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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Ague-fever malaria

 
Mr Sovon aged 16, had ague of quotidian type, attack of fever started after 24 hours, every day at about noon, it was happening for the last ten days. The attack of chill commenced in the lower back which extended to neck and occiput with shaking of whole body, then drowsiness, soreness and heaviness .of lower legs and extremities. Fever continued till night with scanty sweat. Gels. 30, in alternation with FP6x, KM3x, NM3x. NS3x, 2 grains dose in hot water- 2 T. spoons, after every 2-3 hours cured the patient within 5 days actually fever was cured after 3 days.
 4. Sul. 30, We should think of Sul-30, as an intercurrent medicine when temperature does not become normal within 24-36 hours, it reduces the temperature from 103o F to 98o F quickly. It should be given in the morning or evening when the temperature is below 100o F. One or two doses will do the work.
 5. Ars. alb. 30, be given in cases of intermitent -ague fever when the fever does not become normal within 4 or 5 days, be given in chronic, inveterate, pernicious cases (the cases which do not yield to become normal). The cases which are over drugged with quinine, having periodical chill, worse in the mid- night, or chill alternating with great burning heat in body at any time during day, dryness of mouth with frequent thirst but little water at a time, drinking of water causes nausea and vomiting with spasmodic pain in the abdomen and chest- causing great weakness and debility, etc. Can be cured with this curing medicine.  Cont......
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Menses

 
This natural period in a woman's life allows her to express acute and striking symptoms that return regularly in a particular order. 
 This is a fantastic gold-mine of information for the homeopath who can analyze all the symptoms such as bulimia, coryza, faintness, headache, insomnia, leukorrhea, migraine, nervousness, pains, sexual desire, sighing, etc., that occur before, during and after the flows of blood.
 Most of the functional disorders related  to the menstrual cycle have a favorable and quick solution. 
 Homeopathic remedies will restablish the correct endocrine balance and prevent any complications (fibroma, mastitis, etc).
 Scanty (insufficient)
 To regulate the menstrual system, the polychrest is taken according to menstrual cycle, normally once a month, sometimes more often.
 When it is not possible to mark out a precise date (puberty or menopause), take one dose every 2 weeks, the mineral during a new moon, and the plant during a  full moon. 
 For instance, at puberty :
 --  thin girl :
 • during a fool moon : PULSATILLA 15C
 • during a  new moon : CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA 15C
 --  heavy girl :
 • during a full moon : PULSATILLA 15C
 • during a new moon : CALCAREA CARBONICA 15C
 With venous and digestive disorders
 --  weeping when telling the symptoms :
 • with diarrhea, gastritis, migraines; in lymphatic women :
 one dose, monthly : PULSATILLA 15C
 • candidiasis before; dark blood; bearing-down sensation; hole in the stomach; migraines with irritability and fatigue :
 one dose, monthly : SEPIA 15C
 --  ophthalmic migraine before, galactorrhea or leukorrhea after; meticulous and melancholic :
 • one dose, monthly : CYCLAMEN 15C
 With skin disorders

 --  premenstrual syndrome; forehead acne agg. before, blinding headache after :
 • one dose, monthly : NATRUM MURIATICUM 15C
 --  itching and eczema before, constipation, coryza and hoarseness during :
 • one dose, monthly : GRAPHITES 15C
 With rheumatisms
 --  pain from back down to thighs, through labia and abdomen to chest :
 • one dose, monthly : KALIUM CARBONICUM 15C
 --  icy coldness through all body before, constipation and itching during :
 • one dose, monthly : SILICEA 15C
 --  pains in stomach and back; bashful; aversion to strangers :
 • one dose, monthly : BARYTA CARBONICA 15C
 Abundant
 --  the more copious the flow, the more restless the mind, with painful mastitis :
 • 3 granules, daily, as needed : CIMICIFUGA 9C
 --  oversensitive and itching genitals; ovary pain; numbness :
 • one dose, monthly : PLATINA 15C
 --  the flow amel. all the physical and mental symptoms; loquacity; hyperthyroidism :
 • one dose, monthly : LACHESIS 15C
 --  throughout her life, the phosphoric obeys the general law of "all or nothing", such as no menses at all or a very abundant flow :
 • adolescent; abundant and frequent or headache and weakness instead of the flow :
 one dose, monthly : CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA 15C
 • menses last too long, weeping before, or burning leukorrhea instead of the flow :
 one dose, monthly : PHOSPHORUS 15C
 Color, clots
 Pale red
 --  in general :
 • GRAPHITES, KALIUM CARBONICUM, NATRUM MURIATICUM
 --  flushes of heat; weakness :
 • one dose, as needed : FERRUM METAL 9C
 Bright red
 --  in general : 
 (See :bleeding) :
 • IPECA 4C, MILLEFOLIUM 4C
 --  early, abundant and prolonged, provoked by least emotion, suppressed by cold bath, mastitis, fibroma :
 • one dose, as needed : CALCAREA CARBONICA 9C
 --  sacrolumbar pains agg. by least movement; condyloma, warts :
 • 3 granules, 1 to 3 times a day : SABINA 5C
 Dark red
 --  in general :
 • BOVISTA, HAMAMELIS, USTILAGO
 --  labour-like pains; iciness in entire body; violent cramps in lower limbs; thin and exhausted women (abortion) :
 • 3 granules, 1 to 3 times a day : SECALE CORNUTUM 5C
 Clots
 --  in general :
 • CHAMOMILLA, LACHESIS, PLATINA, SABINA
 --  laughing mania; sexual excitation before, changing mood during; black clots with long strings (frequent, copious) :
 • 3 granules, daily, as needed : CROCUS SATIVUS 9C
 Bearing-down sensation
 --  by pelvic congestion
 • 3 granules, 1 to 3 times a day :
 APIS 5C, BELLADONNA 5C, CHAMOMILLA 5C, PULSATILLA 5C, SULFUR FLAVUM 5C
 --  by fibroma :
 • alternate every one or two other weeks, one dose :
 CALCAREA CARBONICA 9C, or GRAPHITES 9C
 • 3 granules, 1 to 3 times a day : MUREX 5C (sexual excitement)
 --  by pelvic ptosis :
 • alternate every two or four other weeks, one dose :
 NATRUM MURIATICUM 15C, or SEPIA 15C
 • 3 granules, 1 to 3 times a day : LILIUM TIGRINUM 7C
 --  violent pains with sensation of cold, numbness and tingling :
 • 3 granules, as needed : AGARICUS 5C
 See : anxiety, appetite, arthritis, aversion, bleeding, breast, bulimia, candidiasis, cellulitis, cold, cysts, condyloma, constipation, cystitis, desire, diarrhea, dyspepsia, eructations, faintness, fibroma, flushes of heat, headache, heat, insomnia, itching, leukorrhea, menopause, migraine, nervousness, ovary, pains, polyps prementrual, rheumatisms, sadness, sensations, sexual desire, since, skin, tetany.
Thursday, October 23, 2014

