Homoeopathic Posology
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2001 Jan / Feb VOL III NO 1.
Dr S K Koppikar
'Bry / Apis / Dig / Ars-a / Bapt / Hyos / Stram / Mer-sol / Ars-a / Bar-c / Acon / Bry / Calc-c / Sul / Psor / Con / Ched / Bad / Psor / Orni / Carb-v / Myris / Calc-hyp / Ferr-phos / Calc-phos / Phos / Apis / Lyc / Ars / Lach
Case 7: Dr Sherbino Mr B has been feeling poorly for two or three days. This morning he had a severe chill. I was called at 5 PM. I find the following symptoms: Aching in the muscles and bones, aching from head to foot, bed as hard as a board, pillow as hard as a rock, coughing large quantities of rusty sputa, stitching pain in the left breast, has to hold his chest with his hands (Bry, Merc), fan like motion of alae nasi (Phos, Lyc) stupid and sleepy, could hardly keep awake, total loss of appetite, very thirsty for large drinks of water, cough worse at night, several stools per day-very offensive; wanted to keep very still, as the least movement aggravated his cough and pain in chest (Bry).
Temp first evening: Temp 101 pulse 110, respiration 32. Second evening: Temp 103, pulse 120, respiration 40 Third day 8 am: Temperature 99, pulse 88, respiration normal.Bapitisia 8 MM (swan) was given, and the patient needed no other medicine" -Dr Sherbino- quoted by Dr Nash.
Case 8: Dr Heber Smith
Typhus, ninth day. Patient lying on back, eyes wide open, staring and immovable, unconscious; face red, lips black, tongue dry and black, lower jaw hangs down, urine involuntary; it is over 200. Dr Hering was called in consultation. Both he and Dr Lippe feared paralysis of the brain. Before Dr Lippe found the red sand he was deliberating between Opium and Hyoscyamus, the sand pointed to Hyos. Opium has more often the symptom state of snoring with eyes half closed (Lycopodium has red crystals in urine and falling of the lower jaw; increase in urine only at night). Hyos 200, one drop in half a tumbler of water, several spoonfuls were given and in six hours the patient perspired, the jaw closed and he was out of danger.
Case 9: Dr A Lippe
The case had not improved, although it had been under skillful homoeopathic treatment for over a fortnight; had begun with symptoms of ordinary gastric fever. The condition of the young man was this. On looking at him he stared at me, then appeared on his forehead and in his emaciated face deep wrinkles; at times he would cry out loud till he became hoarse; mouth and lips were ulcerated to such a degree that he declined to drink on account of severe pain caused by any fluid (or solid) coming in contact with his mouth; the lips were peeling off and bled on being picked; abdomen fallen in, tender to contact, he vomited occasionally, mucus and specks had streaks of blood; frequent watery offensive stools, no sleep, no appetite; urine scanty; pulse very frequent and not regular; great emaciation, Nux-vom, Bryonia; Phos, Mercury, Nitric-acid, Arum-trif had been given according to the most prominent symptoms but the mental symptoms as expressed in the countenance, had remained unaltered, while the pathological condition was worse. The attending physician knew that we had before us ulcerated Peyer’s bodies. Stramonium covered all the symptoms but that of the sore mouth, but in Hering’s proving was the symptom; "It feels as if the inner mouth was raw and sore. Stamonium 50 M cured".
(Ed: Unfortunately Dr Lippe has not mentioned the exact way the doses were administered. But from a study of his usual practice, it must have been in solution of water, in spoonful doses)
In one particular province of Homoeopathic therapeutics, we find mother tinctures and the lowest potencies doing better work than the high potencies. It is in the treatment of gross pathological alteration in the body, like enlarged liver and spleen, fibroid and other tumors, glandular enlargements etc. In these cases some special remedies become indicated many of these called "Organ remedies" which have to be given in low potencies and often repeated daily till the pathological abnormality is removed. The pioneers in this field were Rademacher, J C Burnett, RT Cooper, JH Clarke and E M Hale each a genius and researcher. They not only introduced new "Organ" remedies, they found out new uses for ordinary remedies of our great Materia Medica.
Here is a case of scrofula cured by Dr J H Clarke.
Case 10: Dr J H Clarke.
Charles M 16, brass worker, for 6 yrs had very large glands on the left side of the neck and under the skin. Last winter, blotches appeared on his legs, and since then they come and go. Last winter, for the first time, he had cough. It was bad for three weeks, and since then continued to be troublesome. It continues during the day, and also in the night till he goes to sleep. He has a little swelling under the instep of each foot which pains when he walks. He looks pale.
