Tinnitus

fitness first · #1 (**permalink**) 4th May 2004, 09:33 AM

Which group of remedies have been found to be beneficial in curing Tinnitus OR let me ask in another way, which remedies have more affinity towards ear problems.

gpm · #2 (**permalink**) 4th May 2004, 11:57 PM

I eagerly await responses to your query, having tinnitus for so darn many years. It is one of the leading causes of suicide and I can understand that completely. We seek *white noise* (showers/radio static) to block the sounds in our heads. Captain Kirk, in real life, did try suicide to escape the noises but has since employed a device made in Germany (if I recall correctly, since he IS still around) that produces artificial noise that helps block those in his head. Oh man, wait, the pitch just changed, now it's a silent (not to me!) dog whistle or a signal from an alien coming through now.......or is it a radio frequency? Crickets? No, just another level of low hummmmmiiiiiigggg. We can FEEL noises.....it's not a nice thing to have!

Divina · #3 (**permalink**) 5th May 2004, 12:19 PM

You know what, GPM? My dad suffered from tinnitus for over 10 years, and he never told me about it till I gave him a remedy that took it away, if only temporarily.

One day he was having some coffee in his lounge chair, and when he got up he gave himself a charleyhorse. He was literally frozen there, in pain, with his muscles cramping...yelling for my mother to come and help him.

I was visiting with my mother and I had just bought some tissue salts, specifically, magnesium phos. He was in so much pain, it was the only thing I had with me, I thought the remedy's good for any kind of spasmodic cramping, and it sure did look like that was what he had at the moment.

So I gave him a dose from the bottle. He put the pills under his tongue and soon the cramping stopped completely and he felt better. I gave him a few more of the mag phos pills to take just in case he continued to experience the cramping later on. I told them to take them every 15 minutes or so if he found himself spasming again.

Well, he didn't wait for the spasmodic cramping to return, but he just kept taking the tissue salts. About a week or so later, he asked me what I had given him. I'd almost entirely forgotten the whole incident, but he told me the salts had stopped the incessant tinnitus he had experienced for over 10 years. He told me he had seen doctors all over North America about the problem, and everyone told him there was absolutely nothing he could do about it, save for highly risky and experimental surgery, which scared him senseless. Now he found that the tinnitus had completely stopped on the mag phos, and he was experiencing a strange vertigo instead. It was annoying, because he never felt like he had his bearings: but he was so happy the noise had stopped, finally.

So, the mag phos did have the effect of palliating one symptom, but I don't think he actually moved in the direction of cure there. I did try to make him understand that obviously he could derive tremendous relief from his complaints if he went to see a homeopath and had his full case taken. Of course, he was stubborn as hell about the whole thing and refused to admit that there was a possibilty that he could be cured (secretly, I've decided he's one of those people who is terrified that he could be cured of his disease, as, believe me, many things would have to change in his life as a result!!) so he never went to consult the homeopath. He had also taken all the tissue salts I'd given him, so he never took any more after that. I didn't give him more because I didn't like the vertigo replacing the tinnitus, and wanted him to seek treatment that would cure in the right direction.

The vertigo went away (and it was a recognizably bad vertigo--started while he was in bed in the morning, stayed all day...a bad symptom he claimed he had never had before and I recognized immediately that it did not bode well) and the tinnitus did come back, but he says never as strongly as it was.

Know what? Had he seen the homeopath, he'd very likely be free of his tinnitus symptoms, and circumvented what the vertigo predicted.
So: mag phos definitely had an effect on him. But that is because there is a definite "phos" symptomatology with my father, and therefore he derived some benefit from the remedy.

kayveeh · #4 (**permalink**) 5th May 2004, 02:56 PM

Divina,

Sorry to say (because your Dad), MP was not a remedy in any sense for tinnitus. Tissue salt Rep. & MMs indicate all other tissue remedies except CF & MP. MP causes relaxation and may complicate this & other problems like relaxing muscles, heart muscles, nerves & other vessels. Relief may just an anesthesiatic type effect. However you are a better judge.

Divina · #5 (**permalink**) 5th May 2004, 03:18 PM

Well, I was completely surprised that he even suffered from tinnitus--like I said, he kept it secret from me. I gave him the mag phos because he was, at that moment when he was in pain, suffering from an acute muscular spasm. As far as I knew at the time, he was having a very painful charleyhorse, and I had mag-phos, a remedy for muscle spasm handy, so I gave it.

He has always run his own business, and many of his clients were and are doctors and specialists who he's turned to--quietly--for help over the years. I worked in the family business for a long time when I was growing up, and met many of these doctors. Of course, many were friends of the family and never ever let on that they had treated or advised my father about anything. It wasn't until some time after I gave my father the mag phos for his charleyhorse that he told me he suffered from tinnitus, and had sought out all kinds of specialists to try to cure it.

However: if I were to look over the symptomatology I am aware of in his case, he does have many ailments that would befall someone who needs a remedy with phosphorus somewhere in its make-up. Either a plant remedy, or a mineral compound remedy featuring phosphorus, such as calc-phos, mag-phos, phosphoric acid, something like that. But I do not know his entire picture: and I know he has done well with remedies given for mental/emotional symptoms which became overwhelmingly troublesome. One such remedy he did beautifully with is lycopodium. Like Mag Phos, that plant has a chemical make-up with the ability of spontaneous combustibility--magnesium and phosphorus both have this "explosive" tendency, as does the lycopodium spore from which the lycopodium remedy is made. He has done very well with this remedy in the past. I should ask him if he still suffers from tinnitus, as the lycopodium remedy does, in fact, address many of his symptoms, including the cancer heralded by the vertigo I mentioned above.

Anyway, just a little story to use as an example. No need to be sorry: some people really do make decisions about their health based on their fears--it is a human tendency. I believe one of my father's "touchy points" is realising that he must rely on others to help him: his anger and his irritation are increased significantly any time anyone has to step in to help him do something he really feels he should be able to do himself. It is intensified if this realisation makes him aware of the fact that he is no longer capable of doing those things for himself. So he will make decisions based on that fearful reality. It's sad to see this in people. But there you are.