CHECKED DISCHARGES,
SUPPRESSION OF SECRETIONS.
Prof. V. Krishnamurthy,
The above symptom would be of immense help, more particularly in chronic diseases as well as grave acute cases.
Suppression of haemorrhage or habitual depletions or any discharges make the disease travel from less important organs to more important organs. This is the direction of disease. Hence most valuable. If found in a case you cannot afford to ignore them. You may straightaway take it.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Here we must make a mention of ‘menopause.’
If the complaint of a female patient starts around the age of 42-46 and she also continues to get her monthly periods you may think of the rubric MENOPAUSE in the chapter GENITALIA—FEMALE in Kent ‘s Repertory. But upon inquiry if you find that her complaints started a few months after complete cessation of menses you should not take the rubric MENOPAUSE but consider the following on page 1006 of Lilienthal:
Suppression of haemorrhage or abandoning habitual depletions: 1, acon., bell., chin., fer., nux v., puls., sulph.; 2, arn., aur., bry., calc., carb. v., graph., hyosc., lyc., natr. m., nitr. ac., phos., ran., rhus, seneg., sep., sil., spong., stram.
If a patient tells that his complaints started some time after his bleeding fissure in anus or piles was cured, in such cases too you must take the above rubric.