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INVESTIGATION
The formation of the “Homoeopa questions demand answers. As a re
thic Investigation Bureau,” announce sult we find that what looked to be a
ment of which is to be found else very simple and easy method turns
where in this issue of the journal, will out to be somewhat complex and diffi
be welcomed by all serious-minded and cult in practice. No doubt, the majo
progressive homoeopaths in the country. rity of homoeopaths are able to
Its members propose to carry out in achieve more or less satisfactory re
vestigations into various aspects of sults without involving themselves
homoeopathy and publish the results into such intricacies; but a closer
of their enquiry, which will provide examination may reveal that they have
the factual data for logical conclusions often zig-zagged towards a cure. The
to be drawn. Presumably, the term selection of the true simillimum—the
‘Investigation’ has been preferred in perfect prescription—which elicits a
stead of ‘Research,’ since the latter most happy response, is probably not
has come to “connote very intensive, as common as we would like to assume.
elaborate, scholarly or expensive work, Luckily, however, the law of similars
such as is beyond our scope at present. seems to be so broad-based that even
However, even accepting moderate remedies selected of varying degrees of
aims, if such investigations are to lead similarity seem to give relief, com
to any fruitful results, they must neces pensating for the imperfections of the
But this thought cannot
sarily receive the whole-hearted co prescriber.
operation of the profession in general. give us adequate satisfaction.
While several major and minor as
pects of homoeopathy await investiga
tion and clarification, it would be
worthwhile focussing our attention on
two immediate and major objectives in
the field of practice.
The theory and principles of homoeo
pathy are unequivocal, logical and
easy to understand. But when attempt
is made to apply them in practice,
then we are assailed by a number of
unexpected doubts. “What exactly is
meant by Symptom-totality? ” “To
what extent should the drug be simi
lar?” “How are we to select the opti
mum potency?” “How are we to as
certain that the drug and its potency
selected are correct?” Numerous such
Therefore the first of our immediate
objectives must be to so simplify the
practice of homoeopathy that even an
average homoeopath would get better
results. Homoeopathy’s popularity and
progress should not depend upon
the
brilliant
but
sporadic re
sults of some good prescribers but
rather upon the consistently excellent
results of the majority of practitioners.
Secondly, the means at our disposal
have to be so shaped and sharpened
and our methods so streamlined that
all chances of failure due to defects
and deficiencies on their account are
eliminated. To give but one instance,
even the most exhaustive of our reper
tories are unfortunately incomplete,
and any prescriber depending upon
any one of them exclusively might be
led to fail. Many such examples can
be quoted. Such defects must be removed so that the selection of the cor
rect remedy will become a matter of
mathematical precision in practice, of
course allowing for vagaries arising
from the biological nature of the sub
ject. This objective can be considered
a part or an extension of the first.
Incidentally, most of the symptoms
recorded in our materia medica are in
the words of the provers and similarly
in selecting the remedies also, we
depend almost entirely on the ex
pressions of the patients. Thus know
ingly or unknowingly, we attribute to
their expressions a degree of omni
potency and place on their words
exceptional reliance. But we must
remember that the patients are also
fallible and that their thoughts and
expressions are governed and modified
by numerous factors besides their
state of illness. Many of them lack
powers of keen observation and intel
ligent and accurate expression. More
over, language itself sometimes does
not serve as a perfect medium
for accurate and full expression of
one’s feelings. Further, the meaning
intended may differ from the meaning
taken. Therefore, taking all these
facts into consideration, there is a
necessity to develope, apart from the
present method of drug-selection
which we may call as subjective for
the sake of convenience, another and an
objective method also—if not of actual
drug-selection, at least a method of
checking and confirming the correct
ness of the chosen remedy.
Such
methods have already been evolved
to some extent by Boyd, Grimmer,
Henshaw, Stearns and others. We
have now to take up and complete
the work.
If by our efforts, we succeed in
simplifying the practice of homoeo
pathy and in making prescribing less
arduous and more accurate and if we
can also evolve methods of confirming
the correctness of the prescription, then
we shall have achieved much.
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PRECAUTIONS IN HOMOEOPATHIC PRACTICE — II
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(Continued from previous issue)
2.
corresponds to a very special sycotic
state with the possibility of a secondary
nephritis.
THE DOSE (Contd.)
As regards Phosphorus, when you
read the pathogenesis you find in a
general way that the symptoms caused
(It is necessary that first of all a
by the poisoning correspond to the
pathogenesis of the tincture should be
acute stage of disease. The symptoms
prepared; then we must proceed to the
provoked by the high dilutions corres
different dilutions).
pond to the chronic stage but in reality
it is necessary that we should establish
Now we shall consider errors that we
the pathogenesis of Phosphorus in dif should try to avoid concerning repeat
ferent dilutions and to understand them
ing doses, the intervals and moment of
well we must take into consideration application of remedies. Lastly we shall
the chronology of appearance of the
consider some particular cases for in
symptoms. You will find this kind of
dividual remedies.
chronology in the materia medica esta
blished by Hahnemann himself. You
3. REPETITION OF DOSE
find, for example, that the patient of
Almost all homoeopaths have a ten
Lycopodium had such and such symp
toms that appeared primarily and such dency to prescribe for a long time the
other symptoms that appeared secon same remedy in spite of the amelio
darily and still others that appeared ration obtained. We have tried much
to fight against this habit. We may
later on.
have to deal with an acute or a chronic
In a general way, the symptoms that case. We treat it for a given period
appeared in the beginning are the and it is very difficult for us to tell the
symptoms of acute stage, and the secon patient when he will begin to have
dary symptoms are the symptoms of amelioration. It is also necessary to
lengthen the interval between the doses
chronic stage.
and to stop it totally when there is
In ignoring the fact that the action complete amelioration of the symp
of 'a remedy is different in different toms. Thus, if the patient is left alone
dilutions, the homoeopaths have ignor to his own initiative, he may either
ed some very simple phenomena. The stop the remedy earlier before the ame
pathogenesis of Magnesia Muriaticum lioration has become manifest or it may
has been prepared with very high dilu be prolonged because of the uncer
On the other hand we must
tions. Some aspects have been neglect tainty.
ed and it has not been noticed that the also take care to consolidate the ame
disappearance of a wart may follow lioration obtained. But it is necessary
absorption of Magnesium Chloride and as Hahnemann has said, to decrease the
Translated by Dr. Raj Kumar Mukerji, 1 LA.. Dip. Lib... L.H.M.S.
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frequency of the doses as soon as their
action has become evident.
This is a very delicate point in
homoeopathic practice. As a rule we
must stop repeating as soon as we have
effect from the medicine applied. But
how long should we wait for the desired
effect? No rule can be laid down in
answer to this question.
On the one
hand, the doctor is not sure whether
his medicine is acting or not and on the
othe/ hand the patient becomes im
patient because you cannot assure him
when he is going to have amelioration.
This is really a dilemma in homoeo
pathy. A suggestion of a method,
which I have seen very often useful
during my long years of experience
may be given here. Repeat the dose,
in however high dilution it may be, at
short intervals until its action becomes
apparent or give a high dilution and
interpolate it with a lower one and stop
the medicine as soon as its action is
manifested and as long it continues to
act. If the amelioration is not com
plete, repeat in the same way.
Only homoeopaths who have a very
long experience, do not commit such
errors (in the repetition). We should
also try to avoid a second error which
will consist in stopping the medicine
very soon.
We must know to place
ourselves on the borderline of these
two dangers: To stop the medicine too
soon is to cause the patient to fall back
on his diseased condition.
The first
error is generally committed by very
pusillanimous patients, while the second
which is generally done by the doctors
is to prescribe the same medicine for a
very long time. In most of the patients
this kind of continued prescription of
the same medicine has practically no
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ill-effects because their sensitiveness is
of medium nature.
But this kind of
prescription has very great importance
in hypersensitive patients. In such
patients, the repetition of doses will
cause in them not a stimulation but
will bring an extreme depression re
sulting out of too frequent medicinal
excitations. It is a case of rhythm. In
such cases we cannot fix well the
rhythm which suits him. In such cases
you may take the help of a method in
order to check this medicinal excita
tion. It is to tell your patient not to
take the medicine all the days of a week,
to take it as for example for 5 days
after an interval of seven, or not to
take any medicine at all till the day of
his next visit. In this way we
may check the medicinal excitation; if
not, we have the chance to fall in that
extremely disagreeable situation which
is as follows. The patient has begun
his first prescription; he has great ame
lioration. He continues his medicines
and telephones you that he is going
much more worse. Then you change
the medicine because you find new
symptoms, but the patient goes from
bad to worse. If you persist in your
error, you give continually some new
medicines till one day you stop all reme
dies and the patient feels immediately
better.
Against this danger the Unicists and
the adepts of Anglo-American school
have found out a system which con
sists in giving their “Placebo” or “Saccharum Lactis” or “Inertia.” The
patient knows not that what he is
taking day after day contains no trace
of medicine, that it is nothing but sugar
of milk. The patient is not told that he
is taking only sugar of milk to avoid
all auto-suggestion.
In patients who are not very sensitive,
when the amelioration is very great
and it can no more be increased, the
continuation of the treatment does not
ameliorate any more, neither it does any
harm. The patient who continues the
treatment will have no further benefit
but at the same time there will not be
any ill-effect. This is what happens at
the end of a well-conducted treatment
of a chronic disease. But from time to
time we have to deal with hypersensi
tive patients.
