November 30th, 1937. Dyspnoea again. Heart as before She said, “It was all since rheumatic fever at 18”, she had it also at 12, but (?) heart not affected then. Streptococcin 200, three doses six-hourly.
January 9th, 1938. She had had a return of the old rheumatic pains, “so when she had rheumatic fever”, eleven days after she started the medicine. They lasted for two days. She “could not stand”. Now, heart fair. Feeling better. Is definitely improving.
March 1st. Feels much better. “Only wants the medicine to keep her going”.
April 8th. Better. “Heart very well.” More indigestion lately. Everybody says she looks very well.
June 14th. Very well. Digestion easier: only one turn 14 days ago. Heart does not bother her as it used; only if she feels very energetic. “Better November.” Looks very well. “People who havent seen her for some time say, My ! you look ever so much better. What have you been doing ?”.
August 9th. Very well. Feels the heat. Doesnt feel her heart as she used to. Streptococcin was now repeated:-Why ?.
Oct. 11th. Turns of indigestion. Only feels heart again recently since indigestion. Was very well till “the Scare” (Gas masks, etc.). Volunteers that she “has been very much better than for years since last November”. Looks absolutely well. Heart again examined: “Mitral and aortic stenosis. Cardiac rhythm good.”.
This patient has been watched for five years; and it is only since the Streptococcin that she has been really well and comfortable. . . she recognizes that.
N.B.-Think of Streptococcin in potency for rheumatic patients. We hope to have much to say in regard to this later on.
$ SOME DRUGS OF GASTRIC AND DUODENAL IRRITATION AND ULCERATION
[Gastric & Duodenal Irritation].
Homoeopathy By Dr M L Tyler.
# 1938 Nov Vol VII No 11.
^ Tyler M L.
~ Materia Medica.
` Graph / Anac / Chel / Lach / Raph / Carb-a / Carb-v / Phos / Kreos / Alum / Plb / Uran-n / Puls / Sulph / Ars /Podo / Rob / Lyco / Ant-c / Ornig / Cur / Kali-c/ Syph / Nux-v / Cocc/ Hydr / Terb / Hep / Cham.
With their mental and Characteristic Symptoms.
WITH INDICATIONS.
Graphites . . Gnawing in stomach, relieved by eating.
Pain in stomach when empty, forces him to eat.
Canine hunger with acidity of stomach.
Is obliged to eat account of burning in stomach.
The stomach pains of Graph. are relieved by eating: relieved by warm foods and drink: relieved by lying down. Yet hot things disagree. Characteristic: aversion to animal food; to fish. Great aversion to salt. Sweet things are disgusting and nauseous.
Qualmishness, as from abdomen.
Rancid heartburn. Sour vomiting.
Sadness: thoughts of nothing but death.
Must weep. Music makes her weep.
Miserable: unhappy.
Apprehensiveness.
Irritable; fretful; fidgety.
Extreme hesitation: timidity.
Anacardium . . All-gone sensation when stomach is empty; relieved by eating (Chel., Iod.).
Every step shakes the stomach.
Spasmodic stomach pain with belching.
Gastric pain, > eating, but recurs in two to three hours.
A drug of very definite mentalities.
“Few remedies have “impaired memory as so marked a characteristic.”
Dual personality: “devil and angel” sensation; impelled to evil, and to good.
Feels double; mind and body separated; that there is no reality in anything; suspects everyone; someone behind him; desire to curse and swear. Objects too far away. Then the characteristic plug sensation: in intestines; in right chest; in gluteal muscles. Rectum feels plugged up.
Also a hoop sensation, round head, chest, abdomen or anus. Chelidonium . . Feeling of anguish in pit of stomach.
Persistent pain in stomach; worse motion.
Better eructations; better eating.
Ameliorated by hot milk (Phos. cold milk).
Gnawing, grinding pain, stomach, relieved by eating, by warm drinks.
Loss of appetite with disgust and nausea.
Longing for very hot drinks; for wine; vinegar; for milk, coffee; for beer which disagrees.
Milk improves; wine relieves abdominal pain; hot drinks agree; coffee agrees; worse cold drinks.
Gall stones: gall stone colic. Great liver medicine
Characteristic: pain under lower, inner angle, of right scapula.
Tooth-notched tongue.
Anxiety: allows no rest at any employment.
As if had committed a crime. Fear of getting crazy.
Vexed at every trifle: violent attacks of passionate outbursts of temper.
Man (27). Report (from a London Hospital where he had been in- patient): “X-ray; large gastric ulcer, lesser curvature: with diet, nearly healed.” Now, 7 months later, recurrence. He was > eating, > hot food, > lying; and Graph. at long intervals and varying potencies, kept him at him at heavy work and “fine”. A couple of years later, Chel., from 6 upwards, took up the case and improved on it. He is very well.
