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JULY-SEPTEMBER 1962
Vol. 4
No. 3
CONTENTS
1. Editorial:
Medicines or Poisons ?
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2. The Art of Interrogation
Dr. Pierre Schmidt, M.D.
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3. Blood, Behaviour & Homoeopathy ..
Dr. N. P. Sukerkar, B.A. (Hon.),
LL.B., D.F. Hom. (Lond.)
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Dr. N. R. Dhawale, M.B..B.S.
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Dr. P. Sankaran, L.I.M., F.C.E.H.,
D.F. Hom. (Lond.)
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Dr. R. R. Adige, L.M. &S.
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4. Constitutional Remedy
5. Difficulties in Homoeopathic
Practice ..
6. My Conversion to Homoeopathy
7. From our Case Books :
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Allium Cepa
Dr. A. U. Sriram, M.B..B.S., M.F.
Hom. (Lond.) 98
(ii) Bronchial Asthma
Dr. A. U. Natarajan, M.B.,B.S.
(Hi) Persistent Vomiting
Dr. B. J. Kamani,
M.B.,B.S., (Bombay) 100
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Clinical experiences with
Hydrastis
(v) Aluminium Dermatitis
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Dr. A. R. A. Acharya
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Dr. P. Sankaran, L.I.M., F.C.E.H.,
D.F. Hom. (Lond.) 101
8. News & Notes
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9. Book Review
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EDITORIAL
MEDICINES OR POISONS ?
The recent probings of the drug control authorities has laid bare the
fact, often suspected but not well established, that of the medicines available
on the market, a good percentage are sub-standard and some even completely
spurious. The Chief Minister of a State has estimated that half the medicines
available may not be genuine I The facts revealed are quite alarming. While
this state of affairs is quite deplorable, that such a state should have been
allowed to arise is a sad commentary on the efficiency of the authorities con
cerned as well as on the morality of the community itself. The inspecting
staff is most minimal, so sample checks carried out are nominal. Very few
culprits are caught and fewer punished. Many of them are let out with a fine.
Naturally this is as good as no punishment for the fines can be easily paid off
by them from out of their ill-gotten gains.
In any field, such cheating is bad but in the field of public health this
crime becomes most serious and should be put down with all vigour possible.
Every citizen will expect that the State will-protect him from such depredations.
While this problem is probably confined mostly to India and other deve
loping countries, a similar problem but in a completely different context is
faced by the people of the well-developed countries. In those countries hund
reds of new medicines are put out into the market daily. All sorts of claims
are made for these drugs and these claims are supported by various data and
statistics, produced or quoted by the manufacturers. Statistics being what it
is, it is difficult to disprove those claims, though they may be one-sided. The
manufacturers of these products may be most sincere, yet it would be difficult
for us to assess the merits or demerits of these drugs, merely on the basis of
one or two or even a few years’ experience with them. Certain effects of these
may not be visible for years to come or may even show themselves insidiously
in the second or third generation and so any assessment done, hastily may
prove to be shortsighted and wrong. The recent revelations regarding die
German tranquiliser “Thalidomide” are most upsetting. It appears that those
expectant mothers who used the drug in the first trimester of the pregnancy
had children bom with congenital abnormalities — with some limb or organ
in the body, external or internal, missing. It is said that in France alone, over
3,000 children bom have exhibited such abnormalities and such children con
tinue to be bom there at the rate of 8 to 10 a day. It is indeed sad to note
that Medicine which aims at relieving suffering should itself have been res
ponsible for burdening this world with handicapped children.
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Coining to the homoeopathic field, we have to utter a word of caution.
Many new homoeopathic pharmacies are being opened. The homoeopathic
pharmacist must remember that any mistake he will commit in preparing and
dispensing the medicine will reflect not only on his reputation but also on the
reputation of the physician who prescribes it and on the reputation of the
homoeopathic system itself. So, sooner or later, the States should pass laws
to enable checks to be kept on the pharmacists. The homoeopathic pharma
ceutical profession itself also will have to uphold the standards in order to
protect the interests of the people as well as the homoeopathic system of
medicine, particularly because of the fact that the homoeopathic potencies are
difficult to analyse and identify.
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THE ART OF INTERROGATION*
Dr. Piebre Schmidt, M.D., Geneva.
of remedies and at last the doctor had
given Lyco., in the acute phase with chole
cystitis and lung trouble. It is such a risk
that the patient may go to pieces by giv
ing Lycopodium, such a deep acting
remedy. At the moment the patient is
trying to help herself to take the remedy
so deep in action is dangerous; of course
the result was very quick, the delirium
became worse, she could not recognise any
one, and she was in such a bad state with
high fever, trembling and sometimes semiconvulsions that a priest was called to give
her benediction before she died. And at
this time we were called to see the lady.
It was one of my students in Lyons, be
cause I go every month to Lyons which is
some 200 miles from Geneva, to deliver
lectures for 40 to 43 physicians there. So
I said the only thing to do now is to anti
dote the Lyco. Of course, Lyco., was her
own drug, especially because it has an
action on the liver you know, it aggravat
ed the case. She had terrible pains, she
was shrieking, she was in a state which
was really not nice. So, by selecting the
remedy, I think the best thing to do is —
now she is extremely agitated she is very
red in the face, she does not know what
she is saying now and this high fever, she
was also very thirsty. So I thought the
best thing is to give Aconite ten thousand
first and then wait and see what we can
do. So, then she began to recover a little
consciousness, she began to pray and to
say to us “Now I wish to pray with you”
and she was always speaking of praying
and praying. So with this high fever, this
agitation, this praying it was Stramonium
typical. So we gave a 10,000 of Stramc-
Before giving a mineral remedy habi
tually try please to begin your case always
if possible with a vegetable remedy and
it is a very good injunction to try to begin
your case with a vegetable remedy. There
is only one exception to this rule and that
is Lycopodium. It is a vegetable remedy
but please habitually avoid to begin the
case with Lycopodium. With Lyco., it is
the experience of the old homoeopaths
that it is so deep in action, like Sulphur
and Calcarea comprising the 3 big reme
dies of materia medica, that to begin with
such a remedy you make a turmoil and
you may have sometimes an aggravation
that you do not wish, so sharp. And so
you have to be cautious not to begin habi
tually with Lycopodium unless it is
absolutely indicated. I make also an ex
ception there, because all remedies in the
materia medica have a phase, an acute
phase and a chronic phase. We have an
acute Sulphur, an acute Lycopodium, an
acute Arsenic and so on. Sometimes it
may be indicated for a short little inflam
mation or something of that kind. Well,
for a sore throat you may have a phase of
Lycopodium which has nothing to do with
chronic Lycopodium but will be the acute
phase of Lycopodium. I remember a case
in Lyons of one of my friends who made
two mistakes.
In the first case, the patient was
another lady who was also a physi
cian, who had a very high temperature.
I do not know in Farenheit but in Centi
grade it was 43°, she had at the same time
a crisis of acute cholecystitis and pneu
monia, and she was delirious and in a
very bad state. She had received all kinds
**Extracts from lecture elven before the Delhi Homoeopathic Association.
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nium two days after Aconite and this
moves us a little towards a better situation.
But when we came after Stramonium, she
still had a very high temperature, because
of a lung condition. It seems that the pain
in the liver was a little better but she was
extremely nervous and stood up with a
42°C fever to tell us “Oh! I do not know
why you are coming I am extremely well,
I have nothing, no trouble, I am cured,
I thank you very much. You are very
kind, but there is no need to come now”.
We make an examination and find there
some rales, we find this same situation
everywhere, but she did not realise that
she was so sick. So this is a typical indi
cation as you know of Arnica. So we gave
Arnica 10,000, you know and with Arnica
10,000, she rallied very beautifully and she
was bringing out some Lycopodium symp
toms at this time; probably she had too
much of Lyco. but by and by we could
say she was better and after about two
weeks she was again on her feet, cured
and now it is 3 years of this. She was
very pleased but it was a mistake to give
the Lyco. at this moment.
In the second case, the son of
this physician, who had given the
Lycopodium had a sore throat, which
began in the right side, went to the
left, with a very dry mouth, was very
thirsty, with a very bloated stomach and
he. was asking to drink water all the time.
He was, I do not know why, having irrita
tion, the throat has one or two little white
patches, and very little there but very red,
no ulceration, but he had terrible pain to
swallow, he could not swallow, and his
father gave him Lyco. So there was some
indication for Lyco. but there comes and
may come a situation when you give him
Lyco. for the thirst, but rarely begin with
Lyco. Please habitually begin with some
thing else — you can give Aconite, you can
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give Bryonia, Bell., Puls., any remedy,
which is on the plane of vegetable, except
Lycopodium as I told you. So the boy
was going worse not better worse, typi
cally worse, and one day after another the
fever went up he was not able to swallow
a little, he was emaciating, the father was
anxious, the mother was not at all pleased.
The face was red at the right side and they
were not at all pleased. So, I came and
I looked after the case and .1 must say
frankly that by taking with care the symp
toms, it was plain Lyco., Now what to
do ? We had waited 3 days and were
watching the case. I thought of many
tilings to do. I think I will, make like
Hahnemann did till the rest of his life.
There is a way to give the remedy which
is less harmful and less reaction making
—it is by inhaling the remedy. So, we gave
Lyco. but not the 200 he lias been given, I
say we give him one inhalation of .10,000
•because he has had it already. It is one ex
ceptional case. So I gave him just one
nice, one little inhaling — but now how
do you make an inhaling method ? Habi
tually, Hahnemann said “You take one
single globule, of poppy seed size in a little
bottle, new bottle, clean bottle, not a wash
ed bottle from something else — a new
fresh bottle that has never known any
remedy, which is absolutely virginal. In
this you put some drops of alcohol, and
you put this under the nose. One good
inspiration there, expiration here, then
inspiration there and you stop. You must
realize that you are actually inundating
the system with the medicinal energy, you
are putting this on a surface of 81 square
meters, which is the total lung surface —
By doing this, in the evening the fever
went down and the next day the boy was
cured — completely cured. This was going
on for 4 days now you know — In a very
short time he was cured. It is an excep-
Cion of an acute Lycopodium case. So I
tell you habitually, pay attention to Lyco.
and do not give it very easily. This is
what I would like to say. Yes, Yes Hahne
mann said “give if possible an acute
remedy, a remedy which is not Psoric, for
acute cases and try to search first in the
vegetable kingdom. Now, if you cannot
find this you may give a remedy like
Lachesis or Pulsatilla from the plant or the
animal kingdom if necessary. But for the
beginning you may use your Aconite, your
Belladonna, your small remedies, we will
call it small remedies good remedies, very
high in standing when they cure, they are
the king of the situation but still we call
them “small remedies”. But their action
is short. We do not risk any aggravation
or engrafting something else on the sys
tem repeating them. So that is why it is
good to use them. Now, when you have an
acute case begin with your vegetable king
dom.
If this acute case only came once in
his life, it is quite alright, but if it is a
recurrent disease, throat or headache or
anything, the time to give that remedy is
always right after the acute crisis, then it
is the time when the body has tried to
throw the toxic stuff away and in this way
to give at this time the correct remedy is
best time to let it act properly. So it is
why in the art of interrogation, the art of
the physician is when he has an acute case
to take care only of the symptoms of the
moment, of the acute symptoms that he
has before him. Not to take into consi
deration that he had tuberculosis and
cancer; that is beside the acute things.
Please think the situation is bursting out,
it is like a flare there, the symptoms are
clear habitually the desires and aversions
are typical, so give at this time, please,
consideration to the acute —to the symp
toms of the patient of the moment and
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this is not the time to take in consideration
the chronic case — the tendency of the
family, the mother, the father, anything.
