Antimonium sulphuricum aurum. It should be used in case of chronic bronchitis accompanied by nasopharyngeal catarrh or when the bronchitis is localised in the lower part of the left lung (laterality of the radical sulphur). Often abundant expectoration, greenish, yellow, difficult to detach.
Antimonium sul. aur. is more chronic than that of the preceding remedies. It is a remedy of the left base having tendency to chronicity.
Antimonium iodatum. It is a remedy of Chronic Bronchitis and as a result of catarrh of the Upper Respiratory system which has gradually spread to the whole Respiratory System. The patient was at first a subject of catarrh of the rhino-pharynx, but gradually has become a patient suffering from chronic bronchitis with emphysema. The emaciation and weakness are to be noted, which are the characteristics of the radical iodum. This remedy is to be given in lower potencies, for example 3x.
Antimonium arsenicosum. With this ends the series of Antimony. It is a very important remedy and which the lecturer uses frequently in emphysema, in chronic bronchitis and in patients who have deficiency of the right heart with congestion of the bases; in the last case one should give Phosphorous 200 followed by Antimonium tartaricum 6 and Antimonium arsenicosum 6 alternated every hour and at the same time 1x or M.T. Asystole of the right heart is differentiated from that of the left heart and circulation with oedema and is suitable to Phosphorus 200 followed by Kali carbonicum 12, Apis 6 and Digitalis.
Antimonium arsenicosum is useful weak asthmatic patient with extreme dyspnoea. The patient is weak with cough accompanied by abundant expectoration. In some cases this remedy is more active in 3x than in 6.
If there is tendency to uremia we may alternate Antimonium arsenicosum 3x with Ammonium carbonicum 3x.
Here we have no need to study Arsenicum album which we have studied as a ground remedy. It is a remedy of dry cough. However in some cases of humid cough it may be used and will be compared with Antimonium tartaricum, as for example when the attack starts from 1 to 3 a.m.
Finally there remains another salt of Arsenic which is indicated when the cough is accompanied by muco-purulent expectoration and which is very much abundant. It is Arsenicum protoiodatum, indicated by Cartier in muco-purulent expectoration with agitation and prostration.
The Kalis. Kali carbonicum has two types of expectoration.
1. Thick, rare painful, viscous expectoration, difficult to detach. The patient is forced to swallow the catarrh. This remedy is to given in adults of infantile type who does not know how to hack up the sputum.
2. Paroxysms of dry cough to which follow unexpectedly some sputum violently thrown out.
The cough and dyspnoea is better by bending forward.
Kali bichromicum. Thread like expectoration, yellowish green, thick, mucous, viscous. The cough is accompanied by pain in the sternum and is aggravated by uncovering the body.
Kali bichromicum responds to asthma of old persons suffering from bronchitis. Some dyspeptic troubles may be seen (Aggr. by bier and Aloe)
The other salts of Kali are less important.
Kali iodum. Greenish expectoration, like soap suds; chronic watery coryza. Violent cough in the morning. Syphilitic subject.
Kali nitricum. Intense oppression. Cardiac asthma of old bronchitis patients. Dilatation of the right heart.
Kali arsenicosum. It is more interesting. The author uses it successfully in emphysema of old persons (6, 30) specially if there is inveterate psora with skin manifestations (chronic eczema etc.)
Kali muriaticum. Nasopharyngeal catarrh is more important than bronchial catarrh.
Kali chloricum. Chronic nephritis with renal asthma.
Chromico kali sulph. It is a kali bichromicum group compounded with sulphur. It is used in asthma with great oppression with expectoration difficult to detatch.
Kali sulphuricum. Very much related to Pulsatilla. A remedy of yellow non-irritating expectoration.
Kali permanganium. Very foetid expectoration (Charge)
Let us conclude by a short schema: Soap sud expectoration
Arsenicum
Viscous, colourless, sometimes greenish expectoration
Salts of Natrum
Difficult to detatch
Salts of potassium
Ropy, yellowish
Kali bichr, Hydrastis
Thready, colourless
Coccus cacti.
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.