When she has colds, she has sore throat with sensation of swelling of tongue; cause cold, wet feet. Mornings a sour taste, sour belching; constipation for days, enlargement and sensitiveness of glands in the neck when she takes cold or has gastric inflammation. Tickling in larynx and throat. Sad, weeps, sweats profusely and easily. Short, resounding cough.
Calc. carb 13M; March 13, Calc. carb. 13M; April 22, Calc. carb. CM; June 29, Calc. carb. CM and cured.
We see the Calcarea carbonica symptoms were, at all events, present!
Now another case: Rheumatism in the muscles and joints. Rheumatic complaints, sticking, sense of soreness compelling him to change his position every few minutes. Rhus tox. 1M. Aggravation. Ankles feel sore as after a sprain. Patient says: “I am continually changing my position and with every change I get relief but soon the bed feels like iron. It is not an inner unrest that drives me, but the apparent hardness of the bed.” Rhus tox. was false choice on account of inaccurate testimony. Arnica must be the correct remedy because of the feeling of soreness as if sprained and of the fact that the feeling of soreness is made worse by the hardness of the bed. Arnica 1M. Cure after three days; Sulphur 6M completed the cure. Discharged at the end of eight days. The Arnica symptoms were certainly striking!.
Another case: Headache every week, a periodical, congestive headache every seven days.
Every remedy listed in the materia medica under the symptom “weekly headache” was ineffective. When Kent examined more carefully, he found the pain came every Saturday evening and night. The accompanying symptoms were misleading. Upon the question as to what he ate on Saturday that he was not accustomed to eating: “Large quantities of roast beef at midday.” Therefore not a periodical headache, but a roast beef headache. Staphisagria cured.
In a small handbook that I have at hand, I find headache, ravenous hunger, and complaints after indulging in meats are under Staphisagria. A beautiful choice of a remedy!.
Then it also states that rales in the chest is to be found under Kali sulph. Rales after bronchial catarrh, pneumonia with or without cough and without other particularizing indications received Kali sulph. 200th one dose. Several cases.
A case of stomach trouble treated with Kalis. A man, 36 years of age, has had stomach trouble for last eight months. Has undergone treatment by specialists for ulcer of the duodenum without relief.
February 2, 1902. In the morning, has nausea with no desire for breakfast. Feels weak in morning before breakfast, sometimes before the midday meal. Stomach: Sensation of sinking before breakfast (Kali bich.) Not thirsty. Has a sore sensation deep behind the sternum, aggravated by any exertion (Kali bich.). Soreness in the posterior neck muscles.
When he hawks, has a sensation like a band being drawn inside of the trachea. Patient is chilly, better when resting. Last summer was constipated. Sweating of feet; chilly at night upon going to bed. Sensitive to drafts. Takes cold easily; nose and throat affections. Scurf on the scalp. Kali bichromicum 10M.
February 16. Improvement. Sternum somewhat sore. Sense of constriction in larynx. Placebo.
February 30. Continued improvement. Sensation as if a band extended from back of neck downwards to right side of breast. Placebo.
December 14. General improvement in breast and sternum. When he awakens in the morning, his nose and throat are affected. Soreness when swallows. Kali bichromicum 10M.
January 25 to March 3, 1913. Kali bichromicum 50M. Improvement continuous. Patient entirely cured. Grateful to homoeopathy. The symptoms agree!.
I have chosen from a great number of cases only these few simple ones. At for myself, I have always received great benefit by the study of such an article in spite of the potencies which is not always the case.
Here one learns homoeopathy. With the above, I wish to justify this leap into the infinite concerning which I cannot make a judgment!.
BERLIN, GERMANY.
The great question is: How can we know what remedy will cut off those vital diseases? I answer, by the characteristic symptoms of the drug. If this road be sufficient to arrive at the goal, why should we engage the dangerous, circuitous, tedious and uncertain road pointed out by pathological anatomy? Are not all organic transformations extremely individual? Would we ever succeed in constructing a list of changes of structure which would somewhat correspond to those contained in the books on pathology? Are not our provings, as instituted by Hahnemann and his disciples, a safer, surer, shorter way to discover all the true characteristic symptoms of drugs?-C.HERING, M.D., 1847.
We have not yet got far enough to blot out a portion of our materia medica. We have yet to try and collect many remedies, to consider and to weight a good many things before we can feel authorized to reject any of our symptoms with well-founded reasons. The study of one single polychrest is worth more than the wild, unprincipled eliminating of ten thousand symptoms from the materia medica; one single page filled with practical observations is more important than sheets full of ravings about mucous membrane and ganglia, cerebral and spinal nerves.-C. HERING, M.D., 1847.