Their hypersensitive
ness is so intense that whatever medi
cine we may apply will cause an aggra
vation and they do not feel well until
all medicines are stopped. Only then
they are freed from all medicinal exci
tations.
It is also possible that they
may continue to feel well because some
medicines taken previously may act at
that time in a very delayed way.
tion of real technique, variable accord
ing to each patient. We know also that
in urgent cases, as for example a case
of hemorrhage, we are authorised to
repeat our medicines at five or even
three minutes’ interval: e.g. China: 6,
in dangerous epistaxis, or Silicea or
Naja in metrorrhagia should be repeat
ed very frequently.
We have already seen while speaking
about the duration of the action of re
medies that we should not repeat a
medicine until the previous dose has
ceased acting.
The superiority of
homoeopathy had been established
from the very beginning by Hahne
mann who had discoverd that we are
capable of knowing the duration of
action of the medicines by diluting and
dynamising it. We have thus an im
mense superiority over the official
school. We can measure the duration
of the action of our medicine. It is now
up to us not to fall in an inverse error
of becoming more of a homoeopath
than Hahnemann himself and by re
peating the medicines very often. We
know that in a general way we apply
lower dilutions, often in repeated doses
in acute cases while in chronic cases
we use high dilutions repeating very
rarely. Naturally it becomes a ques
2. That we must avoid repeating a
medicine until it has completed its
action.
In acute case we know also that the
3rd and the 6th dilutions are applied
every hour, every two hours or every
three hours. But let us remember
always:
1. That we must avoid repeating
for a long time a medicine when the
amelioration is apparent and consoli
dated. But let us also remember at the
same time that we must not stop the
medicine until the amelioration is real
ly consolidated.
As evolution is much more rapid in
acute cases, the homoeopaths in general
and the beginners in particular may
commit the error of repeating too long.
When you treat cases of whooping cough,
measles, mumps or bronchitis, you do
not make the error of repetition of
dose. When the symptoms are yield
ing, the temperature is falling down,
you will know well that the medicine
is to be stopped. It is in chronic cases
where amelioration is often insidious,
when it is feared that the patient may
fall back again it is quite possible to
make the error of continuing the pres
cription for a long time.
A second important point is this:
How to check the aggravation from the
high dilutions?
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All the medicines may be prescribed
in high dilutions without danger but
on the condition that we know how to
use them. The beginners in homoeo
pathy are, according to their tempera
ment divided into two groups: the
audacious and the timorous. Fortune
favours the audacious and they will
advance very soon but will meet many
failures.
Before knowing if it is necessary to
check the aggravations, it is necessary
to put to oneself the following ques
tion: Is it really necessary to check
them or not? There are some Ameri
can and English homoeopaths who
systematically look for an aggravation.
They are satisfied only when they get
an aggravation while treating a chronic
case.
But we the homoeopaths of France,
try to avoid this in our patients.
It is always necessary to take into
consideration the desire of the patients
because it is they who know what will
suit them. So far as we are concern
ed, we follow the teachings of Dr. Nebel
who has made researches throughout
his practice in order to check the ag
gravation caused by the high dilutions
and from him has generated the idea of
applying the antidote to cause a drai
nage.
You know that in the materia medica
we have some short lists of medicines
which are named as antidotes to some
other medicines. In fact they are not
the antidotes of medicines considered
toxic. Nebel, by antidotes, understands
that the medicines called antidotes are
complementaries and satellites.
Thus
when Pulsatilla is indicated as anti
dote of Nux vomica, it means that when
Nux vomica will finish acting it is
necessary to apply pulsatila. There
fore, in the place of “Antidote’’ it is
better to use the word “Satellite"’ or
“Complementary” and by so doing we
will know how to check the aggrava
tion of such and such medicine. In this
way Nebel has come to drainage. He
began to observe in tuberculous pa
tients that the most indicated remedy
aggravates and that aggravation may
not be dangerous for a patient who re
sists well or who has become ill very
recently, but it may be terrible in pa
tients in whom cavities are already
formed. His first research was carried
out on the aggravation caused by Cal
carea Carbonica in its high dilutions.
We have therefore continued like him
to try to check aggravation by the
high dilutions.
We have several means to check the
aggravation. The first means is that of
Dr. Nebel, afterwards taken up by
Dr. Chiron.
Chiron systematically
drains during the first eight days i.e.
to say he does not give high dilutions
when he starts the treatment. He gives
first of all some drops or some
globules of a functional remedy. The
medicine for the constitution is applied
after a week.
The second process is applied by the
Unicists themselves who always look
for an aggravation. It is Doctoress M.
Tyler of London who first used this
method which has been taken up by
Dr. Renaud in France.
This process
consists in fractioning the high dilution.
Instead of giving 200th once, it is bro
ken into 3 parts and is applied every
3 hours, i.e. to say the complete dose
is taken in three hours and in three
times. It is a case of medicinal excita
tion. The medicine will cause diminuton of its intensity by antidoting itself.
A third process is that which I prac
tise myself. I hey/e often noticed that
when a medicine is applied a long time
before or after the meals it acts much
more deeply but it may cause some ag
gravation if the patient is very sensi
tive. Therefore apply, a medicine in
the middle of a meal in hypersensitive
patients.
They will manifestly have
an amelioration. This process is used
by the doctors of the thermal stations.
Lastly the process of Dr. Cahis of
Barcelona which consists in mixing of
dilutions. This method is in my opi
nion remarkable and I must emphasise
this method. When you have some
medicine, which systematically causes
aggravation, in such and such case,
specially in very well-characterised
diseases, apply first of all a mixture of
the high and a low dilution. Arseni
cum:! M, is often very difficult to mani
pulate. If you apply Arsenicum M/6
(IM4-6th) you will have at the same
time a rapid action of the 6th and the
intensity and prolonged action of 1 M.
This process should besides be applied
according to a precise technique, be
cause it adapts to the disease rather
than to the patients.
I will tell you something of a fifth
method which has also been indicated
to us by Dr. Nebel. It is that the drai
nage remedies should be applied with
high dilutions, specially in the begining of the treatment of a chronic case.
It is a proved fact that the application
from the very beginning, of a high dilu
tion may cause very injurious and pro
longed aggravation and a very delayed
amelioration. The observation of pa
tient by the unicists are extremely in
structive in this respect for us, because
these cases give us the experience of
the application of a single remedy. I
have known a homoeopath who allow
ed a case of gonorrhoea to become
chronic with increase of flow during
a very prolonged treatment. But it is
possible that the blanorrhagias treated
during two years check a prostatic in
fection and some late aggravations
which we do not relate to their real
cause. To establish in a patient who
has gonorrhoea a kind of sinus flow
continued for two or three years may
not be a bad thing for the general health
as well as for avoiding the diseases of
the late years, but we must not fall into
an inverse error and we must be able
to understand the inconveniences of
of such a method.
4.
TIME OF APPLICATION OF DOSES
We are now going to see the errors
that we may make regarding the time
of the application of doses..
Medicinal aggravations are very
often caused by applying the doses
at the wrong moment. The time of
action of remedy is extremely impor
tant and it is also sometimes very
difficut to fix the proper time. He
.who knows the proper time of the ap
plication of medicines can get rapid
results. In other cases, on the contrary,
if the application is untimely, there are
aggravations and the diseased condi
tion of the patient is prolonged. Un
timely application of doses is a com
mon error as regards the hour, season,
and in women during menses.
The hour of application of remedies
and the application of remedies
in
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proper time as regards the menses in toms follow the solar activity, are to
women are very easy to fix. We know be applied during that time.
very clearly the time when some me
There are other remedies that have
dicines aggravate which indicates to
us precisely the hour of drainage. aggravation before storm. As for ex
For constitutional remedies it is better ample Rhododendron and Phospho
to apply them one or two hours before rus. These medicines are to be applied
the time of aggravation. As for ex before the storm. Sometimes they are
ample, we know that in homoeopathy also applied earlier when great heat
all the hepato-biliary medicines have precedes storm.
If you apply them
an aggravation from 4 to 8 p.m., with during the storm, during the fall of
a summum towards to 6 p.m. This is the barometer, they will not act very
true for Lycopodium, Chelidonium, well. Fergie Woods of London has
Sepia, Puls, Myrica, China, Chionan- shown that the barometer on the one
thus. This rule is also applicable to hand and the season on the other give
Ricinus Communis. Apply the medi very valuable indications about the
cine at 4 p.m., at the end of the sto marked action of a remedy specially
mach digestion and you will have an in children. He said that the month
amelioration. Ricinus Communis in of June is the- month of Sulphur,
the case of cholecystitis acts towards whereas the month of Phosphorus is
4 p.m., if the patient has taken his July.
meal at 1 O’clock. This is the moment
of the elimination of urea in the urine
These remedies of “Burning” are
which is very important. If you est really useful at a time when the days
ablish a curve of that elimination you are the longest during the year.
will find that the maximum is towards
5 p.m. This is what explains the ag For seasonal aggravations we have
gravation of Lycopodium.
two medicines: Lachesis and Natrum
Sulphuricum. The same rule is to be
For China, this is not always true. followed here. Do not be too late or
This remedy often acts better when it too early to apply these medicines.
is given in the evening because it has Apply 15 days before their seasonal
an aggravation between 2 and 5 p.m., aggravation. An asthmatic or a rheu
and in children when they wake up matic who has terrible aggravation of
in the morning. The aggravation of his disease each year in the month of
Natrum Muriaticum and Gelsemium March, must begin his treament from
is due to the solar influence. The the beginning of February. A hay
patients suitable to these medicines fever should not be treated from the
have an aggravation when the 15th May when the patient has already
actinic activity augments during the his attack of the disease. He should
day. The solar activity is the grea be treated from the month of January
test between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. If you with Lachesis, Allium, Sabadilla etc.
make a graph you will find that from
This rule is also very true for the
10 a.'m. to 12 noon the solar influence
is at its highest. Natrum Muriaticum Tuberculines. Very often asthmatic and
and Gelsemium, of which the symp rheumatic aggravation may be chec
ked down by diluted tuberc alines,
specially by T.R.
