Soon after a young lad came to the casualty with the skin of the palm and the back of his hand nearly torn off in ribbons. His hand was put in a warm Hypericum bath for half an hour. He worked in a machine shop and his hands were oily and greasy; then the skin was carefully placed back on his hand and stitched wherever necessary.
He had some 14 or 15 stitches put in, then a warm compress of Hypericum was applied and he was sent out with his hand in a sling. He did not go septic except for one small stitch abscess, and he healed up beautifully in record time. Of course he was also given Hypericum m four hourly.
These cases show you that Hypericum is the thing for lacerated wounds, for bites which have becomes inflamed and septic. I should not like to say in how many cases of crushed fingers and lacerated toes I have used Hypericum externally as well as internally with the greatest of relief to the sufferer.
I remember a soldier with an amputation of the leg below the knee; he suffered agonies in his stump, shooting, darting pains up the leg to the thigh. Hypericum 30 in repeated doses cured these agonizing pains in the scar of the stump.
I remember, too, a country woman who had to go nearly 1/4 mile to the village pump in order to fetch the daily quota of water; one day while fetching the water in her buckets, she slipped on the wet slimy stones near the pump and sat on her coccyx, the tail bone. She had excruciating pains shooting up her spine and great stiffness; Hypericum 30, two hourly, and later four hourly, and then three times a day, as the pains got easier, helped her and cured her completely without hindering her in her daily work at all.
Now, coccalgia or pain in the coccyx or tailbone, is very common in women, specially after childbirth, and this pain and soreness remains for years. I have met many women suffering from this disability; they go from hospital to hospital and in orthodox textbooks you are told that very little can be done for these women; even removal of the coccyx is only of temporary benefit; psychological treatment may do some good, they say.
Well, Hypericum given early on will be of the greatest benefit and I have seen not a few women who after being given Hypericum, exclaim joyfully that the back does not give any more trouble, and , as one added, “It is so simple, why was I not given this medicine before?”.
Hypericum is the simillimum for spinal concussion, railway spine, bruising of the spinal cord and meninges due to jars and falls, and would save many a workman from months of ill-health and loss of work, if it was known and given freely, internally of course. A young woman fell down a few steps and in trying to save herself gave her shoulder a terrific wrench.
For months this was followed by acute pains of the nerves of the right arm, and severe neuritis. She had treatment in hospital, heat treatment, massage and baths of various descriptions; nothing seemed to help. She came along and had Hypericum 30 three times a day; in a week she was nearly well; in less than a month she was completely cured, after months of suffering and treatment elsewhere.
Dr. Guernsey, a well-known homoeopathist of many years ago, relates how he cured a boy who developed tetanus lockjaw after being bitten by a pet on his third finger. His teeth were firmly locked, he could not speak, his neck was so stiff that he could hardly move the head, although he was quite conscious. Hypericum 500, dissolved in water, at first every fifteen minutes, then every two hours, improved him so rapidly that within twelve hours he was convalescent.
The orthodox school always uses anti-tetanus injections in nearly every case of wounds due to falls, and larger doses of anti-tetanus serum if lockjaw actually sets in; and yet they do not always save all their cases of lockjaw. Scattered here and there in the homoeopathic literature are other cases of tetanus who received Hypericum and were cured so rapidly that it almost seemed impossible, that it really had been such a serious and fatal complaint as tetanus. And albeit so simple, just the old, despised herb, Hypericum, which grows freely in uncultivated ground, roadsides, meadows, woods and hedges. The railway sidings in Surrey and Kent are rampant with it.
A friend of mine accidentally upset a large jar of strong Lysol, which sprayed her cheeks, just missing her eyes by nothing. She was taken home at once and tepid Hypericum lotion was applied to the face, the dressing repeatedly moistened with it. The pain was relieved immediately, and no blisters developed, no sepsis followed, there was no scarring consequently, and she was back in the Dispensary the next day, to everybodys surprise.
I have much cause personally to be grateful to Hypericum, which saved me from serious trouble, as I have told in these columns before, when I was in the mountains in Switzerland, twenty miles from the railway station, and I developed a septic toe with a rapidly spreading cellulitis up the foot and leg. I had no antiseptics, no dressings, only clean handkerchiefs and my case of medicines.
A friend was sent out to collect the local variety of Hypericum the mountain St. Johns Wort the whole plant was steeped in water and after simmering it for ten minutes the resulting infusion was poured off and the handkerchief soaked in it and wrung out and applied to the toe and foot.
The inflammation was quickly relieved, the cellulitis disappeared and in twenty-four hours I was able to put my foot to the ground and limp about. The septic toe took several days to heal, but the pyaemia and systemic poisoning cleared remarkably quickly. There was one casualty, however, my handkerchief never regained its pristine whiteness, and had to be cast aside, as it remained a dirty greenish colour in spite of many boilings.
I much prefer Hypericum tincture applied locally to any of the modern antiseptics; it does not destroy the healthy tissues and healthy cells; it cleans up dirty, septic wounds; it eases the inflammations in septic fingers, in boils, and in cellulitis and lymphangitis, lacerated, crushed fingers and hands remain clean and heal rapidly; and it prevents tetanus when given internally; it acts magically in injuries and jars to parts richly supplied with nerves such as the spine and tips of fingers, neuritis following on wounds from splinters, dog bites, horse bites and rat bites, wounds from treading on pins and rusty nails. It is a real wound-wort, a faithful friend.
