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Question & Answers
1. What is the only one correct remedy to be given to a pregnant woman, when the foetus --baby in uterus-- stops growing?
2. During epidemic encephalitis --brain fever, e.g., in Ariyalur district-- what remedy would you use as prophylactic --preventive--?
3. All the children borne to a woman are syphilitic by birth. What remedy you would give her to prevent syphilis in the offspring in future child-births?
4. What is the remedy to be taken once in a month by all practising homoeopaths? --Just because no homoeopath has been taking this regularly, they are not able to prosper--
5. Write the names of two authors who had written biography of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann.
6. Doctors say that an expectant mother is too weak to develop normal pains; moreover, she is anaemic and so caesarean alone is the answer. What is the only one remedy that will cure her anaemia, remove weakness and thus cause normal child birth? --Please note that the answer is NOT Pulsatilla.--
7. What is the chief or first remedy that you would think of for haemophilia?
8. In homoeo terminologies what is the meaning of ‘scrofula or scrofulosis’ and ‘cachexia?’
9. What is the remedy for jaundice after blood transfusion?
10. In respect of the symptom “haemorrhage,” differentiate between Phosphorus and Hamamelis.
11. Name the remedy for --a-- violent blow on single part of the body; --b-- after a person falls rolling down from a speeding train or bus; --c-- falling from height --second or third floor or from a tall tree-- with bleeding; --d-- falling down while trying to climb into a running jeep from behind?
12. Under what heading in the repertory you would search remedies for a patient with chronic tonsillitis?
13. What is the name of reference book --and the name of its author-- you would use for complaints of pregnant women occurring directly before, during or after child-birth or abortion?
14. A certain patient tells that he feels as if a crowbar is lodged inside his chest. What is the name of reference book --and its author-- you would use in this case?
15. A lady of twenty-eight had attempted to commit suicide --by swallowing kerosene or sleeping pills-- and somehow she recovered. What is the remedy for her so that she may not repeat it in future?
16. What is the remedy for ‘ghost pain.’
As a sample, we give below the correct answers for question No. 1, 7 and 12:
Answer to Qn. no.1: Secale is almost a specific when the growth of foetus is arrested. --See page 698 of Repertory by Dr. Calvin B. Knerr: Pregnancy, foetus: arrests development, Secale.--
Answer to Qn. no.7: Crotalus horridus is one of the prime remedies, to be thought in cases of haemophilia.
Answer to Qn. no.12 For a patient with chronic tonsillitis, you would generally look into the Repertory against the following:
Tonsils, inflamed --quinsy, tonsillitis-- --page 389 of Knerr’s Repertory--
But remedies in this list may be useful for acute complaints of tonsillitis. For curing tonsillitis permanently, it needs ‘treatment of chronic diseases.’ Chronic tonsillitis is in most cases due to tuberculosis --See MEDICAL DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD BY Dawson Williams, M.D., London: Cassel & Co. page 338-348--
--a-- When tuberculosis affects lungs we call it tuberculosis of lungs or phthisis pulmonum; with family history of tuberculosis, when t.b. affects bones or glands it is called ‘scrofula’ or ‘struma’ in homoeopathy.
--b-- All chronic affections of glands are due to tuberculosis in the family. Chronic affections of bones may be due to tuberculosis or syphilis; --in syphilitic affections of bones we find nightly boring pain.--
THEREFORE, to cure a chronic tonsilitis patient, we must examine the remedies given in Knerr’s Repertory again the following head.
Page 1191—Constitution, scrofulous --strumous--:... enlarged glands:
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Case 1: A lady, the mother-in-law of a fourth stage cancer patient, came to me asking for medicine for cancer. When I asked her to bring the patient she said that he won’t come. I asked her to tell me at least in verbatim what he had said. She replied, “He does not say anything.’’
At this stage I asked her whether she did not care to go and see her son-in-law who is said to be in fourth stage cancer. She replied:
“My daughter wrote me a letter stating that and doctors have said that he would live for another six months only, and he is not afraid of death, but he wants to live with family in the same quarters in which he had been all along living and said that he does not want anyone --be it friends or relative-- to visit him.’’
--Sometimes, we do get valuable symptom from the report of messengers--.
Let us now see how to work out this case.
does not want anyone to visit him Company, aversion to
till death wants to live with family in the same
quarters where he had been living all these years Homesick
--1-- COMPANY, aversion to: 46 remedies --page 27 of Knerr’s Repertory--
--2-- HOMESICK: 10 remedies --page 50 ..--
Only three remedies, viz., Carbo a., magn. m., and natr. m. are common to the above two lists.
To confirm one out of these three, all these were studied in HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS --By Dr. Samuel Lilienthal-- under the chapter “”Carcinoma’’. Only Carbo a. was described and the remaining two remedies --magn. m., and natr. m.-- were not found.
In the description under Carbo animals, among other things, the words “Cachexia fully developed “ confirmed our selection..
Carbo animalis cured the patient and the patient is living even today