What Is Homoeopathy ?

 
It is impossible to divine the internal essential nature of diseases and the changes they effect in the hidden parts of the body, and it is absurd to frame a system of treatment on such hypothetical surmises and assumptions : it is impossible to divine toe medicinal properties of remedies from any chemical hypotheses or from their smell, colour, or taste, and it is absurd to attempt, from such hypothetical surmises and assumptions, to apply to the treatment of diseases these substances, which are so hurtful when wrongly administered. And even were such practice ever so customary and ever so generally in use, were it even the only one in vogue for thousands of years, it would nevertheless continue to be a senseless and pernicious practice to found on empty surmises our idea of the morbid condition of the anterior, and to attempt to combat this with equally imaginary properties of medicines.
 [H2] Appreciable, distinctly appreciable to our senses must that be, which is to be removed in each disease in order to transform it into health, and right clearly must each remedy express what it can positively cure, if medical art is to be a wanton game of hazard with human life, and to commence to be the sure deliverer from diseases.
 [H2] I shall show what there is undeniably curable in diseases, and how the curative properties of medicines are to be distinctly perceived and employed for curative purposes.
 [H2] *    *    *    *
 [H2] What life is can only be known empirically from its phenomena and manifestations, but no conception of it can be formed by any meta-physical speculations à priori; what life is, in its actual essential nature, can never be ascertained or even guessed at, by mortals.
 [H2] To the explanation of human life, as also its two-fold conditions, health and disease, the principles by which we explain other phenomena are quite inapplicable. With nought in the world can we compare it save with itself alone; neither with a piece of clockwork, nor with a hydraulic machine, nor with chemical processes, not with decompositions and recompositions of gases, nor yet with a galvanic battery, in short with nothing destitute of life. Human life is in no respect regulated by purely physical laws, which only obtain among inorganic substances. The material substances of which the human organism is composed no longer follow, in this vital combination, the laws to which material substances in the inanimate condition are subject; they are regulated by the laws peculiar to vitality alone, they are themselves animated and vitalized just as the whole system is animated and vitalized. Here a nameless fundamental power reigns omnipotent, which abrogates all the tendency of the component parts of the body to obey the laws of gravitation, of momentum, of the vis inertiae, of fermentation, of putrefaction, and c., and brings them under the wonderful laws of life alone, -in other words, maintains them in the condition of sensibility and activity necessary to the preservation of the living whole, a condition almost spiritually dynamic.
 [H2] Now, as the condition of the organism and its health depend solely on the health of the life which animates it, in like manner it follows that the altered health, which we term disease, consists in a condition altered originally only in its vital sensibilities and functions, irrespective of all chemical or mechanical considerations; in short it must consist in a dynamically altered condition, a changed mode of being, whereby a change in the properties of the material component parts of the body is afterwards effected, which is a necessary consequence of the morbidly altered condition of the living whole in every individual case.
 [H2] Moreover, the influence of morbific injurious agencies, which for the most part excite from without the various maladies in us, is generally so invisible and so immaterial, * that it is impossible that it can immediately either mechanically disturb or derange the component parts of our body in their form and substance, or infuse any pernicious acrid fluid into our blood-vessels whereby the mass of our humours can be chemically altered and depraved - an inadmissible, quite unprovable, gross invention of mechanical minds. The exciting causes of disease rather act by means of their essential properties on the state of our life (on our health), only in a dynamic, very similar to a spiritual, manner; and inasmuch as they first derange the organs of the higher rank and of the vital force, there occurs from this state of derangement, from this dynamic alteration of the living whole, an altered sensation (uneasiness, pains) and an altered activity (abnormal functions) of each individual organ and of all of them collectively, whereby there must also of necessity secondarily occur alteration of the juices in our vessels and secretion of abnormal matters, the inevitable consequence of the altered vital character, which now differs from the healthy state.
 [H2] These abnormal matters that show themselves in diseases are consequently merely products of the disease itself, which, as long as the malady retains its present character, must of necessity be secreted, and thus constitute a portion of the morbid signs (symptoms); they are merely affects, and therefore manifestations of the existing internal ill-health, and they do certainly not react (although they often contain the infecting principle for other, healthy individuals) upon the diseased body that produced them, as disease-exciting or maintaining substances, that is, as material morbific causes, * just as a person cannot infect other parts of his own body at the same time with the virus from his own chancre or with the gonorrhoeal matter from his own urethra, or increase his disease therewith, or as a viper cannot inflict on itself a fatal bite with its own poison.
 [H2] Hence it is obvious that diseases excited by the dynamic and virtual influence of morbific injurious agents can be originally only dynamical derangements (caused almost solely by a spiritual process) of the vital character of our organism.
 [H2] We readily perceive that these dynamic derangements of the vital character of our organism which we term diseases, since they are nothing else than altered sensations and functions, can also express themselves by nothing but by an aggregate of symptoms, and only as such are they cognisable to our observing powers.
 [H2] Now, as in a profession of such importance to human life as medicine is, nothing but the state of the diseased body plainly cognisable by our perceptive faculties can be recognised as the object to be cured, and ought to guide our steps (to choose conjectures and undemonstrable hypotheses as our guide here would be dangerous folly, nay crime and treason against humanity), it follows, that since diseases, as dynamic derangements of the vital character, express themselves solely by alterations of the sensations and functions of our organism, that is, solely by an aggregate of cognisable symptoms, this alone can be the object of treatment in every case of disease. For on the removal of all morbid symptoms nothing remains but health.
 [H2] Now, because diseases are only dynamic derangements of our health and vital character, they cannot be removed by man otherwise than by means of agents and powers which also are capable of producing dynamical derangements of the human health, that is to say, diseases are cured virtually and dynamically by medicines. +
 [H2] These active substances and powers (medicines) which we have at our service effect the cure of diseases by means of the same dynamic power of altering the actual state of health, by means of the same power of deranging the vital character of our organism in respect of its sensations and functions, by which they are able to affect also the healthy individual, to produce in him dynamic changes and certain morbid symptoms, the knowledge of which, as we shall see, affords us the most trustworthy information concerning the morbid states that can be most certainly cured by each particular medicine. Hence nothing in the world can accomplish a cure, no substance, no power can effect a change in the human organism of such a character as that the disease shall yield to it, except an agent capable of absolutely (dynamically) deranging the human health, consequently also of morbidly altering its healthy state. *
 [H2] On the other hand, however, there is also no agent, no power in nature capable of morbidly affecting the healthy individual, which does not at the same time possess the faculty of curing certain morbid states.
