Random Notes On Materia Medica

While orthodox medicine is utterly helpless in the case of cancer, and is unable to relieve sufferers except by poisonous dopes which naturally weaken the power of resistance of the body. homoeopathy can in practically all cases relieve the cancerous. Besides, and this is most important, homoeopathy has a large number of actual and unchallengeable cancer cures to its credit.

SOME POINTS ON ECZEMA

All homoeopaths know that eczema is not a local skin disease. The average dermatologist evidently thinks that it is and applies all sorts of treatment to the local manifestation, and practically never cures his patient. The cause of the trouble is some deep-seated miasm, which can often be traced through several generations of the patients family. It does not always show itself as a skin condition but may alternate with asthma or other troubles.

GUNPOWDER AS A REMEDY IN SURGICAL CASES

Unfortunately, Gunpowder had not definite proving and has to be used more or less empirically, but it will be found very useful in many cases. It consists of a mixture of three powerful remedies, Sulphur, Carbo vegetabilis and Kali nitricum. I have never been able to get satisfactory results with anything higher than the 3x trituration.

REMOVAL OF SCAR FROM CORNEA WITH THE HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDY

Now it is perfectly possible that the scar was going to clear up anyway and that the remedy had nothing to do with it, but improvement began soon after beginning treatment and both the patient and myself felt that it was the result of the action of the remedy.

ARSENICUM IODATUM

In this remedy the Arsenical characteristics predominate, but the iodine seems to activate these characteristics and they are to some extent more pronounced than in Arsenicum album. For instance, the discharges are more acrid than those of Arsenicum album. In hay fever with very acrid nasal discharge and much burning of the eyes and a great deal of sneezing without relief, it is to be preferred to Arsenicum album.

FACIAL NEURALGIA

In the past few years I have had a number of patients come to me with facial neuralgia who have been through some clinic and been told that as far as the clinic could find out they were one hundred per cent. However, as the pain was still doing business at the same old stand, the patient did not agree with them, and he was dead sure after setting the bill that he was not one hundred per cent financially.

A CASE OF PHOTOPHOBIA

The child has been under one of the best oculists in the city ever since the trouble developed, and has had numerous other consultants. Just previous to coming to Dr. Faris he went through a very thorough examination by one of the best internists in the city. Wassermanns were made on the child and his father and mother, all of which were negative, and he was tested for sensitivity to numerous substance with no result.