The Rapid cure
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1999 Sep / Oct VOL VIII NO 5.
Dr Vishpala Parthasarathy
'Calc-iod
On 21/6/99 one of my long-term patients brought his 2-year-old cousin for allergic rhinitis.
| Location | Sensation | Modalities | Concomitants |
| RS 1/ 2mth x 5-6 day
|
Sneezing | < COW | App - 
|
| Running nose | < dust | cranky ++ | |
| Nose block | < pollution | ||
| Occasional whitish | < winter | ||
| Profuse + expectoration | < before sleep | ||
| Congestion chest | < after sleep | ||
| Breathlessness | > sleep | ||
| Fever | Usually along with | < pm | |
| Cough | |||
| High grade fever + | |||
| Perspiration - ++ | |||
| Chill - 0 |
Patient As A Person: Fat, Fair, Flabby
Ht-32 ½ ' Wt- 12.6 Kg (birth wt - 3.2 Kg)
Appetite: Normal
Craving: Butter2, Biscuits2 and Sweet1
Aversion: cold drink1
Thirst: good- for large quantity
Stool: 2-3 / day
Urine: 7-8 day/ 2 nights
Perspiration: Profuse ++, all over body especially head
Skin: H/o Urticarial rash
Sleep: N
Saliva: drooling ++
Dreams: wakes up frightful & cranky > eating
Obstetric History: healthy pregnancy, happy pregnancy
FTND; Breast feeding- 1 Year
Wt - 4 Kg Ht - 54 cm Fully immunized for age
Milestones: Talking late. Walking late
Thermal - Hot pt3. Likes AC, Winter; Summer: agg++; Sun: agg
Bath - Tepid bath though loves to take normal water bath CH4
Past History - Febrile convulsion - 1998
Recurrent stomach upset - 1998
Urticarial Rash - Jan 1999
Family History: M - Cervical spondylosis
MGM: - Osteo- arthritis
PGF: DM
Life Situation: Mother, works in a bank, is cool and friendly. Father, a chief manager, is jovial and loves sports. But the child, our patient, is totally opposite-- shy and clinging. As soon as they entered consulting room, he clung tightly to his mother, giving fearful looks to all. Mother said he is scared of new faces; he never talks to strangers, never even plays with new children. Does not want attention. Happy playing on his own, with mother around. He is quite content, if left alone with his own family. He also has a marked fear of dogs. He is cranky if very ill, in the presence of strangers, or if anybody tries to touch him. There is also aversion to light.
Rubrics Selected From Robin Murphy
| 1009 | Caressed aversion to |
| 1076 | Light aversion to |
| 1070 | Looked at cannot bear |
| 1106 | Stranger presence AGG |
| 1110 | Talk Slow learning to |
| 1135 | Mouth salivation < Sleep |
| 536 | Craves - butter |
| 743 | Perspiration back fearful & clinging |
Drugs Came Up After Repertorization:
| Chilly | Hot |
| Cina - 9/4 | Puls - 8/3 |
| Nux-v - 9/4 | Merc - 8/3 |
| Calc - 7/4 | Sulph - 6/3 |
| Bar-carb - 7/3 | Nit-acid - 5/3 |
| Phos - 7/3 | Lyc - 4/2 |
| Sil - 6/4 | |
| Stram - 4/3 |
Discussion:
Here the remedy was very clear - physical appearance-fat, sweaty plus clinging & fear
pointed to Calc.. Hot Calc = Calc-iod
Drug selected - Calc-iod 200 Chronic (C)
Merc-sol 200 Acute (A)
Tub-b 1M Intercurrent (IC)
Follow Up:
| 21/6/99 | Cold tendency | Almost quiescent phase- begin with IC. | Tub-b1M(1) | |
| 1/7/99 | >3 cough - 0 | Follow the IC with C= constitutional. | Calc-iod 200 (1) | |
| 3/7/99 | Slight cold | Action Options : | ||
| 1. Wait and watch | ||||
| 2. Give acute. | ||||
| I chose to give acute since the child has tendency to rapidly progress to next stage. Only min, 2 doses reqd | Merc-sol 200 2 p HS | |||
| 21/7/99 | >3 | Strong Tuber base. | Tub-b 1 M 2nd dose | |
| 28/7/99 | >3 | Placebo | ||
| 30/7/99 | >3 | Placebo | ||
| 5/8/99 | >3 | Placebo | ||
| 13/8/99 | >3 | Just observe | Placebo | |
| 28/8/99 | Continues to be well | |||
| 18/9/99 | Well | |||
| 30/9/99 | Well | |||
This is a classical case with a near classical response-almost the ideal, RAPID gentle cure, the dream of every one of us!
Yet this case landed me in a problem!
The child was referred by his cousin, who has been under my care for at least 5 yrs, with not so good a response! The question was why was I being partial to the new patient?
That is luck on the part of the patient, is it not? And improved knowledge and experience, on the part of the physician? But we did take action: we retook the old patient's case, took a fresh look and Lo and behold! He started responding better! The moral of the story is: SUCH CASES UNDERSCORES THE NEED TO CONTINUOUSLY UPDATE AND BETTER OURSELVES, AND REGUALRLY AND RAPIDLY, REEVALUATE PATIENTS WHO ARE NOT IMPROVING ADEQUATELY. Today our thinking veers more to rapid - rapid change, rapid rethinking, ----all this leads to rapid cures.
