Hungry during sweat.
Fevers with periodicity.
We have come across, in an old copy of The Homoeopathic Physician, 1893, a few of Dr. Gundlach’s cured cases, showing the range of the remedy, remedially. The first is a case of polyuria with pale colourless urine, S.G. I.000, day and night, but worse by day. The man, an attorney, felt tired out and exhausted; small of back weak and aching. Bad taste, not much appetite: very thirsty for very large drinks: “wants to drink all the time. Feet cold and damp: sweat offensive.” He had seen two doctors- an allopath, and “our biochemic friend”, but was no better. Remembering his own case, and also its subsequent provings, Dr. Gundlach gave him Sanicula, and cured him. A year later, the trouble had not returned.
A second case, “headache and mental”, in a printer, aged 40. Suffering from over-work, with dull pain in forehead over eyes: eyes felt as if being drawn back into head. All worse in warm or close room: better in open air. Mind wanders trying to apply it. Can’t keep at anything in the office for any length of time. Starts a thing; drops it and picks up another. Was his own master, with work that must be done, yet for the most trifling reason he will drop it and run out. No appetite: tongue coated; mouth dry. In this case, no thirst. The man was in great distress Was sure he would lose his reason if not helped soon. Sanicula 10m cured him at once: and three months later, he was still perfectly well. Pulsatilla, first given, “did not help any.”
His third case, a woman of 45, chilly with flushes of heat. Chill worse from moving round, or turning in bed: better from external warmth. They come at irregular times. Spread up from below. During chill wants to be covered; when heat comes, wants covers off (rev. of Camphor); feels sore and bruised all over, in flesh and bones. Pains and aching in limbs. Can’t get hand up behind head, or on head, from pains in shoulder. Warmth is good to pains in body, but not to head, which wants to be cold. Can’t stand heat of stove to head. Bad taste: nothing tastes good. Wants sour things. Some thirst with the fever. Urine dark and scanty. The trouble had been going on for some weeks, and the doctor did not seem to hit it, till he gave Sanicula 10m, which cured.
N.B.-The people who have themselves experienced the effects of a remedy can always best recognize and apply it. In Germany, recently, students of Homoeopathy had to prove remedies, as part of their training.
NASH mentions Sanicula ten times in his LEADERS, comparing it with other drugs of like symptoms. He shows that it has the “no two stools alike” of Pulsatilla-the crying infant, after which sand appears on the diaper, of Lycopodium-the “bashful stool” of Silica and Thuja- the immense stool, long retained, painful and receding when partly expelled of Silica-the thin neck of Natrum mur. and Lycopodium- the emaciation while eating well of Iodum- the terror of downward motion, of Gelsemium and Borax.
DR. OSCAR HANSON (Copenhagen) in his text book of The Materia Medica and Therapeutics of Rare Homoeopathic Remedies, notices especially in regard to Sanicula the profuse sweat on occiput and nape of neck during sleep; its great photophobia, and lachrymation from cold air, or cold externally applied; the thick tenacious, ropy mucus from throat, like Kali bichrom; the stools, large and painful enough to rupture the sphincter, with pain in whole perineum. And its therapeutics, for him, concern “Ophthalmia scrofulosa: Sea sickness (good remedy). Enuresis nocturna (many cases cured). Constipation.”
The water contains chlorides of sodium, calcium, magnesium, etc. etc., also Silica.
