This general laid the matter before his Emperor, with the result that the edict was recalled, and Homoeopathy was permitted within that country. Nota Bene-Dont use Merc. corr. stronger than the 3x (third decimal) strength as prepared by our own homoeopathic chemists.
(3) ARSENICUM ALBUM (6x to 30. Many homoeopaths prefer to go higher than the 30th potency).
Here again we have a very marked difference in the disease-picture, although the disease is diagnosable as dysentery. For this drug to be of any use the patient MUST complain of BURNING SENSATIONS throughout the body. Burning abdominal pains, evacuations which BURN as voided, burning thirst without wanting to drink much, the bed burns the body, etc. With every Arsenicum patient the vital forces are depleted very fast, and they will always be in great mental anguish and FEAR.
The patient will be excessively restless, thought almost too weak to move more than some extremity, such as the hands or feet. They FEAR they are not going to live; they cannot be cured, they are sure they are going to die, very often using these exact expressions (as also did the “provers” of this drug). It is rather strange that so many of the “provers” expressions are duplicated in disease. This makes the choice of the curative drug all the more easy. The rapid sinking of the vital force is apparent often the first day of the disease. STools are very offensive; each stool is followed by greatest prostration.
This type of patient is always worse at night with still greater aggravation of symptoms just after midnight (how curious or silly many will think, but this does not destroy facts). Stools dark, bloody, putrid, and with abdominal pains which are complained of as agonizing and “burning”. yet the body will often be cold as ice to the hand of the attendant, and very often covered with clammy to icy sweat. Urine is very scanty, involuntary (often) and “burning” as voided.
The great” keynotes” for this drug are the fear and anguish, burning sensations, with most rapid loss of body strength. Are you able to see what differences there are in dysenteries?.
(4) ALOE SOCOTRINA (3x to 6x or 30).
This drug is in most compound cathartics, but we homoeopaths only use its curative action by employing it in minute doses. Does this strike you as funny or cleaver? To be curative, the patient will tell you that his abdomen feels full, heavy, hot, and that it is very bloated (which last you can see yourself). Pains are worse round the navel, worse from slightest touch of clothes, or pressure.
There is a fullness in the region of the liver, and pain under the right ribs. There will be loss of power of muscles controlling the rectum. Stools dribble away without power to stop same. There will be much gas passing downwards. The following symptom will easily differentiate Aloes from all other remedies. Whilst there are excruciating cutting and griping pains before and during stool, all pains cease after stool (until next stool is forthcoming).
The patient is left extremely weak after stool and is bathed in profuse sweat. Aloe stools are more solid or semi- solid than with the foregoing types, but they are streaked with blood and much mucus, and they are often involuntary.
(5) COLOCYNTHIS (3x to 30).
The common name of this drug is “squirting cucumber” because even naughty boys know of its power and action on the bowels and have used it as a practical joke on innocent companions. This type of patient will report most violent colic, with the pain better temporarily from bending double (i.e.from pressure of thighs on abdomen). Complains of intense internal shivering and chill.
Tongue coated white. Pains are worse at each stool, they pass much blood and jelly-like mucus, which is always worse after taking food or drink, Stools forcibly gushing. Odour of stools is of a most peculiar mustiness, once met with, quite recognizable again. Patient very agitated, with chilliness at every stool.
(6) LEPTANDRA (1x to 6x).
Cures such dysentery where stools vary from profuse dark brown to a black-tarry (old blood) character. Stools very fetid, mucus mixed with much blood alternating with flocculent masses or watery bile; sometimes there will pass shreds of mucous membrane, at other times even pure blood. Unlike all the foregoing examples of dysentery, here there is No STRAINING AT ALL, but there is considerable pain in the bowels AFTER each stool. Tongue heavily coated yellow. Pain in liver which extends right through to the spine, with chilly shivers.
You will easily see from the foregoing why the homoeopaths don;t easily to get one medicine (called by the orthodox a “specific”) to cure every case diagnosed as dysentery. Above I have portrayed six very different types of dysentery, which we homoeopaths cure scientifically, each with its particular and exact medicine.
We have some other remedies for still other variations of this disease but there are limits set by this Journal. I have pictured enough to start you thinking. Can you imagine orthodoxy curing many such cases with “Emetine” which, after all, is a half-baked denatured Ipecacuanha stolen from Homoeopathy, without the graciousness of any acknowledgment, and with its lesson but imperfectly learned, to your loss.
Homoeopathy needs careful study, but with its aid your stand a reasonable chance of curing with out driving dysentery back into the liver, lungs or heart. As the orthodox are not trying to help you with Homoeopathy, let the laity take it to heart and try it.
The above six drugs are not interchangeable. They must be given each for its own particular and peculiar symptoms, when they are curative.
If you find “Emetine” curing a given case, it does so because it is homoeopathic to that case, but when going to use “Emetine” remember the words of warning issued by the orthodox about this very drug.
Some British readers are sure to have friends or relations working in tropical countries. They deserve some help of you, and you can render same by calling on a homoeopathic chemist to put up a case of “dysentery” remedies, but I beg you only to purchase your medicines as saturated PILLS, which will preserve the drug for years, even if they appear “sugar-of-milk dry”.
