HOMOEOPATHIC CLINICAL CASE RECORDER
Vol VI No2&3

The issue begins with the speech delivered by Dr George Vithoulkas at the ceremony for the presentation of Right Livelihood Award conferred on him. He refers to his new theoretical model which gives an altogether new direction and dimension to medical thinking and enunciates a law of health and disease so that the therapist practising any system of therapy will know whether under that system the patient is improving or degenerating.

He asserts that the world and conventional medicine in particular have been moving in the wrong direction as the medicines act suppressively. By such treatment, symptoms get masked and the real disorder is pushed to the interior i.e. the central and peripheral nervous system. Present day disorders like multiple sclerosis, anxiety neurosis, compulsive neurosis and other serious mental disorders were the direct result of wrong intervention upon the organism by modern medicine, through the use of strong chemical drugs and vaccinations.

He said that he had, as far back as 1970, predicted the appearance of AIDS in that if modern medicine continued to use antibiotics the way it did, there would come a time when the body's immune system would break down and new incurable diseases would result. He again warns that "if conventional medicine did not take notice of what we have said and drastically changed its practices and its logic in treating with chemical drugs, and its direction of research, the disease would go to the nervous system and most of the population would be mentally ill individuals".

He laments that conventional medicine strongly resisted the information from Homoeopathy and did not even want to hear about it, let alone begin a serious dialogue and profit by it. He points out that the greatest resistance to Homoeopathy, which is the cheapest form of curing disease, comes from the pharmaceutical industry.
He asserted that if the medical authorities still chose to ignore Hahnemann's beneficial discoveries, not only would they miss an opportunity to introduce a health system which would promote better health, but also they would also be accused by succeeding generation of criminal negligence and short-sightedness.
In a detailed article on potency dilemma, Dr Ajit Kulkarni states that in the problem of potency, the following factors are to be taken into account:

1. Disease
2. Type of patient
3. Sensitivity, whether it is high, medium or low
4. Susceptibility
5. Etiological factors
6. Miasmatic interpretation
7. Similarity between the disease and the appropriate remedy which can produce similar disease
8. Suppression
9. Nature of central disturbance.

The Chief Editor has presented a case of viral encephalitis in a 2-year old boy cured with Tub and Zinc-met based on suppressed discharges, defective vitality and suspected impending brain paralysis. Dr Prakash Shinde cures a case of arthritis with Agaricus on the basis of PQRS of loquacity, changing quickly from one subject to another, motion of head backward and forwards, inclination to uncover the feet; pain in right knee and left shoulder; upper left and right lower; pain on lying on the affected side and a chilly patient. He also cured a male patient of chronic coryza and nasal polyp with Ignatia on the contradictory symptoms: being a south Indian, he was averse to rice; coryza in winter and < cold weather but he has affinity for cold bath 3; bleeding from rectum even when the stool was soft.
A study report on the healing and management of wounds by Calendula and reviews of journals and book reviews comprise the rest of the issue.

HOMOEOPATHIC CLINICAL CASE RECORDER
Vol VI-VII Jan-June98

Two issues combined for two years and received late- the bane of Hom Journals! As usual, the issues discuss many good assorted cases, given briefly here:

Dr Gypser: a 36 years old woman suffered from pressing, stitching or cramping pains in stomach < night, when lying down on back but > lying on right side + sleepiness with lack of interest, heartburn with empty eructation and backache. Analysis with Boenninghausens' Therapeutic Pocket Book: Phos cured the patient.

Dr K J James, writes about a few rheumatic remedies, advises that location involved is most important because our remedies have organ affinities. He also advocates the use of drainage remedies, as advised by French Homoeopath Dr Nebel, to avoid unnecessary aggravation with high potencies of indicated remedies. Urtica- urens Q and Uric-acid 6 are the best drainage remedies; Aranea/Nat-sulph for hydrogenoids .Thyroidinum in rheumatoid arthritis with obesity and oedema of legs. Lactic acid /Plumbum in rheumatism with diabetics.

In the July -Dec 98 issue Dr S R Wadia discusses 2 cases of leucoderma -First of Thuja - for antidoting the ill effects of vaccination and BCG 200 + others as called for. Second case of Sepia (hyperemesis, motion sickness, unhappy feeling, aversion to milk) and Terebinth for haematuria and miasmatic remedy of Tub.

Dr D E Mistry: case of horny warts on nose and below the eyelids. The child was active, intelligent, obstinate and not afraid, with marked aversion to milk, sweating on the neck. Pointed out to Silicea and Calc- carb. Silica 10M, Calcarea-carb 10M and Sycotic 200 did not give relief. More warts appeared. The new warts ultimately responded to Antim-crud after which his constitutional and miasmatic remedies were given and cleared the case; the child had adenoids, which took 3 yrs to cure with Tub, Thymus, Med etc.

