Homeopathic Remedies for Diabetes



Whatever may be its indications, it is the remedy that should be well understood and should be prescribed uniquely, from a synthetic point of view of similar pathological troubles observed in the individual than by its key symptoms. the characteristics of Phosphorus are almost always of the field of anatomy-pathology as well as of pure pathogenesis.

Silicea.

By its supportive tendency Silicea will very often be indicated with Hepar Sulphur in diabetes who have pancreas, and furuncles.

In all these cases all the remedies of suppuration of septicemia may be indicted; Arsenicum Album, Echinacea, Pyrogenium in very grave cases. Lachesis, Apis, belladonna, Ferrum Phosphoricum, Arnica in other cases as well as Silicea because Hepar is better than silicea in the acute cases, will stop menacing suppuration the latter on the contrary may sometimes favour the suppuration dangerously. Silicea suits to chronic suppuration which are weakening and with fistula.

Natrum muriaticum.

This remedy is to be placed at the top in the treatment of diabetes because if can stop very often when it s indicated, the rate of sugar in the urine.

It is indicated by polyuria and polydipsia; the patient drinks often and much and urinate abundantly. Other symptoms; eats well but becomes emaciated consumptive diabetes.

Sweats when eating; sexual weakness; weakness after coition; weakness of the extremities with lameness and drawings, asthenopia, trouble of visual accommodation.

General depression.

Therefore it suits to cases of hyperthyroidism Basedow’s disease, hypopituitarism. Natrum Muriaticum, which plays an important part which Calcarea Carbonica in endocrinal symptoms, is to be placed in the top in the treatment of diabetes. Iodium

it suits to diabetics with denutrition, voracious appetite and great thirst. Great debility, sweats by the least effort.

Suits also to diabetics who becomes tubercular. Rapid emaciation.

The hunger is such that the patients re anxious while waiting for the meals.

Sexual impotency.

Natrum sulphuricum.

The remedy is frequently indicated in diabetes. Diabetes with polyuria, abdominal flatulency; hydrogenoid constitution.

General aggravation by humidity, tendency to plethora, to obesity, to fattiness with retention of water in the tissues. Tendency to localised rheumatism Stiffness, cracklings in the articulations.

This remedy suits to diabetes associated without and rheumatisms.

Causticum

Suits to paralysis of diabetics with numbness, cracking of the knees, m stiffness and heaviness of the muscles. Special hydrogenoid condition with the tendency to big flat warts.

General aggravation in good dry weather.

Amelioration in humid weather.

Emaciation. Possibility of ocular troubles, paralysis of the external muscles, cataract.

Kali bromatum and Kali aceticum

Related to causticum which contains potassium, may be indicated first in asthenic troubles, paralysis and sexual weakness; the second in abundant alkaline urine, diarrhoea and tendency to oedema.

4. The vegetables.

We will study successively;

Syzigium; used systematically.

Chimaphilla and Thus Aromatica when the urinary troubles are predominant.

Bryonia, Chionanthus, Iris Versicolor, Lycopodium, Nux vomica, China,, Colchicum.

In digestive troubles; Phaseolus, Lycopus is associated with heart troubles.

Curare in the tendency to paralysis.

Opium, Codeinum, Morphinum Tendency to coma associated to uremia.

Coca Diabetes with sexual weakness.

Kreosotum, Secale Cornutum, in tendency to gangrene.

Helleborus, Helonius, in diabetes becoming rapidly gave.

Sygygium

It is classic. It is prescribed systematically in lower 2x, 3x dilutions even in tincture because very often it lowers down and cause the disappearance of sugar content in blood and urine. It does not act in high dilutions. But there are number of failures as it is used as a routine remedy.

Syzigium is indicated by intense thirst, weakness, emaciation, polyuria with elevation of the density of urine. It is also indicated by the tendency to ulcer. Its use is legitimated by biology, because it increases, in experimental intoxication, the rate of sugar in the blood.

Phloridzine on the contrary is used only in diabetics with renal troubles, because it does not increase the blood sugar and he glycosuria will result by the renal formation of glycosuria excreted in the urine. Hinsdale

Chimaphilla

It affects much the kidney and causes troubles and foetid urine, difficult or burning. It has also experimental glycosuria.

The prostate is irritated and swollen, the whole perineum is congested. Urine contains mucopurulent sediment. It suits to diabetes caused by the infection of the urinary system. It has been used by the allopaths in diabetes., but they never thought about the Homoeopathic action in diabetes.