 [H2] Now, as the power of curing diseases, as also of morbidly affecting the healthy, is met with in inseparable combination in all medicines, and as both these properties evidently spring from one and the same source, namely, from their power of dynamically deranging human health, and as it is hence impossible that they can act according to a different inherent natural law in the sick to that according to which they act on the healthy; it follows that it must be the same power of the medicine that cures the disease in the sick as produces the morbid symptoms in the healthy. +
 [H2] Hence also we shall find that the curative power of medicines, and that which each of them is able to effect in diseases, expresses itself in no other mode in the world so surely and palpably, and cannot be ascertained by us by any purer and more perfect manner than by the morbid phenomena and symptoms (the kinds of artificial diseases) which the medicines develop in healthy individuals. For if we only have before us records of the peculiar (artificial) morbid symptoms produced by the various medicines on healthy individuals, we only require a series of pure experiments to decide what medicinal symptoms will always rapidly and permanently cure and remove certain symptoms of disease, in order to know, in every case beforehand, which of all the different medicines known and thoroughly tested as to their peculiar symptoms must be the most certain remedy in every case of disease. ++
 [H2] If then we ask experience what artificial diseases (observed to be produced by medicines) can be beneficially employed against certain natural morbid states; if we ask it whether the change to health (cure) may be expected to ensue most certainly and in the most permanent manner :
 [H2] 1, by the use of such medicines as are capable of producing in the healthy body a different (alloeopathic) affection from that exhibited by the disease to be cured,
 [H2] 2, or by the employment of such as are capable of exciting in the healthy individual an opposite (enantiopathic, antipathic) state to that of the case to be cured,
 [H2] 3, or by the administration of such medicines as can cause a similar (homoeopathic) state to the natural disease before us (for these are the only three possible modes of employing them), experience speaks indubitably for the last method.
 [H2] But it is moreover self-evident that medicines which act heterogeneously and alloeopathically, which tend to develop in the healthy subject different symptoms from those presented by the disease to be cured, from the every nature of things can never be suitable and efficacious in this case, but they must act awry, otherwise all diseases must necessarily be cured in a rapid, certain and permanent manner by all medicine, however different. Now, as every medicine possesses an action different from that of every other, and as, according to eternal natural laws, every disease causes a derangement of the human health different from that caused by all other diseases, this proposition contains an innate contraction (contradictionem in adjecto), and is self-demonstrative of the impossibility of a good result, since every given change can only be effected by an adequate cause, but not per quamlibet causam. And daily experience also proves that the ordinary practice or prescribing complex recipes containing a variety of unknown medicines in diseases, does indeed do many things, but very rarely cures.
 [H2] The second mode of treating diseases by medicines is the employment of an agent capable of altering the existing derangement of the health (the disease, or most prominent morbid symptom) in an enantiopathic, antipathic, or contrary manner (the palliative employment of a medicine). Such an employment, as will be readily seen, cannot effect a permanent cure of the disease, because the malady must soon afterwards recur, and that in an aggravated degree. The process that takes place is as follow : - According to a wonderful provision of nature, organized living beings are not regulated by the laws of unorganized (dead) physical matter, they do not receive the influence of external agents, like the latter, in a passive manner, but strive to oppose a contrary action of them. *
 [H2] The living human body does indeed allow itself to be in the first instance changed by the action of physical agents; but this change is not in it as in inorganic substances, permanent (- as it ought necessarily to be if the medicinal agent acting in a contrary manner to the disease should have a permanent effect, and be of durable benefit -) : on the contrary, the living human organism strives to develop by antagonism * the exact opposite of the affection first produced in it from without, -as for instance, a hand kept long enough in ice-cold water, after being withdrawn does not remain cold, nor merely assume the temperature of the surrounding atmosphere, as a stone (dead) ball would do, or even resume the temperature of the rest of the body, no! the colder the water of the bath was, and the longer it acted on the healthy skin of the hand, the more inflamed and hotter does the latter afterwards become.
 [H2] Therefore it cannot but happen that a medicine having an action opposite to the symptoms of the disease, will reverse the morbid symptoms for but a very short time, + but must soon give place to the antagonism inherent in the living body, which produces an opposite state, that is to say, a state the direct contrary of that transient delusive state of the health effected by the palliative (and corresponding to the original malady), which constitutes an actual addition to the now recurring, uneradicated, original affection, and is consequently an increased degree of the original disease. And thus the malady is always certainly aggravated after the palliative - the medicine that acts in an opposite and enantiopathic manner - has exhausted its action. ++
 [H2] In chronic diseases, -the true touch-stone of a genuine healing art, -the injurious character of the antagonistically-acting (palliative) remedy often displays itself in a high degree, since from its repeated exhibition in order that it should merely produce its delusive effect (a very transient semblance of health) it must be administered in larger and ever larger doses, which are often productive of serious danger to life, or even of actual death. §
 [H2] There remains, therefore, only a third mode of employing medicines in order to effect a really beneficial result, to wit, by employing in every case such an one as tends to excite of itself an artificial, morbid affection in the organism similar (homoeopathic), best if very similar, to the actual case of disease.
 [H2] That this mode of employing medicines is and must of necessity be the only best method, can easily be proved by reasoning, as it has also already been confirmed both by innumerable experiences of physicians who practise according to my doctrines, and by daily experience. *
 [H2] It will, therefore, not be difficult to perceive what are the laws of nature according to which the only appropriate cure of diseases, the homoeopathic, takes place, and must necessarily take place.
 [H2] The first of these unmistakable laws of nature is : the susceptibility of the living organism for natural diseases is incomparably less than it is for medicines.
 [H2] A multitude of disease-exciting causes act daily and hourly upon us, but they are incapable of deranging the equilibrium of the health, or of making the healthy sick; the activity of the life-sustaining power within us usually withstands the most of them, the individual remains healthy. It is only when these external inimical agencies assail us in a very aggravated degree, and we are especially exposed to their influence, that we get ill, but even then we only become seriously ill when our organism has a particularly impressionable, weak side (predisposition), that makes it more disposed to be affected by the (simple or compound) morbific cause in question, and to be deranged in its health.
 [H2] If the inimical agents in nature that are partly physical and partly physical, which are termed morbific noxae, possessed an unconditional power of deranging the human health, they would, as they are universally distributed, not leave any one in good health; every one would be ill, and we should never be able to obtain an idea of health. But as, taken on the whole, diseases are only exceptional states of the human health, and it is necessary that such a number of circumstances and conditions, both as regards the morbific agents and the individual to be affected with disease, should conjoin before a disease is produced by its exciting causes, it follows, that the individual is so little liable to be affected by such noxae, that they can never unconditionally make him ill, and that the human organism is capable of being deranged to disease by them only by means of a particular predisposition.
