Homoeopathic remedies



Stinging pains as if from splinters, but we have also seen that even when this symptom does not exist there is often very rapid amelioration.

Frequent modalities are: Aggr. by first movement even continued; amel. by heat, by wide pressure.

Associated but not constant symptoms: Desire for sugar; tired look often seems older than his age. The symptoms are associated with those of Lycopodium and Arsenicum album.

This remedy generally acts on lumbo-sacral pains and on pains of small joints and big joints. It seems that this remedy has affinity for synovial as well as peri-articular tissues. The rapidity and persistent action of this remedy used in different cases have led us to think that though this remedy has not well characterised modalities yet it should be one of the important remedies for chronic rheumatism.

Other remedies :

Actaea racemosa (Cimicifuga)- Muscular rheumatism. Aggravation of all symptoms during menses (inverse-Lachesis). Often used in pains of menopause.

Apis :- Chronic rheumatism with or without exudation. Aggr. by heat; amel. by cold application. Sharp stinging pains.

Local hypersensitiveness. Absence of thirst (Apis 200).

Compare: Cantharis and the serpent poisons.

Benzoic acid – Rheumatism related to the infection of urinary tract: colibacillosis or other. Strong, repulsive odour of the urine. Very great pain in the renal region. Articular pains aggr. by movement. Pains of tendoachillis (Ruta)

Berberis vulgaris – Erratic gouty rheumatism. Charged urine. Cutting and beating pains in the renal region (left) radiating to the thigh. Hepatic troubles.

Calcarea fluorica :- Complementary of Rhus tox by its affinity for fibrous peri-articular tissue; aggravation by rest, by cold and by humid weather, amelioration by heat and movement. Hereditary malfunction of the pituitary.

Calcarea phos :- Rheumatism of small joints. Rapidly changes place. Amel. of pains by closing hands concomitant uterine troubles.

Colchicum :- Gouty rheumatism; erratic pains extremely painful; aggr. at night and by movement. Affinity for toes. Hypersensitiveness with great weakness. Intolerance of smells. Distended abdomen.

Dulcamara:- Articular pains, aggr. by change of weather (humid weather). The modalities are similar to those of Rhus tox. It is often an acute of Natrum Sulph.

Elaps carolinus :- Patient suffers from obesity, congestion, hypertension. Somnolence. Gouty modalities. Large elimination of uric acid with the urine. Diabetes.

General symptoms are similar to those of Lachesis (gushes of heat, desire for fresh air, aggr. after sleep). Generally 30th potency is used.

Formica rufa:- Rheumatic troubles related to a renal infection (colibacillosis). Bad smell of the urine, pyuria. Burning erratic pain, aggr. by movement, cold application, before snowfall. Amel by heat, by rubbing, after midnight. Profuse sweat that does not ameliorate.

Kali bichromicum:- Acute pains, rapidly shifting from one joint to the other (lac caninum, Kali sulph, Manganum, Pulsatilla, Stellaria media) Pains appear and disappear rapidly (phytolacca).

Rheumatic and digestive troubles alter. Affinity for small joints (Caulophyllum, Ledum, Lycopodium, Medorrhinum, Ruta) Sensitiveness of bones (particularly of tibia). Heels are sensitive. Aggr. at night and by cold.

Kali iodatum:- A remedy having affinity for fibrous tissue and periosteum. Pasty swelling of articulations (particularly of the knee). Bone pains. Tibia sensitive to touch. Rheumatism with pains worse at night and by immobility. Gouty old persons, must move ceaselessly, want open air, and have great heat. Fatigue when remains immobile and suffers much: he can walk for a long time in the open air without fatigue, specially when the weather is cold.

Kalmia :- Rheumatic spasms from above down-wards (inverse Ledum). Fleeting, lightning-like pains; erratic pains. Heart troubles of the gouty, with acute pains in the heart. Slow pulse. Lac caninum :- Great shifting of pains from left to right or right to left.

Ledum:- Ascending rheumatism. Localised on feet, soles are sensitive (Antimonium crudum, Medorrhinum, Thuja, Natrum, Sulph). The patient is particularly chilly but his rheumatic pains are ameliorated while bathing in cold water and the heat of the bed aggravates the pains.

Natrum muriaticum:- It gives good results in rheumatism of persons living at sea-side and when other remedies have failed. It is used in 6x or 12x.

Natrum Sulphuricum :- Auto intoxicated persons suffering from insufficient function of the liver and retention of water, having tendency to obesity, having periodic morning diarrhoea. Insufficient function of glands. Aggr. by humidity (by all sorts of humid atmospheres). Amel. in hot and dry atmosphere. Periodic asthma and skin troubles. Different articular pains; aggr. by rest; in humid weather. Soles of feet are very sensitive, sometimes with burning sensation.

Complementary: Aranea, Arsenic alb., Dulcamara, Rhus tox, Thuja

Petroleum:- Stiff and painful articulations; crackling. Sensation of localised coldness. Burning of hands and feet so that the patient puts them out of the bed. Aggr. in winter, by change of weather in cold air. Amel in summer. Dry, rough skin, easily cracks, specially in the winter season. Itching Gastric troubles. Petroleum is often indicated in chronic gonorrhoeal catarrh and it is used in arthritis of gonorrhoeal origin.

