‘Mind symptoms’ explained correctly for the first time.
- Prof. V. Krishnamurthy
CASE 5: A patient with weeping eczema etc., came to me and said, “Doctor, I am not taking the treatment to live long. But I have an aged daughter to be married and a son who is looking out for a job. Who would come forward to marry my daughter, if I have a weeping eczema? Only because of that, I want to get cured. Before I die, I want to settle things in my family; my daughter getting married and son getting a job. Then I can die peacefully.”
Under the homoeopathic remedy Petroleum (Boericke’s Materia Medica) we find the following:
“Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs.”
Now, this sentence fits in approximately with the remarks made by the above eczema patient. This remedy was given in single dose and it cured him completely.
CASE 6: A peptic ulcer patient’s condition worsened day by day and allopathic antacids were giving temporary relief. At the height of his suffering (hunger pain with burning sensation in the food pipe, temporarily relieved by eating) he was heard saying, “I think that my end is approaching; I must call the lawyer to write the will; that this hotel of mine should go to my wife; money deposited in the bank is for my son. My widowed sister who has been living with me for several years and helping me should take the house which I bought recently.”
This mind picture agrees with the remarks made by the patient in case No.1 above. One single dose of Petroleum-10M cured this patient also. We do not prescribe on names of disease or pathology but on ‘uncommon’ symptoms having no connection with pathology.
The above case 5 and 6 would show the reader that
(a) one and the same remedy may be called for in different persons with different diseases; also,
(b) different persons suffering from one and the same disease may need different remedies.
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The most misunderstood topic in homoeopathy is ‘mind symptoms.’ Without prescribing on mind symptoms a cure is not possible (section 213 of the Organon.) Section 153 advises that a prescription is to be made on, ‘uncommon-rare-strange-peculiar symptoms.’ (This again in another most misunderstood topic.)
When Section 213 is read with section 153 of the Organon we come to the conclusion that we should take only those mind symptoms which we have never heard before (commonly) in any patient. Actual cases cured by the author will illustrate this point.
CASE 7: A seventy-year old carpenter was under my treatment for skin complaint and he was improving. I ask my chronic disease patients to come once a month. During one of his visits he was accompanied by his 48-year old son. The latter was coughing with chest congestion etc. The carpenter told his son; “Why don't you also take treatment from this doctor. See how much I have improved, whereas the other seven doctors to whom I consulted earlier could not do anything in my case.”
To this, the son said: “The new house where I shifted has no rasi.”3 3A certain professor was having a two wheeler. After ten years it was no more useful, also the vehicle was outdated and could not be used because spare parts were not available and so it was to be condemned. He bought a car and also very good latest Japanese two-wheeler. But he was not ready to dispose of the ten-year old two wheeler. He said, “Everything went well and I got prosperity only after buying that vehicle. So I won’t part with it.” (‘Rasi’ in Tamil means luck). In other words the person feels that everything was going wrong ever since he started living in a particular house. So, that house has no rasi. Or, a person feels that ever since he bought and started using his car, nothing went right. He attributes his sufferings, failures, difficulties etc. to that vehicle. I hope the reader understands this. The son continued, “Even the new work place where I am going daily is not rasi (or has no good luck.)”
The other word to describe ‘rasi’ would be ‘sentimental’ ‘luck’.
[The carpenter’s son was not ready to take treatment from me only because he felt that the house and the work place is the cause of his respiratory complaints.]
I gave him one dose of a remedy telling him to take that and he need not pay me any fees. He took it. (Later I learnt from his father that he was completely cured.).
Can any homoeopath tell me what remedy I gave the patient?
MIND Symptoms: Superiority of Lilienthal:
Read the remedy Staphisagria in the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal. (page 701.) There we find the following:
Inwardly gnawing grief and anger, he looks at everything from the darkest side . . . disinclination to work and think; dread of the future and dread of being constantly pursued . . . a sorrowfulness ending in paralysis of the intellect . . .
The enthusiastic reader would be eager to know how I selected this remedy for the above case.
(i) Reproaches others — (He blames the house and work place.)
(ii) Sentimental.
I write down the remedies common to two above rubrics ( Kent 's Repertory) and read them in the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal. Staphisagria suited the symptoms of the case.