*
and also by Lache
sis when there is aggravation in ex
treme conditions, in great cold or in
great heat.
In amenorrhoea and in hyperme
norrhoea, Sulphur, Graphites, Pul
satilla, Kali carbonica form the quarto
of ‘remedies. Apply high dilution of
Sulphur 8 or 10 days before the pe
riod. If you apply it nearer to the
period it will not bring back the
menses which is delayed.
For the sea-sickness the same rule
applies: Cocculus, Tabacum, Ignatia
are the three medicines given 4 days
before the embarkation. If you apply
it on board the result will be nil or
insignificant. Generally Ignatia: IM,
is to be applied 4 days before embar
kation and it should be repeated after
8 days if the crossing is very long. In
very troublesome cases, apply Coccu
lus or Tabacum: 30, once a day on
board the ship also. I have got some
beautiful results in sailors who were
suffering for 10 or 12 years from sea
sickness.
begin to be hemorrhagic. They are
types of Pulsatilla. In such cases you
can apply China, and Arnica, which
will give you good results. The quesion of time in menstrual disorders is
very important.
How to avoid medicinal
Complete hypersensitiveness:—There
are patients who react in a general
way to all medicines and establish
some pathogenesis even when rarely
repeated doses and lower dilutions of
such medicines are applied. There are
some patients whose sensitiveness is
extreme and there is aggravation by
all medicines that they take. It is said
that they have become sensitised to
all substances, homoeopathic as well
as allopathic. It is a kind of general
sensitiveness. In such cases it is extre
mely difficult to prescribe for them,
and before being placed under homo
eopathic treatment they may require
nature cure therapy.
Fortunately, these patients are rare.
They are seen one in a thousand. These
patients are built up ideally and have
controlled pathogenesis.
They are
very much annoying to treat, but they
are marvellous, in the sense that they
show us the pathogenesis of our re
medies.
In dangerous hypermenorrhoea or
metrorrhagia,
apply
the ground
remedies 7 or 8 days before the possi
ble date.
To these patients it is necessary to
give first of all “Sacharum Lactis”
and some inactive globules without
telling them that the doses contain
no medicine in order to avoid auto
suggestion. Once that hypothesis is
eliminated, they should be taken up by
very mild physical means. 'When they
cannot bear any homoeopathic medi
cine we should stop all medicines. We
should treat them in the method of
In simple cases of hypermenorrhoea,
apply only in the beginning of the
menses. When it is the question of a
case where there is ground for fear of
a strong action or the stoppage of the
flow, apply it only towards the 4th
day. There are some women for whom
everything is normal upto the 3rd or
4th day, but who from the 5th day
*
aggravation
Tuberculin of Kosenback—Ed.
49
the naturists. We cannot even apply
to them physiotherapy in the form of
rays, short waves etc., because they
will have aggravations. When we take
them up from the point of view of
homoeopathy we shall give them
in lower dilutions some medicines
acting on the mind. One of the
best medicines in such case is Ignatia: 6, because the 200 and the M
give the greatest chance of aggrava
tion. Even Ignatia 6. should be given
with prudence.
I have very often said that it be
comes necessary to abandon homoeo
pathy for treating these patients and
to apply to them the methods of na
turists. You must be very careful in
doing such a treatment. Take a sub
ject who is not very sensitive, put him
under a vegetable diet, he will become
more and more sensitive. You may
eliminate from his food some sub
stances which disagree with him but
he will end by showing some real ana
phylactic accidents the day he begins
to take those substances again. This
is due to the sensitivity.
If you are forced, in these rare
cases to abandon homoeopathy and to
apply nature cure, you must not leave
your patient for a long time under
nature cure but you must very slow
ly bring him back under homoeopathic
treatment giving him for example
Ignatia 6, in the middle of a meal,
thrice daily.
(To be continued)
THE UNIT DOSE — SOME EXPERIENCE
by Dr. R. R. ADIGE, L.M.S., Bangalore
pathy which could or should be repeat
ed with benefit such as Aconite with
its short action, Apis, Ars. alb. in low
potency, Aurum mur. nat., Baptisia
with its short action, Baryta carb.,
Baryta mur., Belladonna, Bryonia, Bo
rax in skin conditions, Cantharis, Mephites, Robinia, Tarentula in carbun
cles, Zinc, valerian for neuralgia etc.
Then there are quite a few which
should be given only infrequently such
as Acetic acid except in croup, Aethusa,
Ammon, carb., in high potency, Arum
trip. & Calcar, fluor., China, Conium,
Drosera, Graphites, Kali carb., Kreosote, Mezerium, the Nosodes, Petrol
eum, Phosphorus etc. Remedies which,
in high potencies, should not be repeat
ed lightly are Hepar sulph., to abort
suppuration, Magnes. phos., Natrum
Long ago I read of a remarkable
recovery of a case described in a
pamphlet by an enthusiastic homoeo
path of Bengal. I forget the name of
the remedy given and the condition
treated, but I remember that a single
dose had been given and that it acted
for a very long time and brought about
recovery. For an average homoeopath
such a long and idle follow up of a
case may be difficult but it should not
be difficult for him to remember that
there are some remedies which should
not be repeated and that therefore he
should wait at times for some months
even to see the satisfactory results of
a single dose.
As is well known, there are quite a
large number of remedies in homoeo
50
mur., Plumbum, Rannuculus bulb., and
Silicea. Then there are some remedies
with particular restrictions such as
Calc, carb., which. can be repeated in
young children but not in old people,
Sulphur which is also dangerous to old
people when repeated, and Phosphorus
which is very dangerous when given
too low or too frequently in tuber
culous cases.
bedtime. She came again and again
for a repetition of the dose, and stop
ped away afterwards not only because
I would not repeat the remedy, as
against the numerous analgesics that had
been given her, but also because her
pain decreased rapidly after a few days
and completely disappeared after that
one “magic dose” as she still describes
it.
It is also well-known that no remedy
In the following case, however, there
should be repeated when there is either was a necessity for some repetition of
an aggravation or an improvement Lachesis, perhaps because of • the chrofrom a previous dose, and that there nicity of the case. Mr. E. L.S. aged
are a few remedies such as Blatta Ori about 32 years, was sent to me on 9-8-54
entals, Lachesis and Lycopodium by a colleague of his for treatment of
which will actually produce harm in a “nervous breakdown,” of some dura
the latter case. A few remedies like tion. There was a history of nephritis
Alum., Baryta Carb., Lil. tig., and Tel for which my allopathic brother had
lurium are slow in action, and it is given him the benefit of aureomycin,
perhaps useless to repeat their doses terramycin and several other ‘cins’.
frequently.
What followed was a complete break
down of mind and body, anxieties,
The unit dose remedies, however, fears, left-sided tensive pains, a convic
are few and easily remembered:— tion that he would never be able to
Actea racemosa, Lac caninum of which rejoin his service again—altogether a
a very high potency is advised, Lache picture of total misery, getting worse
sis of which a single dose must be al rather than better under rest and treat
lowed to finish its action, Natrum mur., ment, both prolonged. Hence an appeal
which does not bear repetition in to homoeopathy was made. He was
chronic cases, Ornithogalum and Sepia. given a few doses of Argent, nit., for
I would illustrate two out of these viz. those fears and anxieties initially;.
Lachesis and Sepia.
Then, as a repertorisation brought out
Lachesis as his remedy, he was given
Dr. Tyler’s poignant regret for a case one dose of it in the IM potency on
spoiled by ignorance of the evil effects 18-8-54. There was some improve
of an uncalled-for repetition of La ment, so when no remedy was given to
chesis was in my mind when, about him for a month or so, his wife and
two years ago, Mrs. P.N.C., aged about well-wishers revolted against a treat
60 years, was given one dose of Lache ment “without medicine” and made
sis 30, for a deep and “out of propor him go back to his old allopathic treat
tion” pain in the left shoulder rising ment. They got satisfaction from: this
to such an excruciating intensity at change, but what he got from it was
night that she developed the usual in such a bad relapse that he hurried back
describable terror at the approach of again to my “treatment without medi
cines.” Because of the relapse, he was
given his second dose of Lachesis on
11-10-54. From early January he be
gan to improve rapidly getting over
specially his fear of being unable to
bear the strain of his work and soon
afterwards he rejoined his service,
after having been found fit by a medi
cal board of civil surgeons.
