X-ray
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1994 Mar / Apr Vol III No 2.
Tarkas P I.
Materia Medica.
` X-ray.

Location
Metabolism
Blood
Skin
Aggravation

Cold
Suns rays
Heat (itching)
Open air
Noon to midnight

Suppressions: Gonorrhoea, growths, malaria, eruptions
Drugs: antihistaminics,
Amelioration
oestrogens, progesterone, Heat
Hot wet compresses
Lying on right side, on left side (head, heart)
Rest
Gentle motion
Cachetic, Destructive

The basis of our understanding and utility of potentized x-ray must be the severe and detrimental effect of repeated exposure to these rays so common these days.

A general suppression of all cellular elements of blood (except the heterophile leucocytes which increases). Adverse changes in blood, lymphatics and bone marrow. Obstinate anaemia and even leukemia. Fats exposed there become toxic.

On the epidermis:

1. Degree- hyperaemia and infiltration of the skin with exfoliation. Atrophy of the appendages of skin; glands, hair, nails may follow.
2. Degree- dermatitis: blisters, watery growths with intense pains.
3. Degree- total destruction and sloughing of tissues, nonhealing ulcers, ultimately end in (dry) gangrene. Destruction of blood- forming elements in bone marrow. Bone necrosis. Osteomyelitis.

Inflammatory processes with pains the ubiquitous burning, stinging, smarting, tingling, pricking, throbbing, boring, crawling etc, of indescribable severity. "Sting of a honey bee or passage of a renal calculus are painful enough, but before these they are a comparative pleasure"; they have at least a limitation, these have none. Inflammations and growths (warts) tend to break open into ulcers which refuse to heal, assume a fistulous even malignant aspect. In one word, destruction of tissues soft or hard, too deep rooted and utterly refractory even to the most intensive treatment. Consequently potentised X-ray should offer a powerful agent with a potential to cure our most obstinate chronic diseases.

Highlights:

Deep seated dyscrasias and chronicity symptoms go on intermitting and recurring stubbornly (at regular intervals) or symptoms disappear with detriment to the patient due to a deep seated sycotic diathesis, resulting either from a suppressed gonorrhoea or cauterized condylomata etc. With Medorrhinum it shares the distinction of being a sycotic. Sulphur may even be called a more chronic counterpart of Medorrhinum. The sycotic aspects of Psorinum are also there. Lack of response to the best selected remedies, even to those like Medorrhinum, Psorinum, Syphilinum or Tuberculinum considered usually in such states "where a sycotic or syphilitic virus is engrafted on a psoric or a tubercular diathesis" and from a paucity of presenting symptoms, it is difficult to ascertain the prevailing diathesis. Remedies employed so far fail to rouse the overpowered vitality to a degree sufficient to throw out the dominating toxin. A deep miasmatic involvement in short. Our X-ray will, by stimulating cellular metabolism, arouse the reactive vitality (physical and mental) and acting centrifugally (from centre to periphery), bring to surface (like Aur-m), suppressed symptoms (especially gonorrhoeal or mixed miasm) or eruptions (with degenerative or multi-infectious history- Carcinosin).

Persistent exhaustion and languor, fatigue and tiredness, a miserable feeling as though very sick (Baptisia and Onosmodium). Frequent sensation of thinking as if dying. Physical and mental incubus (oppressive burden) making life unbearable.

Universal commotion. Trembling all over. Thrills (like Lec), general sensation of electricity, magnetic thrill in right hand, tingling in limbs as of an electric current or as if asleep. Twitching internally in various parts.

Pains: stinging (Psor), Congestive (bursting).

Discharges: strong smelling (leucorrhoea, sweat) greenish.

Growths: warts horny, watery (hygromae) with telangiectasis (capillary dilatation) between them, warts after X-ray exposure (may also need Calc-fl etc.). Malignancies; leukaemia. Worth trying in lipomas.

Degenerations: Nails thicken, degenerate, become shapeless masses. Multiple sclerosis. Posterior spinal sclerosis (locomotor ataxia). Keratosis of nails.

Salient Particulars:

Mind- Irritable Misanthropy,

Head- Various headaches; stubborn, recurring. Pains steady or in cricks. Amel rest, gentle motion, lying on left side, massage, heat, hard pressure (though touch agg). With sleepiness. Violent sick headache, outward pressure as if bursting, with vomiting, amel, warm wet compress. Menstrual headache.

Eyes- Congestion. Heaviness as if sleepy. Hyperaesthesia of retina. Ulcer after cauterization of a pterygium.

