HOW I HAVE COME TO ADMIRE HOMOEOPATHY



In my experience Apis Mel. also cures an intermittent fever in which chill starts in the abdomen and is attended with thirst. There is generally no thirst in heat which is hardly followed by perspiration. If there is any sweat it is local and imperfect. I have cured several cases of this type with Apis 200. It is to be added that the chill is not at all relieved by external covering. You may go on piling up cloth after cloth on the patient, he still complains of cold.

In 1933 a veterinary Surgeon brought his child before me who could not stand on his legs as it caused him great pain to do so. He told me that he had consulted some allopathic doctors, some whom said that it was a case of T.B. I asked him to narrate to me the history of the case. He told me that some pimples had appeared on the childs legs which discharged yellow matter. He used a soap and the trouble had disappeared but was followed by the present ailment.

I told him that I thought that the whole mischief was due to the suppression of the skin trouble. I asked him to put four globules of Petroleum 200 on the tongue of the child and wait for four days. The child felt some relief during this period and was given another dose in the same way. This time I was told that the pimples had reappeared. I asked the doctor to wait for some time more and further watch the affect of the medicine. A diarrhoea ensued and the pimples began to disappear. In a fortnight the child was completely cured and could stand and walk with ease.

About the end of January 1941 one of my daughters was troubled with an eczema located between the index finger and the thumb on the left hand. I prescribed for her Petroleum 200. It disappeared from the left hand but appeared in the same locality on the right hand. It then again shifted from the right to the left hand. I gave her a dose of eight globules of Lac caninum 200 and then waited for four days. For two days it caused great pain but thereafter there was both subjective and objective improvement.

I gave her another dose and waited for a week at the end of which it was repeated. I now waited for fifteen days and the trouble altogether disappeared. It however began to make an appearance after a month. I now prescribed a dose of Tuberculinum 1M with the result that a complete cure was effected. and the trouble has not yet returned.

This is a fair description of my trial as a layman of the Hahnemannian Art. I could add many more instances of cases from my own experience to testify to the success of the same. I can give some characteristic symptoms of the drugs that I have found useful in making a selection of them but they are all to be found in good works on Materia Medica.

Indeed there exists very good literature on Homoeopathy which even men of ordinary intelligence can utilise if they only take the trouble of going through it with some care. One of the books that a layman can read with advantage is “Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics” by Dr. Nash. In fact every work of this author is worth reading and of special use to the laity.

I never mean to say that the common run of men should place so much confidence in themselves as to overlook the skill of specialists, the professional practitioners of the art. It is however possible for them to mitigate much of their trouble and to save a case from being spoiled till they are in a position to avail of the help of a scientific homoeopathic physician.

After myself deriving much benefit from Homoeopathy I am in a position to request every person who cares to know the truth and to get rid of physical suffering to the best of his ability, not to ignore it but to give it an honest trial and to decide for himself whether an earnest attempt in this direction is worth making or otherwise.

Bhagwan Swaroop