 [H2] But it is far otherwise with the artificial dynamic agents which we term medicines. For every true medicine acts at all times, under all circumstances, on every living, animated body, and excites in it the symptoms peculiar to it (even in a way perceptible to the senses if the dose be large enough) so that evidently every living human organism must always and inevitably be affected by the medicinal disease and, as it were, infected, which, as is well known, is not the case with respect to natural diseases. *
 [H2] All experience proves incontestably, that the human body is much more apt and disposed to be affected by medicinal agents and to have its health deranged by them, than by the morbific noxae and contagious miasms, or, what is the same thing, that the medicinal agents possess an absolute power of deranging human health, whereas the morbific agents possess only a very conditional power, vastly inferior to the former.
 [H2] To this circumstance it is owing that medicines are able to cure diseases at all (that is to say, we see, that the morbid affection may be eradicated from the diseased organism, if the latter be subjected to the appropriate alteration by means of medicine); but in order that the cure should take place, the second natural law should also be fulfilled, to wit, a stronger dynamic affection permanently extinguishes the weaker in the living organism, provided the former be similar in kind to the latter; for the dynamic alteration of the health to be anticipated from the medicine should, as I think I have proved, neither differ in kind from or be alloeopathic to the morbid derangement, in order that, as happens in the ordinary mode of practice, a still greater derangement may not ensue; nor should it be opposite to it, in order that a merely palliative delusive amelioration may not ensue, to be followed by an inevitable aggravation of the original malady; but the medicine must have been proved by observations to possess the tendency to develop of itself a state of health similar to the disease (be able to excite similar symptoms in the healthy body), in order to be a remedy of permanent efficacy.
 [H2] Now, as the dynamic affections of the organism (caused by disease or by medicine) are only cognisable by the phenomena of altered function and altered sensation, and consequently the similarity of its dynamic affections to one another can only express themselves by similarity of symptoms; but as the organism (as being much more liable to be deranged by medicine than by disease) must yield more to the medicinal affection, that is to say, must be more disposed to allow itself to be influenced and deranged by medicine than by the similar natural morbid affection, it follows undeniably, that it will be freed from the natural morbid affection if we allow a medicine to act on it, which, while differing * in its nature from the disease, resembles it very closely in the symptoms it causes, that is to say, is homoeopathic; for the organism, as a living, individual unity, cannot receive two similar dynamic affections at the same time, without the weaker yielding to the stronger similar one; consequently, as it is more disposed to be more strongly affected by the one (the medicinal affection), the other, similar, weaker one (the natural morbid affection) must necessarily give way; and the organism is therefore cured of its disease.
 [H2] Let it not be imagined that the living organism, if a new similar affection be communicated to it when diseased by a dose of homoeopathic medicine, will be thereby more seriously deranged, that is, burdened with an addition to its sufferings, just as a leaden plate already pressed upon by an iron weight is still more severely squeezed by placing a stone in addition upon it; or as a piece of copper heated by friction must become still hotter by pouring on it water at a more elevated temperature. No, our living organism does not behave passively, it is not subject to the laws that govern dead matter; it reacts by vital antagonism, so as to surrender itself as an individual living whole to its morbid derangement, and to allow this to be extinguished within it, when a stronger affection of a similar kind, produced in it by homoeopathic medicine, takes possession of it.
 [H2] Such a spiritually reaching being is our living, human organism which with automatic power expels from itself a weaker derangement (disease), whenever the stronger power of the homoeopathic medicine produces in it another but very similar affection; or in other words, which, on account of the unity of its life, cannot suffer at the same time from two similar general derangements, but must discard the primary dynamic affection (disease), whenever it is acted on by a second dynamic power (medicine), more capable of deranging it, that has a great resemblance to the former in its power of affecting the health (its symptoms). Something similar takes place in the human mind. +
 [H2] But as the human organism even in health is more capable of being affected by medicine than by disease, as I have shown above, so when it is diseased, it is beyond comparison more affectable by homoeopathic medicine than by any other (whether alloeopathic or enantiopathic) and indeed it is affectable in the hightest degree; since, as it is already disposed and excited by the disease to certain symptoms, it must now be more susceptible of the altering influence of similar symptoms (by the homoeopathic medicine) -just as similar mental affections render the mind much more sensitive to similar emotions - hence only the smallest dose of them is necessary and useful for their cure, that is, for altering the diseased organism into the similar medicinal disease; and a greater one is not necessary on this account also, because the spiritual power of the medicine does not in this instance accomplish its object by means of quantity, but by potentiality and quality (dynamic fitness, homoeopathy), -and a greater dose is not useful, but on the contrary injurious, because whilst the larger dose, on the one hand, does not dynamically overpower the morbid affection more certainly than the smallest dose of the most appropriate medicine, on the other hand it imposes a complex medicinal disease in its place, which is always a malady, though it passes off after a certain time.
 [H2] Hence the organism will be powerfully affected and taken possession of the power of even a very small dose of a medicinal substance, which by its tendency to excite similar symptoms, can outweigh and extinguish the totality of the symptoms of the disease; it becomes, as I have said, free from the morbid affection at the very instant that it is taken possession of by the medicinal affection, by which it is immeasurably more liable to be altered.
 [H2] Now, as medicinal agents do of themselves, even in larger doses, only keep the healthy organism for a few days under their influence, it will readily be conceived that a small dose, and in acute diseases a very small dose of them (as it ought evidently to be in homoeopathic treatment), can only affect the system for a short time; the smallest doses, indeed, in acute diseases, only for a few hours; and then the medicinal affection substituted for the disease passes unobservedly and very rapidly into pure health.
 [H2] In the permanent cure of diseases by medicines in living organisms nature seems never to act otherwise than in accordance with these her manifest laws, and then indeed she acts, if we may use the expression, with mathematical certainty. There is no case of adynamic disease in the world (excepting the death struggle, old age, if it can be considered a disease, and the destruction of some indispensable viscus or member), whose symptoms can be met with in great similarity among the positive effects of a medicine, which will not be rapidly and permanently cured by this medicine. The diseased individual can be freed from his malady, in no more easy, rapid, certain, reliable and permanent manner, by any conceivable mode of treatment, * than by means of the homoeopathic medicine in small doses.
                                                                               Dr.Samuel Hahnemann
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Winter-Hypothermia And Homoeopathy

