HAHNEMANNS FACTS AND FANCIES

How a remedy cures is not definitely known. With our present knowledge, one perhaps may say the remedy cures by producing an antitoxin, or an antibody, or an opsome, or by some as yet unexplained process. The remedy as stated above produces a substance that destroys the bacteria, the toxin, etc. Homoeopaths have cured diphtheria long before antitoxin was known.

PLACEBO IN CONDITIONED REFLEX

In some chronic cases the action of our remedies lasts fro twenty days up to several months. Many homoeopathic physicians are strictly against repeating the curative remedy as long as the patient is improving. They give a placebo, not realizing that they are actually producing a stimulating response in the patient. It is about the same as giving the original remedy, except the action of the placebo gradually wears out.

SOME REMEDIES FOR MENORRHAGIA

In those cases of shock usually due to loss of much blood, with profound collapse, coldness, sweating and smothering with desire to be fanned, there are two remedies that are life savers- Carb. veg. and China. If one knows the previous history of menstruation, it will help to differentiate these remedies. In Carb. veg. the menses are premature and profuse, of pale blood, or thick with a pungent smell.

CARDIAC ANGINA

The etiology of these cases may be based on many different causes, some have a functional and some have an organic background. One is never sure of the cause of these attacks from a physical examination or from the history of case. The electrocardiograph record is of great help in the diagnosis and prognosis of these cases-if properly read.