HOMEOPATHIC RESEARCH

By Y.O.  Mueller, m.d.  From the Austrian periodical for homoeopathy General characteristics of the symptoms  The pathogenetic effects of the nitrate of silver upon the healthy organism, as well as the morbid phenomena which the nitrate of silver is capable of curing, are characterized by a few peculiarities, which we will try to indicate in a few broad traits:-  Scarcely any of the pathogenetic symptoms of the nitrate of silver are as well marked as the head-symptoms: in almost all morbid effects of the nitrate the head is involved; many of those effects, especially the disturbances produced in the abdominal organs, coexist with vertigo, dizziness or cloudiness of the head, as if from intoxication.  Nervous irritations (erethism of the nervous system, neuralgia, etc.), are never characterized by acuteness, but by being deep-seated and spreading over a large portion of the ramifications of the affected nerve.  The moral and nervous disturbances (...

- SUDARSHAN SR ,  Since about a decade, there has been a resurgence in homoeopathy, at least in quantity if not in quality. The main reason for this is of course the efficacy of homoeopathy. But an important contributory factor has been  the abundance of books and journals on homoeopathy. There are books for the layman, for the novice in homoeopathy, for the para-medical personnel, for doctors of other systems and for the highly experienced homoeopathic physician. So, when a new book is sought to be added to this profusion of books, there has to be some justification.  When i first began my practice in homoeopathy, it so happened that many more cases of acute diseases came to me than chronic ones, and among these acute aliments the ones that really taxed me were the fever cases. It is known to every homoeopath that in selecting the correct remedy in fevers, it is not usually the particulars of chill and heat that are important, but the concomitant symptoms, and these ...

- SUDARSHAN SR ,NON MALARIAL FEVERS  Aconite is generally considered to be the remedy par excellence in the early stage of fevers. But it is likely that it is not so useful in damp, humid places as in dry, intensely cold climates.  Let us now see what KENT has to say about Aconite:  ”Strong robust people, rugged children and infants become sick, not from a very slight cold, or from slight exposure, but from more violent exposure to the cold, north dry wind. This is the class of patients, the plethoric and vigorous, who have a strong heart active brain, vigorous circulation, and come down suddenly from violent exposure, that need Aconite…In plethoric children we have an illustration of that in the sudden congestion of the brain with intense fever, or with convulsions.”  ”It is suited to complaints that come in suddenly from the very cold weather of winter, or from the intensely hot weather of summer.  ”Never give Aconite in blood poisoning such as we ...

- SUDARSHAN SR ,NON MALARIAL FEVERS  This is a very frequently indicated remedy, particularly in fevers of childhood.  KENT:……all the symptoms seem to centre about the stomach; it does not matter what kind of complaints he suffers from, the stomach takes part in it.”  ”Loathing of life’ You will find this especially in low, lingering, continued fever, such as typhoid. This remedy has all the prostration of typhoid, and it has the continued type of fever as well as the intermittent and remittent.”  ”The whole tongue is covered with a milky white coating. This you will find in all diseases where the remedy is indicated.”  H. C. ALLEN:  Causation: “Fevers from swimming or getting wet (Rhus-t.).”  ”The child is fretful, peevish, cannot bear to be touched or looked at; sulky, does not wish to speak; angry at every attention.”  ”Heat is thickly coated; milky white is characteristic.”  ”Predominance of gastric complaints.”  ”An...

-SUDARSHAN SR ,NON MALARIAL FEVERS  A sheet anchor in pulmonary febrile affections.  KENT: “The face is pale and sickly; the nose is drawn and sunken; the eyes are sunken and there are dark rings around the eyes……..The face is covered with a cold sweat and is cold and pale.”  Coarse rattling and bubblings in the chest.”  ”The condition is one in which the chest is steadily filling up with mucus and at fist he may be able to throw it out; but finally he is suffocating from the filling up of mucus and the inability of the chest and lungs to throw it out.”  ”Ant-tart. Has weakness and lack of reaction.”  ”The child when sick doesn’t want to be touched or looked at or talked to. Wants to be let alone. The infant is always keeping up a pitiful whining and moaning.”  ”In most cases, this remedy is thirstless.”  ”Violent retching. Gagging and retching and straining to vomit.”  ALLEN:  ”Craving desire for apples, acids.”  ”Tong...

 - SUDARSHAN SR ,NON MALARIAL FEVERS  KENT: “There is a general amelioration from cold and aggravation from heat.”  ”In brain troubles, if you put an Apis patient with congestion of the brain into a warm bath, he will go into convulsions, and consequently warm bathing is not always ‘good for its’.”  In brain affections of children, “the child gradually goes into a state of unconsciousness. Lies in a stupor, one side of the body twitching, the other side motionless, rolling head from side to side; head drawn back rigidly; pupils contracted or dilated, eyes very red, face flushed, a stupid state of semiconsciousness. Child lying with eyes partly closed, as if benumbed.”  ”It is suitable in congestion of the brain, meningitis, or cerebrospinal meningitis with opisthotonos when all the symptoms are aggravated from heat.”  ”Very often  the head is rolling and tossing, the teeth gnashing, and the eyes flashing with threatening convulsions, the ch...

- SUDARSHAN SR ,NON MALARIAL FEVERS  KENT: “When sick in bed afflicted with a zymotic disease, with violent fever, or with fever after an accident or injury, he becomes greatly prostrated, stupid and unconscious. He can be aroused and will answer a question correctly, but goes back into a stupor, or he hesitates about a word and is unable to find correct words when trying to answer and goes back into the coma; when roused up, he looks at the doctor and says: “I do not want you; I did not send for you ; I am not sick; I don’t need a doctor. He says this even when he is seriously sick.”  ”He wants to be left alone, does not want to be bothered, does not want to be talked to.”  The Arnica patient is so sore that he can lie on one part only a little while and then he must get off that part or to the other side……He moves and thinks that now he will be comfortable, but he is comfortable only for a second. The soreness increases the longer he lies, and becomes so great...