DR. MARCOS JIMENEZ [Dallas. Texas]: I practiced in Mexico many years. There is a great deal of malaria there. Almost every patient has a background of malaria. If you dont treat that background of malaria, generally you go too far in treating your patient.
Natrum mur. was, to me, a great help. In acute malaria cases, when the patient had the 10 or 11 a.m. chill or the 10 or 11 p.m. chill, Natrum mur. cured malaria in 24 hours or 72 hours.
DR. A.W. HOLCOMBE [Kokomo, Ind.]: I was just going to commend the Doctor on this paper. It is the most comprehensive, detailed paper I have ever listened to on any one remedy.
Dr. Grimmer spoke about giving all of us in the world some Natrum Mur. I have wondered, and am pretty well satisfied in my own mind, if our friends had a homoeopathic conception of the mental symptoms of their patients, there wouldnt be half the number of people in our insane hospitals that there are, nor would there he half the number of juvenile delinquents.
The homoeopathic doctor who studies his case can obviate and prevent the development of these mental characteristics that lead not only children but men and women astray and make criminals of them.
There is a tendency in Natrum mur. for certain types of criminality. I was very much pleased with the emphasis the Doctor gave to the opposite, the opposite conditions. Natrum mur. is one of the truer remedies that has its opposite so clearly marked.
DR. BELLOKOSSY (closing): I am very glad that you have found that Natrum mur. acts as I described it because it confirms that my judgment was not wrong.
I didnt know the Chinese, as Dr. Farrington said, were causing death with large doses of salt, and I am glad to know that.
Dr. Grimmer mentioned headaches. Natrum mur, is surely one of the most frequent remedies in headaches, as we see them now. Often there is absolutely no other remedy outside of Natrum mur.
I have brought blood pressure down so quickly, so beautifully that it was a pleasure to watch the patient.
Dr. Waffensmith stressed that people in the cities should not have high potencies; people working hard, physically, can have the higher potency. I always pay attention to that but if you give a medicine to someone who expects some action, you must produce some reaction, but you must tell him. “You will have a reaction. It will last so long.” If you dont, you lose him.
If you tell him he will have a reaction and that he has to consider it not as an aggravation but as a sign of the medicines working and as a sign of a cure coming, then he will be glad about it but, surely if you give to some young girl with chronic sub-febrile temperature a high potency, she will have such a reaction that it will tear her to pieces. Then that would be bad. Then you have to counteract it. You can always counteract it quickly. But it is not necessary to have such a reaction.
We dont have much malaria here, as Dr. Jimenez mentioned. Therefore, we dont have so much experience with malaria cases, but we have enough other cases so we dont need malaria to experiment with Natrum mur.
I am very glad Dr. Holcombe is also of the same opinion because he has had immense experience in these cases.
So I thank you very much for your kind comments.
