Sciatica is classic after vaccinations that do not take up.
It is curious to note that on the one hand neuralgias and neuritis and sometimes pseudo-rheumatic pains in series are seen in those whose vaccinations do not take up and on the other hand no trouble ensue in those whose vaccinations are successful.
The vaccinations in girls of 12 years are extremely dangerous. It causes deep troubles of puberty. It is one of the most important causes of the bad condition of menstruation, dysmenorrhoea and amenorrhoea.
We are now going to leave the philosophical ground and speak about the sycotic manifestations indicating the important remedies that suit to the diathesis indicated by the warts and to shows how we can treat these warts either by external or by internal treatment.
On the schema, we have indicated as usual on the top the nosodes, because they are in relation to the deep etiology. Then in two lines the ground remedies are shown. On the lower line the most important remedies are shown. Then in the lower part the functional and symptomatic remedies are indicated.
At first we have not classified the remedies according to their natural order; Nosodes, ground and functional remedies. We will try to classify the remedies according to their natural order; animal, vegetable and mineral.
You will find that the remedies of the vegetable kingdom are less numerous. You know that generally the remedies of the vegetable order are used in acute cases. On the contrary when it is the question of chronic cases, specially in torpid cases the remedies of the mineral order are used.
Here you will find some remedies of vegetable kingdom of which Dulcamara is the leader but the others are secondary. On the contrary the remedies of the mineral kingdom are more numerous and more important.
2. Remedies of Animal origin. From the animal kingdom we have : Sepia, Lachesis, Castoreum, Bufo and Castor equi.
Two important polychrests which are the ground remedies and remedies of morbid temperaments: Sepia and Lachesis. Both are remedies of person who are perhaps the carriers of warts, but the sycotic condition in both of them is not pure and not of the first importance.
I think that Sepia is more sycotic than the other, specially in individuals who have the interesting “bearing down sensation” of the genital organs ( great heaviness as a result of congestion localised in the lower abdomen).
As regards symptoms regarding warts mentioned in the repertories we find three other remedies:
Castor equi. It is the most interesting of the three. It is the “Horse-chestnut”, a corneous growth on the limbs of the animal. It is not very well known in Homoeopathic practice. In the Materia Medica we find:
Castor equi affects: 1. The cutaneous zone. 2. The genital sphere, specially in women.
It is interesting to apply it in a person whose skin is thick, with a tendency to become chapped (Antimonium, crudum, Graphites and Petroleum). It is the principal remedy we use for “chapped hands” and of chapped breasts ( the first decimal is used as external application). Locally it ameliorated the chapped condition of the breasts of nursing mother remarkably.
On the other hand it may also be given in warts of the tongue, and also in warts localised in certain parts of the body: chest and forehead.
It has also some action in the genital sphere. And this is interesting because if you cut the chestnut growth of the horse, it gives out an aphrodisiac smell attracting the dogs. It is said that some housebreakers know that peculiarity and use it to neutralise the watch dogs that do not bark immediately they get the smell. It acts on the genital zone of the dog by olfaction. It is necessary to experiment whether this statement is true and it has an action on the genitals.
Castoreum. It is to be given in persons who may have warts on the one hand and on the other some genital troubles specially of women who are nervous and hysterics, as it was said formerly.
It is related to Moschus and Ignatia. It is a complementary of the two other remedies.
Rana Bufo. The frog is a very important remedy of epilepsy and of certain eruptions. It may also prescribed in some cases of warts of the hands, specially of persons who are nervous. I have no special experience of this remedy. The warts justified to Bufo may be cured by this remedy. They may also be very often cured by persuasion. It is for this reason we have indicated it with Ignatia which is not classic. But it may be reserved for sensitive persons in whom psychotherapy may cause the warts to disappear.
Bufo is a remedy of nervous, spasmodic troubles. On the other hand the patient have pustules, pemphigus, furuncles, easy suppurations, i.e., all sorts of psoric troubles.
