Among the mental distressing symptoms cured by Platina, we find characteristic delusions, sex irritations, hysteria (remember that the word hysteria is taken from the Greek word for womb), the exalted pride, the haughtiness, the belittling of everyone around her, all of which are foreign to the woman when she is well. Sometimes home objects seem unfamiliar to her.
The sufferer becomes melancholic, she may have a desire to kill someone, but not herself. There is no suicide motive in the make-up of the Platina patient. To sum up, Platina cures profuse bleedings with self exaltation and great genital irritation. This sentence rounds out the drug picture. The sufferers amenable to Platina need all possible help to save them from themselves. A given case need not have all the symptoms mentioned before employing it. I have not found Platina mentioned in any orthodox books on medicine which I have at hand.
(7) Cinchona, called by us China officinalis (1x to 30th).
This is the alcoholic extract of the dried China bark. This is one of the few exceptions. As a rule we try to use absolutely freshly- gathered plants, in making our tinctures. Our extract contains all the alkaloids known to orthodox pharmacy and probably other substances of medicinal value unknown or lost in making the Quinine of orthodox practice, which is one of the alkaloids.
Our Cinchona was elaborated by Nature. It is a pure drug of infinite value. We have just cause to think that it is better than any of the extractives. It is very valuable in its sphere. China can snatch patients out of the jaws of death.
The long-continued haemorrhagic floodings which this remedy will cure are dark, sometimes with clots. The flooding is profuse, so much so that the patient becomes bloodless with faintings, loss of sight, and ringing in the ears, with general coldness of the body. Here is another very strange guiding symptoms for sure cures. “The patient wants to be fanned.”
Thousands of people in extremis have murmured the prayer: “Fan me, Fan me.” Trust a “peculiar” homoeopathic symptom. Although the patient is icy cold he wants to be fanned. His or her face is ghastly pale, pinched, shrunken, eyes are sunken in head, and there are dark blue circles surrounding the eyes. It is a grave picture.
Orthodox brother doctor, please dont laugh, smile or sneer at this remarkable “fanning” symptom. It occurs very often. When we homoeopaths hear those words, we know that though whispered, the patient is shouting for Cinchona. This is Natures diagnosis and Cinchona will cure, as by a miracle, though perhaps not every time, for there is a limit to everything human.
A doctor must have the best drugs. Yet I seem to remember having read that there are innumerable qualities of Cinchona bark which are offered for sale and which vary greatly in price. I remember that some of these qualities were labelled “sea damaged” and one was described as “slightly mouldy”. When a life is flooding away and the patient requires fanning, you want to be sure that you have the first quality of a drug to help you. Homoeopaths employ only the very finest qualities.
What drug value can you expect outside the first qualities offered to the trade? Yet I suppose all the inferior qualities are absorbed by the trade and in due course they will be given to some poor devil or other.
