3. Lymphatic



Drainage of the bone system

In order to act on bones one must take into account the factor circulation. The most important bone remedies are Aurum and Phosphorous which are also two capital remedies of circulation.

The essential remedies of osteitis in general are: Aurum in case of syphilitic osteitis (Aurum has at the same time an action on aortitis in tertiary syphilis); Aurum iod., Phosphorous, Kali iod (action on bones and fibrous tissues specially of tertiary syphilitics); mercurius, Hepar sulphur, Nitric acid, Phosphoric acid, Mezereum, Strontiana carbonica, Gunpowder.

-In troubles of growth are specially indicated Calcarea carbonica, Calcarea phosphorica, Calcarea fluorica and Silicea. Troubles localised on sutures: Calcarea phosphorica, Calcarea carbonica, Silicea.

-In exostosis a very important remedy is Hekla Lava 30. Secondarily Calcarea fluorica, Kali bichromicum (necrosis), Kali iodatum, Phosphorus, Phosphoric acid, Silicea.

-In fractures with difficulty of consolidation the important remedy is symphytum, followed by Calcarea phosphorica, ruta (cartilage), Hypericum (traumatised nerves).

-Osteitis with swelling of epiphysis : Concholinum.

-In necrosis (simple), phosphorous, the most important remedy. Then come silicea, Aurum, Argentum metallicum, Calcarea fluorica, Fluoric acid, Calcarea silicata. Not that salts of Thorium and Radium cause necrosis.

-Necrosis with suppuration: Hepar sulphur, Mercuris, Kali bichromicum, Nitric acid.

-Necrosis with sarcoma: Nitric acid is interesting and Onkolysin (6 & M) of Dr. Nebel.

-In Pott’s disease: Silicea, Calcarea phosphorica, Phosphoric acid, Phosphorus, Iodium, Tuberculins (with care) and curiously, very often Luesinum.

Mauritius Fortier-Bernoville
Mauritius (Maurice) Fortier Bernoville 1896 – 1939 MD was a French orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become the Chief editor of L’Homeopathie Moderne (founded in 1932; ceased publication in 1940), one of the founders of the Laboratoire Homeopathiques Modernes, and the founder of the Institut National Homeopathique Francais.

Bernoville was a major lecturer in homeopathy, and he was active in Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis, and a founder of the le Syndicat national des médecins homœopathes français in 1932, and a member of the French Society of Homeopathy, and the Society of Homeopathy in the Rhone.

Fortier-Bernoville wrote several books, including Une etude sur Phosphorus (1930), L'Homoeopathie en Medecine Infantile (1931), his best known Comment guerir par l'Homoeopathie (1929, 1937), and an interesting work on iridology, Introduction a l'etude de l'Iridologie (1932).

With Louis-Alcime Rousseau, he wrote several booklets, including Diseases of Respiratory and Digestive Systems of Children, Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic Rheumatism, treatment of hay fever (1929), The importance of chemistry and toxicology in the indications of Phosphorus (1931), and Homeopathic Medicine for Children (1931). He also wrote several short pamphlets, including What We Must Not Do in Homoeopathy, which discusses the logistics of drainage and how to avoid aggravations.

He was an opponent of Kentian homeopathy and a proponent of drainage and artificial phylectenular autotherapy as well.