Congestion of the respiratory canal leads to broncho-pneumonia and it is in these cases that we learn the efficiency of the Morgan nosode.
Cases which do not respond to the seemingly indicated drugs such as Antimonium tartaricum, Sulphur, Lycopodium. Ipecacuanha, etc., are often almost immediately improved by a single dose of B. Morgan 30.
This holds good not only for acute cases, but for chronic conditions likewise, when the ailment had started with an acute broncho-pneumonia. I remember a case of chronic asthma in a boy 15 years of age. He had been suffering from asthma for the last four years; the asthma developed after an attack of an acute broncho-pneumonia. The homoeopathic treatment so far gave only temporary relief. Three doses of B. Morgan 30, one dose every week, cured the patient in about one month.
Cases of epidemic jaundice, due to the Morgan bacillus have repeatedly been cured by the Morgan nosode.
The Morgan patients suffer, generally from swelling of the hands and feet and are very liable to develop chilblains. These patients, especially children, have, as a rule, a very characteristic appearance. The face is generally red, raw and spotted and contrasts the very pale and white skin of the body.
The Gartner nosode shows an entirely different symptom picture. Dr. Paterson earmarks it by the term “Nutrition”, because the majority of the Gartner children are characterized by manifold digestive disorders, weak muscles and thin extremities. The Gartner nosode will thus scarcely ever be indicated in a well nourished patient.
The weak, underdeveloped body of the Gartner patient contrasts the hypersensitive condition of the nervous system. The patient is, so to say, nothing but brain and almost without muscles, the skull is proportionally enlarged. The mental development is very advanced; the Gartner child is in many respects precocious, the psychic symptoms preponderate. All these Gartner patients are hypersensitive to mental and bodily irritations, they are afraid of darkness and of being alone.
The whole symptom picture of the Gartner nosode corresponds to the drug pictures of Silica and Phosphorus. Silica regarding the underdeveloped muscular system and Phosphorus regarding the hypersensitive nervous system.
Finally, I should like to sketch Dr. Patersons Sycotic nosode, earmarked by the term “excitement”. This nosode is, first of all, characterized by the catarrhal condition of the respiratory canal and therefore indicated in the common nasal and bronchial catarrhs during childhood. These conditions are generally aggravated by a croupy cough after midnight, very similar to asthma.
The Sycotic nosode acts likewise on the urinary organs; it is especially indicated in cases of albuminuria and nocturnal bed- wetting. The lymphatic system is affected too. We find enlarged tonsils and enlarged lymphatic glands especially on the neck, in the chest and in the abdomen.
The mental symptoms of the Sycotic nosode are almost identical with the Gartner symptoms, both similar to the drug picture of Lycopodium, they have the same fearful character and irritability with outbursts of bad humour.
Some Sycotic patients have definite symptoms of cerebral irritation, leading to convulsions or even attacks of epilepsy or St. Vitus dance.
In contradistinction to the weak, thin and undernourished Gartner child, the Sycotic child is generally fat and slack with typically increased nightly perspiration on the head (similar to the Calcarea carbonica); warty skin eruptions or typical impetigo are common with these patients; they are very liable to get rheumatism; their face is pale or pale yellowish with long dark eyelashes, a picture often met with in tubercular patients.
The Sycotic nosode is indicated in many chronic conditions in adult patients, provided there is a connection with intestinal disorders. The following case will illustrate this.
Mrs. R. R., 47 years of age, married at the age of 23 years, two healthy daughters, one miscarriage 13 years ago, since this time she was never well. At first she developed a general septic infection with erysipelas of the face and septic tonsillitis. After a couple of years the eyes became affected, then the thyroid gland; at the same time the gall bladder got infected and chronic constipation set in. The following operations were performed:.
1936. Operation of the thyroid gland.
1937. Two operations on the eyes and one abdominal operation (the right ovary was excised).
1938. Four other operations on the eyes.
1939. Operation of piles.
When I saw her first, one year ago, her main complaint was the chronic constipation, for the last ten years she had to take, every day, large doses of allopathic laxatives, she was unable to move the bowels without them. The tonsils were enlarged, reddened, covered with mucus, the lymphatic glands at the neck swollen; the tongue very dry and white coated. The whole abdomen swollen and very sensitive to the slightest pressure; the gall bladder very painful. The heart was normal, blood pressure 140.
I put the patient on a pure vegetarian diet with plenty of raw vegetables and green salads and replaced the allopathic laxatives by a daily enema with fresh cold water every evening before going to bed. I prescribed Baryta carbonica 6x, two tablets to be taken twice a day, alternating with Lycopodium 12x, five drops to be taken twice a day, and Sulphur 6x, ten drops to be taken before going to bed.
A slight improvement followed almost immediately, the general feeling was much better and the condition of the tonsils was definitely improved, but the bowel condition remained the same. I replaced Sulphur and Lycopodium by Bryonia 6x and Chelidonium 2x, ten drops to be taken alternately, three time times a day and prescribed the Orka suppositories, one suppository in the morning, one in the evening.
These drugs relieved the pains in the gall bladder and bowels, the condition of the tonsils and tongue improved, but the general condition of the patient remained almost the same, she was chilly, had every afternoon higher temperature and the action of the bowels did not improve a bit. Considering the chronic condition of the bowels, I prescribed B. sycosis 30, one dose every week. A surprising change took place in no time.
The patient felt so well as never before, all pains had gone after a fortnight, the function of the bowels improved gradually and the tonsils were in normal condition. I continued the treatment with Sycotic nosode during the following three months, giving the nosodes at greater intervals; the patient took nine doses in three months. The last dose four months ago.
The patient is without any pain, her bowels act freely, the abdomen is only a little sensitive to deep pressure, the gall bladder occasionally irritated. The only drugs which the patient still takes regularly are Chelidonium 1x, once a day and Phytolacca 3x to prevent a relapse of tonsillitis.
“Heal Thyself”
Vol. LXXVIII No. 932.