Hypothermia is a condition, which happens very commonly during winter to infants and old peoples.

When body temperature goes below 35.0 °C or 95.°F and it is harmful because body metabolism and body function gets affected negatively by hypothermia.

Recently, a 65-year-old female patient came to clinic complaining of episodic fever with chilliness. When I take her temperature I found it to be 98.5 and upon this she said at this time she is feeling okay so she has normal temperature. I gave her a thermometer and asked her family member to record temperature when she feels fever with chilliness.

Further, she describes these episodes even in bed in early morning, afternoon, and evening with dryness of throat, altered taste in mouth, and anxiety and fear.

Few days later, family reported that they are getting temperature around 95° F and so no fever. I told them it is a bad sign and when she has low temperature try to warm her.

Few days later, family reported me that she has continued to have these episodes even now with much better warm clothing on her body as well on her bed and they are concerned about to find out what is the cause of this episodic hypothermia. I reassured them and just try to keep her warm when these episodes occur and I decided to visit the patient's house to find out any possible cause there.

In patient's house I noticed that she is staying in drawing room with four doors and two windows so I was confident that this room must be always cold so I advised her to be shifted in other room and Gave her Nux Moschata 30c 1 drum (homeopathically indicated medicine for her) and she responded to both these measures and no further episodes of such possible hypothermia.

So old people should stay in a warm room not a constantly chilled room during winter.

Treat Children Diarrhea with Homoeopathy


Prolonged or recurrent diarrhea disturbs the normal development of a child so it must be treated as soon as possible with homoeopathy and other natural treatment and should not put child on antibiotics very early. There are many causes for diarrhea in which infection and irregularities in eating are main causes.

I am presenting a very useful list of common symptoms/events of diarrhea consisting of A to Z (28) symptoms/events.

Please read from above to below carefully and note on paper which symptoms are present in your child. Then see at last that if your set of combination exists below if it is present then it would tell you most probable cause for your child’s diarrhea and its effective homoeopathic treatment and if you are not able to find your symptom combination then tell this via comment section and know the possible diagnosis and homeopathic treatment.

So start read carefully from here and made a list of your symptoms starting alphabetically.