He has
been on duty since then and has re
quired two more doses of Lachesis,
one sent on 4-5-55 and the other on
17-2-56 for a definite but slight recru
descence of his symptoms. It is seen
that his condition required altogether
four doses of Lachesis during a period
of thirty months and each dose was
given only when the beneficial action
of the previous dose had worn off. He
was not given progressively higher po
tencies because it was decided to use
only the potency which had proved
beneficial to him.
Dr. Gibson Miller is said to have
claimed that if he were allowed only
one remedy, he would choose Sepia;
and no wonder for Sepia, when indi
cated, seems to have an action more
deep and bestow a benefit more longlasting than many other remedies, as
shown by the following cases:—
was how Mr. R. A. escaped that opera
tion altogether, because it was during
this delay that, after a repertorisation,
he was given a dose of Sepia IM, in the
first week of January 1950. Locally he
was using one of the ointments for
piles. The bleeding, pain and swelling
all decreased gradually but steadily, so
that after about two months it was not
possible for him to decide as to when
exactly he had become quite free of
his piles trouble. During these last
few years he has had to take doses of
Aesculus only on two occasions for a
slight pain in the rectum which was
felt only after consuming chicken and
not after any item of food including
alcohol.
2. That the piles ointment may not
have had much to do with the cure is
shown by the following case where it
was not used. Mrs. N. K. aged about
36, had a similar complaint, except that
it was even more painful —her surgeon
could not even examine her to his
satisfaction. She was initially given a
few doses of Collinsonia and then of
Ars. alb., on her symptoms. When re
pertorisation brought out
Sepia,
as her remedy, she was given on
29-12-58 one dose of it 200th po
tency. On 25-1-59 her surgeon could
examine her to his satisfaction, and a
small external pile was rediagnosed as
a pilot pile. It was then smaller, hard
er and less painful. She evidently
continued to improve steadily and at a
casual meeting in August ’59, she in
formed me that she had got rid of her
troubles entirely without further medi
cation.
1. Mr. R. A. aged about 54, subject
to piles trouble off and on for over
twenty years, got a severe exacerba
tion of it with swelling, pain and
bleeding in Nov. 1949. He was advised
local injection treatment at the local
town by the District Medical Officer,
but decided to go to the city for surgi
cal treatment by a specialist there.
When arranging for this, it was-found
3. That Sepia, when indicated, makes
that the Surgeon would be busy just
then and would like to have the ope the illness disappear imperceptibly in
ration postponed by two weeks. That course of time after a single dose is
52
shown once again by the case of Mr.
S. A. whose greatest trouble, among
others, was a very disturbing nausea
on an empty stomach, relieved by eat
ing. He was given Lactic acid till his
case was repertorised and one dose of
Sepia, IM, was given to him on 3-6-58.
He went away soon afterwards re
lieved and was successful in entering
service. When we met again on 19-1-60,
he was in the pink of health and ad
mitted that he had quite forgotten
both his illness as well as my assurance
that it would be cured by that unit
dose.
RAWOLFIA SERPENTINA — REPERTORY
by Dr. JUGAL KISHORE, B.Sc., D.M.S., New Delhi.
HEAD
Following are the symptoms of Ra— Rawf.s. P. 118
wolfia Serpentina compiled in repertory Formication
form from the records of the provings Formication on falling
asleep
— „
P. 118
published in the British Homoeopathic
Journal. The drug name is abbre Pain, forehead, looking
— |
P. 156
viated as “Rawf. s“ capitals denote the
upwards
second grade symptom of Kent’s Re Pain, forehead, extend
pertory. Page numbers in Kent’s Reper
ing to occiput
— „
P. 158
tory are given to faciliate the additions Pain, forehead, extend
— |
P. 158
ing to uertex
in the book.
Pain, forehead, above
eyes, air open amel. — „
P 160
Pain, forehead, above
MIND
eyes, cold applica
— „
P. 160
tions amel
Company, aversion to — Rawf.s. P. 12 Pan, forehead, above
Concentration difficult — „
P. 12
eyes, waking, on
— „
P. 161
Confusion
— „
P. 13 Pain, bursting
— „
P. 178
Dullness
— „ .
P. 37 Pain, cutting, temples,
Excitement
—
P. 40
right to left on
— |
P. 181
Fear of illness
— „
P. 45
waking
Fear of vomiting
— „
P. 47 Pain, pressing, fore
Forgetful
— „
P. 48
head, hand, as
Forgetful, placed,where
from
— RAWF.S. P. 193
things
— „
P. 49 Pain, pressing fore
Memory, weakness of,
head over eyes
— Rawf.s. P. 195
for what he has just
Pain, pressing vertex — „
P. 200
done
— „
P. 64 Pain, pressing, vertex,
Mistakes, spelling, in — „
P. 66
coughing, on
— „
P. 201
Prostration of mind — „
P. 69 Pain, pressing, vertex
— I
P. 201
Rudeness
— „
P. 75
inward
Sadness
— „
P. 75 Pain, sore, bruised,
brain
Wearisome
— „
P. 92
— „
P. 205
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Pain, sore bruised,
brain, cold wind agg. Pulsating, occiput
—
Pulsating temples
„
„
„
P. 205
P. 227
P. 228
Eruptions, lips
desquamating
Heat of
—
—
„
„
P. 368
P- 375
MOUTH
EYES
Dryness, tongue
— Rawf.s. P. 404
-Rawf.s.P. 248 Indented, tongue
—- „
P. 406
Pain, aching
,.
P. 252 Pain, gums, pulsating — „
P. 410
Pain, burning
„
P. 258 Pain, burning,
Pain, sore
tongue, night
— „
P. 411
Pain, sore, agg. air,
„
P. 258 Pain, sore, palate
— „
P- 413
cold
„
P. 258 Taste, metallic
— „
P. 424
Pain, sore, reading, on Taste, nauseous
— „
P. 424
Pain, sore, stitching,
„
P. 258
both canthi
TEETH
„
P. 258
Pain, sore, turning the Pain, pulsating
— Rawf.s. P. 438
EAR
Pain, warm drinks
from
— „
P- 439
Discoloration, redness - - Rawf.s. P. 287
P. 290 Pain, warm food
Heat, right
from
— „
P- 439
P. 309
Pain, burning
P. 309
Pain, burning, right
THROAT
„
P. 313
Pain, stitching, left
Dryness
— Rawf.s. P. 451
NOSE
Dryness, night
— Rawf.s. P. 451
P. 451
Coryza, cold wind agg. - -Rawf.s.P. 326 Dryness, singing agg. — „
P. 328 Pain, sweets, amel.
— „
P. 459
Coryza, stooping, agg. ■ - „
Pain, burning, night —- „
P. 460
Coryza, warm room
- „
P. 328 Pain, burning, cold
agg.
drinks amel.
— „
P. 460
- „
P. 331
Discharge, glue-like
P. 460
- „
P. 333 Pain, burning, morning — „
Discharge, watery
Pain, sore, waking on — „
P. 463
Discharge, with
— „
P. 465
- „
P. 327 Pulsations
(fluent)
| .,
P. 334
Dryness
STOMACH
Dryness, blowing, nose,
Appetite increased
compelled to but no
after eating
— Rawf.s. P. 477
- „
P. 335
discharge
- „
P. 340 Appetite, increased
Obstruction
alternating with
FACE
loss of appetite
— „
P. 477
Appetite
ravenous,
-Rawf.SiP.
357
Cracked, lips
eating soon after
— „
P. 479
Cracked, lower lip,
P. 482
- „
P. 357 Aversion sugar in tea — „
middle of
Aversion, tea
— „
P. 482
Discoloration, red,
- !
P- 361 Aversion to sweets
—
„
P. 482
right
'— „
P. 484
- „
P. 364 Desire, cold drinks
Dryness
Desires,
juicy
things
—
„
P. 485
- „
P- 364
Dryness, lips
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Desires, spicy food
savoury food .
Eructations, food,
tasting like
P. 486
—
•—
ABDOMEN
»
P. 495
Pain, cramping, umbilicus, heat, amel.
—
Pain, cutting, evening —
Pain, dragging
—
Pain, stitching, eating
amel.
—
Pain, stitching,
hypochondrium left,
to heart
—
Pain, stitching,
sitting amel.
—
Tension
—
Tension, umbilicus
—
Weakness, sense of,
evening
—
„
„
„
P. 578
P. 579
P. 582
„
P. 591
Distention, evening
— Rawf.s. P. 544
„
P. 545
Distention, eating after —
P. 592
P. 548
Flatulence, eating after — •a
.,
..
P. 549
P. 592
Fullness
„
P.
603
Hard
—
P. 550
„
P. 604
P. 552
Heaviness evening
—
Pain, amel. lying on
„
P. 605
abdomen
— »
P. 558
Pain, wandering
— JJ
P. 561
RECTUM
Pain, iliac region, left — • a
P. 566
Pain, iliac region, right — »
P. 566 Constipation,
ineffectual
— Rawf.s. P. 607
Pain, sides, right to
— „
P. 609
left
—
P. 569 Diarrhoea
Diarrhoea, bed,
Pain, umbilicus,
driving out of
— „
P. 609
bending double
— „
P. 618
amel.
