TARAXACUM


Full of discharges; catarrhal, watery, from different places, even watery stools: and all these discharges are horribly offensive and ichorous. Bloody discharges, horribly offensive, from nose, eyes, ears, chest, bowels, fistula openings, ulcers. The phlegmatic person who is purple, who gets no sympathy when sick, and is almost distracted about the horrible fetid discharges. Even the discharges from the eyes may be bloody and offensive.


IN all diseases which the so-called practical glance, which pretends to be able to see everything, even the inner processes of morbid nature, could make nothing of, as also in all those that would not fit in with any name in pathology, it was theoretically assumed that there were present viscid, inspissated humours and obstructions of the minute nameless vessels in the interior of the body which nobody could see, in order that the favourite dandelion might be prescribed in accordance with this fantastic assumption.

On account of its milky juice it was theoretically assumed that it must act like a soap, and as soap chemically dissolve in the interior of the living body whatever the practitioner was pleased to imagine existed in the diseased human system of a viscid, inspissated and obstructive character.

Had the pure powers of dandelion to effect changes in the human health been ever tested, and had it thus been experimentally ascertained what peculiar morbid states it was able characteristically to produce, and had then a pure therapeutic trial been made of this plant, administered alone, in any case of disease, and it had been found to effect a rapid and permanent cure, it would have been seen convincingly on comparing the totality of the symptoms of the disease cured by this remedy with the morbid symptoms dandelion can produce in the healthy body, that this plant can only cure in virtue of its symptoms being similar to those of the case off disease, and that it could not fail to cure it in accordance with the eternal homoeopathic law of nature and that, for that very reason, it could not be of use in those morbid states the like of which dandelion is not able to produce. HAHNEMANN, Materia Medica Pura.

“A fundamental principle which distinguishes the homoeopathic physician from every physician of all older schools, is this: that he never gives a medicine whose effect has not been previously proved and thus made known to him.

“To prescribe for the sick on some mere conjecture of some possible usefulness in some similar disease, or from hearsay that a remedy has helped in such and such a disease, is a conscientious venture that the philanthropic homoeopath will leave to the allopath.” HAHNEMANN.

“Neither in my practice, nor in a lunatic asylum, have I ever met a patient attacked by melancholy, madness, or frenzy, in whom these diseases were not based upon psora, sometimes complicated with syphilis.” HAHNEMANN, Chronic Diseases.

$ MORE LITTLE CASES

[More Little Cases -1].

Homoeopathy By Dr M L Tyler.

# 1938 Sep Vol VII No 9.

^ Tyler M L.

~ Cases.

` Lyc / Lach / Caul.

HERE are some rather charming little cases, sent by Dr. M. of Swansea some time ago. They show how Homoeopathy can come to the rescue, in otherwise intractable conditions.

(1) A baby, 12 days old had lost weight the last few days, then it developed fits. For about three days it was having a dozen fits or so each day. It was at this stage that we saw it, and the nurse told us that it was dying. The face was cyanosed, the hands blue and cold, pulse very slow it looked certainly “dying”. Allopathy said, “heart failure useless”. Homoeopathy said, “the brow is very frowning; the alae nasi work asynchronously with breathing; the fits are worse about tea time, and the urine stains brick-colour. We gave a bad prognosis and Lyc. 200. Next day we were amazed to find the child still living and it had only had one fit. Now, a month later, the baby is normal.

(2) A fat old lady, not the least prepossessing-looking, had been attended by me, and was incidentally always grumbling about her husband who accused her of being unfaithful. The thing was laughable but was causing great friction. I know these cases have been reported before; but when he had been given Lachesis cm. it quite stopped. Allopathy would not have stopped it, as far as I know.

(3) I had a confinement take place to-day when I was not there.

The last baby died. (I had had great difficulty with forceps as she is a slight “flat” pelvis).

This time she was also attending the Clinic, who said she must have a Caesarian if she wanted a living baby. However I had charge of the lady during the last month. She was rather frightened by the Clinic and worried as to what was going to happen. I gave Acon. with no effect. Then she was rather chilly and weak so I gave her Gels. I was then gratified to find this drug in Yinglings Repertory as being the best for Anticipation of labour. Anyway, the pains only developed slowly to-day, so I gave Cauloph. 200, and the baby was born two hours later.

$ ASAFOETIDA

[Asafoetida].

