Homoeopathic Treatment of Syphilis -2



The heavy metals have generally ascending pains, specially Tin, Silver and Platinum.

Cuprum, Magnesia Phosphorica and also Belladonna have pains beginning suddenly and ending suddenly. The pains of Pulsatilla comes suddenly and ends gradually.

You know the value of Platina in proud woman, who looks everything from high above, who sighs with a bold underline, a psychological symptom of pride. In Platina you must take note the pride and the nymphomania. It is a remedy of hysteria, of all sorts of spasms, of vaginismus, but we cannot be too certain to say that these symptoms are to syphilitic origin.

Platinum Muriaticum. After the failure of Iodide of Potassium we must think of this remedy in syphilitic lesions, in troubles of the throat, in caries of bones of the feet.

Finally Osmium a rare metal, has been used in all sorts of affections. Its pathogenesis is not complete,. Some results have been obtained in eczema, albuminuria, irritation of the respiratory system, glaucoma, alopecia, laryngeal pains and in all these cases when syphilis is suspected.

The subject has profuse sweats having the odour of garlic. Often, when Osmium is given, the sweat augments.

Osmium is also a remedy of adherent nails.

Other Minerals. Before the study of other minerals, let me say something about a mineral compound of animal origin.

Corallium: It may be considered as a satellite of Iodium. It is a secondary remedy of syphilis, however, used in ulceration of glands and of the internal face of the prepuce, with yellowish oozing. It is also used in all sorts of syphilides and cutaneous eruptions, coral coloured patches.

Profuse sweat is an indication of this remedy like that of Iodium and Mercurius.

Corallium is a link between these two remedies.

It is generally aggravated in the open air and while passing from hot to cold atmosphere.

It is also a remedy of sexual importance.

Iodium is a very important remedy which we will take up with the ground remedies.

It is a complementary of many remedies, specially of Lycopodium, Hepar sulphur and Silicea. It may be given in all the phases of syphilis, in heredos who have scrofula, who are at a time heredo- tubercular, and heredo-syphilitic, or in tertiary stage having sclerosis. In this case Iodium may be compared with Kali iodatum.

Iodium suits particularly to the association of syphilis with tuberculosis and in this it has a complementary: Phytolacca which is a good pulmonary remedy for troubles arising out of the association of syphilis and tuberculosis.

You know the Iodium child, so well known clinically. Agitated child, weak, anxious, having devouring appetite, he weeps if the time of meal does not come soon; he cannot fast.

Weakness with great emaciation.

Generally it is an aggravated Natrum muriaticum, having big and hard ganglions, while those of Calcarea carbonica is big and flat but not hard. Those of Silicea are hard and rolls under the finger. The ganglions of Iodium are more or less big but always hard.

Calcarea iodatum has very hard glands like those of Iodium.

If you search in the mentality of Iodium you will find that the subject is impulsive in which case it may be compared with Lycopodium and Anacardium. He has sudden impulsion to cry and run.

The child is small and dry, it is opposite of Bromium, blonde with lax fibres.

If you find a clear type of Iodium, you will often see that he was a Calcarea phosphorica or a Lycopodium in its first infancy.

You must think of giving him at first Marmoreck and after wards Syphilinum.

Sometimes syphilis is not seen; there is only tuberculinic ground.

In the adult, it is first of all pre-cancer, who has sclerosis and who moves rapidly to scirrhus or hard cancers of glands or of ganglions ( Cancer of the breasts). Iodium is perhaps then a remedy of quarternary syphilis as is considered by some authors, i.e., to say syphilis that obligatorily evolves towards Cancer.

Kali iodatum: It is a very important remedy of secondary and tertiary syphilis. It re-enforces the actions of other remedies particularly of Mercurius. As for me I use it generally with a Mercury salt in alternation. It acts well but only in lower dilutions. It has local elective action on the interstitial tissues, on the sympathetic system and on glands.

It is specially used in ozaena, in syphilitic iritis, perforation of the nasal septum, fluent syphilitic coryzas, either of children or of adults. It is very rarely used in hereditary syphilis but almost uniquely in tertiary syphilis. It is also used in acne rosacea and in hard glands.

