In Rheumatism it acts like Rhus tox and bears the similar modalities, but where the affection is noticed on the muscles or tendons Rhus Tox has the greater hold but in the affection of the synovial membrane and the surrounding tissues. Radium more quickly brings about its action than the former remedy. In the inflammation of the smaller joints of the fingers and toes and specially of the ends of the great toes and also of the wrist in a word it acts marvellously in gout.
Besides it has the action on the kidney. Some of the provers mentioned that it had increased uric acid in urine and Albumen and casts are also noticed in the same.
Dr. Cardozo has written that once he was invited to undertake the treatment of an infant, all hopes of his recovery was given up by the former physicians. The infant had been swollen in such a manner that it is hardly possible to recognise him and a watery secretion was noticed to ooze out from several places of the broken skin. He passed no stools or urine for the last eighteen hours and was lying in an unconscious state. The learned doctor at first gave him Apis mel in the 3rd potency, the child showed signs of improvement the next day.
After waiting another 24 hours he prescribed Merc. Cor. on the symptoms-totality, good results ensued in course of six or seven days and the infant began his normal life but the examination of his urine revealed the presence of Albumen in addition to the slight trouble of voiding the bladder. A few doses of Radium in the 36th potency completed the cure and restored his normal health.
The experts assert that there are various kinds of cancer. Some sorts of skin diseases are often mistaken for cancer. According to some, real cancer hardly yields to any medicament, but this does not hold good.
We, homoeopaths, know it a certain however dreadful this disease may be it is nothing but a symptom, an external manifestation of the internal self. The explosion may be attributed to the latent psora or the source may be accounted for latent syphilis or sycosis.
Cure of a single case of cancer with Radium was so far possible in our hands. Dr. Clarke of England reported many cases of cancer with Radium. Much benefit was also obtained by him in the nasal catarrh. Dr. Pixley of Massachusetts in America wrote in Homoeopathic Recorder in 1907 that Radium in the 6x potency gives good results in cancer, especially where the oozing of blood is noticed from the ulcer of the cancer. It stops the oozing, and relieve the pain and heal up the sore.
Dr. Clarke of England also confirmed his statement and added that it has the extraordinary power to stop bleeding but it is difficult to ascertain the potency which will prove curative in this respect, experience will teach this. The account of a cure by Dr. Clarke of the afore-said type is given below.
The patient was a girl of 20, she had been suffering from a kind of skin disease while she was fifteen, which did not yield to any treatment. During her infancy she had several attacks of measles, once whooping cough, and once chickenpox. She was never vaccinated. Marked redness of her nose and the parts around it was noticed and often a burning sensation and itching were felt and she occasionally fell prey to epistaxis, blue coloured and tough phlegm used to rush out when she blew the nose.
The redness used to increase especially after meals. Over and above this she used to feel an excruciating pain in and around her ovaries and on her lower extremities just one week before her menses commenced. These troubles used to increase in the winter season. The learned doctor first prescribed Carcinosin in 100th. potency but this proved insufficient and Radium in 30th potency effected a cure.
Dr. Max Iyrehorn reported that good results are obtained from the use of Radium in the cancer of the throat-pit. In such cases his practice was to put a piece of Radium in a bag of rubber and keep it in the throat pit for half or utmost an hour. According to him much benefit was obtained from it.
We derived immense benefit in the inflammation of glands in different localities of the body.
The following records are clear proofs of its efficacy in the inflammation of glands.
Mr. S. C. Das had been suffering from slow fever, headache, aching of extremities, burning of eyes with inflammation of a chain of glands in the neck with severe pain. No benefit from other systems of treatment was obtained. He placed himself under the treatment of the late Dr. Chunilal Mukherjee of Uttarpura and later under Dr. Bijoy Sinha, a veteran Homoeopath of Calcutta. At the time of treatment nearly all the glands of his body were inflamed and the disease was diagnosed as “Hodge-kin disease”.
He derived much benefit in his hands but owing to the prolonged absence of Dr. Bijoy Sinha from Calcutta, he was placed under my treatment. According to symptoms I gave him Ars. Iod. Baryta carb, and Calc. carb. These remedies gave good results but as two or three glands did not assume their normal shapes and were giving him much pain he was given a few doses of Radium in the 30th potency at the suggestion of Dr. K.L. Sen.
Cure of a case of Scrofula was possible in my hands with this remedy after failure of the remedies like Merc. P. Iod. Baryta Carb. Calc. F., Badiaga and she has been doing well since.