Phytolacca:- Affinity for fibrous tissue and periosteum. Erratic pains coming and going suddenly like electric shocks (Kalmia, Kali bichromicum). The patient is very much run-down, tries to find amelioration by movement. Aggr. at night and in humid weather. Osteocopic pains; pains of the heels (talalgia) Sciatic pains. Syphilitic ground.

Pulsatilla :- The pain moves rapidly from one place to another. Aggr. in the evening, by rest, by heat. Amel. by movement. in open air. Absence of thirst. Rhododendron:- Aggr. in windy or stormy weather is the most important characteristic. Amel. by movement. Rheumatic gout.

Ruta:- Affinity for bone tissues, cartilages and fibrous tissues Aggr. by rest, humidity, at night. Rheumatism of small articulations. Pains of the tendoachillis.

Silicea :- Advanced stage of sclerosis in very chilly old persons. Nails are yellow, breaking, deformed. Sensitiveness of the soles.

Nosodes:

Medorrhinum:- Chronic, obstinate, gouty rheumatic affection. Rheumatism, neuralgia, myelitis. It is used when other remedies do not act. Aggr. during the day (from sunrise to sunset) by movement, when the patient thinks about his ailment (Oxalic acid, Helonias, Ignatia), by heat and during storm. Amel by humid weather (Causticum, Nux vomica). Affinity for small articulations. Erratic pains coming and going suddenly. Movements of the feet at night (Zinc). Hands and feet burn at night (Sulphur, Petroleum). Hasty patients (Argentum nit) loss of memory.

Complementaries: Natrum sulph, Thuja, T.R., Rhus tox.

T.R. (residual tuberculin of Koch)

Chronic cases with tuberculous heredity, Aggr. by rest, by first movement, in cold and humid weather. Amel. by local heat, by continued movement. In a word the symptoms of Rhus tox, which Rhus tox cannot alone cure.

Frequent complementary: Sulphur, Thuja, Rhus tox, Luesinum (Syphilinum).

Luesinum: – Aggr. at night Luesinum (from sunset to sunrise), by humid weather. Amel during the day, on mountains. Aggravation and amelioration are always progressive. Pains of bones. Headache. Alopecia. Profuse salivation.

Acute articular rheumatism:

Considered as a specific and autonomous disease, although the pathogenic agent is still unknown. Acute articular rheumatism requires a deep study from the homoeopathic point of view. The conception about acute articular rheumatism is sensibly different from the idea which has led to give the name of this disease: Bouillaud’s disease.

According to the modern authors the joints are hardly attacked or less attacked and that the articular rheumatism is not a disease of the articulations but a general disease which can be defined as chronic cardiopathy complicated with fluxional inflammation of the articular serous membranes. The infection seems to affect specially persons of oxygenoid tuberculinic type of Natrum sulphuricum, Sulphur iodatum, Calcarea or Kali carbonicum. Its periodicity seems to be annual which is -Predominantly Phosphorus and those that come in July or August are predominantly Sulphur.

Finally let me say that there is a possible relation between chorea and acute articular rheumatism, but let me also say that the nature of chorea is still obscure as that of the acute articular rheumatism. The relation between the two affections are very much controversial.

The possibility of co-existence of the alternate choreic movement and rheumatic arthralgia is undeniable. Charcot says that chorea and rheumatism are two distinct diseases and rheumatism would only play the part of determining agent like all other infectious diseases, for the apparition of chorea.

On the contrary, in pediatrics chorea is essentially a real rheumatism and in infants it is similar to the cerebral rheumatism of adult. Fraenkel has besides shown the existence of Aschoff’s nodules in chronic myocardia. Clinic shows frequent articular attacks in course of a choreic attack or their alternance.

Mauritius Fortier-Bernoville
Mauritius (Maurice) Fortier Bernoville 1896 – 1939 MD was a French orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become the Chief editor of L’Homeopathie Moderne (founded in 1932; ceased publication in 1940), one of the founders of the Laboratoire Homeopathiques Modernes, and the founder of the Institut National Homeopathique Francais.

Bernoville was a major lecturer in homeopathy, and he was active in Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis, and a founder of the le Syndicat national des médecins homœopathes français in 1932, and a member of the French Society of Homeopathy, and the Society of Homeopathy in the Rhone.

Fortier-Bernoville wrote several books, including Une etude sur Phosphorus (1930), L'Homoeopathie en Medecine Infantile (1931), his best known Comment guerir par l'Homoeopathie (1929, 1937), and an interesting work on iridology, Introduction a l'etude de l'Iridologie (1932).

With Louis-Alcime Rousseau, he wrote several booklets, including Diseases of Respiratory and Digestive Systems of Children, Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic Rheumatism, treatment of hay fever (1929), The importance of chemistry and toxicology in the indications of Phosphorus (1931), and Homeopathic Medicine for Children (1931). He also wrote several short pamphlets, including What We Must Not Do in Homoeopathy, which discusses the logistics of drainage and how to avoid aggravations.

He was an opponent of Kentian homeopathy and a proponent of drainage and artificial phylectenular autotherapy as well.