CASE 8: A lady of forty-two came with a large calculus in her urinary bladder. She said that allopathic doctors advised surgery as the only answer but she declined to undergo it. She continued that she had already undergone two caesarean sections and one appendicectomy; after each one of these surgeries, her general health ran down. Therefore she cannot afford deterioration of health any further with another surgery and that she must safeguard her health for the remaining period of her life. Under the remedy Nux vomica (See the chapter ‘Melancholia’ in Lilienthal’s) we find the following words:
“Afraid she may not have enough to live on.”
Nux-vomica-1M one single dose was given in the evening. Not only her general health improved, but also the size of the stone started reducing. (Patient still under treatment)
CASE 9: A chronic renal failure patient came to me with a few relatives, all of whom were allopathic doctors. They showed me a file containing the diagnostic and other papers of the patient. After this, one by one, the relatives went out.
The patient was still sitting. He said, “Doctor, my sons say that I am sick and so I should not ride bicycle, go out and do our business. They say they will do everything and ask me to sit at home taking rest. As my children, they should only tell me that I am all right and that I would recover soon. But instead of encouraging me for speedy recovery they have branded me as a permanent and incurable patient.”
[The reader may note here that in most cases the ‘uncommon’ symptom (on which we can make a prescription) is told by the patient at the end of the consultation, or, in some cases, after you have made the prescription! In yet a few cases, during the second or subsequent consultations!]
This patient feels that his sons, instead of encouraging, are letting him down. What one requires from his or her relatives is not money or help but moral support. In this case the patient feels that this is completely missing.
This symptom we find in two remedies. They are
“… a feeling of moral deficiency…” – Kali brom.
“… despondency, sadness, moral depression and relaxation…” – Tarentula hisp.
(See Lilienthal, page 698 and 702)
Tarentula hisp. 10M - single dose was given.
CASE 10: A lady of fifty-five, school teacher, was under my treatment for three months for sinusitis with little relief. She lives thirteen kilometers away from my clinic and she works in a school which is less than one kilometer from my clinic. Before going to the school she would come to me once a month, take medicine and go to school. Seeing no relief in spite of three visits, I told her that a certain acupressure doctor would come and give just 3-minute treatment once only and for this she need not pay any fees and also I assured total relief. Since the acupressure doctor comes to my clinic on Sundays only I asked her to come on a Sunday. To this she replied, “I have to come all the way… from ... (her residence.)”
During the earlier three visits she would come to me in the morning before going to her school which is near my clinic. Sunday is holiday for school and she feels it an ordeal to come for acupressure treatment all… the… way from her residence thirteen kilometers away.
It is hesitation. I told her no need to pay any fees for the one-time acupressure and 100% cure was also assured. Therefore, travelling thirteen kilometres cannot be a crime. But to do this she has hesitation. Before we show the reader how we selected the remedy on this symptom let us see two more cases.
CASE 11: A lady allopathic doctor was learning homoeopathy from me every Sunday morning for two hours. She consulted for her complaints and total relief of her ailments. Once she said, “Doctor, can you give one-dose treatment for my son? Since birth he is having perennial cold; now he is five years and almost every week he has to take drugs?” I told her that she must bring her son at least once and I would cure him completely. Bringing her son once (and I am not going to charge her since she is my student) is not an ordeal or something immoral. To this she replied, “For this I have to… bring him all the way from my home” (which is just ten kilometers away.)
For this small thing of bringing the boy once only (and for that he is going to get total relief permanently) she hesitates.
Only if you actually listen to the patient’s reply in person you may understand this. Let me explain and elaborate on this.
Supposing you are asked by your teacher to murder a certain person. What would be your reaction? Immediately you would reply as under: “Sir, I… have to…” (The sentence would be incomplete. Because you have hesitation since doing this job would prick your conscience.)
In the above said case No. 10 and 11, for merely travelling ten kilometres they have lot of hesitation as if I am asking them to do some crime or immoral thing. In other words, they are over conscious of a trivial thing. The apt term would be “Conscientious scruples.” This symptom is in the remedy Arsenicum album. [See Lilienthal - p. 694.]
Let us repeat, that uncommon mind symptom may be in most cases one and the computer-software or ‘remedy finders’ are of no use. One single dose of Arsenicum Album-10M completely cured the above sinusitis patient (case No.10 above) and even acupressure treatment was not given.
CASE 12: This is a cancer patient and after the consultation was over, I asked my fees of six thousand rupees. To this he replied, “Money… is…” (The sentence was incomplete and hesitation was as if they are asked to do some big immoral act.) He should say that either he has no money or that he would try to borrow from relatives. But he does neither. Ars. Alb-10M, one single, dose cured him.
