I OFFER this article first to any or all allopathic doctors, being quite sure that the subject has never been treated thus in any of their medical schools. If they refuse this information, then, my dear unknown lay readers, you seize it as being of untold value to yourselves. Homoeopathic knowledge may be added to from time to time, but the basic truth of Homoeopathy never change, cannot change, as it is a law of nature, just as much as is “gravity”. I have been asked by your Editor to treat this subject briefly to show the homoeopathic way of natural cure. I approach the ailment with the greatest sympathy for all those who suffer from the trouble.
It is to be understood that hardly any trouble of woman is more common, more distressing and more depleting to general health than leucorrhoea. In one form or another, slight or serious, the majority of females suffer thus at some period of life. It is manifest in the nursery, it is acute at puberty, and more persistent at the change of life.
From its very nature, it is generally kept secret by the sufferers. So the trouble is likely to get more or less chronic. A false delicacy of feeling causes this form of ill-health to be unspoken of to the old family physician. Many have heard of and fear a “curetting” (scraping of the womb). Others know of caustic applications which really make the ailment worse and deeper- seated; whilst many others know full well that operations will be ordered by those doctors who dont know their medicines well or by those orthodox men who “dont believe in any medicine at all.”
The average social acquaintance is all too ready to whisper the names of various chemical douches of which she has not the slightest idea as to their ultimate effects, but all of which, we assert, are highly detrimental to the general health in the long run. Before long the secret suffer becomes frantic, morbid, and thinks she is set apart for life-long invalidism.
This is just where Homoeopathy brings encouragement and actual help to all these sufferers-in-secret. Generally speaking, the homoeopathic cure can be accomplished without any local examination, but our method of prescribing, based solely on the “personal symptoms”, they being as “nature speaking”. Most certainly Homoeopathy restores to health in a natural way, by stimulating nature to repair the diseased conditions from within- outwards, Just a word as to sundry “popular” chemical sprays, astringent douches and caustics, etc.
Whenever there is a leucorrhoea, it is because nature is trying to throw off inflammatory and waste products. It is a terminal symptom. The discharge is never the actual cause. Venereal infection is another matter, not to be considered in this article.
Leucorrhoea may be deeply constitutional or more or less local. But it is always beyond the reach of any chemical douche, astringent or caustics, all of which actually aim to dry up and seal the surface glands, along with their secretions, which but show that nature is kindly trying to aid.
The sealed-up inflammation then works deeper, to be heard of later, for the cure of which some kind doctor not well versed in medicines is bound to suggest an operation. Rest assured that any man or woman who prescribes douches. etc. seeking to dry up the discharge whose outlet is the vagina, is actually working a grave injury on the patient.
Orthodox procedure is full of such treatments. Thousands of pounds sterling are spent annually in foisting such douches and other local measures on the medical profession and the public. The growing crop of advertisements is everlastingly proving that great numbers of doctors and sufferers are employing such methods, or it would not pay the advertisers to continue, and they would disappear from print.
I now place before you the alternative. Try the homoeopathic internal stimulation which will cure from within-outwards, and which is saner and safer. Which strikes you as being the more sensible? I implore your earnest thought. Ask yourself how a local wash can cure a constitutional weakness! Such may arise from a profusely depleting, an arrested, or a very irregular menstruation, or some inherited cause.
Leucorrhoea can follow any acute illness or can accompany any chronic ailments that enfeebles the general health. There are still more delicate causes of a leucorrhoea, most often found in those whose minds are disordered by many mundane things, etc. All such nerve strains must be corrected and avoided before beginning medication if a cure is desired. Hahnemann, our founder, said many years ago: “Remove the cause”, which applies yet.
A most common acute cause of leucorrhoea may come from a chilling, from getting the feet wet, or by wearing paper-thin shoe soles, just at or, before, menstruation, when the period is, or can be, arrested for a shorter or longer time, thus rudely upsetting the health.
I must give a warning of a very delicate nature. There are a variety of sexual irritations to be avoided and also certain marital malpractices to thwart and prevent conception, and here remember it is always the woman who will suffer and pay for such doings. There is no escape for her. These practices are most harmful and will sooner or later create a chronic discharge, or very much worse. Hence, I repeat: the woman will pay, and the sum total of it may be cancerous erosions.
When there is recent (acute) leucorrhoea, all injections will tend to turn a temporary discharge into a stubborn or chronic trouble. So take warning.
The vagina, as arranged by nature, is self-cleansing from within-outwards. If any secretion is offensive or noticeable in any way, rest assured that it calls imperatively for some homoeopathic correction at once. It is quite another thing to bathe the external parts, but do avoid allowing even soap lather and any chemical wash entering the vagina, as it will injure that most delicate and sensitive mucous membrane.
If leucorrhoea is seen in the nursery, suspect worms, which, causing vaginal irritation, may lead to some discharge. In later life rectal irritation from piles often causes vaginal irritation with a following leucorrhoea.
Again I remind my readers that the following drug-pictures are not personal opinions. The are most carefully compiled from about 140 years of world-wide homoeopathic practice. Thus they are of proven value and great exactitude.
The suffer must choose her drug most nearly corresponding to her own particular and very delicate symptoms,taking note of general body-types and general departures from normal health as well as of the local symptoms. Then, by taking the homoeopathic drug stimulation, it will cure the disease symptoms by working from within-outwards. It cannot fail if the choice be right.
The few drug-pictures following are to be regarded only a brief introduction to a subject of vital importance to every woman and girl. Many of our homoeopathic medicines are quite unknown to orthodox literature but this is clearly not out fault or of our seeking. Our books have been open pages to al medical men for 140 years. They will not study our methods, and you, the public, have suffered.
Let me advise any reader interested in this subject to buy Dr. Ruddocks Ladys Manual of Homoeopathic Treatment, 12th edition, of any homoeopathic chemist, or of the Homoeopathic Publishing Co., of 12 Warwick Lane, E.C. 4. It is you I am thinking of. I have no financial interest in this book, but a twelfth edition conveys its own message. As a book for fuller reference to the manual named I advise Dr. Wm Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica (I volume). Make your family a fascinating and valuable present and study each drug intensively as we homoeopathic doctors have to. This advice is good for any orthodox doctor, I guarantee.
(I) Pulsatilla (3x, 6x or 30) cures leucorrhoea when symptoms are closely as follows:- At first the discharge is bland (non- excoriating), thick, creamy or milky. Later it gives rise to a burning sensation as the discharge changes to become thin and acrid; and later there may be some swelling of the outer parts (labia). Pulsatilla patient always have leucorrhoea worse during the menses or at the time when the normal menses should occur (compare Sepia which is worse before menses).
The Pulsatilla type of patient often has delayed or suppressed menstrual flow. This irregularity occurs chiefly at about puberty or at any time when due to getting the feet wet, or thoroughly chilled, just as the period is due (this conveys the hint that you should protect the feet). Pulsatilla will re-establish the normal flow if general symptoms agree. Many have leucorrhoea in place of normal periods which this remedy will make normal again. The Pulsatilla patients are, constitutionally, sad to tearful.
They are very chilly individuals and rather undecided in character, and are subject to indigestion from any fatty foods with pronounced thirstlessness and some anaemia, though many find some of their symptoms rapidly change from day to day. They are always better in the open air, they are generally of a blonde and fair type. Leucorrhoea in the nursery responds well to this remedy. Such is the range and drug- picture of the Pulsatilla patient.
