– Prof. V. Krishnamurthy,
1. What is the remedy to be given (just one single dose) to a pregnant woman, when the foetus (baby in uterus) stops growing?
2. During epidemic encephalitis (brain fever, e. g., in Ariyalur in Tamil Nadu) what remedy would you use as prophylactic (preventive)?
3. All the children born to a woman are syphilitic by birth. What remedy in one single dose you would give her to prevent syphilis in future pregnancies?
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, homoeopathy is not becoming popular.) Also, please note that this remedy must first be given to your doctor-patient i. e., any homoeopath coming to you for treatment and also to a patient who has gone to many homoeopaths.
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 solution. 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. Also, it is not Caulophyllum. These two remedies are suggested by majority of homoeopaths.)
7. What is the chief or first remedy that you would think of for haemophilia?
8. In homoeopathy 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 the two remedies 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 a running jeep from behind?
12. Under what rubric in the repertory would you search remedies for a patient with chronic tonsillitis?
13. What is the name of the reference book (and the name of its author) you would use for complaints of pregnant women occurring directly before, during or after childbirth or abortion?
14. 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?
15. What is the remedy for ‘ghost pain.’
16. A patient had fracture of tibia bone and though the fracture healed, he was having pain even two years after the fracture with oozing etc., at the wounded place. One single dose of a remedy cured him. What is the remedy?
17. A patient was having vision problem. Went to an eye specialist and got a specs. After a few days that glass did not suit. Had to change his specs. Like this it happened 5-6 times. He was having half-a-dozen spectacles and whatever suits for the day he would wear it for that day. One single dose cured him. Name the remedy.
18. A patient complains of pain in spot in many places. If you draw a line connecting all these painful spots it is a straight line 90o vertically. E.g., pain in right temple, right side of chest, right side of lower abdomen. Can you name the remedy please?
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(Answers to questions at the beginning of this e-mail)
1. Secale is almost a specific when the growth of foetus is arrested. (See Repertory by Dr. Calvin B. Knerr: GENITALIA—FEMALE, Pregnancy, foetus: arrests development, Secale.) One single dose of Secale 10m is sufficient.
2. See Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory—Head—Cerebrospinal affections – meningitis – epidemic: Zinc.
3. See Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory—Stages of Life and Constitution—Constitution, syphilitic—mothers, to prevent disease in offspring: Aurum-mur-nat.
4. See Kent ’s Repertory—GENERALITIES—IRRITA-BILITY—When too much medicine has produced an over-sensitive state and remedies fail to act: Ph-ac., Teucr. [Homoeopaths are giving the medicines to the patient. The homoeo pharmacy people put about ten drops of the tincture to a 5 ml phial of pills. Whether the homoeopath buys the potencies in dilution or pills, when they open the phial to give a few pills to the patient, the doctor inadvertently smells the medicine each time he gives to a patient. This causes irritation making them, restless and/or haughty to the point of telling that he need not learn any more thing in homoeopathy. Also when the doctor himself is sick, no homoeo medicine seems to act on himself.]
5. Life and Letters of Hahnemann by Dr. Richard Haehl and another book by Bradford .
6. See The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual by Dr. W. A. Yingling—Repertory
Section— Labor—weak, patient too weak to develop normal pains: Bell., Mur-ac.
7. Crotalus horridus is the prime remedy for haemophilia.
8. (a) See answers (a) & (b) to question No. 12.
(b) Diseases, more parti-cularly acute, that are long standing and not cured in spite of best treatment, and where patient is affected much and disturbing his daily routine: We may call these by the term ‘Cachexia.’ Acute diseases such cough, cold, diarrhoea, skin rash etc. normally do not last long. When you find a patient with these complaints standing long for years and bothering him much, you may use the term ‘Cachexia.’ We may otherwise call this as weakness of the system or of a part of body.