But for acute things take care of what you
see. It is only when you have no results
that it shows you it is not a pure typical
acute case but it is an exacerbation of the
chronic disease. And we make distinction
between chronic and acute — there is a
bridge and in the middle of the bridge is
what we call the exacerbation of the chro
nic disease which sometimes flares up,
there you can give your remedy which first
is the acute one, then comes rapidly the
chronic one. So it is what we must do
when we are taking cases. And I begin
in Lyons with my comrades, to give them
a list of my suitcase — the little suitcase
I have — the medicinal case I have when
I go to see patients at home for acute
things. So I gave them the list, it is in
teresting to study the homoeopathic re
medy once only in the acute phases. What
is the acute phase of Ars. ? What is the
acute phase of Silicea ? What is the acute
phase of Ipecac ? And an interesting thing
is all the remedies have acute and chronic
phases and to try to find what are the
indications of the acute thing — well they
will be very useful. Now this is the ques
tion of acute remedies and chronic
remedies.
In the art of interrogation of course the
aim of the physician is to try to face 5
different arts of questions which we must
always have in mind very well. Of course,
for the acute phases, please observe
what you see, listen what you hear, what
you witness at the moment. You must re
member that Hahnemann said something
very interesting in his Organon “When
you come either for acute or for chronic,
but for acute especially, you have always
a symptom that you see yourself. As phy
sician, you examine the patient and you
see what are the symptoms. Besides this
it is not sufficient. The patient can habi
tually talk. You must have also the symp
toms of the patient and listen to the
patient. But this is not sufficient. Some
times there are things the patients
do not know or do not tell. And
there are some things that the physician
cannot know and cannot observe. If the
patient has epileptic fits at night, how will
you know this by looking at the patient;
he won’t know this himself. It is the
mother, it is the nurse, it is the rather
somebody of the family who can tell you.
So you must know the symptoms of the
patient, the symptoms you discover your
self or that he tells you and the symptoms
that a family member or someone else
observes and tells — either in his walk, in
his behaviour, or his way of doing things,
etc. So we must have these three kinds of
symptoms to start with.
Now, in the Organon, Hahnemann was
saying something interesting too, that many
people did not remark, something by
which to recognize a disease — by the
symptoms of three kinds. He says “re
cognize three kinds of symptoms. Symp
toms, signs and accidents”. You know this
has been translated now for 175 years and
yet nobody has ever understood what
means signs, symptoms* and accident.
Good Gracious I What is a sign ? We
know the sign of pregnancy. Yes it is a
sign, it is physiological sign — it is not a
symptom because symptom refers to dis
ease. This is’ a sign as a manifestation
of health, of body e.g. the sign of respi
ration — this is also something, but this is
not at all some pathological sign. Now in
disease we have pathological signs. Now
Hahnemann said very clearly “You know
Opium produces constipation and hard
stools.” Good Gracious 1 Wiry Hahne
mann says so ? You know Hahnemann
never says something without reflecting
very much. When you find in Hahnemann
something like that it is not that he put
this as symptoms. Constipation is some
thing and hard stool is something. Some
people have inactivity of rectum and so
have constipation with soft stool. They
are constipated in quality and quantity.
So you must be very careful to know what
is really meant by Hahnemann when he
says “Opium produces constipation follow
ing hard stool”. So, I reflected about it.
I understand the key of this. The 'sign’
is what we call the objective symptom and
the ‘symptom’ is the subjective symptom
and you notice quite' a difference. So of
course, in this case we must know that
there exists subjective symptoms which are
the symptoms described by the patient —
Objective symptom, the patient can sec it,
but the physician can see it very well, but
he cannot know if you have a headache —
he cannot know if your pain is pricking,
stitching, darting or stinging or what .kind
of pain it is. It is you who tell him, so
it is a subjective symptom. So this comes
under the symptom. The first one is the
sign or objective symptom. And what is
an accident ? Accident, is a symptom
which has nothing to do with a chronic
miasm or something like that, it is some
thing which comes from external source.
A burn; you burn your hand, it is an acci
dent. It is not a symptom, it is not a sign-it is what you call an accident. Of course,
when you burn yourself you are burnt.
But it is not a disease that comes by the
disturbance of the Vital Force, like whoop
ing cough or something like that. So a
burning, a prick of a needle winch gives
an infection or we may say a prick from a
busy bee or wasp or something like that.
It is also an accident, it comes from out
side. Now if you take some poison your
self or if you drink some poison, you have
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also there a very interesting manifestation
which is called an accident — this is an
accident. So it has nothing to do with the
vital force; if you take away the cause,
of course the thing goes by itself better —
but you cannot take the cause away from
a grief — you cannot take away easily
something following indignation or some
thing of that kind. Tins is something to
do with the Vital Force and this a sub
jective symptom. And you know that
contrary to ordinary medicine, apart from
the specialist or Psychiatrist, we are very
much interested in Psychosomatic; we are
very interested in those mentals, what we
call the mental symptoms, for us it is very
important, because, it predicates the
patient.
case — you must forget everything before
and after; but you know we are so pre
judiced that when we see a case we think
may be it is Pulsatilla and you ask her “are
you thirsty ? do you like fats and salt ?
And you know you are making the greatest
mistake that is to put in the mouth of the
patient the answer because you like to find
it is Pulsatilla.
I remember Dr. Mabie saying “When
you hear a tap open, do you feel a desire
to urinate ?” Of course you would like
to give Lyssin if the patient answers ‘yes’.
Again he was saying to the patient “Are
you not sure that when you are near the
river you feel like urinating” You know in
this way, by such questions, we are bring
ing out only very forced material —you
must be absolutely independent and neu
tral in your questioning. But as our mind is
always prejudiced about it, there is a way
to get rid of it. I will tell you my secret.
When you are taking the case of the
patient and you see it is Pulsatilla, you
write in the corner there Puls. Now, after
ten minutes, it is typically Nux vomica, so
you put Nux vomica, then you see symp
toms of Arsenic, you put Arsenic, so you
are astonished at the end of the question
ing, you have twenty different remedies
now that come on because of course they
are symptoms .of this one that you remem
ber. Therefore, your memory is very good,
but in spite of being good, you cannot
know fifteen hundred pages of the Reper
tory. So first please because we have put
down the remedies, we are free, we are
neutral and then after this, we begin to
study the case with a certain consideration
and according to Kent’s and Hahnemann’s
method — well we will speak a little after
wards. And the main thing is first to take
note absolutely and neutrally of your ob
servations.
And for us when we have a case we
must forget everything. When the patient
asks me “Have you treated many cases of
asthma, before or this kind of skin disease
before ?” I say “Good Gracious, you
know I hope I have not”. Because I am
not like some physicians who say “the
more I see a kind of disease, the more
I am able to treat it.” It is just contrary
in homoeopathy. We are like judges.
“Because this one has stolen something is
he guilty like that one ? May be tins one
is guilty, that one not.” Therefore, every
body has his own case. We must study
the case by itself. If somebody else has
asthma and this one also has asthma —
the cause may be absolutely different and
your task is to forget the twenty cases of
this disease you had last week and to take
this case as a new one. So when you have
had many cases of a disease, it is more
difficult to take the new case because you
will have to forget the cases that you have
treated and not just copy this and give the
same remedy because it does not help. So
what we must do in homoeopathy is to be
very careful — every case by itself is a new
Now Dr. Gladwin as well as Dr. Osen
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who were my teachers told me habi
tually to try whenever possible, to put
the page in two parts. To the left, you
write all the pathological symptoms —
pathognomonic symptoms of the disease —
patient has tuberculosis, is coughing, is
emaciating, he has sweat and so on — so
you write everything that you know of the
disease — so you must know your disease
you must be good Allopath first — I mean
not allopaths but good physicians — It is
not the question of allopath or homoeo
path but it is the question of knowing your
Medicine. So you think, you write down
very carefully all the symptoms of the dis
ease. Now what interests us is the
symptoms on the right side which are rhe
non-pathognomonic symptoms — the symp
toms that are not habitually occurring in
this disease. When the patient is a tuber
culosis patient and he has a desire for
vinegar, I do not know what it has to do
with tuberculosis — nothing to do with
vinegar; or when this patient cannot sup
port fats, why — for what reason this tuber
culous patient who habitually likes fats
very much, now is averse to fats ? We do
not know. So these things you know are
important which make you say. “Now,
.1 have never seen a patient like that be
fore.” So a patient who is paralysed you
know, in the left side and you touch the
member which is paralysed and you find it
warm — habitually a paralysed member is
cold. Now what is this funny tiling ? We
have a description in every book; it is
written that when you have a hemiplegia
the paralysed side is colder than the other,
but in this case it is hot, normal; so in this
way you are struck by these curious things
and what you do, you just notice these —
those symptoms which are peculiar — which
you do not predicate with the name of the
disease — they predicate the patient him
self, there is the key of our success you
may even not know for what he is coming
— a rheumatism of the neck, a headache,
or anything you may forget this if you give
the remedy for those non-pathognomonic
symptoms, funny symptoms. So, please
pay very much attention always to
the non-pathognomonic symptoms. To
understand this you must know your Medi
cine because you must know what is the
disease of enteritis or cholera usually like—
you must know what are the symptoms of
this disease but, if you find something that
has nothing to do with this disease, it pre
dicates the patient. Please take it and you
will make your best cure when you can
find such symptoms.
I may say here that when a patient in
any disease has still many non-pathogno
monic symptoms and symptom from inside
(himself), there is a* hope of cure, habi
tually. But unfortunately in cases at the
end and in many chronic diseases, e.g.
multiple sclerosis, there are almost no
symptoms of the patient. You have only
symptoms of the disease — all those symp
toms fade away and you are just in the
trouble to find them — you do not find
them, that is why I insist to try to find the
non-pathognomonic symptoms.
(To be continued)
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“We rely too much, as it seems to me, on current systems of medicine.
We rely on Allopathy, Homoeopathy, Hydropathy, Chromopathy etc. Better
than all these “pathies” is sympathy. In sympathy is the secret of true life.”
— T. L. Waswani.
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BLOOD, BEHAVIOUR AND HOMOEOPATHY
( An aspect of the substructure of behaviour and the problems it raises in the homoeopathic field )
Dr. N. P. Sukerkar, B.A.(Hons.), LL.B., D.F.Hom.(Lond.), Bombay.
During the past few years Dr. Emile
Florent in, in collaboration with his col
leagues at the St. Jacques Hospital in Paris,
has done research to find out a solid basis
to which individual reactions may be re
lated. The research is based on the study
of over 1,400 patients. He has come to
the conclusion that the individual ‘blood
genes’ is the basis. This conclusion is re
volutionary from the homoeopathic point
of view and as such I am giving the
synopsis of his thesis for the consideration
of the profession.
BEHAVIOUR
Behaviour of a being may be defined as
‘the whole of the global reactions of his
organism, both those which are common to
the species and those which are particular
to the individual. Behaviour, thus, in
cludes ‘stereotyped reactions’ (congenital
or engendered by habit) and ‘non-stereotyped reactions.’ It exteriorizes, in a
dynamic form, what is latent in character
and temperament.
‘What in man is solid, durable and even
permanent’ is that which is anterior to his
history, namely the nucleus of deep-seated,
inherited dispositions, or the ‘somato
psychical sub-structure’ of the individual.
If we look for the factors which determine
the general features of the behaviour of
man or search for what is likely to provide
us with stable foundations on which we
may establish a deduction, if not with re
gard to his actions, at least, with regard
to conditions in which he may react, we
should be able to find them by studying
this ‘somato-psychical sub-structure’ of the
individual.
