Phosphorus: Cerebral paralysis. Trembling of hands, numbness, weakness. Weakness with tremblings by the least movement. Degeneration and necrosis.
A remedy of senile tremblings.
Kali phosphoricum: Paralytic weakness of extremities, aggravated by exercise. Occular troubles. Ptosis, weak eye sight.
Magnesia phosphorus. Intense pain. Amelioration by heat. Misty eye sight.
Strychnia phosphorica: It is a very good remedy (Royal). Weakness, stiffness, irregular pulse. Hypertrophy of heart.
Phosphoric acid: Great weakness after sorrow.
Among the remedies of mineral origin, there is a very important remedy for pains resulting out of lesions of sclerosis of nerves.
Oxalic acid: Violent lancinating pains in electric shocks (Kalmia), on localised points (Kali bichromicum): periodical pains with periodic remissions.
Sclerosis of nerves. Tremblings of legs. Numbness of fingers and toes. Prostration and muscular atrophies.
Oxalic acid may be a remedy of multiple scleroses but in my opinion it does not act in Parkinson’s disease.
Among the vegetables we have Lathyrus sativus and Physostigma (contains Eserine).
Lathyrus sativus: A remedy of athetosis. Action on the pyramidal tract. Lateral amyotrophic paralysis. Affects the antero-lateral chords of the morrow (lathyrism).
No Pain: Spasmodic paralysis with exaggerated reflexes.
Physostigma : Insecurity while walking, specially with closed eyes or in darkness (Alumina). Must have a stick.
Fibrillar tremblings: Spinal degeneration; palpitations, weak pulse; total loss of power of the muscles of the extremities. Has some action on Parkinson’s disease; acts rather on multiple scleroses. The other remedies from the vegetable kingdom are less important. Let us consider Strychninum, Nux vomica and Ignatia.
Strychninum: This remedy is to be tried in these diseases. We have obtained beautiful cures of cramps of writers which are often related to medullar troubles and are similar to some localised sclerosis. The spasms are intense; muscular contraction are often painful. Compare with Strychnia phosphoricum.
Nux vomica: It should be used as a ground remedy basing on its general symptoms.
Ignatia: To be used like Nux on the totality of symptoms.
Hyoscyamus: Very marked spasms, with troubles of sleep and of the mind specially when there is persecution mania.
Scopolamine: An alkaloid of Hyoscyamus. Generally used by the Allopaths in gross doses in Parkinson’s disease when there is a mechanical irritation of nerves. Its use in lower dilutions is preferable.
Hypericum perfoliatum: Goldsborough speaks highly of this medicine in Parkinson’s disease when there exists mechanical irritation of nerves. The author uses it systematically.
Agaricus muscarius: In some forms of sclerosis Agaricus is to be placed in the first rank, specially for choreic tremblings with stiffness and in rheumatic pains of the limbs. The patient complains of palpitation and has rapid, weak and irregular pulse.
In these cases the habitual remedies of sclerosis are to be prescribed: Aurum metallicum and its salts, Baryta carbonica or Baryta muriatica, Plumbum metallicum and its salts, Iodium, Silicea. Finally we must insist on Phosphorus and its compounds of which the indications are quite rational in the diseases where the lesions of tissues are preceded by sclerosis.
Nosodes: Finally, because it is necessary always to give a Homoeopathic etiological treatment as in all other methods of therapeutics, we should not forget to try the nosodes in relating to the affection in cause. The Tuberculins. Particularly, denys, T. R., Syphilinum, every time when acquired or hereditary syphilis is suspected, and Medorrhinum which is very little thought of. In the pathogenesis of this remedy tremblings of disseminated sclerosis are seen.
As a result of old gonorrhoea, or suppressed gonorrhoea the sycotic condition may set in, which may cause in some persons a predisposition to sclerosis of the nerve tissues.
Vaccinations may also give rise to such results.
If we want to get more appreciable results in the future in the treatment of these affections, it will necessary to re-study the Materia Medica on a really scientific basis, always searching for the evolution of slow intoxications in the animal and studying in a deep manner the medico-legal toxicology, particularly among workers slowly poisoned by such and such substances. We must not lose hope. We will always try to advance our doctrine even when we stumble against obstacle of this type.
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.