There may also be warts of the hands.
Bufo has some action on the genital organ. It acts on impotency and in some cases of dysmenorrhoea. You will have to fall back constantly on the genital sphere of this remedy.
Here are the few remedies that are interesting that have in their pathogenesis warts and sycotic conditions. They are from the animal kingdom. But they are not of the first importance.
2. Remedies from the vegetable kingdom. Before studying the Homoeopathic remedies obtained from the vegetable kingdom let us say something about some popular remedies.
Often in the villages the juice of Chelidonium and Conium is used on the warts of the children. As a result the warts disappear. Sometimes the juice of Euphorbia and Latex of the Fig tree is also used for curing warts. It is strange that in Materia Medica warts are not mentioned under Euphorbia or Chelidonium. If these substances do not experimentally produce warts in their pathogenesis, when these plants are used locally in an empirical way, are capable of curing (burning) the warts by the alkaloids or toxic products that they contain which we do not know in Homoeopathy.
We use two important remedies from the vegetable kingdom that are capable to act on the warts: Staphysagria and Dulcamara.
Staphysagria. It is related with Thuja, Natrum sulphuricum and Natrum muriaticum.
Dulcamara: It is specially related to Natrum muriaticum and Natrum sulphuricum. It acts on persons having large and flat warts, specially on the face and on the palms of the hands either in children or in adults, specially when there exists a hydrogenoid condition. There is then the aggravation in humid cold and during or night. Dulcamara acts very often because of a chill in summer than in winter ( when the patient was not sufficiently clothed or being wet in rain during hot season).
Dulcamara has in its pathogenesis a discharge from all possible mucous membranes. It has rheumatism and it is one of the most important and most suitable remedy of sycosis.
If you want to have a good idea about sycosis read the pathogenesis carefully of all the remedies of hydrogenoid conditions.
Really speaking there may exist sycosis, i.e., to say the condition that produce warts, without a complete hydrogenoid constitution, specially in children who are often oxygenoid though they are the carries of warts (Thuja or Natrum muriaticum type). However, the remedies of hydrogenoid constitutions are almost always related to sycosis.
Here is a list, though surely incomplete, yet it will help you to understand the aggravation caused by hydrogenoid condition in the one hand and on the other hand real sycosis.
The important remedies of the hydrogenoid constitution are: Natrum sulphuricum and Thuja, the two top most remedies. Then come: Dulcamara, Nux moschata, Rhus Tox, Ranunculus bulbosus, Rhododendron, Aranea Diadema (the only remedy from the animal kingdom). Causticum (having the inverse modality: Aggr, by dry and hot climate). Graphites (very often a Carbonitrogenoid psoric). Arsenicum album.
To speak the truth all these nay be according to the case, hydrogenoid as well as oxygenoid or carbonitrogenoid. But very the hydrogenoid condition is found in these remedies.
Ipecac and Nux vomica are good drainers if hydrogenoid condition of the Natrum sulphuricum type. Ipecac is specially important when there is aggravation in humid and hot climate (Natrum sulphuricum by humid and climate).
Dulcamara is very important. It opposes Thuja which has pediculous warts. We will study now this remedy which is the king if sycosis though it comes from the vegetable kingdom. I have just said that most of the remedies if sycosis come from the mineral kingdom, however, the most important one is from the vegetable kingdom.
Thuja: Pediculous type of warts, sift, vegetating, do not secrete or very rarely secrete, appears very soon, increase very slowly forming like a small sac.
Its whole pathogenesis, Thuja has the following characteristic: localised hyperplasia (in the from if warts condylomatas, benign tumours, epithelioma, gliomas of the retina, etc..)
Renal insufficiency is at the basis of Thuja diathesis and specially of sycosis.
Thuja or the tree of life grows very slowly and resists all temperatures. It corresponds to affections slowly developing, resulting out a tenacious impregnation of the organism by a virus (Rouy).
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.