QUINQUINA HOMOEOPATHIC QUARTERLY
Vol 5 No 3

Dr Nimesh Mehta gives his experience on Bacillinum explaining a case of recurrent respiratory infection which did well on the remedy for one and a half years but the case relapsed again. A detailed study of the remedy quoting different authors is presented.

Under the case book section Dr Praful Barvalia and Dr R Subramanium share their two cases to point out the profound depth and action of a nosodes. Miamatic diagnosis does not simply depend on the delineation of past history but it is essentially determination of pattern. Psora shows hypersensitivity, hyper-reactivity; sycosis shows hyper-reactivity; sycosis shows retention and non-functional proliferations. Tubercular miasm shows erratic nature and ulcerative, suppuration while Syphilis demonstrates destruction.

Dr Jagruti Mazumdar reports a case of puerperal sepsis admitted in the PNC ward at Dr M L Dhawle Homoeopathic Medico-surgical Hospital. She had four smelling lochia long with fever on the second day of post natal care. Pyrogen administered in 200 followed by 1M brought her fever to normal in 3 days with improvement in her clinical status as well.
Ringworm miasm lies between psora nd sycosis. The Ringworm Nosode was prepared from scrapings of a patient infected with tinea. Dr Sankaran from the results of his provings and patients treated with Ringworm, has understood the main feeling of the remedy to be that the task at hand is just beyond where he can be sure of success. The main action of the prover is to accomplish a task which he begins with lack of confidence and then gives it up. Later he restarts and this struggle between trying and giving up in other words between hopefulness and resignation persists in his life. These patients often have a history of fungal infection in the groins or in between the toes. The remedies which come close to ringworm are Calc-sulph, Calc-sil and Mag-sulph.

Dr Upadhayay narrates a case of a seven year old girl, fair and sweet as a doll, sensitive, quiet, well mannered, mature, obedient, perfectionist with precocity. She was sympathetic, loved painting and music was sensitive to reprimands and craved fruits, ice-cream and milk. Carcinosin 200 was prescribed on which the child's oedema and her cold and cough improved. Another case of pyrexia of unknown origin improved well on Carsinosin as reported by Dr Vasandi.

A case of acute gastro-enteritis and dehydration admitted at the Homoeopathic Hospital was initially prescribed Pulsatilla but the patient showed no improvement. A totality taken considering the important fishy odour of the diarrhoea led the physician to Calc, Graph, Med, Ol-an, Sanicula, Sep, Tell, Thuja. Amongst these Sanicula also covered another interesting rubric 'uncovering, kicks off covers, in the coldest weather' [Hep, Sanic, Suph] Rubrics from complete not covered by synthetic repertory in support of Sanica were * Looked at, cannot bear to be. * Rocked, desire to be. Sanica 1 M helped the patient in a day's time effectively.

Dr Monty Uppal describes a case of angioneurotic oedema wherein Apis seemed to be the acute remedy, which when administered failed to relieve. The indicated constitutional remedy of the case Kali-carb 200 yielded good results.

A 8 year old child with severe abdominal colic, loose stools and high grade fever was treated by Dr Shah and Dr Pavaskar the physician found the child fumbling when questioned about her sleep. Further interrogation along with coaxing led the child to describe her dream which was as follow. She sees a man hiding on the side of the door waiting for her to come out. Then he grabs her and pulls her to a lonely place and stabs her to death. This dream was interpreted as fear of being assassinated, coupled with severe colicky pain relieved by bending double led them to prescribe Plumbum-met.
A few cases narrating the use of unproven nosodes is carried under the section from the archives.

QUINQUINA HOMOEOPATHIC QUARTERLY
Spring 1997 Vol 5 No 4

In his article Dr S Haque, after presenting the views of various persons on the combined use of allopathic and Homoeopathic drugs etc, argues that homoeopaths should employ adjuvant therapy in heart failure, dehydration, blood transfusion in cases of severe blood loss, adrenaline in status asthmaticus etc.

In his long essay Dr B.D Patel decries the present fads of treating on mental symptoms alone, delusions, revolutionary homoeopathy, group analysis advocated by Dr Scholten and music proving; in his view these are attempts to make Homoeopathy acceptable to modern medicine. (However he can not contradict the fact that there have been remarkable and well documented cures using these techniques and these were adopted when normal approach has not worked. It is also observed that constitutional medicine is invariably selected on the life situation of the patient more particularly his mental and emotional make-up)
John A Lewis has presented the Materia Medica of linseed, aloes and ginger and discusses their clinical applications.

