An Avalanche Of Cases.
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1995 Nov / Dec VOL VI NO 6.
Vishpala Parthasarathy.
Cases.
` Sulph / Bar-m / Puls/ Graph / Lyc / Phos.

Introduction: For this issue, I have selected a variety of cases of different ages and different strata of society to show that good results are not restricted.

CASE 1:

Master Ajay, aged 8. His parents came from a "Vagari" family i.e., the nomads who sell clothes on the streets. Shabbily dressed, unwashed yet his father had this strange craving for a Cross pen. I promised him one but unfortunately he died before I could give him. (I had felt a strange pleasure in giving a cross-pen to one who barely had food to eat and yet had expensive tastes - cross - pen and an expensive Homoeopath!). This was his second wife. He had 2 brothers and 2 daughters aged 4 and 6 yrs. old.

Coming to the patient - he came with Alopecia patches on the head vertex since a year. He had been given injection on scalp but without success.

His other complaints were burning urination, otorrhoea, carries, scorbutic gums and salivation. Enuresis weekly. Milestones delayed. He was also underweight, thin 44" and 15 kg. The patient is bold. When very angry he weeps. Studies well: Hot with sweats on head. Craves sweets (3+).

Treatment and Follow-up:

12-11-93 - Treatment began with Sulphur 1M one dose and Bar-m 30, every night.
19-11-93 - No enuresis.
11-12-93 - New hair growth + App. better. By January 92 he needed to have a hair cut. Potency of Bar-mur was increased, whenever improvement stalked. He was well from 1994, October when he developed 3 spots of Alopecia. Again Bar-mur 1M with Syphilinum 1M helped stop the falling hair, baldness with syphilitic Merc-sol for his cough with salivation.

RUBRICS:

1. SR 414 - Sluggish
2. SR 1412 - Hot
3. SR 345 - Lean
4. SR 1307 - Dry skin
5. SR 659 - Urination involuntary, night
6. SR 120 - Hair bald
7. SR 128 - Head itchy
8. SR 222 - Head persp
9. SR 418 - Saliva sleep during
10. SR 274 - Craves sweets
11. SR 412 - Craves Fish
12. SR 255 - Craves Meat

REMEDIES: emerging from repertorial filter were - Sulphur 11-24, Phosphorus 9-21, MErc-sol 9-19, Bar-carb 9-14.

SELECTION: Hot Bar = Bar-mur

since patient was hot I gave Bar-mur and not Bar-c.

CASE 2:

In 1993 Dec, a young woman of 26, married 6 years with 2 daughters aged 6 and 2 years respectively, came with complaints of hair fall in bunches, dandruff and big acne which scarred, menstrual complaints and emotional upset.

She gets headaches worse from travelling, sun, afternoon sleep at 5 p.m. She had leucorrhoea which had been treated with Candid lotion.

The patient was 5 feet 1 inch in height, weighing 53 kgs.

Her nails were brittle. She had poor appetite with crazy craving for meat, sweets and salt.

Life-Story: She was born in 1967 in Delhi with 4 younger sisters. Her father had an export business. After her BA she was married in 1986. husband and a custom clearance business. She had some problems in adjustment in the joint family which was conservative. This improved when she shifted to Bombay in 1990.

TREATMENT and FOLLOW-UP:

Date Symptoms

4-12-94; Better 40 percent Hair fall better 40 percent, Acne+
11-1-94; Better 50 percent. Tiny painful acne since a week.
Menses 4-1 = (7-40)
18-1-94; Acne better. Feels emotionally better.
25-1-94; Acne (3+)
22-2-94; Was better for a month.
1-3-94; Better 70 percent. Acne
15-3-94; Again acne (Puls action lasted 3 weeks
23-3-94; Acne >
29-3-94; Acne better 5 Wks
5-4-94; Better (3+) Acne 2-w

In this manner treatment is continuing with Puls 1M once a month Sulph occasionally .

Other remedies used in the case are -

2-8-94; Pain worse MB and MD (3+)
18-10-94; Tension and Acne. Hair fall
29-12-94; Relapse (as a specific interposed)

Treatment

Puls 200 - 3 HS
Placebo
Placebo
Puls 1M - 1 dose
Puls 1M - 1 dose
Placebo
Sulph 30 1 dose
Placebo
Placebo
Placebo
Croc-sat 30, 3 doses stringy discharge
Puls 10M one dose
Phos 200 one dose
The patient is irritable, broods (3+), weeps easily, nervous and anxious, fastidious, worse from contradiction. Loves travelling, dressing up well and movies.
Dream - Silly. Like having an affair with someone and husband finds out.

RUBRICS:

1. SRI 15 - Anticipation
2. SRI 472 - Fastidious
3. SRI 249 - Nervous
4. SR I 121 - Worry
5. SR I 184 - Contradiction intolerant of
6. SR I 115 - Brooding
7. BB 680 - Acne Agg. Menses before
8. BB 680 - Back pain menses before
9. BB 679 - Leucorrhoea menses before
10. SR 1404 - Sun Agg
11. SR II 266 - Desire salt
12. SR II 274 - Desires sweet
13. SR II 255 - Desires meat

Remedies which emerged after repertorization were:

Pulsatilla 9-22, Ars-alb 7-14, Sulphur 10-16, Calc-carb 13-25, Natrum-mur 12-25, Kali-carb 9-14 and Phos 8-16.

