HOMEOPATHIC TRAUMA REMEDIES

Dr. V. KRISHNAAMURTHY

32/56, KUPPAIAH STREET WEST MAMBALAM CHENNAI - 600 033

Phone: 044-24890370, 9789069362, 9884612450

E-mail: jaykrish1966@gmail.com

[The  unique  and  salient  feature  of homoeopathy is found in trauma cases. Whatever may be the condition after an accident, the patient is back to work in twenty-four hours (excepting, of course  fractures)]

Arnica! Arnica!! Is it the only remedy in homoeopathy  for  trauma?

From the time of Dr. Hahnemann itself till the present  day,  Homoeopathy  has  been  enveloped into clouds of mysterious obscurities. No! Homoeopathy  is  an  exact and accurate science. Precision and versatility is its culture. No one can use his whims and fancies to distort or mutilate it.

Whether a beginner or the so-called experienced or senior homoeopath, he prescribes Arnica for all cases of accidents and that is the end of his knowledge. No. Homoeopathy is an exact and accurate subject.

1.   Arnica is for blow on single part of the body.
It stops the bleeding, removes swelling and pain in no time.

2.  Railroad accident. A person falls down rolling from a speeding bus or train, or his speeding two-wheeler skids on the road and he falls down rolling down or his body getting twisted. The whole framework of his body is rocked. In other words the spinal cord is twisted. This calls  for  the  remedy  Cicuta  virosa  and  no
amount of Arnica would be of any use. Cicuta virosa is for railroad accident.

3.   A person falls down hitting the occipital region of his head while trying to get from behind into a running  jeep.  He  becomes  unconscious, hospitalized and after a few days discharged hoping  that  everything  is  okay.  Six  months later his whole left side is paralysed. The remedy is Phosphorus and Phosphorus only. It is foolish   and   ignorance   to   give   Arnica. Phosphorus is for injury to occipital region.

4.   A sudden sit down injuring the coccyx bone. It is Hypericum and not Arnica.

5.   One actual cured case may not be out of place here. A person falls from fifty feet high place with bleeding   etc.   Was   hospitalized.   His fracture etc. got healed and after six weeks in hospital, he is not able to walk and doctors say they cannot do anything. Brought home and they tried one homoeopath after another in Bangalore;  daily  doses  for  weeks  and months; no effect.

A reader of my book (he has no knowledge of homoeopathy) buys one dram pills of the remedy Millefolium-10M, goes to the patient , puts a pill into his mouth saying that the next day he could get up and walk. And it happened. [See Boericke’s Mat. Med.—Millefolium. Bad effects from fall from a  height.’]  The  earlier  homoeopaths  had  tried
Arnica and Arnica. Is there no other remedy in homoeopathy for traumatic causes?

Boiling tea is accidentally flashed on the face and the lady lost vision in both her eyes. A routinist gave Cantharis and no effect. One single dose of Carbolic Acid-200 restored her vision in a few minutes. [See Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory of our Guiding Symptoms of Materia Medica— GENERALITIES—Injuries—Burns—extensive: Carb- ac. Carbolic acid is when deeper tissues are affected.]

The foetus is found dead at the eighth month of pregnancy. Before taking the patient to the theatre  one  Single  dose  of  Cantharis-10M  was given and without any surgery or instrument the dead child was expelled in no time without any complication [See Calvin B. Knerr’s REPERTORY— PREGNANCY—foetus; expels dead: Canth, Cimx., Puls]

Has the governments of any country banned the use of Knerr’s Repertory and Boericke’s Mat. Medica?

Has any college or government prohibited homoeopaths from reading the preface and introduction  in  the  book  The  Accoucher’s Emergency Manual by Dr. W. A. Yingling?

Why is no practitioner making use of Knerr, Lilienthal, Yingling, Boericke, Hering etc? I have been making extremely thorough, exhaustive and
accurate use of the following reference works and
I have hardly failed in any case.

(a) Kent’s Repertory
(b) Boericke’s Repertory & Mat.Med.
(c) Samuel Lilienthal’s Homoeo Therapeutics
(d) Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory
(e) The  Accoucheur’s  Emergency  Manual  by
Dr. W. A. Yingling
(f)  Hering’s     GUIDING     SYMPTOMS     (10
Volumes)

If and when I fail to find a remedy for a patient with  the  use  of  one  or  more  of  the  above reference books, I would certainly look for books by other authors. So far, there has been no need for me. No author of any book has excelled the above six authors. Why not use these instead of looking elsewhere?

Let me quote three cases successfully cured With  one single  dose  by using Hering’s Guiding Symptoms:

CASE 1: 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 following symptom under the remedy Opium (in HERING’S GUIDINGSYPMPTOMS OFOUR MAT.MED.) agrees with this case:

Opium Homeopathic Trauma

“…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 2: A patient showed his right leg with ulcer. He got injured 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.”

Again, in Hering’s Guiding Symptoms, 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 of the arm.

CASE 3: A patient came in with pain in the femoral part of urethra and backache. It was worse while riding the two-wheeler. He showed his medical file
(given by allopathic hospital) and therefrom we noted the following points:

hydroureteronephrosis—Left kidney;
pain in femoral part of urethra;
pain in sacral region.

His complaint (pathology) is in ureter but he has pain in femoral part of urethra and sacrum. This is something rare-strange-peculiar. Both these painful places are at the same distance from the seat of affection—ureter.

Under the remedy Belladonna (HERING’S GUDING SYMPTOMS) we find the following:

“Inflammation of internal organs… The inflammation … runs in radii as it extends to adjacent parts.”
(Femoral part of urethra and sacrum are more or less at equal distance from his left ureter).

Belladonna-10M, single dose, cured him.

CASE 4: Two years after the above case, a lady came to me for cervical spondylitis.

These patients get pain normally in the neck extending to head or one upper limb. Strangely this patient complained of unbearable pain in both shoulder tips. (Both shoulder tips are at the same distance away from the cervical vertebra.) Belladonna-10M, single dose cured her.

CASE 5: Let us now examine what is meant by uncommon symptoms: Some of the most useful uncommon physical symptoms cannot be classified under any  head  in  the  repertory  or  homoeo software and so it is better to learn them by rote.

Ignatia Homeopathic Remedy

Under the remedy Ignatia (in Boericke Mat. Med.) we find the words “great contradictions.” A haemorrhoid patient said at the end of the consultation. [Remember, in most cases, after the narration is over and after a pause, the patient leans  forward  towards  you  and  with  wide  open eyes exclaims and this is the time he is going to throw  out  an  ‘uncommon  symptom.’]  “Doctor… one thing. Everyone says that pain, bleeding etc. in piles would increase while straining when constipated; but my case is different. I do not get pain or bleeding whenever I strain during constipation. But during loose bowel movement I get both burning and bleeding.”

Ignatia-10M, one single dose cured him.