The above cases would illustrate the meaning and interpretation of mind symptoms of a given patient. In some cases the repertory or software is not useful and you have to memorise these uncommon mind symptoms.
The above three cases are quoted here to illustrate that if the practitioner can memorise the symptoms of various remedies given under ‘Melancholia’ in Lilienthal (which runs just to eleven pages) he would be able to select the remedy in more than fifty per cent of cases that too at the very first attempt.
Remember once again the review of Samuel A. Jones: “To the older one who says he has no use of Lilienthal, he is a good one to avoid when well and dread when ill.”
Let no one practise homoeopathy who does not have a copy of Lilienthal and does not make use of it.
Precision and versatility are required to practise homoeopathy.
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What is most disappointing is that no one talks about Dr. Lilienthal’s work, be it in seminar papers, monthly meetings or articles in journals.
Said Charles Gatchell in a review of HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS, “… it is an extraordinarily useful book and those who add it to their library will never feel regret…”
In a review, Samuel A. Jones said about Lilienthal’s as under:
“For the fresh graduate this book will be invaluable… to the older one who says he has no use of this book, we have nothing to say. He is a good one to avoid when well, and to dread when ill.”
The three authors who have correctly understood mind symptoms are:
(1) Dr. Samuel Lilienthal
(2) Dr. Constantine Hering (Guiding Symptoms of our Mat-Med, 10 volumes) (only those useful portions from this 10-volume have been taken out by Dr. V.
Krishnamurthy and compiled in two volumes with the title Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica)
(3) Dr. William Boericke (Mat. Medica)
And Lilienthal tops the list. If you can understand correctly and thoroughly the lines under all remedies in the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal, you get more than 70% success in your practice.
Lilienthal is ten times worth its weight in gold.
Wilkinson’s too is good at mind symptoms. How to master mind symptoms with Hering?
After having selected a remedy and having seen that it has cured the patient with one single dose of that remedy, read that remedy in the Chapter ‘Mind’. If you do it two or three times for a remedy, fourth time when that remedy-type patient comes in, you can straightaway prescribe that.
For example, I would never miss Lycopodium and Nux vomica for patients, most of whom throw the following symptoms:
Lycopodium: Talks with an air of command. Manner stiff and pretentious. (Wilkinson’s)
Nux vomica: ...particular, careful, zealous... (Boericke’s Mat. Med.) Desire to talk about one’s conditions with anxious reflections about it. (The patient comes in, sits and turning his face to one side, stares at the roof and tells his complaints in the past-present chronological order. He continues to stare up the ceiling continuously till he finishes the history of his complaints till date.) (Wilkinson’s) [Sometime you have to read the entire symptoms under Mind in all the remedies to select a remedy for a patient. (For this I use Boericke’s Materia Medica and Wilkinson’s). But once you find the remedy, subsequent cases requiring that remedy becomes easy.
I am not reporting herein cases treated with their follow-up but my attempt is to tell the reader how and what exactly homoeopathic practice is. As one cannot learn swimming without first getting into the water, nor car driving without first sitting on the wheel, so also without actual cases on hand one cannot learn homoeopathy. To that extent only I am quoting actual cases as seen in my clinic.
I am a free-lance medical journalist and so I took the following two cases as a challenge to homoeopathy. These two cases would illustrate the reader how rich, exact and accurate (and also complete) our existing materia medicas are. Thus and therefore, what is needed is exact mastery of the use of five reference books viz., Lilienthal, Boericke , Kent , Wilkinson’s and Calvin B. Knerr (and more importantly Yingling, for medical emergencies at the time of labor or abortion.).
CASE 13: A patient with chronic headache, after spending much money with various doctors, specialists and homoeopaths came to me. After finishing the history of his seven years’ pain in head, he ended up saying: “Doctor, if you or anyone can cure me of this terrible headache, I won’t mind even giving away half of my property (worth three millions) to that doctor.”
Doctors of all other systems would simply ignore this statement of the patient.
If a patient is ready to pay 1.5 million... I thought over this. I took this as a challenge to homoeopathy. I asked him to first pay me ten thousand rupees and also give me two weeks’ time with a promise that if I do not cure him in one single dose (or a few doses) I would pay him double the amount paid by him. Also, if he is cured he may pay me another ten thousand rupees. He agreed to this condition and paid ten thousand rupees.
