The patient has been treated allopathically. He is going to begin a Homoeopathic treatment.
A Homoeopathic doctor who takes all the responsibilities :
1. He is to judge at first if the patient is to continue allopathic treatment and at the same time a Homoeopathic treatment. As a general rule it is neither possible nor it is desirable. Nothing good can be obtained from giving ponderable doses of medicines, specially toxic and at the sametime homoeopathic medicines. But there are some exceptions; the most important is at the beginning of the treatment, the use of mild laxatives, of rather mechanical action (mucilages).
2. The allopathic medicines are abandoned, their use being stopped, it is necessary in many cases to antidote the effects of these substances which have remained partially in the organism. As a general rule, one principal remedy to antidote the medicinal intoxications is: Nux-vomica.
Nux vomica 30 will be prescribed, repeated every day if the use of medicines is recent and not prolonged. Nux-vomica 200 one dose (not to be repeated on principle), if on the contrary the patient has since long time been abundantly drugged.
Following is a list of principal medicines (Allopathic with the Homoeopathic remedies) which are very often capable to antidote them:
The Allopathic Medicinal substances are followed by their Homoeopathic Medicines Antidotes
Acid phosphoric
Camphora, Coffea
Salicylic acid
Nux-vomica (sometimes Natrum-muriaticum for Aspirine, Antipyrine for aspirine)
Adrenalin
Digitalis, Cactus grandiflorus, Crataegus
Silver Nitrate
Natrum Muriaticum (washing, cauterisation, instillations, bladder, uterus, conjunctiva) Arsenicum-album.
Arsenic
Thuja (if hydrogenoid), Sulphur (if oxygenoid or carbonitrogenoid). Sometimes: China, Hepar sulphur, Nux-vomica.
Belladonna
Hyoscyamus, Camphora,
Bismuth
Mercurius Solubilis, Calcarea-carbonica, Capsicum, Nux vomica
Bromide
Arsenicum Album, Ammonium carbonicum, Camphora.
Coffee, Cafeine
Ignatia, Nux-vomica, Pulsatilla, Aconite, Chamomilla.
Chamomilla
Ignatia, Coffea, Pulsatilla, Cantharis (kidney), Dulcamara, Opium.
Camphor
Cantharis (kidney), Dulcamara, Opium.
Chloroform
Phosphorus (liver).
Cocoa, Cocaine
Strong coffee (after anesthesia with Cocaine), and Gelsemium.
Colchicum
Arsenicum, Cocculus, Nux-vomica, Pulsatilla.
Copahu
In man Mercurius-corrosivus
In woman Mercurius-solubilis (Teste)
Kreosote
Generally Nux-vomica. Sometimes: Aconine, Arsenicum album, or Ferrum metallicum (Teste).
Digitalis
Camphor, Nux-vomica, Opium. Serum d’Anguille.
Ergot, ergotin
Camphor, Opium.
Ether
Phosphorus (liver), Belladonna (bronchitis), Hepar-sulphur,
Hyoscyamas, Nux-vomica. (Clarke)
Iron
Pulsatilla (venous congestion and tuberculism.) Arsenicum, China, Hepar-sulphur, Lycopodium.
Cod liver oil
Hepar-sulphur, Lycopodium.
Hyoscyamus, Hyoscyamine
Belladonna, Camphor, China, Stramonium.
Iodine, Iodides
Hepar-sulphur, Thuja, Nitric-ac.
Menthol
Camphor.
Mercury and its salts
Hepar-sulphur (very important), Kali iodatum, Nitric acid, Thuja, Silicea (for the sublimate.)
Rarely Arsenicum, China, Dulcamara, Ferrum-metallicum, Guaiacum, Mezereum.
Nux-vomica Sulphur, Camphor, Cocculus, Pulsatilla
Opium
Belladonna, Camphor in acute intoxication.
Morphinum, Hepar-sulphur, Ipeca, Nux-vomica in chronic intoxication. Alumina, Bryonia, Plumbum-met for constipation.
Codein
Belladonna, Ipeca for syrup of codein.
Morphine
Ipeca, Cuprum-arsenicum in case of uremia.
Sulphur (in very high dilution).
In case of morphinomania Auto-Phlyctenotherapy.
Phosphorus
Pulsatilla, Arsenicum-album, Camphor, Coffea, Nux-vomica,
Terebinthina. Aethusa-cynapium (Teste).
