– Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.
Region
Lower tissues
Joints and their components (bones,
cartilages, ligaments)
White fibrous tissue
Epithelial tissues
Mucous membranes
G.-I.,G.-U.,R.-T.,
LARYNX
Glandular organs
Kidneys
Ovaries (l.) Testes (r.)
Nerves; sheaths
spinal
neuro- musculatures
L. Side
Worse
COLD; winter; damp
Sun(stroke)
Periodically
Daytime.Noon
Afternoon.Midnight
3-5am. 11am – 1pm
Rest. Lying. Sleep
Prolonged exertion
Descending
Riding in car
Touch. Mental strain;
fright ; anger
Loss of fluids;
onanism
Eating
Mercury
Better
Warmth;
Sun(stroke)
wrapping up
Open air
Night (cough)
Lying (cough)
Walking,
continued
Deflation
Warm drink;
coffee
Insidious. Indolent. Malignant
Sycotic. Exudative. Proliferative
Introduction : Silver is widely distributed in all tissues in the range of 0.002-0.008 ug / gm wet / weight. Mean blood concentration of silver are 0.008 Plus 0.0002 ug / gm. Cow’s milk contains 0.027 Plus 0.54 mg / lit.
Functions and requirements are not yet clearly known.
Physiologically silver gives protection against infection.
Historic Tale : In the 4th century B.C. the army of Alexander, the Great, conquered Persia and Phonicia and invaded India. Here the Greek army was struck by an outbreak of a mysterious gastrointestinal disease and the soldiers demanded to be sent home. Interestingly, the Greek military commanders fell victim to the disease far less frequently than their soldiers, although they shared all the burdens of camp life with the soldiers. More than two hundred years had passed before scientists found an explanation of it. The soldiers drank from tin cups and their superiors from silver ones. It was proved that silver dissolves in water forming a colloid solution that kills pathogenic bacteria. And although the solubility of silver in water is low, it is quite enough for disinfection.
This tale explains why silver has been used in making domestic utensils, water vessels, dinner dishes, etc. for preservation of water and food since antiquity.
Acute poisoning : Throat pain. Gastro-enteritis.Renal failure. Convulsions. Collapse.
Chronic poisoning : Skin discoloration(Argyria), blue line on gums (like of lead poisoning), albuminuria, extensor muscle paralysis.
Dynamic overdosing : Catarrhs. Arthralgias. Arthritis.
Highlights: Slow, deep, low-grade processes (like t.b., cancer); they come on lingeringly, insidiously, but progress steadily (Sil.). “A very deep-acting remedy………… goes deep into life…………a deep organic remedy……….. affects all there is of man …………. low form of tissue making”- Kent.
Constitutional effects of sunstroke, onanism etc. Lingering complaints with weak feeling in chest.
A dyscrasia of latent diseases.
Make-up : Businessmen. Brain-workers. Students and readers, of all kinds (Sil.). Broken-down, emaciating progressively. Younger ones withering, wrinkling, aged-looking, imbeciling. Bad inheritence; tendency to catarrhs, rheumatism, caries, tubercles, athrepsia, deep ulcers, cancer. Tall, thin, pale, chilly, nervous, irritable, faggy, hollow-eyed, weak-chested. Complaints hang on and become more and more serious. Mentally vain, a guller, hysterical, confused, anxious.
Nerves Deep seated troubles of nerves, growing increasingly sensitive to surroundings. Trembling in stomach, chest, heart, hands, legs (on descending). Twitchings. General nervous irritability amounting to convulsions. Tendency to spasmodic action of limbs. Convulsions tonic, clonic, or internal / systemic. Epilepsy : (