ADVANCED HOMOEO PRACTICE (816 pages) by Dr. V. Krishnaamurthy. To get this book by post you may send money oder for Rs.750=00. For Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica (pages 715) you may send another Rs.750=00. (including postage). Total: Rs.1500=00 for both the books.

 

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Let him not practise homoeopathy who has not read several times the Preface and Introduction in the book The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual by Yingling.

The present day seminars, workshops, articles in homoeo journals and books published after the year 1946 are but mockery of homoeopathy.

Homoeopathy is based on eternal laws. There are no theories or principles of practice. It is ridiculous to talk of ‘principles’ and ‘theories’ of homoeopathy.

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One more question to those who want to be honest in their practice.

Question:   Where will you look for remedies for complaints of the new born (a) within twenty-four hours after birth; and (b) within a month?

Answer:     (a)  See the last chapter THE BABY in Yingling.

                

 (b)  See (i) the Chapter GENITALIA—FEMALE—INFANTS in Dr. Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory and (ii) “Children Diseases of—Morbi Neonatorum et Infantum.” in HOMOEO-PATHIC THERAPEUTICS by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal. (page 148 to 184)

                      

 Use of these books are worth attending one thousand so-called seminars and workshops. Awake, arise, the hour is late! The hour is late!!

 

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