THE HOMOEOPATH
Spring '99 V 73

Dr Adele Miller discusses a case, in detail, where Gelsemium was arrived on the basis of the rubrics of the mind adopting the "Revolutionized Homoeopathy" of Dr M L Seghal. A case of a 2 yr old girl who suffered from severe constipation. Based on the statements made by the mother on the behavior of the child, following rubrics were selected: Fear of falling; Ailments from anticipation; clinging to persons or furniture; disturbed, averse to being: light desires; quiet disposition; unconsciousness, eyes cannot open.

A detailed report on the Brighton seminar on cancer by Dr Ramakrishnan of India. In his view astrocytoma of brain, Ca oral cavity, Esophagus etc respond well to Homoeopathy. Whereas malignancies of uterus, stomach and liver respond poorly to Homoeopathy.

Cancer is a complex problem & the physician is racing against time. The adverse effects of primary and secondary lesions require urgent attention. He advocates use of one medicine at a time but recommends alternation frequently. Carcinosin and Scirrhinum are the most important. Carcinosin can check the rapid deterioration in terminal cases and acts in all stages of cancer. The picture of the latter remedy closely resembles Phos.

Dr Ramakrishnan's protocol:

1. First prescription of a remedy with special affinity to the site of the tumour.
2. Appropriate nosode should be given intercurrently with the organ/tissue medicine and not below 30 C potency.
3. When the disease comes under control, the patient's constitutional remedy should be prescribed in alternation with the first two remedies.
4. At the outset, if the tumour is out of control, the organ remedy, nosode and the constitutional should be given one week each, in 30-200 -1M potencies.
5. Bio-chemic salts are of great service as maintenance treatment over a long period. In bone cancer, Calcarea-flour 6X for one or two years.

Dr Ramakrishnan cautions that Homoeopathy should never be used simultaneously with chemotherapy or radiotherapy as these interfere with the action of the Homoeo medicines. The medicines can be given in between the doses of chemotherapy; where radiotherapy is given Homoeo medicines can be given on the day after radiotherapy ends.

Dr Ramakrishnan advocates a plussing method: 3 pills in 11 TSF water - one teaspoon every 15 minutes. Between doses, stir or shake water gently. Take 10 TSF over 3 hours. Reserve the last spoonful for the next day. Next day 10 teaspoons of water are added to this teaspoon and the process is repeated. Such dosing continues for seven days. In his experience, this plussing method is extremely effective to rapidly reduce the tumour size and decrease pain, without any aggravation.

Effective Rx for different cancers:

• For palliation of pain Ars-brom, Rad-brom, Plumb-iod, Mag-phos, Opium, Aconite, and Kali-salts.
• Euphorbium-officinalis in 6x or 12x is very effective for very severe burning pains by cold applications. He is a chilly patient.
• Cadmium-sulph is good for nausea from chemotherapy, along with Ars-alb, Nux-v and Ipecac.

Helium children won't let you come near them. You can do what you like; they simply won't react. They remain locked up within themselves, unapproachable and distant.
Dr Nicholus Biggins writes about dowsing (pendulum) for helping him to use his right brain for finding what remedy the patient needs, potency, repetition, frequency etc. He discovered that some patients did better if they bathe in their remedy, put it in bath or apply to parts of the body. The latter works well with colours when applied to different "chakras" in our body.

Part 2 of Dr Ian Watson's article "Prescribing from an energy perspective" also appears in this issue. Understanding our own body energy is the best case-taking tool. Five energy centers, called emotion centers, which correspond to chakras as per the Hindu philosophy. Our lowest centre is our base chakra and remedies like Aconite, Arnica and trauma remedies like Stram and Opium are relevant here. Shame and guilt is in the second centre and solar plexus is the chakra where we store anger, fear and butterflies of anticipation. Grief and sadness we store in heart centre. Throat centre is more to do with the expression or non-expression of the emotional states; not a place to store but rather TO BLOCK emotions. Loss of voice or throat constriction, or lump in throat means that a powerful emotion is not being expressed. Dr Watson says when one understands the fact that whenever a patient comes to the clinic there is interaction between his and your energy fields and when one is aware, then the remedy comes out clearly.