Lachesis . . Gnawing pressure in stomach, better by eating. Returns when stomach is empty.
Characteristic: excessive tenderness to touch, stomach and abdomen, throat. (Comp. Lyc.)
Lach. craves oysters; wine and spirits; coffee.
Typical Lachesis, where ideas crown on the mind with excessive loquacity.
Religious monomania: fear of being damned.
Jealously. Suspicion.
Extremely sad and distressed on waking in the morning.
All ailments worse after long-lasting grief.
Raphanus. Violent pressure in epigastric region.
Pain in stomach, must eat all the time.
Thirst excessive, violent, constant.
Accumulation and retention of flatus, no relief upwards or downwards.
Carbo animalis . . Empty feeling pit of stomach: not better by eating.
Soreness; cramps; griping; burning in stomach; load or weight there.
Heartburn; saltish water rises from stomach; cold feet.
Ravenous hunger; or no appetite.
Aversion to food: to fatty food.
Or raw feeling, like heartburn, better eating.
So weak she cannot eat.
“Old, stubborn, cancerous ulcers; they burn and ooze an acrid, ichorous fluid.”
With Carbo an. there is slow onset; slow progress; not tendency to repair.
“Increasingly sensitive to cold; increasingly chilly; increasingly waxy.”-KENT.
Carbo veg . . KENT says “Carbo veg. has burning in stomach, distension, constant eructations; flatulence, passing of offensive flatus.
Longing for coffee, acids, sweet and salt things; aversion to meat; to milk, which causes flatulence.”
“If I were going to manufacture a Carbo veg. constitution, I would commence with his stomach.
I would being to stuff him: feed him with fats, sweets, puddings and pies, and sauce, and all such indigestible trash; and give him plenty of wine; then I would have the Carbo veg. patient. They are mince-pie fiends. He is really in a fetid, a putrid condition.
All food seems to turn to flatulence; he is always belching. Full of colic and cramps; burning pain; anxiety; distension. Internal heat and burning, with external coldness, is a feature of Carbo veg”.
Phosphorus . . Perforating ulcer of stomach (Kali bic.); vomiting of food as soon as swallowed.
Violent pain, stomach, with vomiting, first green, then blackish: or like coffee grounds.
Pressure as form a hard substance, as from a weight in stomach: with coldness.
Coldness, as if freezing, in stomach: or burning.
Yet, pain relieved by cold food; ice cream (rev. of Chel., Ars.). Thirst for very cold drinks.
“As soon as water becomes warm in stomach it is vomited.” Desire for wine; for salt. Bad effects of too much salt. (Comp. Nat. mur.)
Aversion to sweet, to meat, to boiled milk (rev. of Chel.), to beer (rev. of Kali bi.), to coffee and tea.
Tall, delicate; easy bleeders; bruise easily.
Chilly, except for head and stomach affection which need cold.
Sensitive; tremulous.
Prostration from mental or physical effort.
Fear thunderstorms, darkness, being alone.
Indifference to loved ones (Sep.), better for touch, for rubbing, for sleep.
Kreosotum . . Cold internally, epigastrium, as if cold water or ice were there (Phos.).
Painful, hart spot, at or to left of stomach.
Malignant induration, fungus and ulcers of stomach; pressive, gnawing, ulcerative pain in stomach with haematemesis.
Frequent and sudden vomiting of food; remarkably rapid emaciation of whole body, especially neck and face.
Vomiting of sweetish water; of undigested food; of large quantities of sour, acrid fluid, or white, foamy mucus.
Hungry for or aversion to meat.
Great thirst; greedy drinking followed by vomiting. Desire for spirituous drinks.
Stomach aches from acid food.
Better warm diet. Dares not remain fasting.
Kreosote is acrid, offensive, putrid.
Alumina . . Constriction and twisting in stomach, extending up oesophagus, to throat (Plumb.).
Eructations sour, bitter. Vomits mucus and water.
Worse from eating potatoes; from weakest spirituous drinks; from soups.
Affects oesophagus, especially lower end.
Aversion to meat, to beer.
Depraved appetite for starch, chalk, charcoal, acids, coffee or tea-grounds.
Longing for fruit and vegetables.
Eructations sour, acrid; pyrosis.
Plumbum . . Feeling of a ball ascending from epigastrium to throat, where it causes suffocation; then can neither speak nor swallow.
Contraction in oesophagus and stomach (Alum., which it antidotes). Fluids can be swallowed, but solids return.
Violent pressure, stomach and pain in back; better hard pressure. Great hunger, or complete loss of appetite.
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.