Here Hypericum justified its reputation for “shooting pains extending from the seat of injury”. Aspirin or morphia might have given temporary relief of pain. But it was only Hypericum that, in relieving, could cure. Which is scientific?- to numb and dull?-temporarily! or to cure?
And there, observe. Arnica is the remedy of injured “soft parts”. Hypericum the remedy for injured nerves.
“For lacerated wounds.” One of the carriage horses had come down on a bad patch of road, and had a beautiful pair of broken knees. The coachman said she was done for: they would heal, but the hair would never grow again as before. There would always be the tell- tale scars. However Hypericum was shaken up with water in a bottle with a spraying arrangement, was shaken up with water in a bottle with a spraying arrangement, and orders were given that the knees were not to be covered, but were to be constantly sprayed. They healed rapidly, leaving nothing to show that the beast had ever come down. This was the cleanest and simplest way one could devise for treating such a patient in the stables.
“To close the lips of wounds.” A University professor was spending a couple of weeks at our hospital one Christmas time, and one thing he did take away with him was profound respect for the virtues of Hypericum. A girl had fallen through glass, and among other cuts had a nasty one on lip, a little bit of which was missing. Merely a compress of Hypericum that night left the lip healed by morning.
“Instead of Arnica, where skin is broken, and where the injury is very painful.” A case: He was down for his usual week ending at the harm, and on Saturday morning had climbed down from the dog cart to play with the horses in the filed. They were rather restive today, because a stranger had been turned out with them. Suddenly a young cart horse lashed out and caught him on the outer said of the leg, just below the knee. He fell, and so mercifully escaped a second kick that appeared to the horrified onlooker in the dog-cart, to catch him in the abdomen. He managed to climb back into the high cart, and drove home in very great pain. The skin was broken, so it was no case for Arnica. There was a rush to find St. John’s Wort in a certain hedge; to pour boiling water on the her; and to apply it to the injury. The pain went by magic. He was nearly 80, and there was very little tissue between skin and bone, and healing ought to have been difficult and protracted;l but it was all healed by Monday, wen he returned to work in London, albeit limping. One gauged the severity of the injury from the discoloration that gradually spread, like a huge bruise, up the thigh;- the hurt having been below the knee.
“For abscesses.” During the war, a girl was sent to Hospital by a local doctor, with an abscess in the palm of hand, outer side, very tense and painful. He had incised it, but getting no pus, had sent her for further operation. She arrived in the morning, and merely got Hypericum internally and a compress of Hypericum for the whole hand. When seen in the afternoon, the pain was gone, the tension was gone, and it was pouring with pus. It rapidly healed. Is this what Culpepper means when he says, “it opens obstructions and dissolves swellings”. It dissolved that one!
A certain theatre’s carpenter was about to let off a gun for theatrical effect when it accidentally went off with his hand on the top of the barrel-consequence, the wad was embedded in his palm. He attended a hospital, week after week, where they did what they brought needful, and alternately soaked the wound, and then sent him away with a dry dressing.
The man was suffering miserably and enduring sleepless nights of pain. Then someone sent him to see what the homoeopaths could do for him. He got Silica internally, and a compress of Hypericum, with instant relief of pain, and restored sleep. Then, in a few days, the discharging wound began to smell so foully that a tentative compress of Lysol was applied; but as this did not give relief, Hypericum was again used. Then, in a few days, when squeezing out pus, out came a burst of stinking wad, and next day another scrap, and then it healed beautifully. But one tendon had either sloughed, or been shot away, and a finger remains out of control-a memento of the time when he so nearly lost his band.
A keen lay homoeopath, long since dead, sent Hypericum to the Scotch sergeants at the Front. He published the following in the Oban Times of May 1st, 1915, and had it reprinted as a leaflet.
HYPERICUM ON THE BATTLEFIELD, LETTER FROM A HIGHLAND SERGEANT
Mr. Campbell of Barbreck has received the following letter:-
British Expeditionary Force, April 19th, 1915.
DEAR MR. CAMPBELL.- I want to thank you for the box of splendid pellets you so kindly sent me. I would have written you long ago on this subject, but I wanted to test them thoroughly before I gave my opinion on them, and now I can state facts which must be very satisfactory to you. The result of my observation is this: About a week after I got your letter and pellets one of my Platoon was wounded by sniper while he was on lookout in the trenches; the wound was a bad one, through the shoulder, and he was suffering a lot with it. All the colour left his face, and I thought he was going to faint. I thought of the pellets which I had in my haversack, and I decided to give him two of them.
The effect of them I am sure I need not tell you, but it surprised me beyond words. To see a man badly wounded and in terrible pain to be transformed to laugh and joke, and lark with the men, by two little pellets is something wonderful.
This is only one case out of many which I could tell you about, and although I hope I shall never require them myself, I am pleased to have them to give to others.
I think I have said enough this time, but I will let you know about other cases later.
I am, Sir, yours faithfully, SERGEANT W.M. —————- Certified a true copy. J.A.CAMPBELL, Barbreck, Craignish. April 23rd, 1915.
In the provings of Hypericum one finds nerve pains-stitching pains-and paralytic symptoms.
Hering in his Guiding Symptoms gives cases of cure by Hypericum of-Concussion of spine: man thrown from wagon who struck has back-violently against a kerb stone and had shooting pains down both legs, with partial paralysis. Boy with traumatic meningitis after a fall on the head. Woman with headache after a fall on occiput, with sensation of being lifted high into the air; tormented by the greatest anxiety that the slightest touch or motion would make her fall down from this height; and so on.
There are just a few persons very sensitive to Hypericum. One of these, the wife of one of our doctors, had a curious experience with Hypericum which, after producing symptoms, cured.
They were visiting the Battlefields after the war, when a piece of barbed wire penetrated her stocking, and made a rather deep puncture, with a large deep scratch on the skin. The wound was dressed and healed up.
Some time later it began to give acute pain at irregular intervals. The pain was severe-in the injured part. A number or remedies were tried, but nothing held. Then, because of the acuteness of the pain, as if the injury were fresh-inflicted, Hypericum 30 was given which she proceeded to “prove”.
In two hours there was faintness, paleness of face, she felt as if heart would stop: nausea; legs trembled, couldn’t walk, had to hold on to something. Exhausted, weak and faint. Had to lie down. This condition lasted till late evening. Appetite gone for two days. and the doctor concludes:-
“Since she got the Hypericum 30 she has never had pain or ache in the part again. No remedy had been given for a couple of months before the Hypericum, and nothing after it.”
Another little known use of Hypericum is for PILES. Clarke (Dictionary) quotes “Roehrig”, who “considers Hypericum externally and internally, the nearest thing to a specific for bleeding piles.” It works! and should work: because Hypericum is the remedy, par excellence, for parts rich in nerves-of which the anus is assuredly one! And in the provings it markedly affected the rectum.
Besides Hypericum perforatum, there are other varieties with medicinal properties. One of these has the same.”Tutsan” (all heal). Then the beautiful large-flowered variety, which clothes the railway embankments near Leatherhead. Some one used to send up a big packet of these flowers every year to the Hospital, and good old Sister Olive used to stir them over a fire in oil, to make a healing ointment for sores. ED.
BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS.
Consequences of spinal concussion.
Effects of nervous shock.
Tetanus after traumatic injuries.
Injuries to nerves, attended by great pain.
Punctured, incised, contused or lacerated wounds, when pains are extremely severe, and particularly if they are of long duration; pains like those of a severe toothache; pains spread to neighbouring parts and extend up limb.
Punctured wounds feel very sore; from treading on nails, needles, pins, splinter, rat bites, etc.: prevents lockjaw.
