Short Cases
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1993 Nov / Dec Vol II NO 6.
Dr Hubbard E.
` Cypri / Carbn-s / Conv / Anthrax / Stict / Phell / Ox-ac
Case 1
An elderly woman suffering from Insomnia got no sleep till 7 A.M. She was
restless, sensitive to noise, and overexcited; but lovely and gay during the night. She
had occasional twitchings.
Cypripedium 1M- 1 dose. Patient felt better
and slept well since then.
Case 2
Mr. A suffered from violent headaches as if he would go crazy, accompanied
by sensation as if the temples were in a vice and as if the skull opened and shut or as if
there were waves in the head.
Carboneum-sulphuratum 200 one dose led to
complete relief.
Case 3
A frail and delicate 60 yr. old lady, suffering from a weak heart, came
with sensation as if her heart had stopped, faintness, drowsiness and apprehensiveness.
She felt better in cold air and lying down.
Convallaria 10M, 1 dose led to a remarkable
recovery.
Case 4
A stout German woman came with a varicose ulcer over lower right shin. It
was shallow, black, offensive and caused "severe burning".
Anthraxinum 50M 1 dose relieved the burning in
an hour while the ulcer healed gradually without recurrence.
Case 5
Miss A, a young woman came with complaints of sudden, obstructive coryza
with constant blowing of nose without coryza and a stuffed up feeling. She also had a dry
night cough with a sensation of floating in air.
Sticta pulm 10M 1 dose Cold disappeared.
Case 6
A middle aged woman suffered from an almond sized tumour in her right
breast near nipple with stitching pains. She also had chill after stool and burning
vesicles on the right side of the tongue.
Phellandrium-aquaticum 10M one dose and the
symptoms cleared swiftly, the lump disappeared in three weeks.
A middle aged man suffered from palpitation on lying down and a choking sensation in the morning. The excessive weakness made him lie down. Heart troubled him whenever he thought about it.
Oxalic acid 10M-one dose relieved the heart symptoms as well as the extreme prostration.
In acute prescribing, repertorisation of three or four symptoms of a peculiar or keynote character may bring out a relatively unusual remedy to fit your case.
Case 8
A man 58 years old with cardiac complaints was now back at work and
relatively well. He complained of numbness of left upper lip, of coldness of the feet and
hands, falling hair, and of a pulling sensation upward in the left upper lip. He also had
unwanted nightly erection, although impotent when attempting coition.
Kent, under Face, numbness, left gives us only one remedy Graphites. The incomplete erection, (page 695); the patient also has a dryness and a curious sense of humour, now teasing, now rather out of place, all of which suggests Graphites. However, he already had this remedy; although it helped him as a person sometimes ago, it was useless in this curious pulling up of the left upper lip. As so often, I had recourse to Roberts "Sensations" As If, and there on page 386, under Pulling, appeared one remedy - Oleum animale (dipels oil, from stags horn). It is obtained in the preparation of bone black, says our Pharmacopoeia. The patient has dark smudges under his eyes, and a whole appearance suggesting Graphites and the carbons. This was the first time in forty years of my practice that this remedy has ever been indicated. The fascination of homoeopathy never ceases.
Dr. Elizabeth Hubbard
Extract from Homoeopathy: an Art and Science - Selected writings.