His another complicated case of infantile eczema in a child from 3rd third month of its birth; the child was mainly on Ars-alb and Tub. The dry eczema became wet and also formed pus. Syph was used as an intercurrent. Mainly Ars-alb cured the case.

Dr Prakash Shinde: A case of diabetic patient with hypertension and heart block. Main symptoms - difficulty in respiration on walking a few steps; vertigo; chest pain and oppression in chest; tingling numbness and Rt shoulder pain. Mentally confused, forgetful, obstinate and dictatorial but his mental confusion cleared immediately after lying down. This associated with vertigo pointed to Kalmia as acute and Lyco as constitutional. Kalmia 200(2) and 1M (1) in 4 months; Lyco 1M(1) along with Craetagus Q, reduced the BS and the patient could walk easily. In 6 months he was so well with normal.investigation reports that the planned bypass surgery was put off.

The specialist was treating a woman for secondary sterility; but the fact was that her husband was not having sexual relations with his wife because he came home tired. Dr Shinde gave Natrum-mur for the wife and Bell 200 to the husband based on the rubrics: Del of wealth (he boasted of having a fine body); hide desire to (impotency) and frivolous. In 2 months the lady conceived.

KJ James discusses cases of migraine, persistent cough cured by Cedron because of clock-like periodicity, allergic rhinitis with Rhus-tox, ailments after fright with Puls, tachycardia with Adrenaline.

Tips From KJ James:

1. Sensation of coldness between the scapulae + dreams of water are important symptoms of Amm-mur. It fights against the three ayurvedic doshas of vata, pitha and kapha. In ailments from grief it is very effective.
2. Trichomonas-vaginalis 30 is an excellent remedy for obstinate leucorrhoea.
3. Herpes 30 for post-herpes problems. (it must be a tautopathic drug, where is it available?)
4. Flagyl 30 is good for any disease of anus.
5. Triple antigen 30 always gives good results in children having bronchitis.
6. Plumbum works well in obstructive jaundice with Fel-tauri

There has been a lot of discussion about the bad / after-effects of childhood multi-vaccinations. Dr Mohamed Quasim writes with facts and figures that such vaccinations suppress the innate immune systems - a sharp increase in Crohn's disease was noticed in children of Indian origin in Britain after their MMR vaccination. In Sweden despite vaccination against pertussis, 84% had that disease. He argues that safety and human rights will be best served by giving the parents perfect freedom to accept or reject immunization for their children. (several years ago when I was in the college C. Rajagopalachari , the first Indian viceroy and later the chief minister of Tamilnadu used to wage an unrelenting battle against BCG vaccination with authoritative medical references. He did not succeed and now it is proved that such vaccination is not effective; still newborns are compulsorily subjected to this torture in the first week of their existence!) Dr Sharad Dashrath has taken pains to find the corresponding repertorial rubrics for the mental symptoms of each of the Bach flower remedies.

Vol VIII- Combined Issue Of 3 & 4 Dr Veerabhadra Rao discusses some cases.

1. Fever lasting for over 2 months was cured by Acon on the advice of George Royal that "a condition which called for the remedy years ago but which it has not received will yield to that drug.
2. On etiology: hyperthyroidism started after an attack of malaria, so Malaria- off cured, when the well indicated Sulphur was ineffective.
3. A 9 year old child had wry neck. The history: child was a breech presentation during which it developed wry neck After an operation, the child developed contracture of sterno-mastoid and was unable to turn the head to the rt side. Bryonia, on basis of oily perspiration, agg sun heat; aversion to milk; desires ice, nausea on empty stomach, dandruff and frightful dreams and aggravation fats. It was given in LM potencies daily; in 7 months the neck was freely mobile.
4. Dr Shinde: Right sided sciatica in a bus conductor cured with Bovista - being a bus conductor the patient was getting pressure on his left lumbar region often from his seat while issuing tickets and jolts from movement of bus arising from bad roads He quotes Boericke as under-'Instruments indent the finger in an unusual degree' (I find from my copy of Boericke published by Sett Dey of Calcutta such wording does not occur especially "unusual degree" nor in Clarke's MM but in his forward to the remedy Allen-. "The skin of the fingers becomes unusually dented by the instruments with which she was working (shears or knives)". In any case it was remarkable for arriving at the remedy. The Editor writes that his repertorisation gave Sulphur in all rubrics.

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