Nobody would wish to carry on a proving in human beings for so long a period as to produce active disease with definite organic changes. Yet Curies experiments is the exception which proves the rule. It proves Hahnemanns contention that Drosera is of value in tubercular disease.
I had similar proof of this in at least one case. A young girl some years ago came along with tubercular sinuses of the fingers, the toes and tubercular spine with rigidity of the neck, sinus from the left femur. She was given Tuberculinum with nut indifferent success ; then Drosera 30 was administered with a striking result : the sinuses cleared up, the neck became pliable and the girl began to blossom forth into quite a good looking person.
She was kept under treatment for eighteen months or so, and during that time had some three or four doses of Drosera 30 and then Drosera 200.
I occasionally hear from this woman, and so far there has been no recurrence of the tubercular trouble ; and before she had homoeopathic treatment, she had been both an in-patient and out- patient at various hospitals for at least ten years.
How one wishes that it were more generally known that Drosera given in the many cases of tubercular disease of the long bones, which one finds in the hospitals up and down the country, will cut short the disastrous deformities and the crippling, the shortening of limbs, the deformities and the crippling, the many weary months of stay in hospitals could be avoided.
A homoeopathic physician does not get the chance very often of seeing cases of this kind ; they lie in orthopaedic hospitals, in the large childrens hospitals and sanatoriums.
Perhaps some day the knowledge will penetrate.
Drosera is closely related of course to the tubercular bone remedies, such as Silica, Tuberculinum and Calc. phos. ; but it has, when indicated, a most striking effect; and it is the grandest tonic that I ever came across.
My work lies largely among children, and in marasmic and emaciated infants and older children with a tubercular background, I have found no other remedy work such startling changes in a comparatively short period as Drosera. unfortunately the war has put a stop to a good many things.
My children, along with thousands of others, have been scattered all over the country, and their treatment is interrupted. My records have been stored away and I cannot get at them very easily and therefore it is almost impossible to quote chapter and verse and mention individual cases. I have to leave this to more auspicious moments.
I can only quote from memory that I have had more than two dozen cases of bad-doers, who after they were put on Drosera, simply romped ahead ; they fattened visibly before ones very eyes weekly gains of 3/4-1 lb. were common. Cod liver oil and malt was simply not in it ; it had never touched any of these children before, and was not give afterwards. And the change was astounding and unbelievable.
Some time or other I hope to give the records I have collected, on the value of Drosera in suitable cases of marasmus and malnutrition. Mind you, these were cases in poor, undernourished children of casual labourers, who could not be given extra nourishing food, extra milk. All the change that was made, was an occasional dose of Drosera and the gain in weight followed.
Believe it or not ! I have proved it again and again that Drosera is one of the most potent herbs of our pharmacopoeia and the end of the story is not yet.