It would, therefore, be logical to
approach the study of behaviour in terms
of a typical stable element in, the ‘biologi
cal constitution’ of the human being, an
element, which is invariable in ontogenesis,
the blood group.
BLOOD GROUP
Blood group is determined by hereditary
factors, by the association of two genes,
the paternal and the maternal.
If we consider the development of the
individual both mentally & physically from
his embryonic to adult state, we find that
upon the whole of the congenital disposi
tions, which determine his initial psychical
and somatic structure, i.e., his ‘nature’, the
life he spent in a certain environment or
environments has superimposed a ‘second
nature’ along with a ‘formation’ caused by
his family, religion, school, ch’mate, diet
etc., i.e., by the social, geographical and
dietetic factors which give rise to habits.
Behaviour is the resultant of this whole,
in which the acquired has been super
imposed on the congenital.
The three genes, O, A and B which are
recognised in man, combined together in
pairs give the following six exclusive cases:
(1) 00, (2) AO, (3) AA, (4) BO,
(5) BB and (6) AB.
Since the genes ‘A’ and ‘B’ are dominant,
i.e., which alone can communicate a group
of characteristics, we have the following
four main groups:
(1) 00 which corresponds to group O.’
(2) AA and AO which form group A.
(3) BB and BO which form group B
and
(4) AB which corresponds to group AB
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BLOOD GROUP & BEHAVIOUR
(Bio-physical correlation ,between the
blood-groups and the behaviour of human
beings).
Madame Leone Bourdel classifies human
temperaments into four groups:
(1) Harmonic corresponding to group A
(2) Rhythmic corresponding to group B
(3) Melodic corresponding to group O
and
(4) Harmonic-Melodic-Rhythmic cor
responding to group AB.
(c) Discontinuity : The activity of the
Harmonic type is conditioned by his re
activity and by his subjectivity but also
by very marked need for liberty and
independence.
A subject will support neither pres
sure, which stifles him, nor competition,
which acts as a brake upon him, nor
obstacles, which paralyse him, except when
he knows in advance, that he is the stronger.
He can maintain a regular and continu
ous action only when conditions are
favourable. Otherwise, his activity is dis
Dr. Florentin makes identical classifica continuous. He works in fits and starts.
tions and by his research arrives at the His creations are brilliant, on account of
following characteristics of individual be the originality of their conception, rather
haviour, in each group.
than on account of their nature. What
(1) Behaviour of group A or the Harmonic he does is more beautiful than of solid
value.
Type.
On account of his deep-seated tenden
Broadly, this group exhibits the follow cies, Ke shows a distinct vulnerability to
ing characteristics :
persuasion. If an appeal is made to his
(a) Reactivity
good feelings, he will give twice of what
is expected of him, whereas he will never
(b) Subjectivity and
yield, if he is threatened, offended or badly
(c) Discontinuity.
treated. He shows great proficiency in
(a) Reactivity : A subject of a group activities of an independent nature. Artists
reacts intensively and spectacularly accord and artisans belong to this group.
ing to environment, i.e., he feels himself to
The Harmonic is, therefore, a reactive;
be in harmony with latter, he opens out,
selective, sentimental and independent
relaxes, exteriorizes himself and really
subject.
‘lives? When the environment is unfav
In the field of literature Shelley is an
ourable to him, he contracts, draws in,
withdraws in silence, isolates himself, and example of this group.
gets away sometimes with violent reaction.
(2)
Behaviour of the B or Rhythmic Type
(b) Subjectivity : The intellectual and
This group shows the following charac
moral attitude of the Harmonic is depen teristics:
dent upon subjective factors. His interest
(a) Autonomy (b) objectivity and
is limited to what pleases him. He pushes
aside what displeases him. His opinions (c) continuity.
reflect the preponderance of sentiment
(a) Autonomy : The subject is hardly
over reason. He attaches more importance influenced by environment. In fact, he
to form than to content. His sense of creates an environment by imparting to it
his own Rhythm. He is a kind of mecha
justice is too human to be just.
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nism or a human locomotive which drags
the wagons along. His interest'is directed
to everything which enables him to ad
vance towards a fixed goal.
His opinion is based on the predomi
nance of reason over sentiment. He takes
account of content rather than of form. His
point of view is always reasoned.
In the realm of morality he is guided by
a sense of justice which is pushed to the
extreme. His justice is too just to be
human.
The activity of the Rhythmic is condi
tioned by his autonomy and by Ins objec
tivity and also by need for constancy and
regularity, i.e., stability which is the reflec
tion of his inertia. He has horror of
pauses, changes or deviations. These dis
turb his equilibrium.
He can work
equally well alone or in company, as com
petition does not paralyse him. His acti
vity is continuous. He does what he has
to do as well as what pleases him. His
creations are characterised more by logic
of their realization than by their concep
tion. What he does is more solid than
beautiful.
The Rhythmic shows a vulnerability
which is almost exclusively based on con
viction, i.e., on reason. He respects firm
ness and even authority.
He scorns
flattery.
He shows proficiency in activities of a
stable nature. He is well suited for all
public or private administrative profes
sions. The Civil Servants and Soldiers be
long to this group.
In literary field Luther and Milton are
examples of this group.
(3)
Behaviour of the O or Melodic Type:
(a) Adaptability : He has a great flexi
bility. He adapts to the surroundings in
which he finds himself. He is an oppor
tunist. With melodic type the intellectual
and the moral attitudes are relative. It
takes causes, circumstances and results, in
account. His field of speculative interest
is very wide.' Everything interests him.
He has thirst for knowledge and novelty.
His opinion shows quest for a just equili
brium between sentiment and reason.
The O subject often succeeds in finding
intermediary solutions which enable him
to reconcile points of view, which were,
at the outset, divergent. He is guided by
a sense of justice which is marked by
scruple and a sense of proportion. It is
always conditioned and well-balanced.
His adaptability is conditioned by a need
for change and variety. Monotony, in
effect, tires an O subject. He adapts him
self equally well to collective work and to
individual work. He can change his acti
vity easily and even his profession.
His creations are eclectic. They take
into account both needs and circumstances
and their fault is that they have too many
engagements.
What he does is sometimes beautiful, but
sometimes neither beautiful nor solid.
He shows a vulnerability to persuasion
and to conviction. He is suitable for acti
vities which require a certain suppleness
of attitude.
The melodic is, therefore, an opportunist,
curious, equitable and a supple subject.
In the field of literature Montaigne,
Victor Hugo, Goethe, Chaucer and Field
ing are examples of this group.
(4)
Behaviour of the AB or Harmonic —
Rhythm complex type.
The characteristics of this group are:
(a) Adaptability, (b) Relativity and
(c) Diversity.
This group exhibits the following essen
tial characteristics.
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(a) Inadaptability (b) complexity and
(c) singularity.
(a) Inadaptability : The association of
Harmonic reactivity and Rhythmic auto
nomy makes an AB subject into an indi
vidual who is practically inadaptable. If
conditions are favourable to him, he will
.himself create an atmosphere. Otherwise,
he will find himself in complete disharmony
with his environment.
with a bicycle. To be in balance,
he needs to be in action, in movement. He
loses his balance as soon as action ceases.
He depends on conditions, i.e., on per
sonality of the individual and on atmo
sphere. In certain cases as a person he
in his actions, combines rapidity of exe
cution with a constancy in effort, which
forces us to admire him; yet in other cases
he is a person whose disorderly action is
without any positive result.
(b) Complexity:
The AB subject
He is an exceptional person, capable of
shows an intellectual and moral attitude
the
best and of die worst, according to
which is dependent upon factors with
dififerent natures and sometimes with diffe conditions, which are difficult to forecast.
rent orientations. It is, therefore, ‘com
AB subject shows vulnerability which is
plex’.
almost complete, perpetually elusive, even
The desires of the individual are when you think you have secured his
dependent upon both selectivity of group adherence.
A and finality of group B, distinct factors,
AB subject is very difficult to orientate
which may super-impose themselves or be from the professional point of view. He
opposed to each other.
needs to have a place apart — the first or
Since he is between two tendencies the last. The ‘star’ and the ‘tramp’ are
which are difficult to reconcile, an AB sub examples of AB type.
ject oscillates between giving predominance
In the field of literature Byron is an
to sentiment and to reason. In favour example of the AB type.
able cases his opinion is liable to be con
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
sidered as prejudicial, since it is at the same
The characteristics shown by each of
time something which pleases him and
something which he believes to be reason the groups described above constitute
able. In unfavourable cases, he is unable deep-seated tendencies of a particular
to take up any position and without appa nature which are linked with the here
rent motive, easily changes his point of ditary genes. They are fixed. However,
view, on the same subject, so much so these characteristics may not be so clearly
that he may appear to be incomprehensible. marked.
(1) Group A is formed of individuals
His sense of justice is marked by irregu
larity. He often provides a case in point who carry one A gene and one 0 gene.
in which his opinion is liable to be un The same is true of B group. It is obvious
expected. His justice is irregular and that with AA and BB individuals, the indi
vidual characteristics will be more mark
often paradoxical.
ed, whereas in the ease of AO and BO,
(c) Singularity : Being dependent upon
they will be more blended, since O ele
a need for independence of the A order
ment constitutes a temporising element.
and upon a need for stability of the B
(2) These characteristics may also not
order,, the activity of AB subject shows a
singular aspect. He may be compared be apparent at first sight. In fact:
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(a) In childhood the individual lives
inside the framework of the family, i.e.,
under the guardianship of his parents.
Owing to his dependence, he is more sure
of obtaining something by generally adopt
ing an effective attitude, in harmony with
his environment, i.e., an A attitude.
(b) At adolescent stage, a very distinct
reaction often occurs leading to 'auto
nomy’. The boy feels equal to his parents.
The effective attitude may give way to a
Rhythmic one.
(c) With the adult the need of living
in society and in association brings the
individual face to face with need to adapt.
He thus adopts a Melodic attitude.
(d) With old people, freed from all
contingencies, the individual perhaps
appears in his purest state. In fact, the
old put themselves out very little, in rela
tion to their environment.
(3) From the study of principal types
of behaviour, a ‘bio-physical’ connection
emerges, which is interesting.
(a) The Melodic is the only one who
can get on well with every one and the
O subject, the universal donor, is the only
one who can give his blood to all the other
groups.
(b) Tire marked divergence between
the Harmonic and the Rhythmic with res
pect to - their deep-seated tendencies, a
divergence which frequently involves their
opposition on the social plane, is seen
in the fact that their bloods are incom
patible.
(c) The Harmonic-Rhythmic or AB in
dividual cannot give his blood to any other
group than his own and he is manifestly
the most unsociable. This correspondence
may be considered'as a justification of the
popular figurative expression “he has it in
his blood,’ an-expression which is used to
explain the behaviour of an individual,
(d) The various types of ‘behaviour’
are ‘attitudes’ which are typical of indi
viduals belonging to different blood groups.
These attitudes in no way prejudice the
‘aptitudes’ i.e., the individual possibilities,
both physical and psychical. It is quite
obvous that, whatever his group may be,
a man of 110 lbs. is physically built to
make a jockey rather than a hefty porter.
A person endowed with a superior and
richly cultivated intelligence may more
easily aspire to a profession, which is on
higher level on tire social plane, than a
person whose mediocre intellectual facul
ties have been but little developed. How
ever, in every case, the attitude of the
individual in question will depend upon
the group to ’which he belongs.
PROBLEMS FOR CONSIDERATION
The problems for consideration is whe
ther these observations involve any con
sequences in Pathology and Therapeutics.
If certain deep-seated tendencies in
individuals are, in fact, intimately linked
with the blood groups then it is obvious
that this should lead us to think that this
fact may have repercussions in the medical
field.
It is in our interest to discover its nature
and to determine its place in order to de
rive due benefit from it.
