Those of my readers in the Provinces of Great Britain and, peradventure, in the back corners of the world, if you cannot obtain a homoeopathic doctor try these remedies on the lines laid down, taking a dose every one to four hours according to the urgency of the case. If your medicine be in pill form, place two or three pills under the tongue, allowing them to dissolve very slowly.
If in liquid form put six or eight drops in half a glass of cold water, stir well, or use two glasses, pouring back and forth for a minute to thoroughly mix and then take a sip, following the time directions as for pills but hold the fluid in the mouth as long as convenient. The glands of the mouth take up the medicine as a nerve stimulation and nature cures. The secretions of the stomach will dilute such delicate medicines. The orthodox doctors rely on the stomach, we do not.
It will be well to note how three-quarters of the following symptoms would never have been known if the homoeopaths had experimented on animals. See if you can find your disease picture amongst any of the following drug pictures and then try it without fear of any bad results.
(1) Bryonia alba (3x, 6x or 30th). “Doctor.” says the patient, diagnosing his own case, “I have rheumatism. As long as I keep perfectly still I can bear the pain, but if I move or you bump the bed my pains are excruciating. The pains are tearing or with lightning-like stitches, all pains are worse on touch or pressure, and on slightest motion. I cant bear the weight of the bedclothes.” These are all subjective symptoms which human speech along can convey, hence the utter folly of depending on animal experiments.
The bowels will be very constipated with stools large, hard and dry as if baked. The attendant will find that this class of patients are very thirsty individuals. They will take whole tumblers of liquid at a time. It will be seen that some of the big joints are red, hot to the touch, and more or less swollen. There must be this homoeopathic “keynote”, aggravation from the slightest motion, or touch. Such is a brief distinguishing picture of the rheumatism that Bryonia will relieve.
(2) Rhus toxicodendron (3x, 6x or 30th). How different this patients words of complaint and yet he has the same diagnosis. He will say. Doctor, I have rheumatism. I suffer tortures when I begin to move, especially on getting up in the morning and on rising after sitting or lying down, but the pains get better when I get limbered up after I have been moving about for a time, only I suffer all the agonies afresh the next time I move after resting. I cannot keep still in bed. I am impelled to toss and toss about, trying to find a position less painful.
The pains are more on the bones.” The patient may not put his symptoms in medical parlance but we know that this type of rheumatism is more in the white fibrous ligaments and muscular insertions on the bones and less in the joints than with Bryonia. This type is better from getting limbered up. They toss all night until exhausted, seeking relief they dont find except for a few minutes. If you see, or the doctor finds, that the tip of the tongue is bright red, in triangular form, the better is this drug indicated. Can anyone mix up these two different types? Yet they are both rheumatism. Why be an orthodox doctor when we give you our clear instructions which will help your patients?.