Homoeopathy By Dr M L Tyler.

# 1938 Sep Vol VII No 9.

^ Tyler M L.

~ Materia Medica.

` Asaf.

DRUG PICTURES: 81.

“A GUM resin obtained by piercing the living root of different species of Ferula.” N. O. umbelliferae. Ours is Narthrex asafoetida.

The fresh oil is said to “small not unpleasantly: but when decomposed it gives off sulphuretted hydrogen”, the charming and penetrating odour of electioneering eggs. Political meetings have been before now broken up by the introduction of asafoetida into the hall by rowdy partisans of the rival candidate.

Hale White gives another drastic use for the drug: “cases of malingering may sometimes be cured by making the patient take, three times a day, an effervescing draught containing a few minutes each of the tinctures of valerian and asafoetida. The effervescence makes the nasty taste of these medicines repeat in the mouth for some time after taking them.” Old School has a pill of asafoetida, aloes, hard soap and confection of roses: in the margin of our copy of Hale White stands scribbled in pencil,.

“Stinks and aloes, one supposes;.

But why hard soap, and why the roses?”.

These silly little things used to make examinations so easy! .

And Kent gives yet another popular use as a supposed protection against disease, hence used in the stables. He says lumps of “foety” as they called it were put in the corn for the horse, to keep off distemper. And he says “it has been used by the laity as a medicine for fainting, for hysteria, for all sorts of nervous symptoms and complaints: this use is justified by the proving”.

In the Cyclopaedia of Drug Pathogenesy we find provings and poisonings by Asafoetida. In one case it evoked “pressing pain in the cardiac region, as if from over-filling and distension of the heart”. In another there was a sensation of “compression of the brain, as if surrounded and pressed together by a cloth”. “The thorax was seized with spasmodic contractions, till it seemed as if the lungs could not expand completely, respirations being normal.” Again, a “sensation as of a cord tied tightly round brain.” “Chest so constricted as if squeezed by a heavy body lying on sternum”: and, always, distension of abdomen: “rumbling, gurgling, distension”.

BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS.

Pressive pain in forehead, from within outwards.

Nervous headache of hysterical or scrofulous people.

Nocturnal throbbing pain in and around eye and HEAD.

Extensive superficial ulceration of cornea, with burning, sticking or pressing, from within out. Better rest, pressure, open air. Numbness round EYE.

Discharge of very offensive matter from the NOSE; with caries of the bones.

Swelling of lower lip.

Sensation of a ball rising in throat from STOMACH to oesophagus.

Flatus passing upwards: none down.

Heat in spleen and ABDOMEN.

Watery liquid STOOLS of the most disgusting smell: pains in abdomen and discharge of fetid flatus.

Watery stools of disgusting odour, profuse and greenish. .

URINE warm and of a pungent, ammoniacal smell.

Spasmodic tightness of CHEST, as if lungs could not be fully expanded.

Asthmatic feeling in trachea, dry cough; spasmodic dyspnoea as if lungs could not be fully expanded.

Pain and tenderness TIBIA, almost unbearable at night.

Nervous PALPITATION with small pulse, from over-exertion or suppression of discharges.

HYSTERIA, with much trouble about throat or oesophagus; well marked globus; spasm of lungs, etc.

Nervous affections after suppressed discharges.

Nervous people.

SOME ITALIC OR CURIOUS SYMPTOMS.

Swashing and gurgling sensation in brain, especially frontal.

As if a nail or plug were driven into brain: like a pointed plug in left temple, and right parietal.

As if nose would burst.

Heat of face, ear and hands, with chills down back.

Fatty, rancid taste in mouth.

Spasm of oesophagus like that of hysteria.

Winding and twisting in bowels, as of reversed peristalsis. As if heart would burst.

Has a loathing of beer.

Constriction of chest; of throat; about heart.

Cramp in forehead.

Throbbing: head; in and about eye; pit of stomach; big toe.

Numbness: nasal bones; bones of face; chin.

DR. CLARKE gives an excellent little picture of Asafoetida. “The symptoms of Asafoetida present an almost perfect picture of hysteria of the flatulent order. Reversed peristalsis of stomach and bowels. Excessive abdominal distension, and sensation as if everything in the abdomen would burst through the mouth. After belching of wind, strong rancid taste in the mouth.

Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.

Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.