HOMEOPATHIC RESEARCH

- M.L.Tyler. Introduction: DRUGS elicit queer and characteristic symptoms,mental and physical,from their provers: and when these match the queer and characteristic symptoms,mental and physical, of sick persons, they cure. The nearer the correspondence,the more certain the cure. Argentum nitride,-silver nitrate-is the "devils stone" or "hell- stone" of Old School, which has not much use for it, except as Lunar caustic; because in allopathic doses, or when accidentally swallowed during the process of cauterizing the throat,it has turned people permanently blue-a condition known as "argyria." With us it is a most precious remedy,and no other can take its place. The earlier proving of Argentum nitricum, given in Allen's Encyclopedia are, as we shall see chiefly concerned with its physical symptoms,which are very definite and suggestive, and have led to splendid curative work in stomach conditions,etc. But other provings,given in Hering's Guiding S...

-M.L.Tyler. Introduction: ONE loops upon this powerful medicinal agent as one of Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, having been "adopted by him", as Clarke puts it: though previously potentized and proved by various homoeopathic doctors, among them Constantine Hering. Through we reproduced a short paper on Calc. Phos., by Dr. E. P. Cuthbert, U.S.A., at the end of our Drug Picture, Calcarea Carbonica, in 1934, yet we seem never to have ourselves attempted its portrayal, which we will now endeavour to do. When we are treating babies and little people in evident need of their vital stimulus to enable them to assimilate the lime they need for teeth, bones, etc., we have to ask ourselves, shall it be the Calcarea made famous by Hahnemann, or the Calcarea phosphorica ascribed to Schuessler, which, with many symptoms in common, yet, owing to its phosphorus element, presents in the provings and in its range of action many striking differences. Because we must remember that, when i...

-M.L.Tyler. Wood Charcoal. Introduction: FROM the earliest times, Hahnemann tells us, physicians considered charcoal to be non-medicinal, and powerless. Then came the curious discovery of the chemical properties of wood charcoal in especial, its power of removing from putrid and mouldy substances their bad smell, and preserving fluids from fetid odours. Then physicians began to employ it externally. In fetor of the breath they caused the mouth to be rinsed with powdered charcoal, and applied powdered charcoal to putrid ulcers, and in both cases the fetor was immediately removed. Again, administered internally in autumn dysentery it removed the evil odour of the stools. But, he tells us, this is merely a chemical use of wood charcoal, which takes away the foul odour of putrid water when mixed with it in coarse lumps, and does so most effectually in coarse fragments. But this was merely a chemical, not dynamical employment, penetrating the inner vital sphere. The mouth rinsed...

--- M.L.Tyler. Squaw-Root: Papoose-Root: Blue Cohosh. Introduction: WHEN the conventional practitioner saturated with the learning of the Schools, finds his lost cast for him among "natives" and "savage tribes" of sorts, he is apt to brush aside impatiently the inherited lore that surrounds him-whether malign and benign; perhaps often the former--but far from always! Secure in his comparatively easy methods, sanctioned, as they are, by Authority, he is apt to despise and trample out, in his lordly way, much that it were greatly to his advantage to explore and study. His beloved antiseptics, for example, oust for him the invaluable "wound-herbs" of the district. These (instead of his clumsy and anxious efforts to destroy, or at least deter, the dreaded "organisms" more or less at the expense of the inherent healing powers of the tissues) would work for him, gently and effectively, after the manner of such herbs; routing the enemy by th...

-M.L.Tyler. Introduction: ONE of Hahnemann's flashes of genius: an outcome of Hahnemann the Chemist, and Hahnemann the Physician. FARRINGTON says, "Causticum is evidently a potash preparation, but its exact composition I do not know. Hahnemann was not able to define it and chemists since his time have not been able to tell of what it is composed. Nevertheless it is a unique remedy and is one that we cannot do without in practice." HAHNEMANN calls it a hydrated caustic, but what is more important, he gives full directions as to the preparation of "this powerful drug". He says:-- "Take a piece of recently burnt lime weighing about 2 lbs., immerse it for a minute into a vessel full of distilled water,and then lay it in a dry cup, where it soon becomes pulverized, giving out much heat and a peculiar odour. Of this fine powder you take 2 ounces, place it in the mortar which had been previously warmed, and then mix it with a solution of 2 ounces of bisul...

-M.L.Tyler. Introduction: HERE we have one of Dr. James Compton Burnett's very special remedies. He was a genius of the first order where the treatment of the sick was concerned, and also in the writing of his telling little monographs. We owe much to his intuition, his enterprise, and his indefatigable industry. He had a very large practice on his London days, as well as in Brighton-his home. We are told that, in Town, he would be literally besieged in the early hours of the morning: and that, when he was discovered lying dead in his hotel room, it was a terrible blow to the many he had helped and cured of difficult and, apparently, hopeless conditions. In Hale's New Remedies, where Ceanothus appears as Ceanothus virginiana, there is, in the 1880 edition, a lengthy quotation of five long, closely printed pages from a Homoeopathic Journal of the previous year from Dr.Burnett's pen. Hale says, "It remained for an English physician, Dr. J.C. Burnett, to discover...

- M.L.Tyler. Introduction: MODEST little weed which flourishes about this time of the year in rick-yards among the litter of thrashings, with its acrid scent, and its white petals that bend backwards, as if putting their little hands behind them. This distinguishes it from rather like flowers. As my "herb-woman" used to say, "there are two of every kind", i.e. the "herb" of great utility, and the counterfeit weed that looks so like it, but is useless. But, as a rule, it is scent, or the want of scent, that distinguishes them easily. An excellent name for Chamomilla is Cannot bear it". "Can't bear himself." "Can't bear other people." "Can't bear pain" (Coffea, Acon.). Can't bear things: wants them, and hurls them away. Everything is simply intolerable. You look at the Chamomilla baby and often see one brilliant cheek: you touch its head, and find it warm and wet. Cham. is one of Clarke's "...