26th March, 1884, Arsenic 3, Baryta-carb 6 alternately every two hours. As he improved, this was continued till June 7th.
From June 7th, to July 5th. He was treated with Nitric acid and Euphrasia for some eye trouble.
July 19th. Eyes almost well. Lumps in the neck smaller. Repeat.
August 2. Eyes well. Lumps in the neck smaller. Repeat.
October 10. Has a cold. Glands smaller but increased since and weather became colder. Repeat.
November 12. Lumps in the neck smaller. Repeat.
December 24 to February 4. Arsenic 3 for colds etc.
February 11, 1885, Aconite 6 four times a day.
March 5, Pulsatilla 3x for eye trouble.
March 18. Merc-sol 3 tds This was continued till May 13.
May 13. Bryonia 3 four times a day for one week, then Acon 6.
June 17. Aconite 6 four times a day.
July 22. Repeat, glands still smaller.
August 19 Much better, repeat.
January 6, 1886. Glands smaller than ever before, cough for three days, Calc-carb 1 pillule three times a day then Aconite 6.
Aconite repeated till January 12, 1887.
Again from February 18, 1888 to May 12, Aconite 6.
From then to March 20 1889, Kali-mur 6 tds.
March 20 Lump larger. Has cough for a week. Aconite 6 tds.
April 10 lump smaller, Erythema nodosum, feel bruised when touched (Arnica 30 tds)
July 13 to April 2, 1890. Acon 6 d
Later he needed Sulphur 30 and Psorinum 30 and Conium 30 for some time.
During the progress of this case, the great power of Aconite over the glandular enlargement was very strikingly manifested. It was the inflammation of the eyes, which led me to prescribe it first. When the action on the glands was very marked".
Please note that Aconite 1,every two hours, was continued for more than 5 months; Aconite 6, 3 or 4 times a day for nearly two years.
Case 11: Dr J C Burnett
A gentleman, about 30y of age, came from Ireland to consult me with regard to loss of flesh. He was over six feet in height, but weighed only ten stone. Hair reddish, thorax flat, pronounced venous zig-zag’ digestion very weak, poor appetite, a brownish rash across the epigastrium; cannot digest vegetables.
The state of the liver led me to prescribe Chelidonium 1 five drops in water night and morning.
Under this prescription (with same diet, occupation etc) he increased five pounds in weight in thirty-two days. In six months, he had reached ten stones twelve pounds, and he long after reported to me that he had remained in very good health indeed. Besides being for some months under the influence of Chelidonium he had intercurrently also recieved Badiaga 3x and Psorinium 30 each during one month.
Dr R T Cooper like Dr Burnett had a vast practice and was a master of the Materia Medica. He brought in many new remedies and cured even bad cases of cancer. I give below one of his famous cases:
Case 12: Dr R T Cooper
George M aged 40 was suffering from cancer of the stomach and was operated on in the cancer hospital. The operation was abandoned on account of the numerous adhesions and because it was impossible to remove all the diseased tissue. Cooper saw him first on July 22nd 1898, and found him writhing in agony on his bed, unable to keep anything long in his stomach; better by warm foods, worse by cold drinks. Pains worse at night. They began in stomach, spreading to hands and between shoulders as if an iron brick were being forced through stomach and chest.
There was a visible bulging beneath the attachment of diaphragm extending to scrobiculus cordis. Tongue red, coated towards back, bowels confined, sometimes diarrhea. Patient’s father died of Gastric ulcer, aged 73. On Saturday, July 23 at 6 pm Cooper gave Orinthogalum Q one dose. Followed by great pains, he felt almost frantic at 3 am and again at 1 pm when the bowel acted. At 3 am he began taking Carb-v 3x every 3 hours. This was discontinued on July 26 as patient thought it increased the pains, which now extended over the whole body. On the 27th a frothy substance began to come up, giving great relief. Cooper considered this as evidence that the Orinth had touched the disease but had been restricted in its action by the Carb-v.
A second dose of Orinth was therefore sent and taken on the evening of July 28. Almost immediately after, the patient began bringing up a black jelly like substance with great relief in pain and general improvement. From this time the progress was steady. On August 29 the patient in his report said he was keeping fairly well though at times having great pain in lower stomach. And he noted this important additional symptom. "Great difficulty in going to sleep owing to a creepy sensation in limbs. Also on sitting, legs and feet go all of a heap, cannot keep still, cannot read without walking about. Feet also ache and swell". Dose repeated September 9th.