I took a copy of Boericke’s Materia Medica and went to a professor of English in a college and requested him to render me a help. I told him that he has to read the lines given only under the chapter ‘Mind’ in all the remedies in Boerick’s Mat. Med. and underline if any relevant line is found equivalent to the statement of a person who says that he would pay half of his wealth if his headache is cured. I paid him five thousand rupees (which the professor said is more than sufficient for the work)—It may take a few days, daily spending two or three hours to go through the lines given under the chapter ‘Mind’ in Boericke’s 688-page materia medica.
To another professor of English I gave a copy of Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica and paying him the remaining five thousand rupees requested him to do the job of reading the lines given only under the chapter ‘Mind’ in all the remedies (and this too would take a few days, daily working for three hours) and tell me if he finds anything equivalent to the above said statement of the headache patient.
The first professor (using Boericke’s) could not find anything apt. But the second professor underlined and pointed out the following lines in the remedy Stillingia (under ‘Mind’ in Wilkinsons).
“Deplorably downhearted; suf-fering extreme torture from bone pains.”
Stillingia 1000, one single dose cured the patient and he paid me another ten thousand rupees. [After this case I cured with Stillingia.] two more patients both of whom said the above words (ready to give his entire wealth to the doctor who cures him).
Diligence and knowledge of English language, both to the core, are required to practise homoeopathy.
CASE 14: Here is another case of headache. This 55-year old male patient remarked: “Doctor, all these years I have been having these pains; my sufferings are such that no amount of compensation would be equal to it. Even if you make me the President of all the nations in the world that would not be a sufficient compensation.” I told him the same condition which I put to the patient in the earlier case. After taking ten thousand rupees I went to the two English professors, one with Boericke and the other with Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica. In this case the professor going through Boericke’s Mat. Medica could help me. He pointed to the following found under the remedy Selenium.
“Extreme sadness. Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy.”
Selenium 10M, one dose cured the patient and he paid me ten thousand rupees.
On a later occasion the above said professors asked me what I did by their help and I showed them how I practise homoeopathy. Soon both of them started learning and practising homoeopathy.
Homoeopathic system of medicine is exact and accurate. Precision and versatility is its culture.
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Myth and reality of ‘mind symptoms.’
In some cases Calvin B. Knerr’s REPERTORY in excellent to work out cases with mind symptoms.
The other day I was sitting by the side of a senior homoeopath in his clinic. A patient entered and asked, “Do you have medicine for diabetes?”
Doctor: Yes, tell me your symptoms.
Patient: (Stretching his hand towards the doctor).
hmW (pulse) X{Im{, XdmB© Xm{ & [This means, “see my pulse; give medicine.”]
[The tone of the patient was in a commanding note similar to a king, who, when anything is required would order, “Bring the head of the thief in two hours.”
The doctor turned towards me and said, “See doctor, these patients don’t tell symptoms. How can I prescribe?” That doctor always thinks “Sensation, Locality Modalities, concomitants. What a wrong teaching?” I took Calvin B. Knerr’s REPERTORY to him and showed the following:
MIND, Answers, imperiously: Lycopodium.
Further I showed him the following from Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica under the remedy Lycopodium:
“Talks with an air of command . . . manner stiff and pretentious.”
Lycopodium 10M, one single dose, cured diabetes.
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Let us reiterate the following:
HOMOEOPATHY IS A SYSTEM WHERE THE PATIENT HIMSELF (BY SOME WORDS OR ACTIONS OR AS A REACTION TO HIS DISEASE OR TREATMENT OR ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE DOCTOR) indicates the remedy to us.
Homoeopathy is practical and practical only and there is no place for any theory, imagination, etc.
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CONCLUSION
a. Among medical systems homoeopathy is the best shortcut to cure patients in one single dose of one remedy or a few doses of one or few remedies. For example, we have cured lakhs of chikungunya patients completely and permanently with one single dose of the homoeo medicine called Polyporus Pinicola-200; so also, many tested and confirmed swine flu patients were cured with one single dose of Merc-sol. 200.
b. One of the best short-cuts to homoeopathic practice (to select the remedy—similimum) is Dr. Samuel Lilienthal’s Homoeopathic Therapeutics. (Drop the symptom in Lilienthal and you get the remedy!)
c. The short-cut for Lilienthal is page number 693 to 702 therein (the chapter Melancholia) and also the chapters Insanity, Emotion etc.
