R N Banerjee Generally when the vitality is low, no deep acting and long acting remedies should be given. But in this case I took the risk. The first change noticeable was the disappearance of irritability. I was hopeful. After two weeks, the baby allowed me to examine the liver. The blue veins disappeared. There was rapid improvement and after a month he was cured completely.
Pyorrhoea is a very common disease now-a-days. Dental Surgeons advise removal of teeth. The root cause of the disease is not indigestion but anaemia. I shall now cite a case of pyorrhoea cured by Homoeopathic medicine. A Mahomedan gentleman who was suffering from this disease came to me for being treated homoeopathically. Some of his teeth in the lower gum were shaky.
In a closed room, in cold damp weather, at the change of season, after eating, after stool, by taking the hands behind the back or by raising arms, from sudden noise (palpitation) and from bathing. In open air and from monthly flow. It is a very good remedy for many complaints that come after child-birth especially paralysis. Its tongue is peculiar, thick at the base and thin in front and both the ring and pointer fingers are of equal size in the right hand.
Shri Ramsaran was suffering from a hard tumour in front of the neck just below the Adams apple. His tongue and lips were extremely dry and his eyes were of the Mongolian type. Seeing this, I put him upon Ginseng 30. After taking a few doses, the tumour disappeared. It should be remembered that in case of a hard tumour on the right side of the neck, Nat-mur; and on the left, Conium are to be administered. These two remedies cure such tumours promptly.
Generally when the vitality is low, no deep acting and long acting remedies should be given. But in this case I took the risk. The first change noticeable was the disappearance of irritability. I was hopeful. After two weeks, the baby allowed me to examine the liver. The blue veins disappeared. There was rapid improvement and after a month he was cured completely.
The study of the faces of individuals is really in interesting and profitable. It is interesting in as much as it arises curiosity in the minds of the people who come for treatment and profitable because it enables physician to hit upon the remedies easily and correctly. The suffering humanity who require medical aid fight shy of the Homoeopaths for the simple reason that they put too many questions to their patients and waste their valuable time before arriving at the correct decision.
A punjabi gentleman from Quetta came to me for treatment. He was suffering from weeping eczema. His face was covered with sores and fluid was coming out of them. It was really a sad case. I asked him to show me his tongue. Seeing the red papillae near the tip, Arsenic was prescribed and the patient was asked to come after four days. When he came next time, the oozing stopped.
Man forgets that the same soul exists in him as well as in other creatures of God and that the root cause of sympathy is oneness of soul. If we do not bear this in mind, we would be selfish and unsympathetic and we will try to do harm to others. If our thoughts are bad, naturally outbursts of psora will take place and we will suffer from some sort of disease or the other.
A young unmarried girl suffering from pain at the time of menses came to my clinic for treatment. The pain was intolerable and she used to cry bitterly. While examining her pulse, noticed a small nodular growth on the right wrist. This reminded me of Asafoetida. My belief was confirmed when I saw her tongue, for Asafoetida tongue is thick and on protrusion it folds like a tube.
Intuitive knowledge was known to Indian Yogis long ago. It is the real knowledge (Sahan Gyan) as laid down in the Gita. According to the modern psychologists, knowledge is of two kinds: Logical and Intuitive. Logical knowledge is derived from the study of books, observation and reflection; while Intuitive knowledge is the result of self-purification.
The aid of the nosodes is at times sorely needed, especially in case of failure of the well-selected remedies; of course, the indications must be certain and the nosodes must not be used empirically. The nosodes when constitutionally indicated prepare the way for recovery or cure, so that other indicated remedies may come into play, although these had been unable to turn the tide toward a favourable issue in the first instance.