As our own attitude with respect to the
patient is liable to suffer certain modifica
tions, it is our duty to find out to what
extent we should take the biological group
into account.
It is especially with this problem in mind
the matter of ‘Biological group and
Homoeopathy’ is here raised.
BIOLOGICAL GROUP & HOMOEOPATHY
Are the individual reactions in Pathology
and in Therapeutics independent of the
Biological Substratum ? Let us view it on
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the (A) Qualitative and the (B) Quanti
tative planes.
(a) (i) Qualitative Plane: (i) First
Problem: (Analytical Aspect:)
Let us first consider the analytical
aspect. For a given remedy, are the
qualitative modalities of the indivi
dual reactions dependent upon the
biological group to which the indivi
dual belongs ? In other words, from the
experimental point of view, is it advisable
to draw up the pathogeneses in accordance
with the comparative process ? From the
therapeutical point of view, are the symp
toms which enable the prescription of a
determined remedy to be made partially
different, depending on the group to which
the patient belongs ?
Let us take a remedy R proved upon a
sufficiently large number of individuals. It
might happen that by exploiting the results
obtained, by means of comparative exami
nation, we should obtain different groups
of symptoms.
(1) Group of symptoms E
El
E2
E3
E4 etc. common.
to all individuals (even with slight quanti
tative variations) would form the charac
teristic symptoms of the remedy R.
(2) Group of symptoms A
Al
A2
A3
A4 etc. common
only to individuals in the A group, would
be significant for individuals of this group.
In the same way:
(3) Symptoms B
Bl
and O 01
B2
02
B3
03 «
B4 etc.
04 etc.
should be respectively significant for
groups B and O.
This is only a hypothesis, but if it did
correspond to a reality, it would be heavy
with consequences. It will enable us to
throw considerable light on the Materia
Medica, in which, it must be admitted, the
use of additive process may sometimes
have created apparent contradictions. But
on the other hand it would oblige us to re
consider the pathogeneses one by one and
point by point. And whatever may be the
result, it would be worthwhile to carry out
partial tests.
(a) (ii) Second Problem: (Synthetic
aspect:)
Should the qualitative choice of the re
medy take into account the biological
group to which the individual belongs? Is
there a category of suitable remedies for
each biological group ? Are certain as
pects of patients, if not of illness and
syndromes, the lot of determined groups?
Shall we see in patients, reactions of Har
monic form, reactions of the Rhythmic
form etc. ? Shall we in the same way,
have remedies of the harmonic type, re
medies of the rhythmic type etc.? i.e., will
Nux vomica be reserved for individuals of
group A, Rhus tox to those of -group B,
Ignatia to those of group AB etc. ?
Since no selection, it seems, has been
made among the individuals on whom the
remedies were proved when the patho
geneses were being drawn up, this prob
lem may see to be intriguing.
(b) (i) Quantitative Plane:
Problem: (Analytical aspect:)
First
Whether it be a question of pathogenetic
experimentation or else of therapeutics,
are there, in individual reactions produced
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by the remedy, quantitative modalities
which are different according to the bio
logical group ? In the experimental field,
is the appearance of pathogenetic symp
toms quicker or slower, milder or more
violent, according to the group of the ex
perimenters ? In the therapeutic field,
does the disappearance of the troubles
show characteristics which are related to
the group to which the patient belongs ?
A well-known physician at the St. Jac
ques Hospital recently pointed out the
case of one of his patients who was
remarkable for the extreme sensitivity she
showed to remedies. A single dose of the
indicated remedy was sufficient to relieve
her and restore her to health.
One day she had an oedema of the face
and of the pharynx. One granule of Apis
3c reduced the swelling almost instan
taneously. Later, when she was suffering
from congestive cephalelgia with epis
taxis, the syndrome disappeared entirely
with a single granule of Mellilotus 5 C.
Recently, as she was waking up at night
in the grips of a nightmare, a single granule
of Lachesis 5 C was sufficient to enable
her to sleep peacefully again.
Even if in certain cases the slowness of
the reaction is likely to be attributed to a
doubtful choice of the remedy, it is never
theless true that the reactive individual
generally supports badly a remedy which
does not suit him but reacts equally well
with the one which is pathognomonic to
him.
It is, therefore, obvious that this problem
deserves attention.
(B) (ii) Second Problem: (Synthetic
aspect:)
In the quantitative use of remedies, ex
perimental or therapeutical, should we
take into account the biological group of
the patient ? Depending on the group,
should we call in a given range of dilu
tions or should we prescribe a particular
rate of absorption ? e.g. should the low
attenuations be reserved for group A’
the average ones for group O and higher
ones for group B ? Or again, should the
taking of the remedy be frequent with B,
moderate with O and infrequent with A ?
Dr. Florentin says that a Swiss friend
of his belonging to B group obtains results
on him by taking remedies diluted to the
30th decimal. Two of his colleagues at the
St. Jacques Hospital express satisfaction
with the use upon certain of their rheu
matic patients, of Rhus tox to the 7th and
9th centisimals, three times a day. They
assure that they get better results with
these dilutions and with this rate.
The different aspects of behaviour can
not leave partisans of Homoeopathic
doctrine indifferent to the fact that the
solving of the problem raised above con
stitutes a task worthy of the physicians,
especially of homoeopathists, for it will no
doubt enable them to make further
progress:
(a) Towards the complete knowledge
of man.
(b) Towards complete understanding
of the patient, and consequently,
(c) Towards better application of the
principle of ‘Similia’.
(Note : This paper is based on the discussions the author had with Dr. Emile Florentin, while
at the St. Jacques Hospital, in the summer of 1960.)
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CONSTITUTIONAL REMEDY
Dr. N. R. Dhawale, M.B.,B.S., Bombay.
Before going to the subject proper it will
not. be out of place to know what we mean
by constitution, how it is formed and
what influences it. I also intend to place
before you the points of similarity along
with the ideas of the formation of consti
tution, the influence on it as theorised by
modern medicine, and as has been under
stood by Homoeopaths.
Baner in his book on “Constitution and
Disease” states that the main cause of indi
vidual variability lies in sexual mating.
This involves the knowledge of genetics
and the genic composition of the indivi
dual — namely the genotype and ' the
phenotype which present the actual ap
pearance of the individual in his physical
and’psychic structure.
It is also said that of greater importance
is the influence of environment upon the
manifestation: of those hereditary anlagen
(anlage — singular: the primitive un
differentiated mass of cells or a place in
embryo where primary differentiation
takes place) which relate to. mental func■ tions.
Heredity therefore determines
what one can do while environment deter
mines what one does do.
detectable by all or any one of the various r(
methods of physical examination and
laboratory work.
HOMOEOPATHIC CONCEPT OF
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CONSTITUTION:
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Homoeopathic concept of constitution:n
have been derived out of inductive logic
and Hahnemann was the greatest exponent n
of the same in medical science. How cor- (
rectly his thoughts (expressed a century h
ago after the enunciation of the theory of S
chronic diseases) fit in with the ideas and
thoughts expressed in modem medicine c
will amaze those who would make a com- c
parative study of Organon and’ take into c
consideration the leanings of modem i:
science towards individualisation in mod- p
em medicine.
qBv
Coming to the subject proper, consb'tu- 4
tion is therefore not a measurable entity. It is exactly in the latter sense of the term s
■ that we speak about constitutional disease. 1
There are (1) constitutional factors it (
aetiology of disease; There are (2) const! ;
(national factors modifying the clinical
picture and course of disease. Lastly
there are (3) constitutional factors neces- j
sitating a modification of routine treat- j
ment.
t
Draper, Dupertius and Caughey in
Human Constitution in Clinical Medicine
state that “The knowledge of constitution
is therefore the study of genetics and the
study of environment, and’ the study of
both of these is vast: Strictly and scienti
fically speaking, the above defines a
constitution.”
And this has all been accepted by mo- «
dem medicine but put into practice only 1
by the Homoeopaths I!
Hahnemann observed that in certait
eases similar remedy was just efficacious
in removing the symptoms though the J
disease was not eradicated. From this <
observation emerged his theory of chronic t
diseases and the constitutional treatment J
He then propagated that (a) chronict
disease is a constitutional derangement 1
However, such a concept of constitution
is not generally accepted. One point needs
to be stressed. Constitution is not a physi
cal and mental trait, visible and invisible
characteristics which may or may not be
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and needs constitutional remedy for its toms and the preference of a miasmal drug
eradication; (b) chronic disease is not self is, however, always subordinate to the
limited and shows no tendency to ultimate general principles in Homoeopathic pres
cribing.
recovery if untreated.
The- eradication of chronic disease has,
This is because of the fact that our
therefore a philosophic bearing on pres knowledge with regard to the drug and
cribing and one cannot hence, practise its action as antipsoric, antisyphilitic or
•homoeopathy without a concept of chro antipsycotic is yet Imperfect.
nic diseases.
,
After having selected the drug, a refer
Hahnemann divided chronic diseases ence to the chapter on miasmatic drug is
in four main categories and three miasms done to find out whether the selected drug
(1) Occupational or drug disease (which also covers the particular miasm from
has nothing to do with constitution), (2) which the patient is suffering. If it does
Psora, (3) Syphilis, (4) Sycosis.
not, then we have to find out which of the
These miasms may appear singly or in drugs competing cover it and give
combination and influence the constitution a thought to the new drug by closely com
of a patient. Hahnemann therefore enun paring the symptomatology in a patient
ciated that unless the miasmatic condition with the symptomatology of the drug.
is treated, the constitutional change in
If this search also fails, which will hap
patient will not take place and his disease pen very rarely then administer the closest
will not be cured. The manner in which simillimum which will palliate the patient
the trouble disappears is also guided by though may not cure. The complemen
a law — Hering’s Law of Cure — which tary remedy to the original drug covering
states that when cure takes place it works die particular miasm upper most in the
up from within outwards, from above patient will either finish the process of
downwards, from more vital to less vital cure or bring back the suppressed symp
organs and in the reverse order of its tomatology in the patient.
appearance.
The administration of remedy in chro
Constitutional remedy is therefore one nic disease therefore presupposes the
which when administered produces a state knowledge of the origin of chronic
in a patient which is governed by Hering’s diseases.
Law of Cure and in doing so it brings back
As psora is the root cause of all trou
the original trouble which in turn dis
bles,
psoric in origin, it is suggested that
appears leaving the patient cured in per
if
the
similimum does not eradicate die
fect health.
trouble, drink of the antipsoric remedy
HOW TO SELECT A CONSTITUTIONAL complementary to the first. The laws for
REMEDY?
selection of the drug are the same as for
Hahnemann stated that a constitutional the selection of the similimum.
remedy alone will cure the patient of a
Mixed, miasnis: In a case where the
chronic state and it is well known that
miasms
are superimposed on each other,
the best cures in homoeopathic therapeu
the
case
• becomes complicated as the
tics are possible on the basis of constitu
tional analysis. This selection of the symptomatology gets mixed up.
It must be remembered that syphilis
remedy is based on tire totality of symp
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usually suppresses other miasms and after
a course of antisyphilitic remedies tire
disease becomes latent and the symptoms
of psycosis or psora begin to appear and
they must then be treated by the remedies
appropriate to the miasms until they intum become latent. Syphilis then may
again get active and this alternation of
different miasms may go on till the patient
is thoroughly cured.
The appearance of this phase in con
stitutional treatment must be borne in
mind as antipsoric remedies like Sul.,
Graph., Calcarea are more likely to do
harm than good, if given while syphilis is
active.
In case of sycosis, antisycotic remedies
will be of great use to eradicate the sycotic trouble e.g., constitutional symptoms
of rheumatism and similar sycotic condi
tion will manifest same symptomatology
but the remedy selected will eradicate the
trouble only when the medicine is anti
sycotic.