CASE 5: A patient with weeping eczema etc., came to me and said, “Doctor, I am not taking the treatment to live long. But I have an aged daughter to be married and a son who is looking out for a job. Who would come forward to marry my daughter, if I have a weeping eczema? Only because of that, I want to get cured. Before I die, I want to settle things in my family; my daughter getting married and son getting a job. Then I can die peacefully.”
Under the homoeopathic remedy Petroleum (Boericke’s Materia Medica) we find the following:
“Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs.”
Now, this sentence fits in approximately with the remarks made by the above eczema patient. This remedy was given in single dose and it cured him completely.
CASE 6: A peptic ulcer patient’s condition worsened day by day and allopathic antacids were giving temporary relief. At the height of his suffering (hunger pain with burning sensation in the food pipe, temporarily relieved by eating) he was heard saying, “I think that my end is approaching; I must call the lawyer to write the will; that this hotel of mine should go to my wife; money deposited in the bank is for my son. My widowed sister who has been living with me for several years and helping me should take the house which I bought recently.”
This mind picture agrees with the remarks made by the patient in case No.1 above. One single dose of Petroleum-10M cured this patient also. We do not prescribe on names of disease or pathology but on ‘uncommon’ symptoms having no connection with pathology.
The above case 5 and 6 would show the reader that
(a) one and the same remedy may be called for in different persons with different diseases; also,
(b) different persons suffering from one and the same disease may need different remedies.
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The most misunderstood topic in homoeopathy is ‘mind symptoms.’ Without prescribing on mind symptoms a cure is not possible (section 213 of the Organon.) Section 153 advises that a prescription is to be made on, ‘uncommon-rare-strange-peculiar symptoms.’ (This again in another most misunderstood topic.)
When Section 213 is read with section 153 of the Organon we come to the conclusion that we should take only those mind symptoms which we have never heard before (commonly) in any patient. Actual cases cured by the author will illustrate this point.
CASE 7: A seventy-year old carpenter was under my treatment for skin complaint and he was improving. I ask my chronic disease patients to come once a month. During one of his visits he was accompanied by his 48-year old son. The latter was coughing with chest congestion etc. The carpenter told his son; “Why don't you also take treatment from this doctor. See how much I have improved, whereas the other seven doctors to whom I consulted earlier could not do anything in my case.”
To this, the son said: “The new house where I shifted has no rasi.”3 3A certain professor was having a two wheeler. After ten years it was no more useful, also the vehicle was outdated and could not be used because spare parts were not available and so it was to be condemned. He bought a car and also very good latest Japanese two-wheeler. But he was not ready to dispose of the ten-year old two wheeler. He said, “Everything went well and I got prosperity only after buying that vehicle. So I won’t part with it.” (‘Rasi’ in Tamil means luck). In other words the person feels that everything was going wrong ever since he started living in a particular house. So, that house has no rasi. Or, a person feels that ever since he bought and started using his car, nothing went right. He attributes his sufferings, failures, difficulties etc. to that vehicle. I hope the reader understands this. The son continued, “Even the new work place where I am going daily is not rasi (or has no good luck.)”
The other word to describe ‘rasi’ would be ‘sentimental’ ‘luck’.
[The carpenter’s son was not ready to take treatment from me only because he felt that the house and the work place is the cause of his respiratory complaints.]
I gave him one dose of a remedy telling him to take that and he need not pay me any fees. He took it. (Later I learnt from his father that he was completely cured.).
Can any homoeopath tell me what remedy I gave the patient?
MIND Symptoms: Superiority of Lilienthal:
Read the remedy Staphisagria in the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal. (page 701.) There we find the following:
Inwardly gnawing grief and anger, he looks at everything from the darkest side . . . disinclination to work and think; dread of the future and dread of being constantly pursued . . . a sorrowfulness ending in paralysis of the intellect . . .
The enthusiastic reader would be eager to know how I selected this remedy for the above case.
(i) Reproaches others — (He blames the house and work place.)
(ii) Sentimental.
I write down the remedies common to two above rubrics ( Kent 's Repertory) and read them in the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal. Staphisagria suited the symptoms of the case.