— J,
P. 570 Fullness
Pain
— „
P. 624
Pain, umbilicus,
P. 624
— „
stool, during
—
P. 570 Pain, stool before
P. 624
Pain, stool during
— „
Pain, umbilicus,
P. 632
— „
cough during
— »
P. 570 Relaxed, anus
Urging, constant,
Pain, umbilicus, exten
P. 633
for stool
— „
ding' to stomach pit —
P. 570
Urging, frequent
Pain, umbilicus,
P. 633
for stool
— „
rising after
—
P. 570
Pain, cramping, ingui
STOOL
nal region left
—
P. 577
Pain, cramping,
Hard first, then fluid —Rawf.s. P. 638
umbilicus; region
evening
— »
P. 578
URINARY ORGANS
Pain, cramping, umbili
cus, region, bending
Urination, frequent
— Rawf.s ,P. 657
forwards amel.
— »
P. 578 Urethra, pain, burning
Pain, cramping,
meatus, urination
P. 675
umbilicus diarrhoea,
during
— „
P. 578 Urethra, pain, burning,
amel.
—
P. 675
urination after
— „
Pain, cramping,
umbilicus, pressure
Urethra, pain, stinging,
P. 677
amel.
—
P. 578
stool after
— „
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SOME TASKS BEFORE US
*
Dr. P. Sankaran. LI.M., D.F. Hom. (Lond.)
Hon. Physician, Govt. Homoeopathic Hospital, Bombay.
Dear Friends,
I thank you for the opportunity
you have given me of meeting you
and being among you. I have accept
ed the honour of presiding over the
scientific session of this conference
not because I have any special quali
fications to do so but because it gives
me an opportunity to place, before you
certain points uppermost in my mind.
It is customary for the president to
make a panoramic survey of the whole
field and then to sum up the present
position as well as the future needs. I
shall not do so because when we speak
of everything, nothing gets the atten
tion it deserves. I shall, therefore,
confine myself only to two or three
points that demand maximum atten
tion at the present moment.
Within a few years of experience in
homoeopathic
practice,
we
are
thoroughly convinced that it is one of
the most efficacious systems of medi
cine. The results we get are often far
beyond our expectations and some
times leave us wonder-struck. Truly,
homoeopathy is a blessing bestowed
upon humanity.
Acceptance of Homoeopathy:
It is said that every new and true
principle is at first opposed, only later
discussed and ultimately accepted.
The homoeopathic truth has also under
gone enough of opposition. Blit all the
opposition of a hundred and fifty years
haS no® been able to annihilate it. On
the contrary, it has gained in strength.
For instance, the emphasis is gradually
veering away from the laboratory and
pathology towards the bedside and the
patient. I may quote from the book
“Symptoms of Visceral Diseases” by
Dr. F. M. Pottenger, A.M., M.D., LLD.,
F.A.C.P. He wrote over 25 years ago:
“As our studies in medicine penetrate
deeper into the problems of each in
dividual branch or speciality one fact
stands out with ever-increasmg em
phasis; namely, that medicine is a unit
and not divisible into specialities. The
superior man in the medicine of the
future will not be the great laboratory
worker, or the man who is known for
his studies in metabolism or the expert
gastroenterlogist, or neurologist, or
surgeon or he who stands pre-eminent
ly above his confreres in his knowledge
of diseases of the heart and arterial
system or of the lungs, but the man
who recognizes the fact that the truths
derived from all of these sources of
study and investigation must be inter
preted as belonging to the human
patient as a whole—in other words the
internist who recognizes both the psy
chical and physical man and appreciates
the unit of medicine. The distinguished
specialist will be one who regards, his
field of study in its intimate relation
ships to the body as a whole:”
“It readily can be seen that, no mat
ter how interesting and how valuable
studies of tissues, secretions and
excretions are, they leave much to be
♦Presidential addressed at the scientific session of the Special Homoeopathic Conven
tion, held at Hyderabad on 10th & 11th April. 1960.
56
desired from the standpoint of the
everyday practice of our profession.
As long as it shall be necessary for
physicians to treat disease, the patient
must be the subject of our earnest study
and solicitation.... ”
“There is no study today that offers
us greater hope for the future prac
tice of medicine, than the study of
the individual who has the disease and
the means by which the disease ex
presses itself in his tissues, secretion
and excretions,—the study of patho
logic physiology or ‘functional patho
logy’ as it is often called. Increased
knowledge in this line of research is
absolutely indispensable if we are to
make the greatest use and application
of the principles and facts revealed by
the modern laboratory .... ”
Recently, the late Dr. P. L. Desh
in ukh, M.D. (Bom.), F.C.P.S. (Bom),
D..T.M.H., (Lond.), F.A.C.C. (U.S.A.),
an eminent physician of Poona, read
ing a paper at the 35th All India
Medical Conference held at Cuttack
said:
cause they are causing morbidity on an
increasing scale and levying a progres
sively increasing toll of useful lives - - - - ”
“An important dictum in medicine
is that one should treat the patient
and not the disease. A person becomes
a patient when he complains about
his disease. A person without a dis
ease does not come within the juris
diction of a therapeutist. It is often
very distressing and sometimes disa
strous to the patient when doctors
start treating abnormalities encount
ered during radiological, biological or
electro-cardiographic
investigations.
This is what I call ‘Aggressive medi
cine’ which is one of the pitfalls of
Modern Medicine.”
“After over 30 years of medical
practice, there is an irresistible temp
tation to look back with pride over
the tremendous advances made in the
field of Medicine, which one has been
witnessing during the years that have
passed. Advances in the knowledge
of tropical diseases, tuberculosis, car
diology, infectious diseases, virology,
aviation medicine, radiation diseases
and of radio-isotopes
have been
amazingly great. As if to meet the
challenge, new diseases, like viral
hepatitis, encephalitis, and industrial
diseases have come into being and old
diseases like hypertension, coronary
artery disease and diabetes mellites
are assuming greater importance be
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So it appears that sooner or later,
Modern Medicine will accept and adopt
the principles of homoeopathy either
in two or in parts, either as such or in
a modified form, not because its follow
ers may become convinced by our
arguments or results but because the
developments in their own field will
confirm such an approach. Of course,
there is the probability that eventually
when they “discover” and adopt the
principles and practices of homoeopa
thy, they may call it a revolution in
Modern Medicine and may consider it
as the latest advance in their own
field, though they might admit that
these principles are also practised by
some persons Sailed homoeopaths!
Our Own Needs:
Under the circumstances, it seems
that we need not spend too much of
our time and energy in criticising their
present approach or in trying to con
vert them to our line of thinking. In
this endeavour, our own science may
become neglected. Instead, we can
bestow more and more attention on
our own science and conserve and
employ our energies in further impro
ving our methods and achieving still
better results. We have quite a large
number of problems within our own
field, the solution of which will de
mand all our skill and patience.
For instance, Dr. C. E. Wheeler
writes “There is no gain in hiding the
fact that the discovery of the simillimum is seldom easy and may demand
both patience and labour.” Surely,
Dr. Wheeler is echoing our own
thoughts. In fact, there seems to be
an element of chance too! If we desire
to reduce the element of labour, and
eliminate the element of chance, if
any, then it is necessary that we should
simplify and standardise our methods.
To achieve this and to bring about
some uniformity in the approach and
in the results and to ensure that ho
moeopathy will bring results in a
larger number of cases than hitherto,
we shall have to put in quite some
thought and work.
There are unfortunately some who
feel that homoeopathy as it now is, is
completely perfect in theory and prac
tice and that there is no necessity or
scope for further improvement, ad
vancement or expansion. We shall not
quarrel with such Rip Van Winkles.
Let them continue in their compla
cent sleep.
But those of us who are
less complacent and more seriousminded and logical and who are will
ing- to see the truth as it is should
consider carefully our problems.
Hahnemann has defined the highest
aim of cure as rapid, gentle and per
manent restoration of health. There is
no doubt that homoeopathy is more
directed towards and nearer this ob
jective than the other systems of me
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dicine. But since we are in an age of
astounding .and speedy achievements,
it is essential that we should progress
towards our ideals much faster. Out
pace is not only slow but compares un
favourably with the world-wide fe
verish activity which was witnessed
in our own homoeopathic field fifty
years back. This is not a creditable
state of affairs. The advance of science
in the world should inspire us to
achieve more.
Every
conscientious homoeopath,
however successful, will admit that
he does not get hundred per cent
success. There are several diseases
like cancer, diabetes, leprosy, psoria
sis etc. which test our patience and
skill. Unless and until all these dis
eases are consistently cured by our
methods, we should not feel satisfied.
We must not rest till homoeopathy be
comes most effective in the treatment
^f every type of disease, till every
type of disease known to us, even
those considered incurable, are cured.
Coming to the condition of homoeo
pathy, as it is practised in our coun
try, we are able to see certain obvious
defects. Anfew examples may be given.
Many homoeopaths do not take
great pains. Some are satisfied by
prescribing in a superficial manner
without going deep into the case. Some
are happy to prescribe ready-made
combination tablets or specifics put
out by pharmacies. Some take cases
and present them leaving out essen
tial details.
All such defects should be speedily
rectified. As scientists, we have to be
truthful as well as thorough. Our ob
servations should be accurate and
complete and conclusions logical.