9. Crotalus horridus.
10. (a) Hamamelis: passive haemorrhage. No anxiety or pain:
(b) Phosphorus: Active haemorrhage with anxiety.
11. (a) Arnica (b) Cicuta (c) Millefolium (d) Phosphorus.
12. For a patient with chronic tonsillitis, you would generally look into the Repertory against the following:
Tonsils, inflamed (quinsy, tonsillitis) (page 454 of Kent ’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 due to tuberculosis (See MEDICAL DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD by Dawson Williams, London : Cassel & Co. page 338-348)
(a) When tuberculosis affects the lung it is called pulmonary tuberculosis or phthisis; with a family history of tuberculosis, when t. b. affects bones or glands it is called ‘scrofula’ or ‘struma’.
(b) All chronic affections of glands are due to tuberculosis in the family. Chronic affections of bones may be due to either tuberculosis or syphilis; (in syphilitic affections of bones we find ‘nightly boring’ pain.)
Therefore, to cure a chronic tonsillitis patient, we must examine the following:
Scrofulosis — glandular affections. Bar., Bell., Calc., Carb. an., Cist., Clem., Con., Dulc., Graph., Hep., Kali, Lapis, Lyc., Merc., Nitr. ac., Phos., Rhus, Sil., Staph., Sulph. [page 943 of Lilienthal]
13. The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual by Dr. W. A. Yingling.
14. See Dr. Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory – MIND – Suicide, attempted: Plb.
15. Pain at the point of amputation is called ‘ghost pain’. The remedy for this is Allium cepa.
16. See Calvin B. Knerr’s REPERTORY—GENERA-LITIES—Fracture of tibia: Anthracin.
17. “. . . a patient had been travelling about from oculist to oculist, who had many visual troubles and no glasses would suit. . .LAC FEL. cured her.” (See Kent ’s LECTURES ON HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA—Spigelia.)
18. (a) Fluoric acid (Nails, diseases of)-felon, particularly bone felons, with offensive discharge; > from cold applications; phalanges swollen far above their natural size, on dorsum of finger an opening discharges ichorous pus; panaritium, also simple onychia, with ulceration; sharp sticking pain at root of right thumb-nail. nails grow more rapidly, crumpled or longitudinal ridges in them; soreness between toes; soreness of all the corns. it promotes expulsion of necrotic bones.
(b) Oxalic acid (Myelitis acuta, inflammation of the spinal cord)-myelitis paralytica; pains occupy small longitudinal places, < on thinking of them; limbs stiff; dyspnoea and spasmodic constriction of chest, paroxysms of short, hurried breathing, with intervals of ease; acute pain in back gradually extending down to thighs, with great torture, seeks relief in change of position; back too weak to support the body; spinal softening, weakness about loins and hips extending down legs, with numbness and loss of power.
(c) Oxalic acid (Paralysis)-sclerosis of posterior column; pains shooting down from the cord to the extremities, especially lower ones, stiffness of limbs, dyspnoea, followed by a peculiar general numbness, approaching to palsy; back feels too weak to support the body; jerking pains, confined to small spots, lasting only a few seconds; pains in small longitudinal spots; paroxysms of dyspnoea.
(d) Syphilinum- tongue coated teeth-indented; deep longitudinal cracks. (Boericke’s Mat. Med.)
(e) Tabacum (Diaphragm, diseases of)-excessive painfulness of muscular part of crura from renal calculi, especially when incarcerated in the ureter. (bell. contracts circular fibres, tab. the longitudinal ones.) r., deep-red stripe longitudinally through centre, dry or moist, with white or yellow coating or no coating at all on either side; tongue feels as if it had been scalded. (bapt. tongue red and glistening.)
(f) Zincum met– tongue thinly coated yellow, with sunken raphe, or longitudinal fissure.
We do not have any symptoms that appears latitudinally.
[Items (a) to (c) and (e) are from Lilienthal. Have you not still bought a copy of Lilienthal?