It. is said that the suppression of acute
form of gonorrhoea does not lead to
constitutional sycosis and it is also said
that in chronic form, as long as the dis
charge continues no constitutional symp
toms will appear, here, differing mainly
from syphilis.
Laws for administration of constitu
tional remedies :
Hahnemann’s usual teachings, the out
come of his long and rich experience, was
to give a single dose in chronic diseases
on the basis discussed above and then
wait for the results. If the improvement
continues, the rule is to repeat the dose
only when it ceases. And one of the most
difficult things is to learn to wait.
Boenninghauseen Says “as long as old
ailments reappear or are worse, without
the appearance of essentially new symp
toms which lie outside of its sphere oi
action, we should guard against the repe
tition of the remedy or change to a new
one.
The administration or repetition of the
remedy should be guarded by the usual
laws of repetition of homoeopathic medi
cines and the law of direction of cure.
Constitutional medicine can also be
determined from the knowledge of con
stitutional drugs under which the parents
of the patient improved.
The following case will illustrate the
above conclusion. A child of 4 years suf
fering from chronic gastritis and suspected
to be a precursor of the cirrhosis of the
liver presented a tie between Sepia and
Lyco. The symptomatology of the patient
was insufficient to differentiate one drug
from the other. The parents had improv
ed under Sepia. The child, a derivative
of the parents, inherits the constitution io
part of them both. By analogy it was
decided that since the child is a product
of Sepia parents, Sepia would also help
the child to improve constitutionally. And
surprisingly enough, it did.
References:
Hahnemann : Organon, Chronic Diseases.
Kent: Lectures on Homoeopathic Philo
sophy. Lectures on Materia Medica.
Roberts : Principles of Homoeopathy.
Stuart Close : Lectures on Homoeopathic
Philosophy.
Baner : Constitution and Disease.
Draper.
] Human Constitution in
Duperhus: > clinical Medicine.
Caughey: J
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DIFFICULTIES IN HOMOEOPATHIC PRACTICE*
Dr. P. Sankaban, L.I.M., F.C.E.H., D.F. Hom. (Lond.)
Hon. Physician, Government Homoeopathic Hospital, Bombay
liarly endowed with enormous faith in the
greatness of our science, yet I am handi
capped by an abundance of ignorance and
this is the natural consequence.
To give an idea how the world at large
might be viewing us I may quote here an
objective and impartial description of
homoeopathy given by Dr. A. T. West
lake, in the British Homoeopathic Jour
nal. He says:
It is said that there are three phases to
a man’s personality. One is what he
thinks he is, the second what others think
he is and the third what he actually is.
This proverb may apply to us, the Homo
eopaths, also. Our medical journals are
usually so full of reports of cures, of con
firmations and verifications, that an out
sider peeping into our journals may depart
with the impression that ours is only a
catalogue, of continuous successes and
that we have practically no problems
worth mentioning within our field. This
impression may be justified if we take
into consideration only the work and the
records of the thoroughly well-trained and
highly experienced homoeopaths among
us, the brilliant few, but this would not
reflect faithfully the real state if we take
into account the work 'of the large majo
rity, who like me, being either actual no
vices or possessing only an average
standard of intelligence and application,
are confronted by numerous problems. I
speak with some degree of emphasis on
this point because on discussion with
several other students and practitioners I
have found that they too are faced by
similar problems though they prefer not
to express these. Therefore, I have been
emboldened to put forward these difficul
ties in this paper with the hope that some
one among our experienced and respect
ed colleagues, who has faced and solved
such difficulties may give us necessary
guidance. If any reader finds my thoughts
irrelevant or irreverent, I crave hi? indul
gence on the plea that while I am pecu
“.. .Let me first of all try to state the
present position of Homoeopathy as it
has appeared to me.
I think it will be agreed that little
headway is being made at the present
time either in the medical profession or
the general public. With the specta
cular advances of modem medicine
Homoeopathy is getting left behind, not
so much from any opposition, but be
cause it is passed by as having little
relevance to the present trend of medi
cal science.
One hundred and fifty years ago
Homoeopathy was a tremendous ad
vance on the orthodox therapy of those
days, and therefore it is no wonder that
after the initial fierce opposition it was
taken up with such enthusiasm; but the
reverse seems to be the case today.
This is seen even in homoeopathic cir
cles in which the true faith has been
shaken by the advent of the antibiotics,
as there is fear that one may be accused’
of medical incompetence unless they
are used. There is, in general, a defi
9 This. ease was already reported in my paper in the British Homoeopathic
fpprnal hut there certain details were omitted as the emphasis were to some other
aspect of the case.
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nite lack of faith in homoeopathic prin
ciples when confronted with the
undoubted successful advance of mod
ern allopathy.
I think it is also true to say that no
.fundamental advances have been made
since the time of Hahnemann. There
have been new remedies and new po
tencies, but no new basic concepts have
emerged, if one excepts the work of
Bach and Paterson and of Boyd.
Homoeopathy, to this extent, is static,
and is still living on the original inspi
ration and genius of its founder and still
only working on his original ideas.
In these days of the National Health
Service every homoeopathic practitioner
knows the difficulty, in the time at his
disposal, of assessing the total disease
picture and so of treating the whole
man. The tendency is thus to treat
symptoms rather than the individual,
and thus fall into the bad habits of the
allopaths—who can do no other.
of simili rediscovered, enunciated and
emphasized by Hahnemann is an eternal
rule, a therapeutic principle which rarely
fails when correctly applied within its
proper field of application. And yet it
would be a grave limitation of thought to
consider that it is complete and perfect
in all its aspects and that it does not re
quire any further study or investigation,
any more advancement. The advance of
knowledge in every field has exposed to
our vision the fact that every truth already
discovered is but part of or a step towards
a bigger truth to be discovered later on,
but one brick in the edifice of knowledge
being built up. What may at present seem
to us an ultimate in knowledge or human
achievement appears to be so merely due
to a limitation of our vision and imagina
tion. Therefore, there is no need for us
to feel embarrassed or guilty in attempt
ing to define the scope and enlarge the
sphere of the simili principle and to dis
cover its relationship to other principles
of treatment. Further, there is no harm
in admitting and setting forth one’s diffi
culties and in correcting or being corrected
of any mistakes that might have been
committed.
The same applies to finding the right
remedy and the correct potency. These
can, of course, be learnt by experience,
or arrived at by intuition. There is no
doubt that all great Homoeopaths,
whatever else they may be or have, are
intuitive sensitives of a high order. But
for the ordinary run of doctors, treat
ment is all too often a case of trial and
error, of hit and miss, which only ex
perience can improve. It is a misfortune
that Homoeopathy has never had a
technique for registering intangibles nor
of measuring them.
Can anything be done about this state
of affairs so that Homoeopathy not only
regains its old importance, but becomes
a vital and essential part of the new
medicine of the future ?....”
Coming down to the actual difficulties
that I have met with in my practice and
which have been confirmed by my col
leagues, I shall set out a few.
THE HOMOEOPATHIC PATIENT
In homoeopathic practice, when we
attempt to take the ease of a patient, the
first and a most important step leading
to the homoeopathic prescription, we come
across several difficulties. As we try to
record the sufferings of the patients in all
their nuances, we notice that all our
patients are not as observant as we require
them to bg. Particularly in this modem
era, it Would seem that the average man’s
It is probably quite true that the principle
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| attention is diverted to and absorbed by
I numerous tilings leaving him too little
f time to observe his own bodily functions.
| Due to such lack of observation on the
I part of the patient we may secure only
I very few symptoms, such as may be of no
I significance to us. Or, as is well known
! there are numerous so-called “one-sided”
j diseases manifesting themselves through a
I single local pathological disorder e.g.
I warts, tumours, alopecia, etc., apparently
| unaccompanied by general disturbance.
i It is also known that patients may omit to
I mention certain very important symptoms
[ considering them to be of no significance.
Most of them have passed through the
mill and are generally habituated to the
I methods of modern treatment which is
| objective in its approach and seems to re[ quire very little subjective effort or cok operation on the part of the patient. It
I is also known that in several cases owing
to our own inefficiency, lack of care or
thoroughness we have missed some impor
tant points in the case and thus lost a most
important link or clue; or alternately due
to a lack of care in expression on the part
I of the patient we may secure only false
I symptoms. To the average patient, words
such as distension, heaviness, fullness (of
the abdomen) etc. carry much the same
meaning and they may not be able or may
not care to be precise in their expression.
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It has also been some time our exasperating experience to find that the patient
who had been quite definite about some
symptom at the initial interview either so
modifies or alters his original statement at
the next or later sittings, that the whole
picture bgcpme? thoroughly changed. Or
at timps jhpy may add some very valqaWe
pipep of mfo.rmatjpfi at (he gpcbncj, fhird
or later Interviews quite casually, a pjecg
which had hitherto escaped our most
minute questioning.
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Besides, these, in accepting the descrip
tion by the patient of his symptoms in toto,
we tend to attribute to and place on his ob
servations, expressions or words, a certain
degree of infallibility which they may not
always or entirely deserve. This may per
haps be one of homoeopathy’s distinguish
ing characteristics and at the same time
-one of its greatest weaknesses. When a
patient for instance, complains of tinnitus,
the allopathic physician is satisfied with
the formal statement whereas the
homoeopathic physician wishes to ascer
tain what is the exact nature of the sound.
That homoeopathic enquiry goes so deep
and realises the significance of such
minutiae, is a credit to the system. Yet
from a purely practical point of view, we
find that the average patient is not able to
distinguish between buzzing and whizzing.
roaring and rushing. That homoeopathic
approach is so subjective while the subject
of the suffering is himself so fallible be
comes its weak point.
Yet again in the interpretation of the
symptoms, we may not be able to know,
grasp or understand the whole background
of each symptom. For instance, the patient
who has an aggravation on chewing might
tell us instead that he is aggravated by
eating; another patient may state that
when he perspires he gets an attack of
coryza whereas in actuality it may be that
when he perspires and gets chilled there
after, which is often natural, he may be
getting the attack. If we fail to put these
symptoms in their proper perspective, we
are likely to err.
THE
HOMOEOPATHIC
MEDICA
MATERIA
Now we may take the other side of the
great equafipn viz. the Homoeopathic
Mateyia Mpcjica.
The symptoms recorded originally ^verp
derived from provings made on healthy
persons but later on it is known that even
Hahnemann proved drugs on his patients
and added the resulting observations to
the Materia Medica. This might have
been due to the paucity of provers or due
to the fact that Hahnemann considerably
broadened the scope of the term ‘healthy
prover’. Anyhow, the facts are so. Later
on still clinical symptoms were also added
to the Materia Medica—-those found to
have been produced or erased after the
administration of the particular drug.
Controversies have ranged about the
value of these clinical symptoms. But it
is a fact that our Materia Medica as it
stands at present has quite a large measure
of these clinical symptoms and many of
these have been of immense value in prac
tice notwithstanding whatever might be
said against them on academic grounds.
For instance, the symptoms “vomiting of
cold drinks, after they become warm in the
stomach” discovered by Dr. Lippe at the
bedside is still considered one of the classi
cal and valuable indications for Phos
phorus.
So as against the academical assump
tion that our Materia Medica is made up
of symptoms derived from provings made
on healthy human beings, in actual fact it
is a congregation of symptoms derived
from different sources. Not all of these
therefore, can be considered of equal value.
instance, Dr. Hughes with his monumental
patience has carefully assuaged almost
every symptom in the Materia Medica
Pura and Chronic Diseases with a critical
eye and has concluded that even certain
of the symptoms, recorded by Hahnemann
should be rejected. He quotes the symp
toms supplied to Hahnemann by Nenning.