Otherwise the objectives of science
will be defeated. By silent and syste
matic work, we can all contribute,
however humbly, to the growth and
expansion of our science. There is
therefore need for a great deal of
study and silent work. Our attention
is often frittered away in publicity.
Even in conferences much attention
is focussed on our rights rather than
on our . responsibilities, on our poli
tical rather than our scientific pro
blems. We lament and clamour for
this or that privilege from the Gov
ernment but what we ourselves could
do is often not discussed. Homoeo
pathy will not progress merely by
getting recognition and securing more
rights. It will improve only by our own
solid work and merit.
A Prover’s Union:
I have in mind a particular task
which appears to me to be a very im
portant and urgent one. During the
last fifty years, we have, in general,
practically neglected the work of pro
ving. We have failed to prove new
remedies and to reprove old ones; nor
have we recorded the effects of re
medies observed at the bedside, with
the result that we have contributed
practically nothing to the growth of
the homoeopathic materia medica. We
may here contrast our own apathy
and inertia with the enthusiasm and
activity of others. Our British collea
gues have taken the trouble to pro
cure the venom of a very poisonous
type of sea-snake (Hydrophida Cyanocincta) from the Indian shores and
have proved it in U.K.! Whereas we,
with all our enthusiasm and numbers,
have failed to prove and utilise the
several varieties of reputed medicinal
substances that abound around us. It
is time we shook off this lethargy.
Therefore, the formation of an Indian
Provers’ Union seems to be called for.
This will only require the energetic
co-operation of a band of sincere and
intelligent workers. If this conference
takes the necessary steps in this direc
tion, I shall count it as an achieve
ment.
Re-orientation of Medical Subjects:
Lastly, we have to consider another
problem that awaits solution. We who
teach Pathology, Pharmacology and
Medicine to homoeopathic students
come across a difficulty. All these sub
jects, as taught in modern medical
colleges, fall far short of our require
ments. The pathological, pharmaco
logical and medical concepts of homo
eopathy are far more intricate, subtle
and thorough. To quote only one or
two
instances, modern Pathology
does not teach why certain disease
symptoms should affect one side of
the body or proceed from one direc
tion to another. Modern Pharmacology
studies the effects of drugs on the body
merely by estimating their concentra
tion in the blood and other tissues.
Modern Medicine does not include in
its aetiology the numerous subtle
causative factors we take into con
sideration such as suppression of emo
tions, suppression of discharges, remote
accidents, etc. Nor does it explain
why one patient should be Worse in
winter, nor why patients should be
affected by the
moon phases. We
could quote a hundred instances like
this. It therefore seems that we shall
have to evolve a new Pathology and
Medicine which will embrace all the
delicate and minute nuances .found in
homoeopathic symptomatology, of the
homoeopathic symptomatology, of the
new Pharmacology also will have to
be studied which will explain the na
ture and action of infinitestimal doses
of drugs.
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
*
by Dr. D. N. Chatterjee, M.D.C.H., Calcutta.
Principal, D. N. De, Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Calcutta.
Inspite of the seeming change of
Govt, attitude towards homoeopathy,
there are some distinct dangers ahead
of us. My contention is that we should
guard ourselves against the regimenta
tion of the study of homoeopathy under
the Govt.
The lessons of America
should not be lost upon us. Homoeo
pathy which had reached its peak of
glory in America, began to collapse, in
the wake of statutory recognition by
the Government.
The curriculum of
study introduced by the Govt, present
ed a queer mixture of two systems of
treatment that fundamental}' stand
apart.
This was mainly responsible
for the ruination of homoeopathy in
America. While we should not grudge
the inclusion in our curriculum of such
branches of study as surgery, mid
wifery, pathology etc., we must see that
sufficient scope is assured for the inde
pendent growth of homoeopathy in
conformity to its basic principles. In
this connection, I would suggest a cur
riculum providing for 4 years diploma
course or 3 years as suggested by
Dr. Jaisoorya, keeping the doors open
for a degree course and also post-gra
duate study.
In order to ensure
smooth sailing of homoeopathic educa
tion in India there must be a common
syllabus of study in all the States and
use of regional vernaculars as the me
dium of teaching. There should be no
provincial barriers for homoeopathic
practitioners. All this will cement unity
amongst States, so essential now for
furthering the cause of homoeopathy.
Even taking it for granted that Gov
ernment will play their game fairly
allowing a wide scope of freedom for
the healthy development of homoeopa
thic education, there still remains a
danger threatening the extinction of
homoeopathy in India.
The crux of
whole problem is whether the students
coming out of the homoeopathic insti
tutions will enjoy the same employ
ment potentiality as those trained in
allopathy. It means very little even if
the homoeopathic institutions are libe
rally financed by the Govt, for their
re-orientation unless there is security
of employment for the qualified homo
eopaths in the same way as the quali
fied allopaths. The question whether
there should be degree or diploma
course with such and such syllabus,
sinks into insignificance in comparison
with this question of employment. If
the Govt, shut their eyes to this vital
question of employment, our homoeopa
thic institutions will go the same way
as those of America inspite of their
financial backing. In these hard days
people are naturally eager to learn
such trade or profession that provides a
wide scope for employment. This ex
plains the fact why there is lack of
enthusiasm to get admission into homo
eopathic institutions while there is
over-crowding of students in institu
tions teaching other branches of know
ledge. I have no reliable figures for
guidance as to attendance in homoeopa
thic institutions outside West Bengal.
but the figures -in my State reveal a very
sorry state of affairs. Out of the five
colleges recognised by the West Bengal
* Extracts from speech at the Special Homoeopathic Convention held at Hyderabad
on 10th and 11th April, 1960.
6o
Now the question that poses itself is
—does our duty end only in appealing
to the Government from platforms of
conventions and conferences with little
or no response up till now, or are we
to move more effectively in order to
make the Government more responsibi
lity-conscious? For reasons of their own
the Government are moving at a snail’s
pace, and if things continue like this,
there is hardly any hope for survival
of homoeopathy in India.
Instead of
appealing only to the Government, let
us now make a direct approach to
the masses who ultimately hold the
key to power in democracy.
This is
the simplest and noblest way of doing
things in a democracy, and it is my
firm conviction that if we can carry on
a healthy propaganda in villages at
least for a year, the whole attitude of
the Government will be undergoing a
change under pressure of the mass
agitation.
State Faculty, only two can claim a
respectable number of about 300 stu
dents each while the other three are
anyhow car lying on with numbers
hardly reaching two figures.
What
does this state of affairs show?
Let there be no longer any .doubt as
to where the root of our problem lies.
First things must come first. First of
; all we must have an assurance from the
Government as to the employment po
tentiality of homoeopaths, and only
:such an assurance can sustain homoeo
pathy. It is no use at this stage to
wrangle over the question of syllabus
;and matters relating to organisation of
Institutions.
Once the assurance of
•employment is t forthcoming, other
things will right themselves. This leads
•us to do some thinking about the main
;avenues on which the Govt, should de
pend for giving security of employ
ment to homoeopaths......
VITAL FORCE—A NEW
*
INTERPRETATION
by Dr. Trivlkram, Ph.D., Bombay.
. Dr. Hahnemann has referred to vital
: force in the following paras of organon
iof Medicine (6th Edition):
“In the healthy condition of man, the
:spiritual vital force (autocracy), the
dynamis that animates the material
body (organism), rules with unbound
ed sway, and retains all the parts of
the organism in admirable, harmonious
vital operation, as regards both sensa
tions and functions, so that our indwel
ling, reason-gifted mind can freely em
ploy this living, healthy instrument
for the higher purposes of our exis
tence” (Aphorism 9).
He further mentions that disease is
nothing but the morbidly altered state
of the vital force.
Then he refers to the vital energy
that resides concealed within each
drug.
“This spirit-like power to alter man’s
state of health which lies hidden in the
inner nature of medicines can in itself
never be discovered by us by a mere
effort of reason; it is only by experience
of the phenomena it displays when act
ing on the state of health of man that
we can become clearly cognizant of it”
(Aphorism 20).
Dr. Hahnemann says that it is hot
necessary for us to know how the vital
* Lecture delivered at the Govt. Homoeopathic Hospital Clinical Society.
6r
force acts. The actual mode of action
of the vital force may for ever remain
hidden from us. It is manifested in
health by the well-being of the person
and when a person is ill through the
symptoms.
Then he describes how the nature of
this concealed drug-energy may be
made to reveal itself to us:
“Now, as it is undeniable that the
curative principle in medicines is not
in itself perceptible, and as in pure ex
periments with medicines conducted by
the most accurate observers, nothing
can be observed that can constitute
them medicines or remedies except that
power of causing distinct alterations in
the state of health of the human body,
and particularly in that of the healthy
individual and of exciting in him vari
ous definite morbid symptoms; so it
follows that when medicines act,as re
medies, they can only bring their cura
tive property into play by means of this
their power of altering man’s state of
health by the production of peculiar
symptoms; and that therefore, we have
only to rely on the morbid phenomena
which the medicines produce in the
healthy body as the sole possible reve
lation of their in-dwelling curative
power, in order to learn what disease
curing power, each individual medicine
possesses.” (Aphorism 21).
