HOMEOPATHIC RESEARCH

-GEORGE VITHOULKAS Natural order: Small weed belonging to the Primulaceae. Mode of preparation: For Homeopathic use the tincture is prepared from the whole fresh plant. The essential features Anagallis is a seldom-indicated remedy, but one that cannot be replaced if needed. In homeopathic therapeutics most of our treatment failures are not the result of an inadequate knowledge of the large polychrests, but a lack of familiarity with the smaller remedies; as a consequence, we inappropriately attempt to employ polychrests for tasks better suited to the "lesser" remedies. Our success rate would be much higher if we knew the entire range of pathogenesis of these seldom-indicated remedies and when to use them. Our materia medica shares many similarities with the natural diseases: some remedy images are common and appear as frequently as certain diseases; such as, influenza, the common cold, certain rheumatic or arthritic conditions, etc., and some remedies, like some cli...

-GEORGE VITHOULKAS Andropogon squarrosus Cuscus grass Vetiver or Viti-vayr The essential features Anantherum is a remedy that stimulates the lower passions of man, most specifically the sexual passions, to such excess that an individual so affected may be driven mad by the sheer force of his desire. It creates an insatiable desire to satisfy the sexual urge, driving the person to repeated sexual contacts. If this urge cannot be satisfied, he is driven to masturbation. The desire is pathological, indicative of an organism completely out of check, impulsively driven to actions which could very well lead to its rapid self-destruction. This is one of the remedies that should be increasingly required in the current milieu of sexual liberation and its attendant furious and incessant desire for sexual satisfaction (now much frustrated by the AIDS epidemic). While not intending to disparage homosexuality per se, it must be acknowledged that this remedy will find special application...

-GEORGE VITHOULKAS English: Angustura bark French: Angusture vraie; Ecorce de Bonplandia trifoliata; Ecorce d'Angusture German: Angustura rinde Italian: Angustura Danish and Swedish: Angusture Spanish: Quina de Carony The essential features Angustura vera has come down to us as a remedy for rheumatic conditions with fatigue and stiffness of the extremities bordering on paralysis. In our texts it is said: "He does not have confidence enough in himself to undertake and perform voluntary motions." There is a tendency in these patients over several years to progressively develop paralytic stiffness and weakness; the rheumatic complaints tend towards a paralytic state. There is stiffness and tension or a drawing feeling in the joints and muscles, with crackling of the joints. Some characteristic symptoms or conditions seen in this remedy are: torticolis (drawing of the head to one side), tetanus and tetanic spasms with aggravation from touch, "lock-jaw w...

-GEORGE VITHOULKAS Peyote; Peyotl; Pellote Natural order: Cactaceae The essential features This seldom-indicated remedy - at least in the past - will be much more frequently indicated in the future. Anhalonium activates specific areas of the brain which seem to be concerned with the higher and highest functions of this organ; it appears to affect what could be called the spiritual aspect, or, even better, the transcendental aspect of our existence. I believe that these functions, or rather, this capacity of the brain to apprehend new dimensions in understanding and achieving higher consciousness are going to come into play increasingly in modern times, either through natural means, such as spiritual practices, or artificially through the action of powerful hallucinogenic drugs, such as Anhalonium. As members of this generation, and probably future generations, intensively pursue spiritual goals through consciousness-raising activities or the use of drugs, the sheer intensity of...

Pedal oedema ASCITIES Patient with secondaries in liver She is Mrs.Padma was operated for breast tumor (mastectomy) after 2 years she was developed secondaries in liver, she was underwent chemotherapy but no improvement in her health. she needs fanning. Intelligent. service motive. sociable. H/O of suppressed ECZEMA around abdomen 6 years back. Eructations eating while relieved with Nitric acid 200c single dose. after that Pedal odema developed. What do you suggest for this case.Please Analyse the case and suggest remedy.

-GEORGE VITHOULKAS The essential features Antimonium crudum is a seldom-prescribed remedy which should be used more frequently in practice. The following is a description of the constitutional Antimonium crudum patient, the type of person who will in the course of his lifetime develop the symptomatology of this remedy. Antimonium crudum preferentially affects the emotional level. These patients display an unbalanced emotional state, the emotions vacillating between an extreme sentimentality, which is expressed, and a very closed, withdrawn state of moodiness and sulkiness. Antimonium crudum is one of the most emotional, most sentimental remedies of the materia medica, their behavior possessing a mellow or, at times, melodramatic quality. This remedy has spells of sighing and can be confused with Ignatia when this condition is present. The sentiments can be overwhelming in Antimonium crudum. With but slight provocation, these persons swell with emotions, and physical swellings e...

-GEORGE VITHOULKAS Cases 1. An interesting case which was worked out by the students was that of a woman aged 35, tall, fair, dark complexioned. For four years she had been troubled with vomiting at each menstruation. This had been growing worse each month, until she was obliged to remain in bed ten days each period. The vomiting was aggravated for two or three hours after eating though it was quite constant the whole 24h. Vomitus was sour, of food eaten, and later watery and mucus. She had mild cramps in the uterus; lips were dry and lower lip was cracked in the middle. She had been married for several years, but had never been pregnant. The uterus was small and felt hard and fibrous. The fourteen remedies in Kent, indicating vomiting during menstruation, which are most prominently marked are : Amm-car. Amm-mur. APOC, Calc-c. Carb-v. cupr, Graph. Kali-c. Lach. Lyc. Phos. Sulph. Verat-alb. A comparison of the stomach symptoms of all the above led to the selection of Apocynum on ...