WHICH TIME OF DAY YOUR CHILD IS HAVING MORE STOOLS.

A. Morning (Possible cause: Mainly indigestion).
B. Night (Possible cause: Mainly Infection)

OTHER ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS WITH DIARRHEA
C. Outbreak of generalized rash (measles)
D. Fever.
E. Emaciation (lean and weak child).
F. Many cases after a common meal (after a rancid food and septic condition).
G. Many cases of severe diarrhea of severe watery diarrhea in area (cholera).
H. Dentition (Possible cause: Mainly infection as at this time child puts many things in his mouth.
I. Nausea and vomiting
J. Abdominal pain cramping/tenesmus

POSSIBLE CAUSE FOR YOUR CHILD’S DIARRHEA
K. Alternating constipation and diarrhea (Possible cause: Mainly IBS).
L. Cold drinks. (Possible cause: Mainly control on bowel movements have been disturbed and should be normal soon/if persists for long time then infection/if it occurs very frequently then IBS)
M. Rich foods (rice, poori, pastry, or cake)
N. Fruits ( Possible cause: Mainly disturbed digestion of fructose of fruits and should be normal very soon, but if persists for long time and fruits were unhygienic then infection).
O. Milk ((Possible cause: Mainly indigestion of lactulose found in milk and it may persist for long and should be treated for this soon. Homoeopathy has good results with this condition)
P. Diarrhea acute disease after.
Q. Exam/interview.

COLOR AND CONSISTENCY OF STOOL

R. Stool with mucus and blood (Possible cause: Mainly dysentery. This may be very troublesome seek medical attention as soon as possible. Homeopathy has good result with this condition).

S. Explosive stool, make to much hurry and stool scattered all around on toilet sheet (Possible cause: Mainly parasitical infection).

T. Very offensive (Possible cause: Mainly indigestion).

U. Watery (Possible cause: Mainly parasite infection).

V. Foamy (Possible cause: Mainly indigestion).

W. Light color ( Possible cause: Mainly occurs when there is problem with bile)

X. Yellow (Possible cause: Mainly problem with bile and infection)

Y. Large stool (Possible cause: Mainly it occurs when there is trouble in upper part of intestine and lower part is working okay so large stool, but control is disturbed it should be fine soon).

Z. Scanty, frequent stool in less quantity (Possible cause: Mainly it occurs when lower part of intestine is disturbed mainly by infection. It may take time to be normal).
Friday, October 17, 2014

Apoplexy


 It is a sudden "fit or stroke" of unconsciousness usually caused by cereberal embolism, haemorrhage or thrombosis. (Embolism is the obstruction of a blood vessel by the impaction of a solid body e.g. , thrombi fat-globules or tumour cells, or by air bubble. Thrombosis - intravascular formation of a blood clot).
 In apoplexy, there is stertorous (loud, snoring, snorous) breathing, in continence of urine and faeces with varying degree of hemiplegia. It occurs mostly between 50-60 years of age.
 Causes
 (1) Arterio-sclerosi, (2) Gout (3) alcoholism (4) syphilis (5) emotional excitement - that increases blood pressure and later becomes the cause of rupture of blood vessel in the brain - then patient remains in coma for days together and ultimately death happens. But in some cases, the patient, with proper medical treatment, comes into consciousness.
 I have tackled a few cases of apoplexy during my 20 years practice. The patient, who went into semi state of unconsciousness due to raised blood pressure, were cured with indicated medicine like Bell, Arnica, Glon, Opium.                                                      
                                             Apoplectic fits of unconsciousness
A patient,aged 43, had great rise in the blood pressure 190/130m m. of mercury at 7P.M.  Fell into apoplectic fits of unconsciousness with trembling of body and tongue, stammering voice, snoring - or snorous breathing. She was heading towards coma with great dizziness, closing of eyes, Puffed red hot face, swollen eyes, bursting headache at the beginning fit of apoplexy, as she reported it later on. Patient was very irritable, nervous, with chronic tendency of H.B. P.
 Bell = 30, in cold water and FP6x, KM6x, CP6x, NP6x, NS6x - 2 grains dose in alternation after every 10-15-30 minutes, total 6 doses, reduced her H.B. P. to 170/108.  She slept normally in the night. 30.10.84 - had emotional excitement with shooting up of B.P. = 190/130 with all above said symptoms. Glon -30, in alternation with combined dose of Ratiwolfia - Q + Crat. Q + Passiflora. Q (1:1:1) 10 drops dose, after every 15-30 minutes and B.P.  was lowered to 160/118 with total 6 doses. Same treatment was continued after, Illry 4 hours - for about 2 weeks, and patient did not have such attacks, in future. Whenever she felt problem of H.B. P. she took Glon and Mother tinctures combination and remained normal in blood pressure of 140/90m m. Boil. of mercury.
Friday, October 10, 2014

Heel Pain - Causes and Homeopathic Treatment



Heel pain is a very common problem in present era. A number of patients knock at the door of Doctors daily for heel pain only. There are so many drugs under Homoeopathy for the same and very frequent failures are there in treating heel pain, and consequently the patient turn towards another sort of treatments. This is our lack of knowledge, nothing else. To over come these problems, we must first know the basic causes for heel pain.
First, we must know the anatomy of heel. I am not going to take space here for this point, as this is easily available in various textbooks on anatomy. I am coming to causes of heel pain directly.

1- Attenuation of Achilles tendon.
2- Achilles tendon bursitis.
3- Stress fractures of bones in heel. (Diffuse tenderness).
4- Cyst formation.
5- Plantar fasciitis.
6- Haglund's disease (Prominent Posterio - superior calcaneal tubrosity.)
7- Reactive osteosclerosis of the posterio - inferior tuberosity ( Due to abnormal Achilles tendon insertion)
8- Calcaneal spur.
9- Plantar fat pad atrophy.
10- Traumatic disruption of plantar fat pad septa.