By the homoeopathic methods of potentisation, the vital energy that resides
in the drug which is dead matter in its
ordinary state, is released and is en
abled to act on the vital force in the
living body.
The ancient sages of India have also
talked of vital force though their con
ception, description and language were
different. Now, I shall correlate the
concept of Dr. Hahnemann and that of
the ancient stages.
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The conception of the ancient sages
of India is very broad and all-embrac
ing. It starts with the idea that there
is a link between every substance, liv
ing and non-living, and that every
substance represents a particular stage
of evolution. It can be said that the
human being is the last link of a parti
cular stage in the chain beginning from
the Supreme Being.
The Supreme Being consists only of
the soul without a body. It consists of
the ultimate, the Avyaktha (or Unknown)
and the Aum representing perfection.
Down the grade the soul takes a body
and becomes the human organism with
its physical, intellectual, mental or moral
and spiritual levels of consciousness.
The whole conception of the universe
can be represented diagrammetically
in the following way, wherein the small
composite square represents the Supre
me and the big composite square repre
sents the human being, with all their
constituent levels, layers and parts re
presented by smaller squares:
(The sections enclosed in thick lines
represent the vitalistic elements.)
Diagram i
ULt
uK
p
VI
PI
VM
rw
IM
MM
VV
it
nr
Vf
f-p
The alphabetical letters represent intellectcal and mental planes. Homoeo
various constituents of the body as pathic remedies act simultaneously
follows:
both on the physical and on the intel
VI — Vital Intellectual
lectual and spiritual planes though it
V M — Vital Mental
Sometimes seems that they act on physi
cal through the mental, intellectual
V. V — Vital vital
and spiritual planes.
M V —Mental Vital
'But the method of Yoga cures dis
IM — Intellectual Mental
eases ony by acting on the physical
PI — Physical Intellectual
through higher planes.
MP — Mental Physical
The simile principle of homoeopaths
VP — Vital Physical
has already been envisaged by the an
Ult. — Ultimate
cient Indian sages and expressed in the
Uk
Unknown
P
— Perfect
dictum (jshnant Ushne>iaiihamyate(^Hs3-t is
The purely physical body can. be re relieved by heat). Trituration has also
presented by the following segment of been specified by the words Mardanam
Guna Vardhanam- The Avartana method of
the big composite sqare:
preparing medicines is similar to dilu
tion.
The preparation of Bhasmas
is like potentization through dilution
and incineration.
In the atom, it is not merely the num
ber of electrons, protons, neutrons etc.,
that matters. Even more important is
the arrangement of the electrons. Each
electron has its own magnetic field
and any change in-its position makes for
a considerable change in the total elec
tro-physical state of the atom. Tritu
ration probably produces such a change
so that there is change in the total
The physical remedy can be repre
electro-magnetic fields. This distur
sented by a still smaller segment.
bance will also produce a .correspond
Diagram 3
ing disturbance in a higher field like
the electro-magnetic field of the human
being, the life principle being a bio
L?
PF
magnet.
Different fields are formed in diffe
(The shaded portion represents the vital rent levels and the proper remedy al
ters the fields to a state of health.
energy component of the drug.)
The subject is too big to be tackled
The treatment of diseases by medical
and surgical methods aims at treating in one lecture and I have merely at
the patient by physical and chemical tempted to give a glimpse of the ancient
means going from the physical to the Indian concepts.
63
SCIENCE ,AND HOMOEOPATHY
by Dr. A.B.W. Van Zyle, B.Sc,. L.R.C.P.. M.R.C.S., D.F. Hom. (Lond.)
gO often in earlier days, attempts have energy to go to the next higher rota
been made to bring out the relation tional level.
ship of homoeopathy to physical scien
In other words, microwave radiation
ces and thereby to give a scientific will give the molecule this energetic
explanation to the homoeopathy and to promotion, provided that it is at the
explain also its undoubted success; and precise frequency which supplies the
in fact to arrive at the reasonable necessary energy. Here we have the
assumption, that homoeopathy is the modus operandi, between electromag
best and natural way of treatment. To netic radiation and energy transforma
my mind, we are nearing that day, tion in the molecules, and of course
when a great deal of new light , will be atoms. These molecules, small as well
thrown on homoeopathy, thanks to the as giant ones act as radio transmitters
discoveries of our chemists and and receivers.
physicists.
I maintain, that our potentised reme
The study and understanding of the dies are stereoscopically orientated, and
giant molecules, which are formed from that they are able to give off a
polymers, appear to carry the pattern “product” of quanta sereoscopically
of living matter.
orientated, and so transmit the requir
The giant molecules, by polymeriza ed energy to a sick receiver, as “sensi
tion, form proteins, nucleic acids, cellu tised” persons.
loses etc., which go to build up the
A photograph is also in a sense a
tissues of plants and animals; also with “rocket” of stereoscopically orientated
their molecular configuration goes a quanta, falling on a sensitive photo
biological activity, so that, pattern and graphic plate. I think, that research
function go hand in hand.
in the region of the microwaves not
In other words, these complicated only helps us to understand the action
*
but
giant molecules, have a definite stereo of chemical phenomena in life
scopical arrangement, and with it goes we may be able to produce electro
a biological function. They can also magnetic radiation, which will cure.
reproduce themselves, which is charac The chlorophyll molecule is an interes
teristic of life. But, what energy ex ting and instructive molecule to illu
change is there, and through what strate my view.
medium does it take place? To answer
The chlorophyll molecule, owes its
these questions, again the quantum photobiological activity to an intricate
rules help us.
porphyrin structure so arranged around
•Research with microwaves, and their the magnesium atom, that the bands
study—microwaves as short as 0.01 mil of the magnesium atom, may resonate
limeters—have shown, that the molecu among certain configurations and so
les have rotation at certain definite rates trap and store energy,. which comes
in the giant molecule, and if they slow in the form of light quanta. The pig
down, they must suddenly drop to the ment in the retina of the eye, may
next lower rate, and to speed up, they also receive stereoscopically arranged
must receive a certain amount of “products” of quanta of light energy,
64
which is changed into nerve impulses
and carried to the brain.
If we could make a screen picking
up the light and change the light
quanta into biochemical changes, in
the optic nerves, these impulses might
make vision possible in the brain.
References:
1.
Crich. F.: Nucleic
Acids:
Scientific
American: Sep., ’57.
2.
Goody, Walter: Shortest Radiowaves:
Scientific American: May '57.
3. Wold,
George:
Life and
Light:
Scientfic American; Oct. ’54.
FROM OUR CASE BOOKS
CONTAGIOUS CATARRH OF FOWLS
by Dr. R. S. Grewai, Ambala.
Croup is an acute infectious and fatal
disease of fowls. It is also known as
“Contagious Catarrh.” There is in
flammation of catarrhal type of the
upper respiratory tract and conjunc
tiva. Its causal agent has not been
definitely isolated. Some say it is bac
terial in nature, while others consider
it to be viral.
Outbreaks of this disease usually oc
cur in young fowls. It is noted that in
the cloudy weather and when there are
sudden and marked changes in tempe
rature, the outbreaks of this disease
occur. Overcrowding and dirty poul
try houses . precipitate the infection.
The disease spreads rapidly and in
volves almost every young bird in the
flock. Infection spreads through uten
sils of feeding.
clude the nostrils and fasten the eye
lids together.
The yellowish soft patches may also
appear in the mouth. A whitish pale
yellow dry material may be found
around tht eye-ball and in the cleft.
Diff. Diagnosis: It can be differen
tiated from fowl-pox by the absence of
pox nodules.
Prevention: Sanitary measures are
very important, but are not carried out
through ignorance and poverty among
the poultrymen who are of the back
ward class.
Treatment: Outside homoeopathy,
there is no successful treatment than
the “hatchet.” This is considered a
wise conclusion for when the labour
of doctoring the fowls, by the various
Clinical Picture: There is an increas methods is taken into account, and
ed secretion from the nostrils and eyes, balanced against very few cures re
which is at first watery and later be sulting, it is considered that “kill
comes thick and mucopurulent due to ing by hatchet” is decidedly, the
the desquamation of the surface epi cheapest.
thelium and emigration of leucocytes.
But homoeopathy upsets all precon
The exudate then tends to get dry,
forming hard yellow crusts which oc
ceiving notions and the results of expe
rience by radically ccring this fatal
rience by radically curing this faal
symptomatic. The major remedies are
—Spongia; Lach., and Ars. iod. I gene
rally prescribe in 3, and 12, never
lower. I disolve one dozen globules
or 10 or 12 drops of the dilution in a
pint of water which the fowls are
allowed to drink. Complete cure follows
in 60 per cent of cases. To the healthy
flock, I give Ars. iod. 12, in the same
way as cited above only three times
a week as a prophylactic measure.
Lach. 12th or 30th, I only prescribe
when there are indications for its
usage and in serious cases (Chicks)
where there is deep-red mucous mem
branes including crest and wattle.
Cleanliness is of utmost importance—
wash utensils with boiling water tho
roughly after every-feed or drink and
the boxes or baskets or coups with
Cresol or Dettol lotion. Avoid over
crowding.
The dead stock must be
buried deep in the ground far away
or better still cremated.
A CASE OF FRACTURE VERTEBRA
Dr. S. V. Ghule, D.A.S.F.
