Nitric Acid. It has the sensation that he is pricked by many needles. It has anal fissures.
There is pressure in Paeonia and Ratanhia.
There are two other remedies of painful haemorrhoids, often related to Aesculus : Kali carbonicum and Ignatia.
Kali carbonicum has “stitches”, pricking by needles from below upwards. Amel. by pressure.
Ignatia has paradoxal symptoms.
The cases of the type of Aloe and of Hamamelis bleed much, have no great pains and for them you are forced to use Arnica and China for the bleeding. They have almost the necessity of bleeding from the piles. When their haemorrhoids are treated locally or suppressed by surgery, they may suffer from grave troubles, as for example cancer of the abdomen because their haemorrhoids are the outlet of drainage. Sulphur is the ground remedy of these patients who will later on suffer from cancer of the digestive apparatus. The patient, at the same time suffers from arterial and venous hypertension specially of the abdomen. He has gradually come down by the stages of Lycopodium and Graphites. He arrived at a given time in the stage of Sepia, then of Thuja. From Thuja he passes to Carbo animalis, more than to Carbo vegetabilis. When the cancer is formed one should think of Condurango, Hydrastis, Carbo animalis but the condition has become already grave. If the patient was treated preventively, one could, by causing the hypertension, abdominal and portal, check the formation of cancer.
PTELIA LEPTANDRA JUGULANS CINEREA YUCCA FILAMENTOSA.
Four necessary remedies of hepato-biliary troubles.
Leptandra : Jaundice with painful liver and, Abundant Stools, Hyperbilious, Black, like Foetid Coal Tar.
Pain in the umbilical region extending from the liver to the vertebral column. Yellow tongue.
Better by lying down on the belly. Aggr. by drinking cold drinks, by movement and periodically. It may have like Phosphorus, haemorrhoids originating from the liver and protruding haemorrhoids bleeding very much.
The ground remedies to which Leptendru is related are Phosphorus and Lachesis. It also has some relations to Baptisia, Arsenicum and Chionanthus. Leptandra is one of the rare remedies of the Materia medica which has clear bilious stools, black and deep green, overcharged with bile. It suits to persons having insufficient liver whose gall-bladder and even the hepatic cells are blocked for a time, and who, at a given time, secrets a great quantity of bile in the intestines (Mercurius) may also have hyperbilious greenish stools.
Hyperbilious Leptandra opposes to Chelidonium, Myrica, Chionanthus, China and to other remedies having rather acholia, and hypocholia. Very few remedies have this particular symptom of Leptandra.
Jugulans Cineria is used in persons suffering from insufficient liver who have headache near the neck and occiput accompanied by liver troubles and sometimes pain in the right shoulder, like that of Chelidonium and also biliary lithiasis.
It is related to Chelidonium, Bryonia and Iris versicolor.
Ptelia. It is a small remedy of liver, complementary to Sepia. It suits to insufficient liver Aggravated by Lying on the right side.
Gastric atony is seen. There is a frontal headache. Has relation with Sepia, Magnesia muriatica. Nux vomica. It is interesting to use it in portal hypertension with troubles due to Sepia.
It is a good complementary of Sepia.
(The author has not studied the remaining groups most possibly because they are already studied in the first part of the book.
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.