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Let us now illustrate with actual cases where patients were cured by me with one single dose.
Case: In the homeo doctors' meeting on a Sunday evening one doctor asked what is the best remedy for eczema because he has been treating a 58-year old person with ten years eczema and he tried Sulphur, Psorinum, Graphites etc. etc. with no results.
Five days after the above doctors meeting I happened to be in the clinic of the doctor who asked for “the best remedy for eczema.” At this time, the patient with eczema --whose case was discussed in the previous Sunday evening doctors meeting-- came to see the doctor.
After the patient has told his symptoms --that there is no relief with the medicines prescribed by that doctor last time-- the doctor gave some medicines.
After receiving them and paying his fees the patient remarked, “Doctor, I am not taking medicines with a desire to get well. I am now 58 and am going to retire from service in two years. Before I die, I would like to see that my daughter gets married to a decent boy and my only son settles in life by getting a good job; then I may die in peace”.
At this time, I asked that doctor whether he has prescribed Petroleum to this patient because this last words told by the patient agrees with the symptom “Feels that death is near and must hurry to settle affairs” which is found under the remedy Petroleum in Boericke's Materia Medica.
Petroleum 1M cured the patient completely as confirmed by the doctor --when I saw him later-- and by the patient.
BY THE WORDS “MENTAL SYMPTOMS” MANY READERS WRONGLY CONSIDER THAT THEY MUST PROBE DEEPLY INTO THE MENTAL FACULTY OF THE PATIENT BY PUTTING SYMPTOM-ELICITING QUESTIONS
No. Not at all! You have to simply listen to the patient. He has to tell his remedy and not you.
While ‘key-notes’ ‘characteristics’ or ‘rare, strange and peculiars’ are also ways to find the remedy, there is another but easy, quick and surest way to arrive at the similimum, and it is to work out the case on mind symptoms.
S.210 of the Organon reads:
“...in all the so-called corporeal diseases the condition of the disposition and mind is always altered; and in all cases of diseases we are called on to cure, the state of the patient’s disposition is to be particularly noted, along with the totality of the symptoms, if we would trace an accurate picture of the disease, in order to be able therefrom to treat it homoeopathically with success.’’
Again, in S. 211 Hahnemann adds:
“.... the state of the disposition of the patient often chiefly determines the selection of the homoeopathic remedy, as being a decidedly characteristic symptom which can least of all remain concealed from the accurately observing physician.’’
Case: The other day a homoeopath was sitting by my side when a patient walked in and asked:
“Doctor, do you have treatment for diabetes?”
Myself: “Yes, I do... tell me your symptoms”
Patient: “Diabetes... see my hand --feel my pulse-- and give medicine...”
[The tone of the patient was similar to that of a king or emperor who, when he wants a work to be done, will make noise by clapping his hands and as soon an attendant or soldier comes and bows, the king will command ‘Go and bring that man’s head by this evening.’
In other words, the tone of the patient was ‘imperious.’]
Upon this, the doctor who was by my side started blaming patients coming to homoeopaths. He said to me, “Oh! see, these patients do not tell their symptoms; how can we make a prescription?” I smiled to myself, and taking Dr. Calvin B. Knerr's Repertory I turned the pages under the chapter MIND --page 19-- and showed the following to him:
Answers imperiously: Lyc.
[A symptom need not necessarily be one about diabetes. Mental symptom does not mean that the patient should start telling. “Doctor, I have terrific fear..” or “I had mental shock a year ago..”]
The mere attitude of the patient --as observed by you-- may in itself become a symptom.
Case: Mrs. L., thirty-five, as a result of undergoing radium therapy for uterus cancer , came with symptoms of profuse and frequent diarrhoea for which the allopaths could not do anything. I did not talk. After a little while, she said, “Doctor, please stop this diarrhoea somehow...”
I continued to look through the pages of the repertory.
After a pause, she just spurt out:
“Doctor, cure me somehow; I want to go to my village people and prove to them that I got completely cured; they had been disrespecting me by telling that I won't get cured and would die soon. I want to challenge my villagers by telling “Look here, I am cured, what is your answer now? --A practitioner cannot readily classify this into an appropriate mental symptom in the repertory, but, after selecting a few remedies on other symptoms and while reading mental symptoms of those in the materia medica, he may probably be able to identify or classify this mental symptom.--