That is the field effect. Rapport with the patient means patient knows what he needs and you, his doctor, have access to that information.

THE HOMOEOPATH
Summer 1999 - No 74

The pictures of Dr Sanjay & Yogesh Sehgal, sons of Dr M L Sehgal, propounder of Revolutionized Homoeopathy, on the cover page of this prestigious international Journal, filled me with pride!

• Issue contains a brief write-up of his system by Dr M L Sehgal and an interview with Dr Sanjay and Yogesh in which they discuss their approach with case illustrations. They urge other practitioners to give their system a fair trial to see whether it works.
• Alastair C Gray presents a case of 37-year-old male who underwent a sex-change operation and became a sex worker. He consulted for warts in his female genitalia. He got them cauterized repeatedly but they recurred. He had lots of anger when his lover left him. He was prescribed Staph, which helped him initially as the warts disappeared. When the warts returned, he was given Thuja, which did not remove the warts. On detailed re-evaluation of the mental symptoms during the periodical follow-ups, it was clear that the patient was confused as to his sexual identity. This rubric and other features such as deepest isolation, self-loathing pointed clearly to Hydrogen. It removed the warts and also increased his energy, lifted his depression and general well being. Hydrogen is elusive, gaseous, and isolated. Such a person wants to get back, desires to get unified and become whole.

The issue contains two interesting interviews with Robin Logan & Kate Diamantopolou on the topic of Homoeopathy & Eczema. The interviews focus on the children. While Robin Logan, who has written a book on the subject, feels that he cannot confirm that vaccination is the main cause of children developing eczema, Dr Kate says it is due to many factors including vaccinating children before their immune system is strong enough to cope with the pollution, particularly from cars." Dr Logan says that Mercurius is an important remedy for eczema and he suspects dental fillings to be a contributory factor. In his view it is a Tubercular miasm and he uses Tuberculinum and other nosodes such as Psorinum & Medh very frequently. He is reluctant to open a skin case with a high potency- gives 6c or 12 c, 3 times a day till the next follow-up. He claims that 50% of the children who come to him have eczema.

Dr Diamantoplou says that given the stress of the environment, post- natal depression in mothers and the stress to which children are put to from an early age, by not having an extended family and put into playgroups at two years, weakens their immune system. Eczema is a useful way of drawing attention to oneself. She treats by prescribing the constitutional remedy and the appropriate nosode, if the aetiology and vaccination history demand it. She says that if the constitution is boosted and then the vaccination effect is antidoted, the children have more energy to push out the toxins of the vaccine. Mother's state during pregnancy has a definite effect on the child.

Robert Every discusses an advanced case of liver cancer, where Homoeopathy helped in providing quality life extension; above all it helped the patient to get control over the disease. Arnica, Ars-alb, Conium, Ceanothus ,Cholesterinum , Carbo-veg etc were used in low potency.

Dr Misha Norland writes about the challenge which French Homoeopaths face in view of the ban imposed by their Govt. to prescribe certain remedies with possibilities of banning some more remedies, as it is difficult to prove the existence of medicine in high potency. She says '' the possibility of banning remedies could force us to make another leap, along the path of acknowledging energetic nature of healing.

Peter Tumminello points out that in cases of physical abuse, child abuse, sex abuse and emotional abuse, remedies like Lyssin, Anacardium-orientale and Oxygenium have been helpful. He has now written a book on Rhus-glabra, also indicated in the above situations. He discusses the case of Nadine, a 37-year-old female, who had a history of sex abuse as a child. She had low confidence. Powerlessness against authority, the feeling of abused and unfeeling-ness when her roommate had fits. She was cured with Rhus-glabra. In that remedy, the response to the abuse is to become spiritual and authoritative- using these to dissociate from the body which is abused. The patient worked as a psychic channel and healer for some years and maintained strict self-discipline. The lowly worm-lie feelings have been evident in other Rhus-glabra cases. The remedy gives great release, life transformation and celebration.

• Book reviews, article on defining cured symptoms in provings, review of conference with Massimo Mangialavori and computer workshop form the rest of the issue.

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