Lead
Causticum, Baryta-carbonica.
Zincum metallicum for sclerosis, arterial hypertension and paralysis.
Alumina, Antimonium-crudum, Cocculus, Opium, Nux-vomica.
Platina for digestive troubles and constipation.
Aurum, Syphilinum for nervous lesions.
Purgatives (Abuse of)
Nux-vomica.
Quinquina, Quinine
In Europe Natrum-muriaticum (all temperaments).
Natrum sulphuricum (Hydrogenoids). In hot countries Arsenicum- album (de Chazal), while Natrum-muriaticum is dangerous and should be avoided in persons suffering from malaria.
According to the types of fevers,Arsenicum-album, (1 to 13 hours); Eupatorium-perfoliatum. (7 hrs. of midday),
Natrum-muriaticum (10 hrs.) for Nash.
In hydrogenoids Aranea-diadema. For splenomegaly, Ceanothus, Helianthus.
If there is no malaria, Ferrum-metallicum, ipeca, Nux-vomica, Pulsatilla.
Rhubarbe
Chamomilla, Colocynthis, Mercurius solubilis, Nux-vomica, Pulsatilla.
Sodium Salicylate
(See Salicylic acid)
Santonine, Semen contra
Belladonna, Camphor, China, Ipeca, Veratrum-album.
Serums (bad effects of)
Thuja, Arsenicum-album, Apis (oedema, urticaria) Pulsatilla. (arthritis), Urtica-urens (urticaria).
Stramonium (Datura)
Camphor (Teste), Belladonna, Hyoscyamus
(other solnacae of deliriums).
Strychnine
Cimicifuga, Sulphur, Thuja. In grave intoxication Curare.
Tobacco
Nux-vomica, Ignatia, Daphne indica, Gelsemium.
For creating disgust for tobacco:
Plantago (1x), Caladium, 3,6 (very inconstant).
Tea
Thuja, Ignatia, Selenium.
Persons who drink beer prefer tea, addicts to wine prefer coffee, because of instinctive antidotism. (Hering)
Vaccinations
Thuja (very important), Silicea, malandrinum.
Drainage by Pulsatilla
For the pustules: Thuja 30.
Antimonium-crudum 6.
Valeriana
Camphor, Coffee, Cina, Pulsatilla.
Vernol
Opium. Nux-vomica.
We see then that if Nux-vomica is the most frequent antidote of medicinal intoxications, it should not be used in a systematic way. One should always conform to the Law of Similitude and prescribe like a patient who has not been drugged, the remedy indicated by the symptoms. Nash has insisted on this point and it is logical. A patient may react in a different manner, according his constitution, his temperament but there are many medicines for antidoting medicinal intoxications to the drugs taken. Therefore there is not a single drug to antidote the medicinal intoxications, but there are many medicines for antidoting medicinal intoxications. The picture of symptoms observed in a drugged individual may show the physiognomy of a medicine other than those indicated here. It is therefore well understood that the Law of Similars should always be followed and the remedies that we have mentioned above should be understood only as the most important, and the most frequently used.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Authors consulted: Clarke, Boericke, Gibson Miller, Hering Teste. The non-classic indications which I have personally noted are marked with asterics.
Bernoville was a major lecturer in homeopathy, and he was active in Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis, and a founder of the le Syndicat national des médecins homœopathes français in 1932, and a member of the French Society of Homeopathy, and the Society of Homeopathy in the Rhone.
Fortier-Bernoville wrote several books, including Une etude sur Phosphorus (1930), L'Homoeopathie en Medecine Infantile (1931), his best known Comment guerir par l'Homoeopathie (1929, 1937), and an interesting work on iridology, Introduction a l'etude de l'Iridologie (1932).
With Louis-Alcime Rousseau, he wrote several booklets, including Diseases of Respiratory and Digestive Systems of Children, Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic Rheumatism, treatment of hay fever (1929), The importance of chemistry and toxicology in the indications of Phosphorus (1931), and Homeopathic Medicine for Children (1931). He also wrote several short pamphlets, including What We Must Not Do in Homoeopathy, which discusses the logistics of drainage and how to avoid aggravations.
He was an opponent of Kentian homeopathy and a proponent of drainage and artificial phylectenular autotherapy as well.