QUINQUINA HOMOEOPATHIC QUARTERLY
Winter 1997-1998

Dr P S Krishnamurthy, in a paper presented in a scientific seminar at Mangalore in 1997, has argued how Homoeopathy can successfully cure Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriasis. Brief case illustrations give the approach and the treatment adopted by him - treat the individual miasms present and select the remedy and dosage. At every stage of treatment observe whether the cure is within outward or not. He prescribed the constitutional remedy and also the miasmatic remedy for cure.

Dr P S Rawat discusses a detailed terminal case of HIV. He prescribed Ars-alb, Sulphur and Nitric-acid based on the presenting symptoms and later Crotalus-horidus for fever with oozing from capillaries. Though there was some remission in between treatment, the patient succumbed after 7 months of treatment. The reasons for failure:

The patient's very low immunity. Continuous flow of allopathic drugs besides Homoeopathic treatment and There was no continuous feedback from the patient's relatives so that case could be reevaluated and the correct remedy prescribed. The author feels the initial prescription of Ars-alb was right, but it did not stop bleeding from the gums and either Phos or Crotalus-hor could have been prescribed earlier.

Dr Joe A Lewis writes on alternative therapies for treating HIV- herbal treatment, metaphysical therapies, macrobiotics, traditional Chinese medicine and Homoeopathy. Dr Dhruba Chakraborty & Dr H K Adhikary have written about the experiment on Leprosy patients. They selected 12 patients at random and divided them into 3 groups-one group was on placebo, second was on multi drug allopathic treatment and the third exclusively on Homoeo remedies selected on a case analysis. Mercurius as the syphilitic miasmatic remedy was prominent. The results over a 2-year period showed that those who received only placebo showed further deterioration. In the second group which was treated with multi-drug therapy symptoms showed some amelioration, sensation of touch was improved but pain and response to heat and cold was not restored; the number of lesions were not markedly reduced. In-group C treated exclusively, in 75% cases the sensation was fully restored; pain sensation was not fully restored but touch and pressure was regained fully and it took 15-20 seconds for heat and cold to be experienced.

Joe A Lewis says Valerian is nature's nerve tonic, effective in a range of stress conditions such as irritability, depression, fear, anxiety, nervous exhaustion and insomnia. Also useful in tension headaches, migraine, arthritis, sore muscles, multiple sclerosis and fits.

QUINQUINA HOMOEOPATHIC QUARTERLY
Vol 8 No 1

A very thin issue. Dr P S Krishnamurthy discusses a case of Lipid Nephrosis, which is stated to be his most unforgettable case. He prescribed Pulstilla and Syphillinum in millecimal potencies taking into account the clinico-pathological conditions. Periodical clinical investigations were done to monitor the progress and after 6 months the patient developed skin eruptions, which subsided on their own. Medicines were stopped when the results of tests were normal. He says that Teste only had mentioned that Pulsatilla is suited to syphilitic diathesis and hence it was used with the nosode. Dr Haque in his article also cites the importance of prescribing on pathological conditions where needed. He cited a case of a patient with swelling of the neck with breathlessness and puffiness of face and prominent neck veins. There was no other complaint. Based on h/o TB in the family he prescribed Tub in ML potency and Thuja as Intercurrent. In six months all the pathological conditions disappeared. He has given examples of names of medicines appropriate for some specific pathological conditions.

QUINQUINA HOMOEOPATHIC QUARTERLY
Vol 9. No 2

his issue begins with a Homage to the honorary Editor Dr Kannan Punnakara. (NJH also conveys its heartfelt condolences to the chief editor Dr Rajiv Punnakara). The Homoeopathic fraternity has a lot to learn from this great Homoeopath, who established a Hom clinic in Karnataka, built a temple that became a holy place for the locals, treated patients successfully and refused to go to an allopathic hospital even on his deathbed!

Dr Varghese writes about vaccination at length and deconstructs the myth surrounding vaccinations. He describes. AIDS as another giant hoax of modern medicine and says that there is an utter lack of Dynamic understanding of the process of Health. He strongly recommends the use of Hom in place of vaccines, to accept Hom for what it is and a patient’s right to the choice of treatement.

Dr Joe Lewis deals extensively deals with 'Medical Education Today' He rightly writes: medical courses cannot produce a physician, it can only provide the elementary knowledge of medical science, the current training process turns the students in to cold, distant persons, futility of departmentalize diseases especially for insurance and billing purpose; commercial outlook and absence of true healers.

The author also writes that Germany has the best department of herbal medicine and there is increasing need of alternative systems of medicine. He also discusses the reforms required in Hom educational system to produce 'real' homoeopaths.

Other articles include Technique of Prescribing and occultism in Homoeopathy.

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