CASE 8: A lady of forty-two came with a large calculus in her urinary bladder. She said that allopathic doctors advised surgery as the only answer but she declined to undergo it. She continued that she had already undergone two caesarean sections and one appendicectomy; after each one of these surgeries, her general health ran down. Therefore she cannot afford deterioration of health any further with another surgery and that she must safeguard her health for the remaining period of her life. Under the remedy Nux vomica (See the chapter ‘Melancholia’ in Lilienthal’s) we find the following words:
“Afraid she may not have enough to live on.”
Nux-vomica-1M one single dose was given in the evening. Not only her general health improved, but also the size of the stone started reducing. (Patient still under treatment)
CASE 9: A chronic renal failure patient came to me with a few relatives, all of whom were allopathic doctors. They showed me a file containing the diagnostic and other papers of the patient. After this, one by one, the relatives went out.
The patient was still sitting. He said, “Doctor, my sons say that I am sick and so I should not ride bicycle, go out and do our business. They say they will do everything and ask me to sit at home taking rest. As my children, they should only tell me that I am all right and that I would recover soon. But instead of encouraging me for speedy recovery they have branded me as a permanent and incurable patient.”
[The reader may note here that in most cases the ‘uncommon’ symptom (on which we can make a prescription) is told by the patient at the end of the consultation, or, in some cases, after you have made the prescription! In yet a few cases, during the second or subsequent consultations!]
This patient feels that his sons, instead of encouraging, are letting him down. What one requires from his or her relatives is not money or help but moral support. In this case the patient feels that this is completely missing.
This symptom we find in two remedies. They are
“… a feeling of moral deficiency…” – Kali brom.
“… despondency, sadness, moral depression and relaxation…” – Tarentula hisp.
(See Lilienthal, page 698 and 702)
Tarentula hisp. 10M - single dose was given.
CASE 10: A lady of fifty-five, school teacher, was under my treatment for three months for sinusitis with little relief. She lives thirteen kilometers away from my clinic and she works in a school which is less than one kilometer from my clinic. Before going to the school she would come to me once a month, take medicine and go to school. Seeing no relief in spite of three visits, I told her that a certain acupressure doctor would come and give just 3-minute treatment once only and for this she need not pay any fees and also I assured total relief. Since the acupressure doctor comes to my clinic on Sundays only I asked her to come on a Sunday. To this she replied, “I have to come all the way… from ... (her residence.)”
During the earlier three visits she would come to me in the morning before going to her school which is near my clinic. Sunday is holiday for school and she feels it an ordeal to come for acupressure treatment all… the… way from her residence thirteen kilometers away.
It is hesitation. I told her no need to pay any fees for the one-time acupressure and 100% cure was also assured. Therefore, travelling thirteen kilometres cannot be a crime. But to do this she has hesitation. Before we show the reader how we selected the remedy on this symptom let us see two more cases.
CASE 11: A lady allopathic doctor was learning homoeopathy from me every Sunday morning for two hours. She consulted for her complaints and total relief of her ailments. Once she said, “Doctor, can you give one-dose treatment for my son? Since birth he is having perennial cold; now he is five years and almost every week he has to take drugs?” I told her that she must bring her son at least once and I would cure him completely. Bringing her son once (and I am not going to charge her since she is my student) is not an ordeal or something immoral. To this she replied, “For this I have to… bring him all the way from my home” (which is just ten kilometers away.)
For this small thing of bringing the boy once only (and for that he is going to get total relief permanently) she hesitates.
Only if you actually listen to the patient’s reply in person you may understand this. Let me explain and elaborate on this.
Supposing you are asked by your teacher to murder a certain person. What would be your reaction? Immediately you would reply as under: “Sir, I… have to…” (The sentence would be incomplete. Because you have hesitation since doing this job would prick your conscience.)
In the above said case No. 10 and 11, for merely travelling ten kilometres they have lot of hesitation as if I am asking them to do some crime or immoral thing. In other words, they are over conscious of a trivial thing. The apt term would be “Conscientious scruples.” This symptom is in the remedy Arsenicum album. [See Lilienthal - p. 694.]
Let us repeat, that uncommon mind symptom may be in most cases one and the computer-software or ‘remedy finders’ are of no use. One single dose of Arsenicum Album-10M completely cured the above sinusitis patient (case No.10 above) and even acupressure treatment was not given.
CASE 12: This is a cancer patient and after the consultation was over, I asked my fees of six thousand rupees. To this he replied, “Money… is…” (The sentence was incomplete and hesitation was as if they are asked to do some big immoral act.) He should say that either he has no money or that he would try to borrow from relatives. But he does neither. Ars. Alb-10M, one single, dose cured him.
