I couldnt explain that until I came across the introductory paragraph to Cowperthwaites Materia Medica. He brings out the point that Bryonia acts as a tonic on the abdominal visceral circulation. That is the only explanation I can give of the effective use of Bryonia in hospital work or where individuals are inactive, sitting around, maybe sometimes lying in bed. We have many old, senile patients in the hospital. Bryonia will invariably tone them up and revive their digestion. If they have a passive congestion of the lung, it will oftentimes clear that up.
DR. SCHWARTZ: I recall one time when I first started out in practice. I got hold of an old copy of Jahrs Forty Years Practice. A relative of mine wrote to me about standing on a chair reaching up, and the chair slipped and caught her over the abdomen. There was a soreness and tenderness there. I was studying my Jahrs Forty Years Practice to learn something more of materia medica and the application of it and I came across, in his section under Inflammation. Bryonia, in a somewhat similar case. I sent her two powders of Bryonia 200. It certainly cleared her up and gave her relief.
DR. CAMPBELL: This paper recalls to me the first patient I ever treated after starting to practice homoeopathy. I was frightfully nervous, and just didnt know very much about what it was all about. This lady came in with an injury to her knee. She was going downstairs and thought she was on the bottom step, and fell. Her knee was extremely swollen. I remember she couldnt bear to move it at all. It was agony for her to get to the office. When she was resting comfortably, she was all right. I gave her Bryonia and hoped for the best. I was extremely delighted to have her come back about a week later for more medicine, walking very nicely, and entirely free from pain.
DR. BRYANT: My experience was something like Dr. Campbells.
I want to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Pulford for that little book. I am already studying it, and I hope to see the time when he will have 150 remedies included in that book.
DR. PULFORD: We are on the way.
DR. PULFORD: I dont think there is very much that I can add. I feel all papers on materia medica are better published than read before the society. My experience has been that when you have the correct Homoeopathic remedy, you are going to get as near a miracle as imaginable, no matter what the disease.
The lower potency you give, the oftener you will have to repeat, until you get, eventually, a physiological action that will do something, or you will have to change your remedy because you dont have the right one. Every time I have made a bulls eye with the Homoeopathic drug, I have had a result that surprised me, and it will do it for all of us if sick to Homoeopathy and not try to get on the outside.
DR. BRYANT: What guides you in the repetition?.
DR. PULFORD: I wait and wait until I cans see anything more.
There is one thing about the whole thing, I have come to see disease in an entirely different light from what I have been taught. I agree with Einstein, that nature is a very simple thing.
The only cause of disease that I have been able to discover so far in shock. Without shock you get no disease, and that shock will disrupt any one of those little minute cells, and it must be replaced. That is why your high potency remedy will work ten times better than anything else you can get.