House Physician. Govt. Homoeopathic Hospital, Bombay.
2-3 days and then the pain had
started.
Treatment: At first based on the
causative factor he was given Rhus
tox. in 30th potency and then in 1 M
potency six hourly. With these doses,
the pain in 'arm, weakness and anaes
thesia lessened.
Rhus tox. 10 M, three doses, six
hourly, brought back fully the sensa
Associated complaints
tions in left forearm, both to pin-pricks
i) Anaesthesia and weakness of left and to cotton wool. But further doses
forearm, of one week’s duration.
of Rhus tox. 10 M, did not help. The
ii) Headache in evening and night.
case was then worked out as follows on
iii) Temperature at night, last one Dr. Sankaran’s Card Repertory.
week.
Card No. 42 Chilled, Agg.
iv) Feels chilly in the evening, last
„
„ 71 Direction, Ascending.
one month. Feels better after
„
„ 187 Lying, Agg.
taking anacin tablets and hot tea.
This brought out Dulc. So on
v) Burning in eyes.
12-59
28he was given Dulc: 30, t.d.s.
vi) Burning in urethra during micturi
12-59
29Condition
same — Medicine
tion. Duration: 7 days.
repeated.
Previous history
12-59
30Pain decreased. Periodicity
was only from 2-30 a.m. to
One month back he had slept on the
6-0 a.m.
Dulc: 30, t.d.s.
cold damp floor on his left side for
The patient M. R. aged 27, was ad
mitted into the hospital on 17-12-59
with a history of pain in left arm of one
month’s duration. The pain was going
up into shoulder like electric shocks,
agg. at night (9 p.m. to 7 a.m.) and
amel. in day time.
Sleep is disturbed at night due to
pain.
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fall on left shoulder 6 months
back, which he had ignored
and forgotten.
Patient was then discharged
and directed to the surgical
department of the adjacent
hospital.
3- 1-60 Pain much less and is now
localised only in shoulder
area
4-1-60 Condition unchanged. X-Ray
of shoulder and spine ad
vised.
5-1-60 X-Ray shows “fracture of the
left transverse process of 1st
dorsal vertebra.”
The patient now revealed a
history of having sustained a
Comment: The case is reported to
show how even in an apparent surgical
condition, homoeopathy minimises the
suffering.
CLINICAL NOTES
by Dr. S. R. Phatak, M.B., B.S., Bombay
1. In 1938 I was consulted regarding
a patient with the following history:
Some time back, he had been pre
sented an ornamental dagger by a
friend. He treasured the dagger and
hung it on the wall in his house. One
day when he went out and returned, he
saw that the house had been broken
open by some burglar. But nothing
was missing, money, jewels etc., except
the dagger. This somehow gave the
patient the idea that someone—perhaps
an enemy—had stolen the dagger sole
ly with the intention of murdering him
with the same dagger. This thought
became stronger and stronger till it
overwhelmed him; he became restless,
sleepless and loquacious, and continued
in this almost insane state for 3 days.
When he consulted me, I selected for
him Lachesis and gave him one dose in
IM potency. Within twelve hours he
felt better and in two days he was
normal. I have seen him again recently
and he never had a recurrence of the
phobia.
5. Some time back, there was a case
of asthma in a girl'aged 22. The asth
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ma subsided under some homoeopathic
medicines but she developed oedema of
the right foot for which she consulted
me. Interpreting this as “Compensa
tory effects” (Boger’s Synoptic key,
page 289,) I gave her Prunus Spinosa
which put her all right. Prunus Spi
nosa has also respiratory symptoms and
dropsy of feet.
2. There was a case of arthritis with
severe pains worse at night. The pains
were better by very hot applications.
I gave her Radium Bromide which re
lieved the pains and to some extent
reduced the deformity.
3. Once I treated at Poona a case of
peripheral neuritis of the leg. The
neuritis was relieved both by eructa
tion and by passing flatus. The pains
were also relieved: by hard pressure
and movement. The patient had al
ready consulted an eminent allopathic
physician but had found no relief under
his prescriptions. I combined the rubris “Flatulance, up and down passing.
Amel”. (Boger’s Synoptic Key p. 79)
and, “Pressure, Amel” (p. 27) and found
Arg. nit. coming out. This drug completely relieved him.
4. A lady had asthmatic attacks
which were
took sweets.
Arg. nit.
precipitated only if she
She was relieved by
MELONCHOLiIA
by Dr. P. Sankaran, L.I.M., D.F. Hom. (Lond.)
Hon. Physician, Govt. Homoeopathic Hospital, Bombay.
On 10 January 1958, Mrs. R. F., aged Family History:. N.A.D.
60 Yrs., came for consultation, com Physical Exam: Pt. looks emaciated.
plaining of the following:—
Wt: 96 lbs. B.P.: 155/90.
Last 3 years, has very poor sleep.
Otherwise N.A.D.
Shooting pains in chest on and off,
In analysing and evaluating the above
agg. speaking.
case, the symptoms that struck us as
Lightning pains in body, anywhere.
very strange was the fact that she her
Heaviness of body.
self felt that she had all the ingredients
Anorexia; Desires alcohol; Thirst: less. of happiness but was unhappy without
reason, which besides was a mental
Constipation with hard stools.
Dyspnoea on exertion and on ascend symptom. The apparent exciting cause
viz. the shock of the death of her hus
ing stairs.
band was also considered valuable as
Very small soft warts all over the body,
it had set in motion the whole pano
sometimes painful.
rama of mental and physical changes.
Sweats when excited.
Her recent irritability, the peculiar
Very nervous; any little thing fright
physical concomitant of painful warts,
ens her.
the constitutional tendency for wounds
Very sensitive; easily offended; weeps to heal slowly, were all given due im
easily.
portance and the case was reporterised
Gets easily hurt, contusions take long as follows on Kent’s Repertory:—
to clear up and pain for a long time. Grief, Ailments from
(P. 51)
Sadness
(P. 75)
Almost all her troubles started after
Abusive
(P. 1)
the death of her husband 3 years
Anae.,
Cans.,
Con.,
Hyo., Lyc.,
back.
Nit. ac., Nux. v., Ver a.
Always thinks of dead husband.
Wounds, heal slowly
(P. 1422)
Likes to be alone or only in company Warts, painful
(P. 1369)
of her children.
Caus., Lyco., Nit. ac.
(P. 1340)
Feels she ought to be happy in every Warts, small
way but she is sad without reason.
Caus., Nit. ac.
Out of the two, the drug Caus. seem
Has become very irritable, flies into
ed to fit the case better esp. consider
rage and abuses but regrets later;
ing her depressive and hopeless mood,
Prev. History: N.A.D.
6g
By 10-3-58, she was completely nor
and so she was given on 14-1-58, one
dose of Causticum: IM. On 21-1-58 she mal having received Caus. 10M. twice
reported less sad and excitable, pain and Medo. IM. once, as an intercurrent
chest nil, pains in body less, sleep and remedy. She has remained well ever
since.
constipation better.
DR. N. M. JAISOORYA, M.D. (Berlin)
*
We are here to celebrate the 60th
birthday of Dr. N. M. Jaisoorya whose
.invaluable contribution to the contem
porary research and development of
homoeopathy in India has always been
a source of great inspiration to us.
any rational or proven law of cure.”
He found a crying need for a new me
dicine and in his novel search was
sown the seed of his ultimate conver
sion to homoeopathy.
An eminent allopath for many years,
Dr. Jaisoorya was soon attracted by
the miracles of homoeopathy. He dedi
cated all his energy for the improve
ment of this system and the homoeo
pathic profession in India is deeply
indebted to him for this. He was.
elected the President of the All-India
Homoeopathic Medical Conferences at
Gaya in 1953, and at Rajmundry in 1955,
and as Examiner of Homoeopathic
Board of Andhra Pradesh.
Son of late Sarojini Deva, the
nightingale of India, and Dr. Naidu,
The next paper entitled “A Few and brother of present governor of
Results of the Application of Some West Bengal, Shrimati Padmaja Naidu,
New and Old Forgotten Chemothera Dr. Jaisoorya preferred to serve homo
peutic Principles” was published in eopathy inspite of his geat fame as an
1945 on behalf of the Rural Medical allopath. The homoeopathic medical
Research Association. He was here in pofession in India will always remem
search of a new and simple type of ber his spirited! defence of homoeo
rural medicine and therapy adaptable pathy while he was a member of the
to and within the economic means and Indian Parliament and his efforts to
buying power of our impoverished win the patronage of the Government
masses. Bookish pharmacology, ac for this system of medicine.
cording to him, is most “ill-developed,
Het us join in wishing him many
unstable, contestable and not based on happy returns. (Amen—Ed.)
We find Dr. Jaisoorya first as an
allopath having taken his Doctorate
of Medicine degree from Berlin. Prac
tising in Hyderabad he found interna
tional recognition by the publication
of his paper entitled “A Preliminary
Report on the Treatment of Angios
pastic Conditions with Ergot and Nico
tine” in the Journal of the Indian
Medical Association in 1944. This
article bears ample testimony of his
great erudition and his unceasing
search for the unknown in medicine.
* Extract from address presented to Dr. N. M. Jaisoorya on Ms GOth birthday,
by the National Homoeo. Laboratory, Calcutta.
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