The above cases would illustrate the meaning and interpretation of mind symptoms of a given patient. In some cases the repertory or software is not useful and you have to memorise these uncommon mind symptoms.
The above three cases are quoted here to illustrate that if the practitioner can memorise the symptoms of various remedies given under ‘Melancholia’ in Lilienthal (which runs just to eleven pages) he would be able to select the remedy in more than fifty per cent of cases that too at the very first attempt.
Remember once again the review of Samuel A. Jones: “To the older one who says he has no use of Lilienthal, he is a good one to avoid when well and dread when ill.”
Let no one practise homoeopathy who does not have a copy of Lilienthal and does not make use of it.
Precision and versatility are required to practise homoeopathy.
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What is most disappointing is that no one talks about Dr. Lilienthal’s work, be it in seminar papers, monthly meetings or articles in journals.
Said Charles Gatchell in a review of HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS, “… it is an extraordinarily useful book and those who add it to their library will never feel regret…”
In a review, Samuel A. Jones said about Lilienthal’s as under:
“For the fresh graduate this book will be invaluable… to the older one who says he has no use of this book, we have nothing to say. He is a good one to avoid when well, and to dread when ill.”
The three authors who have correctly understood mind symptoms are:
(1) Dr. Samuel Lilienthal
(2) Dr. Constantine Hering (Guiding Symptoms of our Mat-Med, 10 volumes) (only those useful portions from this 10-volume have been taken out by Dr. V.
Krishnamurthy and compiled in two volumes with the title Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica)
(3) Dr. William Boericke (Mat. Medica)
And Lilienthal tops the list. If you can understand correctly and thoroughly the lines under all remedies in the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal, you get more than 70% success in your practice.
Lilienthal is ten times worth its weight in gold.
Wilkinson’s too is good at mind symptoms. How to master mind symptoms with Hering?
After having selected a remedy and having seen that it has cured the patient with one single dose of that remedy, read that remedy in the Chapter ‘Mind’. If you do it two or three times for a remedy, fourth time when that remedy-type patient comes in, you can straightaway prescribe that.
For example, I would never miss Lycopodium and Nux vomica for patients, most of whom throw the following symptoms:
Lycopodium: Talks with an air of command. Manner stiff and pretentious. (Wilkinson’s)
Nux vomica: ...particular, careful, zealous... (Boericke’s Mat. Med.) Desire to talk about one’s conditions with anxious reflections about it. (The patient comes in, sits and turning his face to one side, stares at the roof and tells his complaints in the past-present chronological order. He continues to stare up the ceiling continuously till he finishes the history of his complaints till date.) (Wilkinson’s) [Sometime you have to read the entire symptoms under Mind in all the remedies to select a remedy for a patient. (For this I use Boericke’s Materia Medica and Wilkinson’s). But once you find the remedy, subsequent cases requiring that remedy becomes easy.
I am not reporting herein cases treated with their follow-up but my attempt is to tell the reader how and what exactly homoeopathic practice is. As one cannot learn swimming without first getting into the water, nor car driving without first sitting on the wheel, so also without actual cases on hand one cannot learn homoeopathy. To that extent only I am quoting actual cases as seen in my clinic.
I am a free-lance medical journalist and so I took the following two cases as a challenge to homoeopathy. These two cases would illustrate the reader how rich, exact and accurate (and also complete) our existing materia medicas are. Thus and therefore, what is needed is exact mastery of the use of five reference books viz., Lilienthal, Boericke , Kent , Wilkinson’s and Calvin B. Knerr (and more importantly Yingling, for medical emergencies at the time of labor or abortion.).
CASE 13: A patient with chronic headache, after spending much money with various doctors, specialists and homoeopaths came to me. After finishing the history of his seven years’ pain in head, he ended up saying: “Doctor, if you or anyone can cure me of this terrible headache, I won’t mind even giving away half of my property (worth three millions) to that doctor.”
Doctors of all other systems would simply ignore this statement of the patient.
If a patient is ready to pay 1.5 million... I thought over this. I took this as a challenge to homoeopathy. I asked him to first pay me ten thousand rupees and also give me two weeks’ time with a promise that if I do not cure him in one single dose (or a few doses) I would pay him double the amount paid by him. Also, if he is cured he may pay me another ten thousand rupees. He agreed to this condition and paid ten thousand rupees.