Now, we must we aware of the symptoms of each disorder stated above are different but all of them are localized to heel. Almost all the patients feel unable to explain their sufferings so clearly as to make distinction easy to the physician.
Here radiological diagnosis is of great value. After a very careful examination and investigation the doctor can reach to the cause of pain.
I am giving here a work on short repertorizations based upon various repertories. Only particular rubrics are used here to understand role of various remedies related to pain in heels. However, during prescribing Homoeopathically, all the rules must strictly be followed.

Main rubrics pertaining to Heel-Pain:
1. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel
2. EXTREMITIES - INFLAMMATION - Ankle
3. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - tendo achillis
4. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - malleolus - internal
5. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - malleolus - outer
6. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - malleolus - outer - walking
7. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - jarring
8. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - stepping, on
9. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - walking, while
10. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - motion
11. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - pulsating
12. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - rheumatic
13. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - sitting
14. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - standing
15. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - step, from a false
16. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - touch
17. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - walking - amel.
18. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - warmth - agg.
19. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - ascending stairs
20. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - bone
21. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - elevating the feet amel.
22. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - gouty
23. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - nails under the skin; like
24. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - pressure agg.; least
25. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - resting, with boot off, amel.
26. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - pulsating
27. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - rheumatic
28. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - rising from a seat
29. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - rubbing amel.
30. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - sitting
31. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - splinter; as from a
32. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - standing
33. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - ulcerative
34. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - walking
35. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - walking - amel.
36. EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - heel - warmth amel.
37. EXTREMITIES - INFLAMMATION - Foot - heel
38. EXTREMITIES - INFLAMMATION - Foot - heel - rheumatic
39. EXTREMITIES - INFLAMMATION - Foot - periosteum
40. EXTREMITIES - INFLAMMATION - Foot - bone
41. EXTREMITIES - INFLAMMATION - Joints - synovitis
42. EXTREMITIES - INFLAMMATION - Tendons
43. EXTREMITIES - INFLAMMATION - Foot - sole
44. GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - aponeurosis
45. GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - bones; of
46. GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - bones; of - periosteum; of
47. GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - bones; of - bone marrow; of
48. GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - bursae; of
49. GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - cartilages; of
50. GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - cellulitis
51. GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - joints; of - arthritis deformans
52. GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - muscles; of
53. GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - nerves; of
54. GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - synovial membranes; of
55. GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - tendons; of
These are the rubrics available in various repertories, which are related to heel- pain. However many among them can be related to numerous other problems, the synthesis of a particular rubric for heel- pain may need single or combination of one or many of these. A doctor can now reach to the point of illness and may diagnose and ascertain the real site or structures of involvement and use the given rubrics in making the similimum.
A Homoeopath, after very keen observation and very careful evaluation of the signs and symptoms taken, can most precisely make the similimum picture of the suffering and thenceforth can heal the ailments best.

Plantar Fascitis is inflammation of the plantar fascia or arch tendon of the foot. It is an overuse injury causing heel pain which may radiate forward into the foot. Plantar fasciitis can also be known as a heel spur although they are not strictly the same. A heel spur is a bony growth that occurs at the attachment of the plantar fascia to the heel bone (calcaneus). A heel spur can occur (with repetitive pulling of the plantar fascia) on a foot with no symptoms at all and a painful heel can have no heel spur present.
The Plantar Fascia or arch tendon is a broad, thick band of tissue that runs from under the heel to the front of the foot. A rupture can sometimes occur at the origin of the arch ligament and result in inflammation and pain.
Plantar Fasciitis is an inflammation (irritation and swelling with presence of extra immune cells) of the thick tissue on the bottom of the foot that causes heel pain and disability.

Cause of Plantar Fascitis

The cause of plantar fasciitis is unclear and may be multifactorial. Because of the high incidence in runners, it is best postulated to be caused by repetitive microtrauma. Possible risk factors include obesity, occupations requiring prolonged standing, heel spurs, pes planus (excessive pronation of the foot), and reduced dorsiflexion of the ankle.
Sex-The condition occurs equally in both sexes in young people. Some studies show a peak incidence may occur in women aged 40-60 years.
Age-The condition can occur at any age. As mentioned, a peak incidence may occur in women aged 40-60 years.

Clinical features of Plantar Fascitis

Symptoms
• Pain beneath heel.
• Pain extends medially into sole.
• Pain worse on standing, walking.
Signs
• Marked tenderness at site of attachment of planter fascia to calcaneum.
• Tenderness at heel pad.

INVESTIGATION for Plantar Fascitis

X-Ray heel
• Usually no abnormality.
• Occasionally calcaneal spur is evident but its significance in causing pain is doubtful.

GENERAL MANAGEMENT for Plantar Fascitis

• Reassurance.
• Exercise.
• Avoid precipitating causes.
• Correct maintaining causes.
• Advise foot wears having soft rubber cushioned soles.
• Short wave diathermy helpful in relieving pain.

Homeopathy Treatment & Homeopathic Remedies for Pain in Feet, Soles, Heel

Homeopathy treats the person as a whole. It means that homeopathic treatment focuses on the patient as a person, as well as his pathological condition. The homeopathic medicines are selected after a full individualizing examination and case-analysis, which includes the medical history of the patient, physical and mental constitution etc. A miasmatic tendency (predisposition/susceptibility) is also often taken into account for the treatment of chronic conditions. The medicines given below indicate the therapeutic affinity but this is not a complete and definite guide to the treatment of this condition. The symptoms listed against each medicine may not be directly related to this disease because in homeopathy general symptoms and constitutional indications are also taken into account for selecting a remedy. To study any of the following remedies in more detail, please visit our Materia Medica section. None of these medicines should be taken without professional advice.

