HOMEOPATHIC RESEARCH

- THOMPSON M, The facts that other non-venomous snakes imitate coral snakes but the bands are slightly different and that coral snakes are the most beautiful and highly coloured snakes made me think about fashion clothing (Beauty + imitation = fashion). I have one patient I first saw 15 years ago and has had many remedies and has also seen two famous homoeopath. She has done well on Elaps since I understood the remedy in this way. She is a person who is very fashion conscious and would spend a lot of money on clothes. Coral snakes are mainly red, black and white/yellow in colouration and I have had patients who wore a lot of red and black do well on Elaps too. Elaps has lots of desires and aversions, many of which have proved useful in differentiating an Elaps case from other snake remedies. The more interesting desires and aversions are as follows together with the number of remedies in each rubric in brackets (taken from The Complete Repertory version 4.5) Bananas, aversion ...

- THOMPSON M, Cases Case JG 1883 Case GB 2785 Case HM 1266 Case SD 2832 Recurring problems for two years after her daughter was born; has irritation on the inside of the thigh and had treatment from her GP for fungal problem; if uses the cream the irritation goes. Patient was wearing black and red and wears black, white and red a lot. Problem with right ear for two years painful worse from touch. Two years ago had surgery on the jaw since then does not breath properly through the nose GP gave Beconase which did help - the right nostril is blocked. Had her bottom jaw moved forward because of problems with roof of the mouth she did have pain in the ear before jaw surgery and it may have improved it this was because her bottom jaw stopped growing at the age of ten. The last two summers keeps coming out in boils gets them all year round every four/six weeks under the arms in the groin vagina face etc. Now they are draining her emotionally. They come up with a huge white head and...

THOMPSON M, Hydrophis cyanocinctus Sea Snakes, Family Hydrophiidae Sea snakes are closely related to Elapids, but have usually been placed in a separate family - the Hydrophiidae. Recent studies, however, suggest there may have been two independant radiations of Elapids into the sea. One group of five species, the laticudines or sea kraits, are not as completely adapted to marine life as other sea snakes, and come ashore fairly regularly, both to rest and to lay their eggs. Their bodies are not as oar-like as those of other sea snakes, and they can crawl, albeit clumsily, across the sea shore. The main radiation of sea snakes appears to have originated from a group of terrestrial Austrialian elapids (the Demansia group). They do not appear to share a common marine or even aquatic ancestor with laticudines, and their marine adaptations probably arose independently. Approximately fifty species of true sea snakes are recognized. All are marine, except for a few species that inhabit f...

- THOMPSON M, British homeopathic journal (1) Prover MS age 26. Fair haired, well built young woman, pycnic type. No relevant past history. (2) Prover RR age 32. Dark haired, medium build man. Past history dyspepsia. (3) Control ML age 25. Dark haired girl from South Africa on first visit to England was upset by the cold. Past history of fractured skull and menorrhagia. (4) Prover FS age 30. Small, thin, dark haired man. Studious anxious type. (5) Control and Prover DC age 28. Dark haired man, medium build. (6) Prover LF age 30. Tall, thin, intellectual, fair haired man. (7) Prover HC age 49. Small, thin, dark, active man. (8) Control and Prover, EL age 35. Fair haired, well built, healthy, active South African man. (9) Prover JC age 25. Dark, tall, melancholic girl subject to backache. (10) Prover DP age 25. Fair haired man, average build. Phlegmatic type, catarrhal with frequent colds. (11) Prover AK age 23 Tall, dark haired man. Phlegmatic. Soft, flabby build...

- THOMPSON M, Case MT 2680 Case PB 2938 A female patient (Case 2938), born in 1969, first seen in August 1996. Problems began in May 1995 with aches and pains and feeling tired and then pains in the lower back, pins and needles and tingling which spread to the legs and to arms and hands. Also headaches too, in June legs and feet were swollen for two days. Recently the upper abdomen is swollen. Is very tired and fed up with it all feels as though it has drained her. Is always moving around doing different things. At age 13 went to live with her father who is from Northampton; she has moved many times perhaps something she would like to change. After university in 1992 got a job in West Sussex; it was a very stressful job and took on a lot of responsibility. Has been thinking of training as a solicitor as she did a business studies degree. Christmas 1995 got depressed; she had a job she was not happy with. Has hay fever and has had sinusitis, also bad varicose veins which com...

- THOMPSON M, Genus Lachesis Lachesis muta Homoeopathic name and abbreviation: Lachesis muta; Lach. Distribution: Central and South America Synonyms: Lachesis mutus, Trigonocephalus, Bothrops, Crotalus mutus. Common names: Surukuku, Churukuku, bushmaster. Description: The lachesis or bushmaster inhabits the hot countries of South America; it attains a length of upwards of seven feet, and its poison fangs are nearly one inch long; the skin is reddish brown, marked along the back with large rhomboidal spots of blackish brown colour, each of which encloses two spots of the colour of the body. The poison resembles saliva, is less viscous, limpid, odourless, without any marked taste, in colour somewhat greenish at the extremity of the fang; it easily forms into drops, and falls without threading; exposed to the air it soon concentrates into a dry, yellow mass, which for an indefinite time preserves its poisonous qualities. Linnaeus named it Crotalus mutus, the deaf rattlesna...

- THOMPSON M Materia medica Homeotherapy, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1978 Roger A Schmidt, Mental Symptoms of Lachesis: A Study, p. 1-2, Homeotherapy, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1978 Vermeulen's Synoptic I Characteristics. REGION: NERVES (CUTANEOUS; VASOMOTOR; sympathetic; PNEUMO-GASTRIC). BLOOD. HEART. CIRCULATION. FEMALE ORGANS. Vertex. LEFT SIDE (THROAT; OVARY). * LEFT SIDE. LEFT then RIGHT. MODALITIES: Worse: SLEEP; AFTER. MORNING. HEAT (SPRING; SUMMER; SUN; ROOM; DRINKS). SWALLOWING; EMPTY; liquids. SENSITIVE TO (SLIGHT TOUCH or PRESSURE of CLOTHES, Worse NECK, waist; noise). RETARDED DISCHARGES. Start and close of menses. CLIMAXIS. ALCOHOL. EXTREMES of temperature. Better: OPEN AIR. FREE SECRETIONS. Hard pressure. Bathing part. COLD DRINKS. LEADING SYMPTOMS: SHARP-TONGUED, WITTY, bright, censorious, jesting, satirical (very entertaining but tiring). Fascinating and charismatic, or ruthless, remorseless, tactless directness. OVERACTIVE MIND. Great command of language. Learns fo...