Ears- Fullness in. Voices: buzzing, ringing, like deep steam whistle. Dullness of hearing.

Nose- Incipient colds; congestion; fullness and hyperaesthesia or numbness; after electric cautery for rhinosporidosis; pain at root and frontal sinuses. Fluent coryza with a stuffy feeling; discharge watery, bloody mucus.

Face- Sensation of electric current or of paralysis in (congestion). Greasy. Acne.

Mouth- Congestive numbness in, and in throat. Fetor. Tongue feels dry, rough, sore and scraped. Teeth covered with a green grey sore.

Throat- Lump sensation or pain, worse swallowing. Indescribable sensation in oesophagus.

Stomach- Appetite only for sweets or fats. Averse to meat.

Thirst for cold drinks. Nausea and vomiting.

Abdomen- An uneasy fermentative feeling. Flatulent distention with a full feeling; or as if diarrhoea would ensue. Wind around the heart; constriction of chest at night, amel free eructations.

Colic; pain as if adhered to walls or torn off, with retained urine, vesical tenesmus, profuse, sweat, nausea, and vomiting; worse bending, moving; agonising renal colic (Tab, Canth).

Rectum- Catarrhal inflammations with (blood stained mucus). Diarrhoea from coffee; green stools.

Urinary- Frequent urination, worse after going to bed. (Diabetes. It antidoted menstrual troubles in a Uran-nit prover. Probably also diabetic pruritus vulvae).

Male- Impotent feeling, testes relaxed, atrophy. Lewd dreams.

Female- L ovarian pain, amel lying; atrophied; sterility. Menses green. Amenorrhoea, with backache, h/o radiation. Flushes of heat; better PM

Respiratory- Paralytic vocal cords. Cough; amel eating (Radm); expectoration greenish, grey, white, tough jelly like mucus. Chest pains.

Heart- Constant dull soreness around heart and limbs; apex pain, lying on right side amel (but causes over sensitiveness to heart sounds at night). Diffused pulsations; palpitations, esp with cough or cause cough. HBP, varicose veins, of legs.

Back- Sudden crick in neck after cold exposure; pain on l side amel lying on it, rest or gentle motion; stiffness neck amel heat. Stiff and lame back; with a paralytic sensation extending down left leg. Aching in the whole length of spine; backache after radiation. Soreness in lumbar; across loins as after a heavy cold. Pressure, as from renal congestion.

Locomotor- Limbs lame, weak; numb, tingling (l) arm awkward and powerless. Rheumatism of right arm. Palms rough, scaly and bleeding. Fingers cracked bleeding.

Inflammatory rheumatism. Gout and arthritis. Gout after suppressed malaria, gonorrhoea or eruptions (Psor). Sciatica; aching, drawing, worse walking. Heat and swelling of feet in spring. Sleep- Sleepy; during pains; on lying on right side (no sleep lying on left side). Dreams: distressing; of strife; busy (Radm), lewd, old dreams recur.

Skin- Metabolic skins (Aster, Dys-co has neuroskins. Carc has both) Looks like sandpaper. Cracked, bleeding, painful. Congestion leading to erythematous elevation later becoming vesicobullae or vesico-pustules. Erythematous around nail-roots. Blisters watery growths preceded by a congestion with burning as if on fire, resembling burn blister (as of Canth).

Eczema, chiefly dry, but also weeping or pruriginous, only partly relieved by radiation. E fissum. Itching aggravates before a thunderstorm, amel cold applications, rashes. Nonhealing ulcers (Syph) Psoriasis.

Thermal- Water sensation: a cool drop going down the spine; as if drops of cold water were trickling down inner chest; as if a cold hand were being passed over leg.

Chill: on dropping to sleep, on undressing, on moving from a draft of air. Chills down back; then a paralytic feeling in face (L). Chilliness in warm room.

Sweat: profuse on going to bed. Wave like sensation as if sweat would break out.

Influenza: feeling of illness; diarrhoea sensation.

Relationship:

Antidotes- Cad-i, Cal-fl, Caust (warts), (Con), Fl-ac, Nat-m, Nux-v, Pho, Psor, Radm, Sep, Sep, Sil, Sul, Tab.
Antidotes: Ambr, Hormones
Complementary- Med, Merc-c, Sep.
Follows well after- Sil etc. Similar- Carc, Kali-i, Kali-s, Lach, Psor, Pul, Radm, Sul, Tab, Vio-o.
Radioactive and cancer group- Anac, Ars, Cal-fl, Pho, Plb, Radm, Rhus-t, Str-c, X-ray.

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