Rhus aromatica.

diabetes with pale urine, very abundant, of high density. Frequent albuminuria. Bryonia alba.

Suits to the thirst of the diabetics; drinks much at a time but at long intervals. Dryness of lips,. of the mouth and of the throat.

Liver sensitive and painful. Weakness, vertigo, muscular weakness. Stomach sensitive top touch. Sensation of a stone in the stomach after meals.

Chionanthus

Diabetes with hepatic troubles; clear, soft and pasty stools. Abundant urine, polyuria of high density containing sugar and biliary pigment at the sametimes, or much urobiline.

Iris versicolor

It is classic because Iris affects essentially the pancreas. It seems to act rather on functional troubles of the pancreas as much as it is a digestive gland rather than Langerhaus island.

Lycopodium

Ground remedy. Hepatic insufficiency associated to diabetes. Individual soon satisfied. Little or no thirst. Often suits to benign diabetes with insufficient liver and sexual weakness.

Nux vomica

Sedentary life. Desire for stimulants. Frequent constipation, inefficacious urging. This remedy suits to patients who make irregularities in food and persons who have taken excessive drugs.

China

Suits to persons who have become weak due to constant loss of sugar. Great sensitiveness to air current, to cold and to touch. Marked periodicity of all symptoms.

Colchicum

Association of gout or rheumatism and of diabetes. Urine contains blood, albumen and sugar. Weak heart. Pain in the extremities by the least movement. Dry mouth. Thirst, nausea and vomiting. Great prostration, sensation of intense coldness and tendency to collapse.

Coca

Diabetics with sexual importance. Hypochondrias Wants to be alone Sepia. Cannot bear high altitude and life in the mountains.

Curare.

Reproduces the paralysis of flaccid muscles with diminution or abolition of reflexes which is found in cases of medullar troubles or in polyneuritis. A remedy indicated in cases of nervous origin with Arnica if diabetes is caused by traumatism of the skull.

Phaseolus

Diabetes with palpitations, a rapid heart, a weak and soft pulse and a sensation of approaching death. Is used as a decoction of the plant for daily use.

Lycopus virginica.

Classic in Basedow’s disease, also acts in diabetes with abundant aquous urine, a rapid and painful heat, a weak and intermittent pulse. Protrusion of eyeballs. Phyglandular troubles heart, thyroid, Pancreas etc.

Opium

Prostration, hebetude, tendency to coma, myosis. Torpor, stertorous respiration, sweats, dark red colour of the face. Dry mouth. Great thirst. Constipation without desire. Suits specially to diabetic coma.

Codeinum

Nervous, pancreatic diabetes. Occipital headache, trembling, itching. ERuctations. Great thirst. Frequent dry cough, worse at night.

Codeinum phosphoricum 1x Advised by Wendellani in nervous diabetes because of the compound Codeine and Phosphorus.

Morphinum

Diabetes associated with uremia. Impotency. Dry mouth. Anorexia with aversion to meat.

Kreosotum

Diabetes with gangrenous tendency; tendency to burning ulcers, with irritating discharge, very excoriating, foetid, corrosive. Humid gangrene. Red lips. Every rapid caries of teeth which become black. Foetid breath. Foetid urine. With Arsenicum Album and Secale Cornutum, this remedy forms the trio with which menancing gangrene is to be fought in diabetics.

Secale cornutum

Tendency rather to dry gangrene Arsenicum Album has the tendency to dry as well as to humid gangrene. It acts however betters in diabetes with debility, emaciation inspite of good formication and numbness of he extremities with the sensation of very tight brodequin on the ankles, sensation of burning, wants to be uncovered however the parts exposed are cold to touch, petechies, livid or blackish spots. Great aversion to heat.

Helonius

Diabetes becoming rapidly grave. Urine often contains albumen and phosphates in excess; prostration, languidness.

Sensation of heaviness in the sacrum and pelvis and sensation of uterine congestion. Melancholia, better by distraction and if the patient is kept in mental activity by work or by conversation.

Helleborus niger.

Remedy habitually indicated in gave cases leading to agony. Muscular weakness, unconsciousness, involuntary movements of hands which bring up the covers or scratch the lips, automatically. Very foetid breath. Tongue and lips are day, cracked. Red tongue. Urine diminished o absent. Pale face, swollen. Tendency to oedema.

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.