CASE 3:

Patient 50 years is under treatment for anxiety states and asthma since 24-3-94 but I want only to discuss fungal nails which were brown and black Graphites 200 rapidly completely ameliorated and turned her nails normal, though her asthma requires other medicines.

CASE 4: PLAY MECHANO

This case is a very exciting one for me as the patient was treated 25 years ago by the renowned Dr. Phatak to whom the patient had gone for eczema, Asthma and ulcer. Dr. Phatak told him "I can cure you of Asthma and ulcer but not eczema. You should leave the eczema alone". He then proceeded to do just that and till date the patient has had no asthma not ulcer. (I only wish I knew what the patient was given). However his eczema became gradually worse. Today it is bad, all over, but no oozing and the patient has learnt to cope with it. Now he came to me mainly for severe acidity. After ascertaining the above history, I told him that "You have learned somehow to live with your skin problem which is covering your whole body. I will give you minimal and mild medicine and will definitely cure your acidity. It is likely that with that medicine your skin may also improve, but I will not do any aggressive treatment".

He agreed to be treated on that basis and got complete relief in acidity in two days.

He came back after one week saying that "if I myself had not had this experience I would not have believed it possible to get relief so quickly.

History:

The patient, Mr. JP, aged 67 years, is the second son in a family of three brothers. The eldest brother was dominating and hence the patient developed an inferiority complex which persisted till his marriage. Then he somehow changed and took responsibility for the family. He was very hardworking and always busy; and became head of the family. Though the other two brothers were not putting in that much effort the patient did not mind. Now the 3 brothers and three sons are all in business though only 2 live together. With a new office and new house interior done at high cost. He worries too much about money matters and feels that they can lead a simpler life. 1995 has seen too much expenditure. Now at 68, he retired 3 months ago his excessive worries almost money led to his acidity.

His acidity is accompanied with bloating of the abdomen which is aggravated by chillies and tea and by dinner. He gets relief by eructation and reading at night time.

He had spondylitic pain with swelling every morning which is better by exercise.

He is short, heavy built, with poor appetite; like onions (3), salts (3), sour (3), sweets.
Likes open air, slow fan, no AC, warm bath.

Previous History:

In 1992, he had Hodgkins for which he had radiation and chemotherapy.

Treatment and follow-up:

It was a clear case of Lycopodium.

19-12-95 Lyco 30 one dose was given. I advised him to take it easy and enjoy the fruits of three decades of hard work. What were your hobbies? I asked him. He replied -" When I was 20, I used to love wood-inlay work and toy trains"! "Just the right play for your grandchildren aged 3 to 4, So play with them and became their friendly Dada. He did. By next day he had no acidity and his skin condition was 30 percent better.

The acidity has not returned till today i.e. 6-1-95 when this article is going to the press.

Because of the appreciable improvement in his complaints, I have decided not to repeat the medicine but wait and watch to see how much further he improves.

CASE 5: AN UNUSUAL PRESCRIPTION

A little boy, 7 years old, suddenly developed a wart on the right hand index finger in July 1995; this had slowly increased to about one fourth of an inch when he was brought in for consultation on 14 November 1995.

His only other complaint was his tendency to catch cold with every change of weather; he has colds every month which lasts for 6 days.

Physical Characteristics: He was lean, weighed 26 Kg and was 4 feet and two inches tall. He craves chicken, fish, cold things and ice creams.

Mentals: Very talkative and loving with a forgiving nature, apologizes soon; Loves company and has a happy-go-lucky disposition. Has fear of dark with a wild imagination. Sleep is good but has both frightful and pleasant dreams, is very sympathetic.

Rubrics Selected:

1. KR 63 - Talkative (Loquacity
2. KR 1 - Affectionate
3. KR 43 - Fear of dark
4. KR 86 - Sympathetic
5. KR 52 - Ideas abundant
6. KR 1240 - Dreams frightful
7. KR 1242 - Dreams pleasant
8. KR 10 - Cheerful, gay, happy
9. KR 12 - Desire for company.

Treatment and Follow-up:

It was a clear case of Phos but in all the rubrics relating to wart (chief complaint) it hardly appears.

14-11-95 - Phos 200 - One dose was given.
23-11-95 - Slight improvement - The wart is smaller
12-12-95 - Having cold since 1 week - Phos 2 doses.
26-12-95 - Wart was drying fast (A photo of the hand was taken but it did not come out well).
9-1-95 - A pleasant surprise. The boys mother was astonished and in a shocked voice said that the wart in her sons hand was gone.

This case once again proves that any Homoeopathic medicine which covers the totality of symptoms of the patient will cure pathological manifestations even though it may not figure against that pathological symptom in the Repertory. It is because the drug proving has not been pushed to the full extent of developing pathological symptoms in provers.

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