RECAPITULATIVE TABLE OF THE THERAPEUTICS OF LIVER.
GROUND REMEDIES.
Lycopodium. Remedy of bile; proteolysis, atrophy.
Phosphorus. Glycogenic function; hypertrophic “processus”, degeneration (fatty).
Sulphur. Proteolysis; general excretion; hereditary tuberculinism.
Natrum sulphuricum. Big torpid liver; hepato-renal insufficiency, oedemas.
Lachesis. Alcoholic cirrhosis; asystole; infections, circulatory troubles.
Arsenicum album. Infectious hepatitis; grave cases.
Sepia. Circulatory troubles (portal); proteolytic function.
Nux vomica. Spasmodic troubles.
INSUFFICIENT LIVER.
(a) BILIARY FUNCTION.
1. Hypercholia. Mercurius solubilis and dulcis, Leptandra.
2. Hypocholia. China, Chelidonium, Podophyllum, Chionanthus; Myrica (jaundice), Magnesia sulphuricum (in ponderable dose), Digitalis (heart).
3. Pains. Arnica, Carduus, Chamomilla (irritable), Colocynthis (amel. by bending double); Dioscoria (amel. by stretching); Magnesia phosphorica (cramp), Bryonia (aggr by movement), Chelidonium,
(b) GLYCOGENIC FUNCTION.
Uranium nitricum, Syzygium, Cephalandra indica M.T.
Eucalyptus (infusion); Morus nigra (infusion), Sulphur.
C. PROTEOLYTIC FUNCTION.
Ammon carb (uremia), Urea, Berberis (boiling sensation in the renal region (Baryta muriatica (white stools, hypertension) Solidago (excess of uric acid) (uremia) Urtica (dissolves uric acid); Thlaspi bursa pastoris.
D. PROTEOLYTIC FUNCTION WITH ACETONEMIA.
Senna, Belladonna (alternate with Senna); Cuprum arsenicosum (uraemic convulsions); Calcarea muriatica (acetonuria, vomiting).
E. ANTITOXIC FUNCTION Arsenicum album (food poisoning ptomaine); Phosphorus (effects of anesthetics), China, Nux vomica (purgatives, medicine, coffee, alcohol); Antimonium crudum (indigestion); Zinziber (bread, melons); Colocynthis and Alumina (starch food, potato); Veratrum album (choleriform diarrhoea).
F. PROTEOPEXIC FUNCTION (anaphylaxis). Apis (oedema, bee stings); Ledum (melons); Diluted horse serum (30), Urtica M.T., Fragaria (urticaria).
G. BLOOD FUNCTION. Phosphorus (delayed coagulation); Lachesis (purpura) China.
CIRRHOSIS.
a. Sclerosis. Aurum muriaticum, Aurum metallicum, Plumbum, Silicea, Iodium, Arsenicum iodatum, Kali iod.
b. Syphilis. Mercurius with Aurum and Plumbum.
c. Induration, Graphites, Taraxacum, Fluoric acid, Conium.
d. Fatty degeneration. Phosphorus, Kali bichromicum, Phlorizin, Vanadium, Picric acid. e. Pigmentary. Argentum nitricum.
f. Cancer. Carduus. Taraxacum, Conium, Hydrastis. Cholesterinum.
g. Ascites. Carduus, China, Senecio, Apocynum. Digitalis, Acetic ac. Prunus.
CONGESTION
a. Passive. Sulphur, Natrum sulphuricum, Phosphorus (cardiac liver), Digitalis, China, Podophyllum, Apocynum, Kali carbonicum.
b. Active (Paludism). China, Natrum muriaticum.
HEPATITIS
a. Beginning. Aconite, Bryonia, Chamomilla.
b. Developed. Mercurius, Chelidonium, Podophyllum, Chionanthus, China, Nux vomica, Iris versicolor.
c. Chronic. The above mentioned remedies and Ammon muriaticum, Cholesterinum, Kali iodatum, Kali muriaticum, Kali bichromicum, Iodium, Hydrastis.
d. Grave cases. Vipera, Arsenicum album, Lachesis, Phosphorus
e. Alcoholic. Nux vomica, Sulphuric acid, Ammonium muriaticum, Arsenicum, Absinthium, Fluoric acid.
f. Portal Hypertension. Aloe. Aesculus. Leptandra, Collinsonia, Sepia, Pulsatilla.
g. Splenomegalia. Ceanothus.
h. Some particular modalities.
Pain aggr. lying on the left : Ptelea, Bryonia, Natrum sulph.
Pain aggr. lying on the right side. Magnesia muriaticum, Mercurius, Chelidonium, Dioscoria, Kali carbonicum.
Aggr. by friction. Podophyllum.
Feeling of on-coming diarrhoea, mapped tongue, vesicular eruption. Rananculus, Sceleratus.
Gall Bladder. Elective action. Phosphorus (M), with Lutein (200, M) Bryonia, Ricinus, Arsenicum album, Lachesis, Dioscorea, Chelidonium, Juglans, Natrum sulphuricum.
Bile Ducts. Hydrastis, Colocynthis, Chelidonium, Nux vomica, Magnesia muriatica.
Right Lobe. Chelidonium.
Left lobe. Carduus.
Pancreas. Phosphorus, Iris versicolor.
Vater’s ampouls. Mercurius dulcis, Lycopodium.
SMALL INTESTINES.
Pylora. Ornithogalum.
Duodenum. Kali bichromicum, Anacardium, Argentum nitricum Intestines. Nux vomica, Graphites, Sulphur, Ipecac, Cina, China, Croton, Veratrum album, Arsenicum album, Plumbum, Stannum, Opium.
COLON, Caecum. Thuja, Ignatia, Bryonia.
Ascending. Bryonia, Rhus tox.
Sigmoid. Kali bichromicum, Ipecac.
RECTUM AND ANUS. Mercurius solubilis, Mercurius corrosivus, Aloe, Sepia, Podophyllum, Aesculus, Collinsonia, Silicea, Nitric ac, Fluoric acid, Sulphur.
It need not be said that the above table should not be used mechanically. By doing so the doctors will face grave failures. By doing so the doctors will face grave failures. It should be used as a “nuemonics” after a clinical examination and only when the diagnosis is done. With this reserve we may say that the above table will be useful.
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.