“How does Nenning produce such a vast
amount of sexual symptoms from almost
every drug he proved ?” Dr. Hughes
questions. In fact, Hahnemann himself
had called Nenning a “symptom-buyer”.
In the circumstances, it seems that there
are possibly as many defects on this side
as on the other side of the equation.
Therefore, in comparing the symptom pic
ture of the patient with the symptom of
the drug we are comparing and trying to
match two entities each of which is imper
fect and defective to a certain extent.
If in spite of these circumstances and
handicaps we are able to select the drug
accurately and achieve success in practice,
it is a credit to the immeasurable greatness
of this science.
THE MATCHING OF THE CASE
Taking up the evaluation of a case we
come across a further difficulty in deciding
which of the symptoms of a given case
may safely be given a secondary rank or
may even be omitted altogether, from con
sideration; here again it becomes a matter
Besides, every symptom whatever its of opinion and individual judgment. For
source, depends for its value upon the instance, Farrington says that when the
source and the care with which it has cause is definitely available then this is t(j
been critically examined before being be given the highest importance. Ho says;
accepted. It is possible that some of these “In the chronic effects of injury we may
symptoms haye not bpen so critically use Arnica, when diseases (which may
assessed before being included. Indeed even be entirely foreign in their appear
jt hfls been susppcfed and questioned that ance to the ordinary symptomatology of
some of the symptoms oven of the prov= the drug) may be traced to a traumatic
Ings, might turn out to be the product of origin. No matter what that disease may
the circumstances of the provers. For be, .whether of the brain, eyes, lungs or
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nerves, if the injury is the exciting cause,
the administration of Arnica is proper” and
again “Even if the symptoms which follow
are not apparently connected with the
symptomatology of Staphisagria, you may
expect, when they arise from this cause,
to obtain relief by its administration.” I
have found this true sometimes in my prac
tice as the following case will illustrate.
”1. We had a patient aged 22 years
who had all the classical symptoms of
an intracranial tumour. He had recur
rent headaches, projectile vomiting,
vertigo, diplopia, strabismus, tremors,
exaggerated jerks and asthenia. Fundoscopy revealed a papilloedema with
minute haemorrhages in the retina’ in
both eyes. He had already undergone
all investigations which included X-ray
studies of the skull and the tumour hav
ing been located, he had been advised
to undergo surgical treatment. He had
refused and had opted for homoeo
pathic treatment. We were most reluc
tant to take up the case but decided to
keep him under observation and treat
him for a few days. He gave a very
clear history that three years back he
had been involved in a minor train acci
dent with consequent injury to head.
He had then been unconscious only for
a minute but since then he had lost in
terest in his studies and later had deve
loped the whole symptoms complex.
This cases worked out as follows: (page
Nos. refer to Kent’s Repertory).
Injuries to the head (128)
Am., Cic., Hypericum., Nat.m., Nat.sul.
+ Indifference: (54)
Arnica.; Cic., Nat.mur.
4- Diplopia (277)
Arnica., Cic., Nat.mur.
+ Strabismus (266)
Cic., Nat.mur.
+ Desire salt things (486)
Nat.mur;
Nat.mur. came out in all the rubrics.
When we gave him Nat.mur. there was
an aggravation which lasted for quite a
few days but this was not followed by any
amelioration. Thereupon considering the
fact that the whole disorder originated
after the head injury, we gave him Nat.sul.
to which there was a magical responses
The patient felt better within 24 hours and
in two or three days felt perfectly well.”
Yet at times the prescription based on
the exciting cause has failed whereas the
prescription based on the present symp
toms has succeeded, though of course, we
must remember that in most cases, we
are never perfectly certain about the ex
citing cause; we only make a reasonable
inference about the probable cause.
Cases are also known where the pres
cription based on the previous history
ignoring the whole present symptomato
logy has succeeded. Dr. Dunham’s case
of deafness is a famous instance. -To
quote his own lucid description : “The
success of the treatment resorted to in this
case warrants a few remarks upon its
rationale. Here was a case which pre
sented to the practitioner apparently noth
ing on which to base a prescription. There
was a thickened membrana tympani —
nothing more. The work of thickening
had probably been accomplished years
ago. Here was a pathologico-anatomical
condition, but no pathological process and,
consequently, there were no abnormally
performed functions ~ or, in other words,
no symptoms of disease — from which to
draw indications for the treatment. ' The
pathological process which had produced
it — just a knowledge of the town, at
which a traveller has arrived, gives no
certain clue to the road by which he reach-
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ecl it.” He then goes on to describe the
original symptoms of the case which had
long since disappeared and concludes:
“The resemblance between these groups
of symptoms was so striking that Mezereum was at once selected as the remedy
for this case of deafness, just as if the scalp
affection had been still in its original form,
and had been the immediate object of the
prescription.
Very sensitive to cold and changes of
atmosphere.
Takes cold easily, usually affecting nose
and throat first with dryness, then with
watery catarrh and sneezing, or he has
aching pains in different parts of the
body and limbs changing location fre
quently.
Twenty years ago had African fever.
Never had gonorrhoea, syphilis, or other
eruptions than those mentioned above.
AU other functions normal.
While on a visit to Philadelphia he
applied to Dr. Lippe, at my advice.
Dr. Lippe wrote me the following letter:
“I find that your patient had diphtheria
about ten years ago, and was treated
with inappropriate mercurials and gar
gles by Dr............ The character
of the attack was that it went from one
side to the other and finaUy back again
to original side.
Great weakness,
almost paralytic, foUowed the attack,
and he thinks he has never regained his
full vigour and usual strength since this
illness. His acute ocld has always the
character of shifting pains and change
of location. I have given him a dose of
Lac. can. CM., which may be required
to be followed by a dose of PulsatiUa.”
Suffice it to say that my patient never
needed the suggested dose of Pulsatilla.
In three months after his visit to Phila
delphia his wife was pregnant.
She has since borne two remarkably
healthy children.
As far as we know Lac. can jas no sexual
weakness. That fact disturbed Dr.
Lippe very little in his selection. Hp
looked deeper and fo.und the cause and
the remedy. This is true homoeopathic
pathology. AU the knowledge in the
world of tite special pathology of this
ease would not have-revealed the remedy
“It not infrequently occurs that we are
called upon to prescribe for what seems
rather results of morbid actions, than
active diseases. In such cases it would
seem that we may often successfully base
a prescription upon the symptoms of a
diseased condition which no longer exists,
but which form in reality a part of the
case.”
Dr. Lippe’s case of diphtheria is also a
well-known instance. Tins is also worth
quoting. “The cure of the following case
will demonstrate what I mean by a freer
and wider application of our law of cure:
I had treated the patient more than
eighteen months without improvement,
except tliat his great liability to taking cold
had become less.
“I copy from my record, taken Decem
ber, 1881.
G.R. aged 45, light brunette, married
ten years, general appearance healthy.
For six years has had no discharge of
semen during coitus.
Occasionally nocturnal emissions.
Erections usually weak, give out during
coitus.
Burning in perineum, worse after going
to bed, and when thinking of it. Occa
sionally itching, dry eruptions in crotch
and* inner upper surface of thighs and
itqus.
\Vjfh {he §et)safigns of weakness of gpnb
hds his eyes feel weak,
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to anyone. To the homoeopathic artist,
however, it was revealed, and a man re
gained his manhood and became the
father of two children, aften ten years.of
impotence.”
Sometimes the prescription based on the
family history alone has succeeded where
everything else had failed. Dr. Foubister’s
cases treated with Carcinosin are also
illustrative.
In translating our symptoms into the
language of the repertories and in select
ing the appropriate rubrics we are again
liable to make a slip. For instance, I have
found that in cases of gastritis, gastric
ulcer etc., the cases work out better if in
taking the symptoms under the chapter
“Stomach” corresponding symptoms under
"Abdomen” are included instead of
stomach alone. Similarly, when the rub
ric “Taking cold drinks, agg.” fails to give
me the appropriate drug, the rubric
“Chilled agg.” has helped me. Similarly
instead of "lying on right side agg.” “lying
on left side amel;”' has helped. So also
‘lying on abdomen amel.” has guided us
to the drug instead of “lying on back
agg.” Similarly if the agg. and amel of
particular symptom by particular items of
food and drink given under particular
chapters does not give us the clue, the
agg. and amel. by these items given in
the chapter on generalities have helped
me. Numerous such examples can be
provided.
We could also mention the fact that
certain cases in which the drug appears
well indicated, when repertorized do not
bring out the drug. Possibly we selected
the wrong rubrics, possibly the disem
bowelled way in which symptoms are
split up in the repertory are responsible.
Whatever it is, we feel that the repertory
should be taken only as a guide and never
be entirely relied upon to point out the
drug.
Considering all that has been mentioned
above, it is no wonder that when the
same patient for the same set of symptoms
is placed before different homoeopathic
prescribers they tend to arrive at different
drugs in spite of the famous instance often
quoted where homoeopaths in different
countries selected the same drug when
presented with identical symptoms of a
patient.
So it can be seen that whereas all
homoeopaths concur to prescribe on the
symptom totality, this "Symptom Totality”
itself turns out to be a somewhat an elu
sive or illusive entity. The symptom
totality image of the same patient may
change from person to person, and from
prescriber to prescriber depending upon
the way in which .each ingredient is given
its'place and value.
SUMMARY
Certain aspects of homoeopathy and
difficulties met with in homoeopathic prac
tice are described and discussed.
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MY CONVERSION TO HOMOEOPATHY
by Dr. R. R. Adige, L.M.S., Bangalore
allopath, what is taught' to him is the final
word in medicine, and' once he is. taken
within the magnificent folds of his great
order, he can and generally does look down
upon al! other systems of medicine as
Like the conversion to another religion
of a learned philosopher as against that of
an unlettered “savage,” it might be intri
guing to know how an allopathic doctor
gets converted to homoeopathy, for, to an
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quackery, simply because the Knight or the
Professor who wrote his text books does
not mention anything about them and how
could anything useful exist in this world
that is not mentioned in those books ?
present the bottles of gold to him and go
away. As a matter of fact, those four
bottles turned out to be more precious than
gold to me because they cured my Malaria
rapidly and smoothly. Yet, I seem not to
have retained any sustained impression of
the beneficial episode, perhaps partly due
to a sub-conscious contempt bred out of
familiarity and mostly due to my subsequent theoretical and practical study of
our senior subjects in hospitals with the
stress only on diagnosis.
