Now we come to Kalis and Fluoric acid.
In what doses they are to be used?
There are some homoeopaths who use them in high dilutions. I have got marvellous results with 3x and 6x.
For Fluoric acid we may rise up to the 6th and 30th.
If we now desire to indicate the relations of these remedies the first thing that comes to our mind is that the Mercury is related to all the remedies.
We apply Mercury frequently as suppositories, or Mercurial frictions like the officials and we give 1x, 3x,6x, according to the case and rapidity of action. One may say that Mercury is related more to some remedies than to others. However, we may precisely show the relations of Mercury and its salts with Sulphur, Thuja and Nitric acid.
Like Sulphur, Mercury is aggravated in the heat of the bed but Mercury is more aggravated at night.
With Thuja and Nitric acid in persons who have taken too much Mercury you may give Sulphur and specially Hepar sulphur which is the king of antidotes of the excess of Mercury specially when there is suppurative tendency.
The relation of Mercurius and Nitric acid will exist when the syphilitic subject have become a patient of mucous lesions. In such cases you will give a 200 of Nitric acid and the action will be more complete. Besides the symptoms of these remedies are very similar. It is said in the Materia Medica that they antidote each other. but if you give one after the other, Mercury in lower dilutions, Nitric acid in high dilutions, the action of the two remedies is possible without antidotism.
Kali iodatum will be naturally greatly related to Iodatum, Silicea and Thuja.
Thuja is also a remedy which antidotes excess of Potassium iodide, sometimes of Hepar sulphur.
Nitric acid and Fluoric acid will have common relations: Kali bichromicum with Thuja and Nitric acid has often relations with Phosphorus.
Kali bichromicum and Phosphorus are both remedies of fatty degeneration of the liver.
We may also compare Osmium with Plumbum.
Hekla Lava is a very interesting remedy and is related to Calcarea fluorica and naturally with Thuja and Phosphorus. You know that this remedy is a good remedy of hyperostosis and exostosis of syphilitic origin.
I believed Corallium must contain iodine and will be a successor of Iodine but after the chemical analysis, it was shown that this remedy contains Silica and Iron, and no iodine.
Kali muriaticum has particularly affinity on the cavum.
Baryta carbonica is to be placed in the rank of the ground remedies. The type is often “Man-like woman”, on whom it will act whatever other symptoms the individual may have. It should be prescribed often with Sulphur. Both are related in case of arterial hypertension.
Baryta carbonica in high dilutions may cause temporary aggravation causing an eruption. If you have well drained and canalised your patient you may give Sulphur.
Besides Baryta carbonica you may use Baryta muriatica in arterial hypertension and in sclerosis but Baryta muriatica is used specially when there is renal sclerosis and when there are troubles of metabolism of salts. Bariums are related to Plumbum. Both are inconstant in there actions. Barium acts very slowly. Result is obtained only after some months and even after a year. Cartier has shown it very clearly.
Vegetables. They are functional and lesional remedies.
Now we come to the remedies of vegetable origin which are, you will see, satellites of the Minerals and are to be used in medium dilutions.
Badiaga acts specially on indurated glands, hypertrophied glands and on some skin troubles. It is a satellite of Kali iodatum and of Iodium. We may have to give Iodium 200 followed by Badiaga 30 or 6.
Mezereum has burning pains and is useful in eczema of children. It acts specially on indurated testicles. It will be placed near Sulphur to which it is related; burning pains, aggravation at night, aggravation by heat, amelioration in open air.
It is also related to Mercurius and Calcarea carbonica. Like the latter and like Antimonium Crudum it acts on ring-worm.
Jaguaranda Glandai is a satellite of Thuja, in rheumatism or in pseudo-rheumatic troubles.
But I have no practical experience with this remedy.
Mezereum and Badiaga are on the contrary very important.
Guaco acts on spinal induration and is clearly related to Lathyrus Sativus. It is complementary to Phosphorus. It acts better in 3 or 6.
Kreosotum is indicated in very corrosive ulceration. It is related to kali bichromicum and Nitric acid. It is not a remedy of the first importance. Sometimes it is related to Carbo animalis because it may be used in cancerous ulceration, specially of the neck of the uterus.
Guaiacum has a special action on the fibrous tissues. It is rather related to Thuja and it is useful in rheumatic patient.
Rhus glabra has profuse sweat and antidotes the abuse of Mercury in the secondary syphilis. It is related to Mercurius.
Kalmia latifolia is used in fulgurating pains of tabes in cardiac affections of syphilitics or non-syphilitics and in permanently slow pulse which is now known as a syphilitic origin, in some aortitis, in angina of the heart and in real sclerosis.
It is, therefore, an excellent remedy of the visceras. It is preferably related to Phosphorus and sometimes to Thuja.
Phytolacca is a very important remedy and is to be placed in the first rank. It also acts on benign tumors and even in some cancers, fibrous or scirrhus and on mixed tumours as for example tumours of the parotid glands.
I have made two beautiful cures of the tumours of the parotid glands.
It acts on sclerosis and tumours of the breasts.
It has close relation with Conium and acts better in the 6th dilution.
Finally it may be placed in relation to Badiaga, Guaiacum, Kali iodatum, Argentum, Thuja and Carbo animalis.
Asafoetida acts on hysteriform spasm and on the lesions of bones.
Therefore, it is related on the one hand with Platina, Ignatia and on the other hand with Phosphorus and Calcarea fluorica.
It is a remedy of Ozaena.
Corydalis acts on syphilitic gammas. It has nocturnal fears. Therefore, it is related to Mercury.
In this case think of Calotropis.
Anantherum acts on the deformation of the nails and is related to Mercurius and Thuja. It may be used also on some such deformations not of syphilitic origin.
It is often a remedy of simple and small tumours whose seat is on the tip of nose, on abscesses and ulcers.
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.