Meaning of ‘mind symptoms’ (section 213 of the Organon) and ‘rare-strange-peculiar-uncommon-symptoms’ (section 153) clearly defined exactly and accurately and in a matter-of-fact way

- Prof. V. Krishnamurthy, 

Meaning of ‘mind symptoms’ (section 213 of the Organon) and ‘rare-strange-peculiar-uncommon-symptoms’ (section 153) clearly defined exactly and accurately and in a matter-of-fact way.

 

CASE 1: Mr. N. 57 years reported: “Doctor, daily morning I get headache; in the afternoon, after lunch I have distension of abdomen, gastric troubles. In the night I get terrible pain in the leg…”

 

Repertory is of no use in this case. The case is very simple. His symptom is to be classified as follows:   “Aggravation of head symptoms in the morning; abdomen in the afternoon and legs in the night”

 

Under the remedy Ammonium mur. (Boericke’s Mat. Med.) we read the following:

“Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings.”

 

CASE 2: A patient consulted me for constipation. Laxatives and purgatives were said to be of no use. He further said that for several years he had been taking daily anticonvulsant drug for epilepsy and if he stops it, he would get convulsions.

The symptom under the remedy Opium (in Wilkinson’s Materia Medica) agrees with this case: “…Increased irritability and action in voluntary muscles, with diminution of it in

involuntary muscles…”

 

When the intestine is full with faeces, urging is not felt (involuntary muscles.) In the instant case these muscles are not functioning. Movement of limbs is controlled by voluntary muscles and he gets convulsions in them (increased irritability and action).

Opium-10M one single dose cured his constipation and he was asked to stop anticonvulsant drugs; he did so and to his surprise convulsions did not appear.

CASE 3: A patient showed his right leg with ulcer. He got injury a few months earlier but so far it did not heal in spite of best medical treatment. After a pause, the patient continued, “Doctor, ever since the accident I feel numbness in my right upper arm and I am unable to use it freely. Has this non-healing of wound in my leg anything to do with numbness in my arm? But my arm was not hurt in the accident.”

We say that homoeopathy is a system of medicine where the patient tells or indicates the remedy to us. In Wilkinson’s Materia Medica the following sentence under the remedy Pulsatilla, agrees with this case:

 

“… depression of vital power on one side

and increased irritability on the other…”

 

Pulsatilla-10M, one single dose cured both the ulcer on the leg and numbness in the arm.

 

CASE 4: A certain renal failure patient under dialysis and waiting for kidney transplant, was under our treatment. We could not find his remedy.

There is no guarantee for kidney transplant, because after a few years, many patients die because the donor kidney stops functioning. After transplant he was heard saying, “Now I feel as if I am released from prison . . . as if I have taken a rebirth.” This he said because he is now freed from torturing and exhausting bi-weekly dialysis, taking rest, body becoming weak etc.

 

This mental picture of the patient should at once bring to our mind the following words:

‘…desire to be released from what seems to be a perpetual burden of sorrow…’ (See Lilienthal p. 698)— MELANCHOLIA—Ignatia

 

We are going to give Ignatia to him and we are confident that his other kidney would start functioning and even if the donor kidney fails he would live long.