– BENERJEE.P,
Case no. 2
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| LeucorrhŒa, diarrhoea and headache |
Mrs-; age 41, had been suffering from the above troubles for the last 13 or 14 years. Very weak. Dietetic regulation under recent Ayurvedic treatment had contributed largely to the weakness.
Symptoms:-Almost a continuous leucorrhœa from her very childhood. Had occasional spells of normal motions too, but the slightest irregularity in diet used to bring on diarrhœa, and this had assumed such dimensions gradually that she practically digested nothing. There was sore-mouth, and this was always there. It caused severe burning while eating and even while drinking water. She could hardly satisfy her appetite, of which there was some, on account of the burning in the sores. There was absolutely no ease at any time, and this was particularly pronounced at the time of eating. The burning caused by the food and drink taken used to frighten even those around. The temper was extremely irritable, and she used to be upset by any sudden noise or sound.
Borax-200 was given, but there was no response even after a fortnight. Another dose of Borax-200, but there was no change yet. Full 15 days elapsed, and yet no change appeared. The patient was very weak, and any higher potency could not be tried with safety. As, however, the selection of Borax appeared to be perfectly correct, there was no reason for changing it. Graduated doses were therefore given at the rate of one dose every alternate morning, and after 4 such doses, the patient remarked that she seemed to feel better. The medicine was stopped at once. After 15 days, i.e. on 17th July, the patient was re-examined and there seemed to be a positive indication of improvement in her mind. No medicine was therefore given for the next 15 days.
3. 8. No further change. Borax-500, one dose in the morning, one dose in the evening and another dose next morning. Placebo continued for the following fortnight.
20. 8. The patient was feeling better, but the main trouble ‘leucorrhœa’ was yet unchanged in any way. Placebo for one month.
17. 9. The improvement, which the patient was feeling, stopped. Borax-10,000 one dose every morning for 4 days continually, and placebo for a month.
24. 9. A severe aggravation. On an examination of the patient, however, it was found to have been due to the medicine (Homœopathic aggravation and not medicinal). There was absolutely no new symptom,-it was only the existing symptoms that were aggravated. There was a request from the guardian for relieving the trouble at once, and some placebo, to be taken every 4 hours, was given.
30. 9. The aggravation had almost passed off, and the patient was comparatively much better. Placebo for 2 months.
13. 12. Aggravation of sore-mouth and also of leucorrhœa. Borax-10,000 one dose only, and some placebo for 1 month.
11. 1. Information was received that the leucorrhœal discharge and sweat were smelling awfully fetid, though the patient was feeling better otherwise The fetidness of the smell, however, was frightening, so much so that the patient and her people were afraid lest something had putrified within. No medicine was, however, given on this.
16. 3. The patient was much better, but the discharge and the sweat, as also the fetidness had not yet completely disappeared. Sanicula-10,000, one dose was given, and this completed the cure.
Remarks:-(1) The patient was awfully weak, particularly in the mind and this is why a potency higher than 200th could not be risked in the beginning. If nervous weakness is greater than physical weakness, higher potencies should not be tried, and the fact that she could not stand the slightest noise only indicated that she was weak in her nerves.
(2) If there was any doubt as to the correctness of the selection of Borax, and if it had been changed on 17th July or on 3rd August, the cure of the patient would have been positively doubtful. The physician must have a thorough knowledge of Materia Medica and a thorough confidence in that knowledge.