5. Tonicardiacs



Colchicum. The patient has oppression, digestive troubles, nausea with weakness. The heart is weak and dull.

Oleander the laurel-rose is a remedy used empirical in dermatitis and rheumatism. Leclerc writes in 1888 that it has been used in cardiopathy and as such it is related to Strophanthus.

In Homeopathy we use it in some cases of eruptions on the skin related to hepatic insufficiency specially in asthmatics.

Finally two more important remedies:

Cereus Bonaplandii, related to Cactus, is a Mexican plant discovered in the 17th century by M. Bompland. It is a good drainage remedy for persons suffering from hypertension of the first stage. The patient has the sensation of heaviness of the region of heart and some muscular pains of the left pectoral in case of hypertrophied heart. It is used in 1x or 3x.

Pencedanum: Dr. Nebel has taught us its use in hypertension with renal deficiency and symptoms of anger.

It has also an action on duodenum and it is also used in some dyspeptic troubles. It is used in 3x and very rarely in 30.

Dr. Nebel also used polyganum avicular in the drainage of the heart towards kidney.

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.