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In my case, to begin at the beginning, I
must inform readers that I know, by sight
and taste, Schussler’s tissue remedies
from my earliest years of discretion be
cause my father, though a vakil, always
kept a stock of them for free distribution
over a period of forty-five years to who
soever came for them. I used to swal
Then, after my qualification in 1921,
low some whenever I felt like it and found when I had my stethoscope and my hypoit possible to do so by taking care to help dermic syringe, what more did I need ?
myself from the fuller bottles. I had I started private practice (without my own
several minor illnesses and time passed, dispensary) and strutted about in smug
and in the second year of my medical complacence in spite of the patent inadestudies in 1917-18, I caught Malaria in quacies of our materia medica of those
Hyderabad and suffered from its regular days, trading mostly on the psychological
attacks for several months in spite of very element attached to the doctor’s visit plus
intensive treatment with quinine and many perhaps an injection added on to an im
other remedies. One of the latter, I re pressively long or costly prescription. But, j
member, was a patent liquid stuff called this psychologic element cannot work in
splenox—a very nasty stuff to swallow in the doctor’s own ■ case, and that is why
deed 1 This preparation seems to have when an allopath becomes really ill, spe
disappeared very soon from the market — cially with pains and discomforts which
or perhaps any need for it disappeared, be are not amenable to his own remedies, he
cause, just then, my father had sent to me seeks relief from any other source and if
an ounce each of four remedies — two he is lucky he gets it.
powders viz. Natrum Mur and Natrum sul
I had several illnesses that were pain
phur and two liquids viz. Arsenic alba and
China sulph — with instructions to take a less, but the painful one came on in 1934
dose of each remedy morning, night, noon as a swelling in my right palm. 1 remem
and evening respectively. I remember ber that I had a motor car then with its
that I used to get my ague exactly at electric horn permanently out of order,
4 P.M. and on the day I had to clear my and, as I could not blow the bulb horn
parcel of those medicines from the Cus with my painful right hand, all the roads
toms Counter, then existing in Hyderabad, I had to travel over became a silent zone
I got my ague added on to the exaspera to me. As there was more noise in motor
tion at the demand of the Customs Officer cars then and less envious disdain for them
for proof that the two white powders and in our people in those days of non-sociathe two watery liquids did not contain any lism, driving was comparatively easier
contraband gold! Ultimately he released than at present. Yet it was a troublesome
them only when I declared my intention to affair for me because the pain in my hand
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I went on increasing rather than decreasing
I with all the various treatments it had—mcI dicinal, thermal and then some short wave
I therapy which had just then come into
I vogue. I was working in the Sri RamaI krishna Mission free dispensary also then,
| and Swami Amohanandaji (I can never
I forget Manindra Maharaj as we called him)
| who was assisting us in the dispensary,
I noticing my distress, offered to me, with
I some trepidation, two doses of a homoeo| pathic remedy with instructions to take one
I dose after lunch and the other at bed time.
| I put the first dose on my tongue after
I lunch and had my usual nap. What was
I my pleasant surprise to see that the pain
I had disappeared when I woke up from my
| nap? I took the second dose at bed time
| and, whfn I woke up the next morning the
I swelling too had disappeared ! ! It had
I looked like an abscess, and antibiotics had
I not come then into common usage. AnyI way, I have never seen such good action
I from any antibiotic since then too.
I Manindra Maharaj later told me that it
| was Sulphur 200 that he gave me.
This is only a story of my conversion to
homoeopathy and not of my subsequent
triumphs — or failures. Yet, I cannot
resist the temptation to cite two recent
cases to emphasise the pleasure showed by
the doctor and the patient who has been
cured of pain — pain which is the latest
to have the honor of being the object of
specialization. One patient was a young
industrial tycoon having to travel about
constantly here in India and abroad, and
his complaint was a constant pain under
the lower and inner angle of tire right sca
pula, so well known to homoeopaths. He
himself described to me how he consulted
specialists in several cities here and abroad,
and how he produced from his pockets
every analgesic that they mentioned and
told them how he had already tried them
without any permanent benefit. He is one
of the directors of a concern which manu
factures and markets some of these famous
analgesics, and knows well their claims.
My treatment of that ailment began, as
usual with such clean cases, with a gua
rantee in advance, of a cure, and a few
This time I realised the necessity of ac doses of Chelidonium M fulfilled my
quiring such specific remedies so that real guarantee. The other patient was a young
help could be rendered to patients who lady residing in Delhi who had a similar
come to us so trustingly for relief of their pain, but below the left scapula, which
sufferings, and decided to study a system also baffled diagnosticians and stoutly
which, twice in my own case, had demon resisted treatment by local allopathic spe
strated its utility. As Manindra Maharaj cialists and which was ‘amazingly’ relieved,
had only Bengali books on homoeopathy, as she dialetically expressed it, after a few
I sought the guidance of Dr. S. R. Koppi- doses of Chenopodium glaucosum.
In August 1961, my long experience with
kar who was in charge of the Homoeopa
thic section of the Sri Ramakrishna Mis these remedies prompted me to suggest
sion free dispensary later on, and to whom homoeopathic treatment for pain to a V.I.P.
we used to send from our allopathic sec overseas, who had a specialist on pain in
tion all intractable cases, which meant that attendance. I do not know, however,
he had to tackle more cases than we. He whether my suggestion reached him or was
put me in the way with great enthusiasm acted upon. My aim has been to enlighten
and much kindness. He was a kindred my allopathic brethren about the existence
spirit too in not hesitating to be eclectic of some specific and effective remedies, so
that they could turn out better work than
when necessary.
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before — (vide my article ‘Quo Vadis” in
the Indian Medical Journal of November
1953). I find that, like myself, they get
convinced only after personal suffering and
personal experience. But this they always
do without any exception.
It is a’ great pity that we allow blinkers
to be tied to us during our medical educa
tion and that it requires so much personal
suffering before we struggle out of them.
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ALLIUM CEPA
Dr. A. U. Siuram, M.B.,B.S., M.F.Hom.(Lond.), Tiruchirapalli.
Mr. S. G., a case of mitral stenosis im
proving under Naja came to me one day
with blocking of left nostril, headache in
both temples, drawing pain in left hypochandrium, frequent yawnings and recent
desire for raw onions. Clarke says desire
for raw onions is an indication for All. cepa.
With the modalities < in the evening and
> in open air, I did prescribe All. cepa 200
for him. Within a few minutes the head
ache is gone, the pain in hypochondrium
is gone and the yawnings are gone.
Another instance. Mr. S. Y. was in
agony with a right-sided strangulated
hernia. He too was feeling more com
fortable in the verandah than inside the
room and the hour was 7 P.M. All. cepa
200 was dissolved in water and adminis
tered. Hardly had this touched his tongue,
the pains ■•were gone and he felt the ‘re
duction’ of the hernia taking place gra
dually.
To those who view Cepa —that is the
familiar way of calling Allium cepa — as
a drug merely useful in acrid coryza
and bland lachrymation the above
two instances would unveil a newer
picture. The Pulsatilla — modalities
(< evenings, > open air) are there but
the pitiful cry of Puls., comes in handy to
differentiate the two, in cases of earaches.
Clarke gives “Yawnings; with headache
and cramp in stomach” and that is about
what we had in case No. 1 cited above.
But I got the lead in the desire for raw
onions.
The case of strangulated hernia was ad
vised surgery though he had relief with
medication on- that occasion. But who
would get himself operated when there
is a person to prescribe medicine and re
lieve and that too instantaneously. So, as
it should, be, there was a recurrence of
the trouble after an year and he wanted
the ‘magic remedy*. All. cepa. 200 was
sent. No result! Advised immediate sur
gery, but patient not yielding. The patient’s
relative wanted me to prescribe again.
more so because he felt the ‘causation’
different this time. He seems to have
quarrelled with somebody for trying to
cheat him in business and that had landed
him into this trouble. Some intelligent lay
persons seem to know a lot of pathology
with sound interpretation of symptoms and
a doctor cannot afford to ignore them.
Anyway, I got a clue for Colocynth but
I did not find this remedy under the rub
ric ‘strangulated ‘hernia’ in Kent’s Reper
tory. I thought it should not matter at
all. It is something like not finding a
heading in the index of a book which still
contains the same in its substance. Colo
cynth 200 was prescribed. Within 15
minutes he passed flatus and in another
15 minutes passed a stool and in another
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half an hour all pains were gone and all
the relatives went to sleep. So the lesson
was learnt that all things cannot be confinned by the Repertory. If Colocynth
has to be confirmed in this case, one
should seek the rubric ‘ailments after
chagrin’ and not ‘strangulated hernia’. If
in one’s experience he learnt of Colocynth
helping in. such a case as this, he is at
liberty to include the remedy under the
rubric strangulated hernia in his copy of
the Repertory for future guidance. Are
not such thrilling instances recorded even
better in memory than in any book ? By
the way Mr. S. Y. is yet to get himself ope
rated in spite of all the counsel.
So, we have drifted away from Cepa to
Colocynth. If you add whooping cough
and traumatic neuritis to the points touch
ed about Allium cepa it would give a better
impression of this valuable remedy. Last
but not least, All. cepa is a flatulent re
medy. That is the short story of this
simple remedy and simplicity itself is no
bar to a real physician. I think it is
Sydenham who said “Only weak minds
scorn things for being clear and plain.”.
BRONCHIAL ASTHMA
by Dr. A. U. Natarajan, M.B., B.S.,M.F.Hom. (Lond.), Coimbatore.
Mr. S. N. S. aged 34 years, employed in
dye industry has been constantly exposed
to the fumes and gases from the chemicals
and has* no way to keep these ‘allergens’
out since his residential quarters were close
to the workspot. His asthma started some
time in 1957 i.e., nearly 8 years after his
taking up this job and it gradually became
v worse.. All those who were consulted for
his asthma advised him to keep out -ofothe
area but that could not be done.
His grandmother xhad asthma. His fa
ther’s sister (whose grand-danghter he
married) had asthma. There is no family
history of Tuberculosis.
His asthmatic attacks are worse from 12
midnight or 2 a.m: till day break, worse
in rainy weather, worse from fumes and
dust of factory and after oilbath. The pa
tient has a burning sensation in epigastrium
on waking from sleep in the afternoon, >
after eating. Though costive earlier, his
bowels move regularly, since 1958. He
gets dreams of robbers and of wild animals
chasing him; gets headache, and feels weak
when hungry; is very fond of sweets and
milk.
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He is a hot patient, has fear of heights;
depressed easily, rarely 'suicidal depres
sions. Such .depressions were more when
he was under allopathic treatment.
Anticipation <. Fastidious ++. Blood
count revealed 12% eosinophiles (Total
W.B.C. count = 11,500).
. Natruni sulph, was selected on the
following grounds:
. Asthma • < Rainy weather < Oil bath
< Early morning; family history of asthma;
personal history of malaria; depressed, fas
tidious, hot patient.
So Natrum Sulph. IM was prescribed on
19th November 1961. On 20-11-1961 lie
had a severe attack from midnight.
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The attack continued to be severe even
at 8 a.m. next day when he presented him
self for examination. Nat. sulph. 10 M was
prescribed. When there was severe attack
of asthma, the case had reached an acute
phase. Hence Nat. sulph. in high potency
i.e., Nat. sulph 10 M was given, in fre
quent repeated doses. One powder of
Nat. sulph. 10 M was to be dissolved in a
glass of water and.one teaspoon of that
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solution to be taken every hour, starting gone. Giddiness at 1-30 a.m.. Tub. bov.
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from 8 a.m. The asthma was better only when he was under “investigations” had
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by 20% by 8 p.m. Arsenic seemed to be shown “Hilar markings +. Hilar glands
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suggested by his restlessness etc., but show stippled effect ? Koch’s.” On 2-2-’62
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was not given since he was still a hot pa I did not want to repeat Ars. iod as he had
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tient. So at 8 p.m. again when he return no other symptoms apart from that ‘giddi$
ed without any abatement of symptoms, ness’ hence the nosode was prescribed.
