Homoeopathic Conference 1998, Mangalore
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1999 Jan / Feb VOL VIII NO 1.
Reported by
Dr Tiwari
Homoeopathic Conference 98 is a collective effort by the teaching faculty of Fr. Muller's Homoeopathic Medical College, Mangalore, conducted annually as part of their CME programme. Such Study sessions help make changes in Homoeopathic education, training and research.
Inauguration 3rd October '98 at 10 am: on schedule in spite of a heavy downpour. Dignitaries welcomed with traditional Arthi
Dr Ramjee Singh - Professor B H Medical College, Bihar lit the lamp.
Guest of Honour
Mrs Hilda Alva, Mayor of Mangalore. Presided by Rev Dr Baptist Menezes - Director, Fr Muller's
Felicitation by Fr Valerian D'Souza, Administrator.
Vote of thanks by Dr Shivprasad K, Organising secy
Session 1 : at 11.30 am.
Theme HIV-the greatest challenge of today.
Moderator - Dr B N Prakash - Principal Govt Hom Medical College, Bangalore.
Speakers Dr Bhaskar Karnik, Dr Shrinath Rao and Dr Dilip Dixit.
- Dr Bhaskar Karnik, consultant at Kalyanpur, working on AIDS for last 4 years with Dr S V Srikar held the delegates spell bound with a highly absorbing & impressive study of 50 cases treated and improved with Homoeopathy.
- Dr Shrinath Rao, Professor, Dept of Materia Medica, Fr Muller's, gave a retrospective study of 35 cases of AIDS dealt in the Fr Muller's OPD.
- Dr Dilip Dikshit, ICR Mumbai, advisor to AIDS research project Melbourne, presented a proper analysis of 27 cases of HIV +ve. He explained his concept of AIDS as a combination of miasms of which only 80% may be solved on basis of Homoeopathic individualization rather than a general treatment where the main strategy is to restore the susceptibility to normal.
- Dr Umesh Vanahalli, a practitioner at Mahalingpur presented his ideas.
Theme: NEOPLASM. The first speaker, Dr Vishpala Parthasarathy, Editora NJH, highlighted the general aspect of malignancies, suspecting, confirming or ruling out, investigating, staging and co-ordinating with surgeons. She highlighted Carcinocin. Her presentation especially, her slides, were very much appreciated by all.
Second speaker Dr B D Patel Chairman Institution of Classical Homoeopathy and research. He explained how all tumours are one sided-disease and treatment of such diseases has to be done as it presents. He gave an idea about the fundamental basis of prescription without being prejudiced regarding medicines and potencies.
Dr M K Kamath, Asst Professor, Medicine, Fr Muller's, presented a study on 32 cases of Goitre: clinical presentation, differential diagnoses and investigations with the Hom approach.
2nd session: Theme - Blood Disorder
Moderator - Dr S K Tiwari.
Speakers Dr B T Rudreh, Dr Abdul Latheef and Fr Pravas Kumar Pal. All the presentations were quite informative and were well appreciated.
The OPEN FORUM: presentation on Blood Disorder by Dr Alphonse D'Souza, Dr Shaji Kumar and Dr Vilma D'souza.
The two days conference concluded with fruitful and meaningful learning from the experiences presented in the conference.
Editor adds Tidbits of the flight.
This was my first trip to Mangalore. I wanted to see the college that my Mentor, Dr M L Dhawale, helped set up. I took this opportunity to talk on cancer.
My travelling companion turned out to be Dr Dilip Dixit, another ICR alumni, whom I admire greatly for his clinical acumen and understanding of Homoeopathic remedies. I used the flight to acquaint with Dixit's repertoire of cases. The talk veered to acute practice- Malaria- of which he has literally treated hundreds of cases, with hardly any failures, as it is endemic in that part of the world. He has evolved a strategy, which obviates the need to dose Intermittent fever with chills with antimalarial, so routinely done without even investigating.
To Find The Remedy: take the Totality of Fever with stress on time of fever. If this can be established before the disease is in its full form then a single dose of the remedy can abort the process.
- Frequent relapse of fever or Malaria means it is a Tubercular Miasm. Give Tub-b 1M as the intercurrent.
- To Find The Constitutional:
Say Morning fever: Nat-m in single doses definitely aborts.
Similarly Evening Fever: Lyco- spike at 8pm & 2am. Or spike at 11pm & 11am - Enterics are an acute presentation and may require repetition of doses. When there is general improvement, interval between spikes increases from 5 to 8 to 12 hrs; Appetite and the look changes for the better, then you know the remedy is right.
- Homoeopathic Drugging: with chilliness and ill-treated Malaria: Sepia is the remedy.
- Characteristics of some Remedies, more frequently indicated in children, where even Kali is rare:
Calc-iod: Hot, hyperactive, irritable, widening epiphysis, frontal bony clubbing. Soft. Perspiration scalp.
Phos:. Charismatic. Observant. Fears. Sensitive to Noise. Thin
Silecea: Timid, shy, nails white spots, persp. Fearful Not mixing. No magnetism of Phos. Sensitive to noise
Natrum: Irritable, outgoing < with aloofness. Single delayed milestones. Independent. Self-sufficient.
For Treatment Of Malaria: do not use any acute remedies. It vitiates the picture. First bring down the fever with sponging or with an allopathic anti-pyretic, like paracetamol, which does not vitiate the suscebtibility. When fever is down, give the constitutional remedy in 200 potency- singe dose.
Case: The day of my return from Mangalore, a patient came with a fever of 102. The morning rise was confirmed. fever was brougth down to 99 with metacin. Natrum-mur 200- 1 dose given at 9 pm. Sure enough, next day the spike was 101 and the third day the fever was gone. On 27-11-98 she reported doing quite well & since.
Dixit says a la Hahnemann: follow my methods and report the failures.
