A koli woman, primipara, normally confined, no tears, had severe rigor at 4 A.M. which came down with profuse perspiration. The patient did not like the windows open. She wanted to be covered even during the hot stage. She did not like her hand to be taken out of the blanket for the pulse reading. The temperature again shot up in the evening at 5 P.M. Her face was congested and she had headache. I studied the case and gave her Nux vomica 30, 3 doses, with very good results.
7. Phosphorus.
Another case which was saved by homoeopathy was a multipara who gave history of profuse post-partum bleeding. She came to me for her fifth baby. She had no P.P.H. this time, so after seeing that she was o.k. I went to bed. Half an hour later I was called to the case. She had vomited 3 kidney-trayful of black coffee- ground stuff. The uterus also was enlarged owing to collection of blood clots.
The patient was nearly pulseless, cold and her eyes were glassy. I still remember her deathly face. Veritol injection was given but without much effect. I studied Kents Repertory. Phos. is the only drug which was prominent and was given in the 30th potency; only 2 doses were given. The patient regained her consciousness and colour and made uneventful recovery.
One can go on giving instances after instances of the marvellous cures with homoeopathy.
I would draw your attention to a very important point, viz., a drug selected for complaints during pregnancy serves to fix the constitutional remedy. A constitutional drug may be indicated by the symptoms and the exhibition of such a drug not only ensures a normal pregnancy and labour but also the health of unborn.
Let Homoeopathy be given a place in the maternity and gynaecological hospitals in Bombay. I am sure, in a short time, the authorities will find a great drop in expenditure and in the number of operative cases, as well as, in the maternal and foetal mortality and morbidity.
DISCUSSION
DR. P.N. VAIDYA : I read in some magazine that during pregnancy the husbands constitutional remedy be given to the wife. Would this be of any use ?
DR. J.N. KARANDE : I have no experience about it.
DR. K.N. VAIDYA : The jaundice in the new-born infant is a physiological one, due to the destruction of a large number of red-blood-cells. In what way did homoeopathy work in these cases ?.
DR. D.N. KARANDE : Physiological jaundice disappeared earlier under homoeopathic treatment than with the allopathic treatment.
DR. B.G. MARATHE : I had on hand a case of a woman with very painful foetal movements. Two remedies were found to be indicated, viz., Sepia and Psorinum. The patient was also feeling chilly. Gentrys Concordance Repertory” helped me in this case. Two doses of Psorinum were exhibited in the case and the remedy had almost an immediate effect on the painful foetal movements.
DR. A.E. FERNANDES : I would like to know whether it was possible to change the presentation during labour by homoeopathic treatment.
DR. J. N. KARANDE : So far as the presentation is concerned, homoeopathic remedies work so long as the presenting part has not descended in the pelvis, but once the presenting part has descended, it is of no use.
DR. PILLAI : Pulsatilla is a useful remedy in amenorrhoea. So, will Pulsatilla start abortion if used in early cases of Pregnancy ?.
(The answer was in the negative, not unless the remedy was proved on her.).
DR. R.P. MAYENKAR : I used Sepia in a case of pregnancy with prolapse of the uterus. A lady doctor who had seen the case said that abortion was inevitable. The patient was given Sepia in rising potencies going up to 10,000. The patient delivered a full term child.
DR. R.R. PAI: I had a case of a woman, pregnant 7 months, with cough alternating with diarrhoea in the beginning. Later, only the diarrhoea continued. Stools, watery and yellow 6 to 7 times a day, even on a strict diet. After repertorizing the case, I gave her Pulsatilla. Diarrhoea stopped but cough came up again. Puls. was again exhibited and the cough cleared up.
DR. L.D. DHAWALE : With reference to the statement of Dr. J.N. Karande that Sepia should not be given in higher potencies in early pregnancy, I would like to say that Sepia could be given in higher potencies in early pregnancy, if that was the indicated remedy.
In reply to the query of Dr. P.N. Vaidya regarding the exhibition of a constitutional remedy of the husband to the wife during pregnancy, I have to say that I recalled an article, read some months back, by Dr. K.N. Vaidya, from the J.A.I. of Homoeopathy, in tour monthly Journal Meeting. Therein the author advised injection of Husbands blood to the wife as a treatment for vomiting of pregnancy. By analogy it might appear to be possible to help the wife with her husbands constitutional remedy, in her ailments of pregnancy. But above all, the womans constitutional remedy would be the paramount remedy for her ailments of pregnancy.