It is preferably used in lower dilutions 2x to 6x. It hardly acts when given in higher dilutions like all the homoeopathic remedies of syphilis that have a direct action. Often it is necessary to use it in ponderable doses.

Benjamin says that during an experiment made in Algiers as regards tertiary syphilis, some were given only Kali iodatum and others were given antisyphilitics (Mercury, Arsenic(, only the latter acted. This shows that Kali iodatum does not act alone.

If we follow the ideas of Sedillot, regarding tertiary syphilis we will always keep in mind that the treponema is extremely fragile and always needs association with other germs in order to exist. It is the animalcules that require vegetables. Gold, Iodium of Potash act electively on the vegetables, more on fungus than on syphilis. It is a specific of mycosis.

To give Kali iodatum means obtaining nothing. It must be given with Mercury, specially in gammas. It is certain that in the treatment of gammas and in all acute troubles of the tertiary period one must be very circumspect. Always weigh the general interest of the patient and the local interest of the trouble he has. When the latter passes over the former it is necessary to abandon Homoeopathy, if it does not act soon. It will be necessary to take the help of Allopathy.

As for example, if a gamma continues to grow, if ulceration begins while you have given Mercurius and kali iodatum, do not hesitate to adopt Allopathy to have a more rapid effect. First of all you must be a doctor and it is necessary to abandon temporarily Homoeopathy in order to have more rapid action. In such a case we must treat the syphilitic patient like our colleagues with Mercury and Arsenic.

But if the local lesion is of less importance, if the general interest passes over the local interest, the homoeopathic treatment is to be continued and I believe by acting thus we will make no fault for being blamed.

In ulcers we have even good effects with Kali bichromicum and Kali iodatum; in gamma Kali iodatum and Mercurius have given good results, but inconstant.

But generally speaking in the clientele of the town very few patients are seen so that we have not sufficient experience. All patients consult the specialist.

In summary we may say that if Kali iodatum is indicated in syphilis associated with other microbes, use it in pre-sclerosis in association with other remedies.

Kali Bichromicum: It may have a very rapid action in troubles of tertiary syphilis or in heredos. In the latter case it acts better than in tertiary syphilis.

You know that it is an important remedy and one of its most important symptoms is that the ulcers have the border as if cut in a punch which is different from that of tuberculous ulcers which are map-like in an irregular contour.

There may be all sorts of cutaneous eruptions: papules, pustules, syphilides. But this remedy is particularly interesting to us because it is really a polychrest acting electively on all sorts of tissues; skin, mucous, kidney, heart and liver.

Therefore, in tertiary syphilis when these organs are attacked we must think of it.

Kidney: Very early sclerosis with rapid evolution and even sometimes acute nephritis in secondary syphilis.

Heart: Degenerescence of the myocardia, fatty heart as is found in Phosphorus.

Liver: Fatty degenerescence and atrophic cirrhosis or hypertrophic cirrhosis. Here also it is related to Phosphorus.

Mucosa: Ulcerations already described, with viscous secretions, yellowish, sticky, very much adherent.

It has an affinity on nose causing coryza with yellowish flow, rather yellowish green flow, thick, elastic crusts, that stuffs the nose. Kali bichromicum, we know, is one of the best remedies of nasal diphtheria and for this reason it is always to be thought of in children, attacks with these affections.

Kali bichromicum is also a remedy of the perforation of the palate. Really it is very useful in hereditary syphilis or in the tertiary syphilis, but now when the ulceration develops very soon.

I prefer the very high dilutions. But I believe it should be used below 30.

Kali Muriaticum: It is used when the nasal flow is fluid, less thick than the preceding one.

The affection of the nose may be accompanied by catarrh of the middle ear.

There may be eczema with vesicles like Rhus tox or dry desquamation like that of Arsenic.

Acids: Now we will study the acids.

Nitric acid is an important polychrest which may be compared with Mercurius. It may act in all dilutions.

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.