Chamomilla [Cham]
Dr. Stacey Jones once told of a case were the woman’s ankles gave way and she would collapse at a certain time every afternoon. She had been the rounds of doctors. Chamomilla permanently cured the case. The symptom is in Allen’s Encyclopedia. Jones had forgotten whether he gave the 3rd or 30th potency probably the latter.
Potato Apply scraped raw potato, for sprains.
Collinsonia [Coll]
This drug, Collinsonia, or Stone root, an ounce of the tincture to a pint of hot water is an old remedy for severely sprained ankles, or other parts.
Rhus tox [Rhus-t]
This drug 30th potency to be taken internally, will aid in the recovery from all sprains in ankles or other parts.
Exercise.- Some old practitioners, Dr. Constantine Hering among them, claimed that the best cure for sprained ankles was to go about on it, if you could as usual. Heroic but effective. In one of his novels, Wm. Black says the same thing, or makes one of his characters, a physician, say it. The treatment or lack of it no doubt will prove effective provided the ligaments are not torn loose. In fact, we know of cases where it proved effective.
Conium [Con]
Mc Candlish, an English homoeopathic physician, writes of girl discharged from a hospital as a incurable at the age of ten, who, from her birth, because of a weakness in her ankles, dragged her right foot along the ground. Conium 30. night and morning, cured her so she could run as other children.
Antiseptics and killing Germs.
Calendula [Calen], Hypericum [Hyper]
Gilchrist, of the University of Iowa, once made a series of experiments and found that Calendula and Hypericum headed the list in the matter of quick healing of wounds and suppurations. Calendula the succus is best is for cut or torn flesh and the Hypericum, the arnica of nerves is more for nerve injuries or punctured wounds. Bichloride and iodoform stood near the bottom in Gilchrist’s experiments. Hypericum, both externally and internally, is the old homeopathic remedy where lock-jaw or tetanus is threatened, or actually developed. Whether it is best given in the tincture, the 1x, the 3rd or 30th potency, is an open question. It seems to have proved effective in them all. Probably the 3rd will answer best.
Milk The common practice now is to sterilize milk, but Dr. Nash Lancet, May 4, 1912, says that heated milk is far more liable to develops dangerous qualities, and requires more care than does raw milk. Cleanliness and coolness is all good milk requires. Some argue that if the sterilization kills the germs it does not remove their corpses, and probably these create the dangerous conditions referred to by Dr. Nash.
Fumigation The old idea so effectively put in practice by Florence Nightingale that sunshine, soap and water were better than sulphur fumes seems to be cropping up again.