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Ars. iod. 30 was given. Ars. was thought 12th June 1962 : doing well.
of even during first prescription, but it
So, this gentleman is now free from
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covered the case only partially. Restless asthmatic attacks since 24-12-1962 and has
ness, fear of being alone, burning in abdo regained the weight lost before coming to .
men in noon and afternoon (Kent p. 572), me. He still handles the dyes and chemi
fastidious, irritable, hour of aggravation.
cals and inhales the fumes. That shows •
But he was a hot patient, fond of cooling that we could correct or cure .the .
his food when served hot. Hence it was asthma without removing the “allergens” :
kept in waiting list. Under the comple
by correcting the root cause, namely, '
mentary remedies list, Ars. and Thuja were
“susceptibility.” There is no need for the f
found (Gibson Miller). Under rubric
antihistamines to neutralise the histamine ,
“Hay asthma”, (Kent’s Repertory p. 765),
that is supposed to form in the reaction. :
ars., ars'. i., and iod“ are given along with
One has also to consider the social as
other remedies. Hour of aggravation for
Ars. iod. is given as 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. (page well as practical aspect before drastic mea
764: Respiration — Asthmatic night). sures are adopted or advised, such as ■
Thus Ars. iod was chosen and given in 30th getting rid of the job or getting rid of sep- I
potency. Nat. sulph. 10 M was stopped. tic foci in his body in order to remove the [
He slept well that night and then again the so-called allergen, etc. Nothing «good can
following morning after breakfast. Re come out of the* impracticable, hazardous ■
ported only in afternoon with negligible arid sometimes even destructive sugges- ;
wheezing which was detected only by aus tions like total dental extraction or tonsil- J
cultation (patient was not feeling any lecomy or appendicectomy. These glamor- |
strain of spasm). On 24-12-1961, he re ous, circuitous methods of treatment attract L
ported no attacks for the last one month bigger masses than the simple method of |
and has maintained a steady overall im radical cure which is dubbed as unscienti- I
provement. Slight wheezing towards the fic by both the “knowing” as well as the |
evening. Ars. iod. 200. By 2-2-1962: The laity. Only those who have “experienced” I
burning sensation in epigastrium is also the magic will appreciate the genius of
10M. (Because X-Ray chest taken in 1960 homoeopathy;,
PERSISTENT VOMITING
Dr. B. J. Kamani, M.B.,B.S., Bombay.
Around December 1960, I was consult
ed by a lady aged 35 years for persistent
vomiting of 20 years’ duration which had
started just after her marriage.
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She had s-ix children but she was not
very happy domestically since she did hot
have good relations with the husband and
the in-laws. There were frequent quar-
rcls in the house and the husband even
used to beat her. She was vomiting every
day, immediately after food. For some
peculiar reason she was free, from this dis
order for a month before and a month
after Diwali. She also used to lie down
and weep when alone. She had consulted
several doctors including several eminent
physicians and psychologists both in
Bombay and 'at Karachi and had found no
relief. When we saw her we were struck
by the fact that even with the history of
vomiting of so many years, her general
health was not very poor. In fact she
looked well nourished. Combining this
fact with her unhappy domestic situation,
we gave her Ignatia IM daily twice for
one week. By the end of the week her
vomiting decreased and disappeared.
Now she has been free for the last lis
year.
CLINICAL EXPERIENCES WITH HYDRASTIS
Dr. A. R. A. Achabya, Bangalore
I believe that a similar drug i.e., one
capable of producing similar disease will
cure if the drug-force reaches the vitalforce through the blood, orally or through
Dr. Boericks says in his preamble “Acts skin which is protecting us from the ex
especially on mucous membranes, relaxing ternal attacks. As skin is capable of abthem and producing a thick, yellowish, ■ sorbing, it can as well take in drugs when
soapy secretion.... weak muscular power, rubbed in. Who has not seen the warts
poor digestion and obstinate constipation falling off by external application of
.... Its action on the liver is marked. Thuja ? It is always good to give a dose
Cancer and cancerous state, before ulcera or two internally in potency of the same
tion, when, pain is principal symptom.... remedy.
■ Let me give my clinical experience of
Hydrastis confirming the facts in the
materia medica and adding some more
verified facts to the materia medica.
The power of Hydrastis over small pox
seen in modifying the disease, abolishing
its distressing symptoms, shortening its
course lessening its danger and greatly
mitigating its consequences.
Some years back I saw a child crying
due to colic drawing its legs towards ab
domen. It was constipated. I applied
Hydrastis to the liver region with a piece
of cotton. The child .passed stools even
as the application was going on on the
abdomen. After this experience I have
adopted this method to remove congestion
and distress in the abdomen. Children
might pass only urine, er stools and urine.
Relief is certain. The relief might also be
due to the sudden coldness produced by
the application of spirit.
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I have given Hydrastis with good
results to a number of patients suffering
from long standing constipation with poor
appetite. Once, one of my friends ate
some preparation of green chillies. The
whole rectum got inflamed; pain intoler
able. In fact, it was actually like inflamed
piles. Hydrastis
5 drops in 1 oz. water
every 2 hours was taken and 6 doses
brought out”a sigh of relief.
This experience of mine was 2 years
back. Since then I am treating painful
cases of piles, whether bleeding or not,
(generally blind piles are very painful)
with Hydrastis; It is interesting to say
that one Central Government Officer al
ways keeps K oz. pf Hydrastis in, his
suit case whether he is on tour in India
or abroad. He was not only able to avoid
an operation but he also got rid of the
awful pain and constipation. He is very
grateful to Hydrasitis and Homoeopathy.
ALLUMINIUM DERMATITS
Dr. P. Sankaijan, L.I.M., F.C.E.H., D.F.Hom.(Lond.),
Hon. Physician, Government-Homoeopathic Hospital, Bombay
Case 1693J/1958
Mr. A.V.D. aged 18 years consulted me
on 13-3-’58 for circular symmetrical patch
es of eruptions in dorsu’m of both feet
about 2" in diameter for last 2 months
itching sometimes; with white scales, thin
exudate on scratching. He strains for stool
although the/ are soft. He was using
aluminium vessels for cooking food last 3
months.
I advised him to discard the aluminiurq
vessels and gave no medicine.
22-3-1958 Itching much better; eruptions
fading. No medicine given.
26-4-1958 Patch is greatly decreased but
not gone. Itches after batik
R Morg. Bach, 200, 3 doses in
one day.
5-5-1958 Condition normal.
Comments:
The ill effects of aluminium used in the
kitchen are not realised by a large number
of physicians.
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NEWS AND NOTS
33rd PAN AMERICAN CONGRESS
Dr. C. V. S. Corea, International Director
for Asia of the World Homoeopathic Medi
cal Congress informs us that the 3rd ses
sion of the World Homoeopathic Medical
Congress along with the 33rd session of
the Pan American Homoeopathic Medical
Congress and the 9th Brazilian Homoeo
pathic Congress will take place in the city
of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the 25th
October to 2nd November 1962.
The Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs of the Government of Brazil has
sent a circular to Governments of various
countries inviting those interested to attend
the Congress. All those Homoeopaths
wishing to attend the Congress are request
ed to contact the Brazilian Diplomatic Mis
sion in their respective countries and make
the necessary arrangements to enable them
to attend the Congress. Detailed infor
mation can be obtained from the Executive
Secretary of the World Homoeopathic
Medical Congress, P.O. Box. 1311, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
Dr. K. R. SETHNA
Dr. K. R.-Sethna, M.B..B.S., F.C.E.H. securing his membership of the Faculty of
(Bom.), member of the Editorial Board Homoeopathy (Lond.). Our hearty con
of the Journal has returned from U.K. after gratulations are due to him.
HOMOEOPATHIC HEDICAL COLLEGE
The new building of the Bombay Hon’ble Dr. Sushila O. Nayyar, Union
Homoeopathic Medical College located at Minister of Health, on 13th of September
Vile -Parle, Bombay was opened by he 1962.
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300 beds. She also deprecated strongly
the fact that numerous persons* with very
little education or training continue to enter
the ranks of homoeopaths thereby bringing
discredit to the system.
In her speech, the Hon’ble Minister
mentioned that the present strength*of 35
bods in the Government Homoeopathic
Hospital Was inadequate for good training
and that the Hospital should have at least
4*
+
BOOK REVIEW:
‘Forty -four years* Practice in Homoeo
pathy by Dr. V. V. Athalye, A.V.P.,
Published by Anath Vidyarthi Graha Prakashan Poona 2, Pages 341. + y. Pace
Rs. 10/-.
It has been noted with regret that in the
field of homoeopathy in India, while there
has been a fairly satisfactory expansion
with regard to homoeopathic education
and registration of practitioners, the publi
cation of original literature has not at all
kept pace. Few original books are pub
lished. Tlie publishers are satisfied with
reprinting old books by the masters.• Prob
ably they view the matter only commer
cially and do not wish to take any risk
with their investments. Whatever the
reason, this is an unsatisfactory state of
affairs and if not the regular publishers,
at least the Boards of Homoeopathy or
the educational institutions in the* field
must move to remove this defect by en
couraging the publication of good litera
ture.
Dr. V. V. Athalye has done a distinct
service in this direction by summarising
his clinical* experiences of forty-four years
in .this field. Though his is not a text book
of medicine he has followed the order of
a text book giving a brief summary of the
various diseases.
His experiences are
classified and therapeutic hints added to,
under the headings ‘Diseases of the various
Systems”. Too long the homoeopaths
have shunned the use of clinical and diag
nostic terms. No doubt the repeated*
warnings of Kent, Nash etc. are to be
heeded and the clinical knowledg and diag
nostic data should not be allowed to
distort a homoeopathic outlook and mar
an otherwise good selection of the remedy.
But homoeopaths have sometimes gone to
the other extreme and have completely
avoided hot only clinical and diagnostic
terms but even such an approach. Expe
rience will show that diseases occur in the
form of definite clinical entites however
much there may be individual variations
within each group. Dr. Athalye is to be
congratulated for bringing the pendulum
back to the centre.
The author, though , a resident of a com
paratively small town seems to have had a
very rich and varied experience and quotes
some hundreds of cases; His presentation
of the ■ material- is very systematic and
thorough.
Throughout the book the
author is very moderate in language and
nowhere do we find any exaggerated
claims. Though some printing mistakes
have crept in, the get-up of the book is
quite good and the price reasonable.
We heartily recommend the book which
will be most useful as a book of thera
peutics both to senior students and to prac
titioners of homoeopathy.
-P.S.
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103.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The following journals were received :
The Homoeopathic World (Eng.), London.
The Homoeopathic Bulletin (Eng.), Calcutta.
The Pakistan Journal of Homoeopathy (Eng. & Bengali), Dacca.
The Torch of Homoeopathy (Eng. & Hindi), Jaipur.
The Indian Journal of Homoeopathy (Eng.), Bombay.
Homoeopathic Magazine (Eng. & Urdu), Lahore.
The Hindustan Medical Magazine (Eng. & Hindi), Bihar.
The Homoeopathic Sandesh (Eng. & Hindi), Delhi.
The Madras Homoeopathic Journal (Eng.), Madras.
Saludy Vida (Spanish), Barcelona.
Homoeopathy (Tamil), Kumbakonam.
Homoeopathy (Eng.), Kumbakonam.
Athurashram Homoeopathic Medical College Magazine (Eng.), Kottayam.
Khassisghe Homoeopathic (German), Ulm/Donau.
Homoeo Darishan (Hindi & Eng.), Rajasthan.
Homoeo-Doot, (Marathi & Eng.), Nasik.
The Indian Homoeopathic Gazette (Eng.)
Chowghat.
The Pakistan Journal of Homoeopathy (Eng.), Dacca.
Samuel Hahnemann (Eng. & Malayalam), Quilin.
The Homoeopathic Magazine (Eng.), Lahore.
Homoeopatia (Spanish), Rio De Janeiro.
The Australian Naturopath (Eng.).
The Homoeo. Biochemist (Eng.)', Bombay.
The Hahnemannian Gleanings (Eng.), Calcutta.
Homoeopathic Herald (Eng.), Calcutta.
Homoeo Sudha (Hindi), Bikanir.
Homoeopathic Vikas (Eng. & Hindi), Gwalior.
Organon (Tamil), Madurai.
Homoeo Mitran (Tamil).
Health and Life (Eng.), London.
Homoeopathic Reporter (Telugu), Elluru.
Homoeopathic Outlook (Eng. & Urdu), Lahore.
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