I took a copy of Boericke’s Materia Medica and went to a professor of English in a college and requested him to render me a help. I told him that he has to read the lines given only under the chapter ‘Mind’ in all the remedies in Boerick’s Mat. Med. and underline if any relevant line is found equivalent to the statement of a person who says that he would pay half of his wealth if his headache is cured. I paid him five thousand rupees (which the professor said is more than sufficient for the work)—It may take a few days, daily spending two or three hours to go through the lines given under the chapter ‘Mind’ in Boericke’s 688-page materia medica.
To another professor of English I gave a copy of Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica and paying him the remaining five thousand rupees requested him to do the job of reading the lines given only under the chapter ‘Mind’ in all the remedies (and this too would take a few days, daily working for three hours) and tell me if he finds anything equivalent to the above said statement of the headache patient.
The first professor (using Boericke’s) could not find anything apt. But the second professor underlined and pointed out the following lines in the remedy Stillingia (under ‘Mind’ in Wilkinsons).
“Deplorably downhearted; suf-fering extreme torture from bone pains.”
Stillingia 1000, one single dose cured the patient and he paid me another ten thousand rupees. [After this case I cured with Stillingia.] two more patients both of whom said the above words (ready to give his entire wealth to the doctor who cures him).
Diligence and knowledge of English language, both to the core, are required to practise homoeopathy.
CASE 14: Here is another case of headache. This 55-year old male patient remarked: “Doctor, all these years I have been having these pains; my sufferings are such that no amount of compensation would be equal to it. Even if you make me the President of all the nations in the world that would not be a sufficient compensation.” I told him the same condition which I put to the patient in the earlier case. After taking ten thousand rupees I went to the two English professors, one with Boericke and the other with Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica. In this case the professor going through Boericke’s Mat. Medica could help me. He pointed to the following found under the remedy Selenium.
“Extreme sadness. Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy.”
Selenium 10M, one dose cured the patient and he paid me ten thousand rupees.
On a later occasion the above said professors asked me what I did by their help and I showed them how I practise homoeopathy. Soon both of them started learning and practising homoeopathy.
Homoeopathic system of medicine is exact and accurate. Precision and versatility is its culture.
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Myth and reality of ‘mind symptoms.’
In some cases Calvin B. Knerr’s REPERTORY in excellent to work out cases with mind symptoms.
The other day I was sitting by the side of a senior homoeopath in his clinic. A patient entered and asked, “Do you have medicine for diabetes?”
Doctor: Yes, tell me your symptoms.
Patient: (Stretching his hand towards the doctor).
hmW (pulse) X{Im{, XdmB© Xm{ & [This means, “see my pulse; give medicine.”]
[The tone of the patient was in a commanding note similar to a king, who, when anything is required would order, “Bring the head of the thief in two hours.”
The doctor turned towards me and said, “See doctor, these patients don’t tell symptoms. How can I prescribe?” That doctor always thinks “Sensation, Locality Modalities, concomitants. What a wrong teaching?” I took Calvin B. Knerr’s REPERTORY to him and showed the following:
MIND, Answers, imperiously: Lycopodium.
Further I showed him the following from Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica under the remedy Lycopodium:
“Talks with an air of command . . . manner stiff and pretentious.”
Lycopodium 10M, one single dose, cured diabetes.
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Let us reiterate the following:
HOMOEOPATHY IS A SYSTEM WHERE THE PATIENT HIMSELF (BY SOME WORDS OR ACTIONS OR AS A REACTION TO HIS DISEASE OR TREATMENT OR ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE DOCTOR) indicates the remedy to us.
Homoeopathy is practical and practical only and there is no place for any theory, imagination, etc.
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CONCLUSION
a. Among medical systems homoeopathy is the best shortcut to cure patients in one single dose of one remedy or a few doses of one or few remedies. For example, we have cured lakhs of chikungunya patients completely and permanently with one single dose of the homoeo medicine called Polyporus Pinicola-200; so also, many tested and confirmed swine flu patients were cured with one single dose of Merc-sol. 200.
b. One of the best short-cuts to homoeopathic practice (to select the remedy—similimum) is Dr. Samuel Lilienthal’s Homoeopathic Therapeutics. (Drop the symptom in Lilienthal and you get the remedy!)
c. The short-cut for Lilienthal is page number 693 to 702 therein (the chapter Melancholia) and also the chapters Insanity, Emotion etc.
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