If we read the above, we would realise what we have to prescribe for her. But, however, for the anxious pathological prescriber, let us proceed in a different routine:
How the remedy was selected in this case?
Most practitioners would look under the heading ‘diarrhoea' in the repertory. That is not correct. This complaint is after radium treatment. The correct symptom is ‘discharge, profuse.’
The discharge is from ‘mucous membranes’ and so I looked into the great monumental work Repertory by Dr. Calvin B. Knerr. On page 1136 of this work, we find the following being relevant to the case on hand:
Mucous membranes, secretions...profuse, like
haemorrhages, draining system, Ham.;
...secretions with depressed vitality, Kreo.
...transulation of watery portions of blood
causing copious diarrhoea, Crot. t.
...profuse, watery, serous, especially stomach
and intestinal tracts, Elat.
...passive, flux, Ph. ac.
--We cannot find the above rubrics in J.T. Kent’s Repertory and we are unable to understand as to why Kent is talked about and praised so much--
I read all the above five remedies in Boericke's materia medica; the following words under Hamamelis made me to confirm the remedy.
Wants “the respect due to me” shown.
This made me to recall what the patient had been saying; she wanted to get cured and then go and prove to the people in her village that she is now cured.
Moreover, out of the five remedies indicated above, any homoeopath would easily say that Hamamelis is a ‘traumatic’ remedy and decide this remedy for the case because the discharge --diarrhoea-- started after radium treatment.
Hamamelis 1-M single dose cured her completely.
Case: A lady of fifty was suffering from chronic arthritis. After trying for cure under several systems --including homoeopathy-- she consulted me finally. She started describing her symptoms which were very common in arthritis cases like unbearable pain, swelling, aggravation at night etc. etc. After a pause, she remarked:
“Doctor, I got married when I was five years old. My husband passed away within a year of the marriage. As I do not have any children, many people have inquired whether I am not worried about it. But I used to reply them that I am unaffected by all these things in life. Listening to the radio, teaching music to children, I am happily spending my life.”
The words ‘I am happily spending my life’ are the most important and uncommon mind symptom to be considered for homoeopathic prescription. It is not a healthy state of the mind or healthy mental symptom at all for the case under review. --If it is a healthy state, she should have replied as under :--
--a-- “I am not worried now though I had lost my husband at my very young age.”
or
--b-- “The fact that I had lost my husband and that I have no issues bothered me initially but I have slowly recovered from this shock and right now I rarely think of it.”
In this case, the patient had remarked that she is not at all affected by the worst happenings in her life and that she was spending the days happily. Let us see how this case was worked out with Boericke’s Repertory
MIND --page 695-- gay, frolicsome, hilarious: Bell., Can. ind., Coff.; Croc.; Cyprip.; Eucal.; Formica.; Hyos.; Lach.; Nux. m.; Plat.; Spong.; Stram.; Thea.; Val.
On studying the above sixteen remedies in Boericke's materia medica we find the words “An arthritic medicine” under the remedy Formica Rufa in Boericke's materia medica --page 292-- relevant to the case on hand. In the remaining sixteen remedies no symptom was found regarding arthritis..
Formica Rufa-IM was prescribed and it gave her relief; After three months, she reported relapse and 10M potency, single dose, of the same remedy cured her completely. --At this point the beginner starts taking notes "Formica Rufa is good for arthritis.' No, not at all! He should note down as “Formica Rufa is almost a specific for arthritis patients if they are jolly type or gay-going.”—

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Shirley Reischman

I had a very good family doctor when I was growing up--yes, he was an allopath, very lovely man who was very gentle and capable. He always believed that you should "listen to the patient...he is telling you the diagnosis."

Even though he was speaking from an allopathic point of view, we know this is the truth even for homeopaths.

Thank you for posting this information.

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