In another of his booklets, Organic Diseases of Women, Burnett talks of Bellis in the Inconveniences of Pregnancy.
“It happens to some ladies when they are enceintes that they find it very inconvenient to get about, walking being very irksome and almost impossible. In such cases the Daisy soon sets matters right. I mean of course, when the cause of the trouble lies in the mechanical circumstances, and these are of a remediable kind. One severe case of trouble during child-bearing I treated with many remedies, including Bellis, and was greatly disappointed; however the event showed the cause of my failure, viz., all the trouble arose from the long legs of the foetus, that at birth were very much bent.” He gives a case, far gone in the family way, where it was very difficult to get about, and where, a fortnight later, he got this report? “The Bellis did me so much good. I can walk quite well now, and do not get tired or stiff.” Here its action was prompt and satisfactory, with no inconvenience complained of was due to mechanical pressure; the tissues were pressed upon, and therefore in a condition precisely like that of a bruise-hence I gave my old friend the daisy- bruise-wort, i.e. it acts on the muscular fibres of the blood vessels, and upon the tissues, and thus clears the line of these mechanical obstructions. Arnica 1x and 1, I have used in like manner and with almost identical results. On another page her writes, “In merely organ diseases constitutional treatment is not indicated, and is therefore useless; but a battered, bruised uterus yields quickly to anti-traumatics such as Bellis perennis and Arnica montana. And the organ remedies-Helonias dioica and Fraxinus Americanus-quickly cured the hypertrophy of the organ.” “And in the case of organ remedies, small material doses act best-indeed brilliantly; such remedies also need to be repeated at short intervals. On the contrary, organ hypertrophies from constitutional causes are not curable by organ remedies at all until the constitutional disease has been cured by infrequently repeated high dilutions of remedies closely homoeopathic thereto
We will not apologize for quoting somewhat lavishly from the unique teachings and experience of a very brilliant prescriber. When our knowledge is perfect, and our methods of prescribing give absolutely the results we aim at in all cases, we shall be able to afford to overwork what stands outside our experience.
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