Homeopathic Remedies

Causticum
Cramps in the feet. Pains in the instep, in the ankle bones, in the soles of the feet, and in the toes, on walking. Neuralgic pains in the soles of the feet. Contraction in the instep, with tensive pain when stepping. Coldness of the feet. Swelling of the feet. Pains in the varices. Tingling in the soles of the feet. Festering vesicles and ulcerations on the heels.
Adapted to persons with dark hair and rigid fibre; weakly, psoric, with excessively yellow, sallow complexion; subject to affections of respiratory and urinary tracts.
Graphitis
Congestion in the legs and in the feet, when standing upright. Swelling of the legs and of the feet, with hardness and shooting pain. Stiffness of the instep. Shooting pain, like that of an ulcer, in the heel and in the soles of the feet, on rising from the sitting posture. Cold feet, even in the evening in bed. Feet burning. Fetid sweat on the feet. Contraction of the toes. Swelling and distortion of the toes.
Suited to – Excessive cautiousness; timid, hesitates; unable to decide about anything. Fidgety while sitting at work. Sad, despondent; music makes her weep; thinks of nothing but death.
Medorrhinum
Burning in feet, wants them uncovered and fanned. Cold feet with chills all over. Oedema of feet followed and better by diarrhea. Soreness in ball of foot under toes. Cold, sweating feet.
For the constitutional effects of mal-treated and suppressed Gonorrhoea.
For persons suffering from gout, rheumatism, neuralgia and diseases of the spinal cord and its membranes- even organic lesions ending in paralysis- which can be traced to a sycotic origin.
Pulsatilla
Painful sensation of numbness in soles of feet and in balls of the toes. Red-hot swelling of feet, extending up to calf, with stinging pain. Swelling of top of foot. Oedematous swelling of feet, worse in evening. Piercing shootings and incisive pains in heels (towards evening). Shootings in soles of feet and extremities of toes. The complaints are worse when one allows the feet to hang down.
Adapted to persons of indecisive, slow, phlegmatic temperament; sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, easily moved to laughter or tears; affectionate, mild, gentle, timid, yielding disposition- the woman’s remedy. Weeps easily: almost impossible to detail her ailments without weeping.
Sulphur
Shootings in feet. Coldness in feet, especially in evening, in bed, or burning sensation, chiefly in soles of feet. Burning in feet, wants to find a cool place for them, puts them out of bed to cool them off. Burning in soles, on stepping after sitting a long time, and itching, especially on walking, wants them uncovered. Cramp in soles at every step. Soles cold and sweating. Sweat on right foot. Swelling of feet, and especially of the ankles. Gnawing vesicles on soles. Ulcer on instep.
Adapted to persons of a scrofulous diathesis, subject to venous congestion; especially of portal system. Persons of nervous temperament, quick motioned, quick tempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes. For lean, stoop-shouldered persons who walk and sit stooping like old men. Standing is the worst position for sulphur patients; they cannot stand; every standing position is uncomfortable. Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections. Aversion to being washed; always <. after a bath.
Zincum met
Stiffness of joint of the foot after being seated for some time. Wrenching pain in joints of feet and toes. Burning sensation in feet. Inflammatory swelling of feet. Weakness and trembling of feet. Feet sweaty and sore about toes, fetid suppressed foot-sweat with much nervous excitement. Coldness of the feet at night. Nervous, fidgety movement of the feet, after retiring and during sleep. Tearing in margin of right foot. Ulcerative, boring pains in heels, worse when walking than when sitting. Profuse sweat on the feet.
Persons suffering from cerebral and nervous exhaustion; defective vitality; brain or nerve power wanting; too weak to develop exanthemata or menstrual function, to expectorate, to urinate; to comprehend, to memorize. Incessant and violent fidgety feeling in feet or lower extremities; must move them constantly.


Thursday, October 9, 2014

Osteonecrosis of the jaw

       

Osteonecrosis of the jaw, commonly called ONJ, occurs when the jaw bone is exposed and begins to starve from a lack of blood. As the name indicates (osteo meaning bone and necrosis meaning death), the bone begins to weaken and die, which usually, but not always, causes pain. ONJ is associated with cancer treatments (including radiation), infection, steroid use, or potent antiresorptive therapies that help prevent the loss of bone mass. Examples of potent antiresorptive therapies include bisphosphonates such as alendronate (Fosamax); risedronate (Actonel and Atelvia); ibandronate (Boniva); and denosumab (Prolia). While ONJ is associated with these conditions, it also can occur without any identifiable risk factors.

Fast facts

  • ONJ may occur in patients taking strong antiresorptive therapies such as bisphosphonates or RANKL inhibitors. ONJ has not been reported with other antiresorptive therapies such as SERMs or calcitonin. SERMs include therapies like raloxifene (Evista).
  • The risk of ONJ in patients taking bisphosphonates may depend on the dose of medication, the length of time it is taken and the medical condition for which the bisphosphonate is prescribed. As a result, cancer patients taking higher doses of bisphosphonates, particularly by IV, are at higher risk.
  • The number of ONJ cases in patients taking bisphosphonates by mouth is estimated to be between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 100,000 for each year of exposure to the medication.
  • Most patients with ONJ who are taking antiresorptive therapy for osteoporosis can be healed with conservative treatment and often do not require surgery.
  • Most cases of ONJ happen after a dental extraction.
  • Good oral hygiene and regular dental care is the best way to lower the risk of ONJ.

What is ONJ?

ONJ is a condition in which an area of jawbone is not covered by the gums. The condition must last for more than eight weeks to be called ONJ. ONJ has occurred in patients with herpes zoster virus infections, in those who are undergoing radiation therapy of the head and neck (radiation osteonecrosis), osteomyelitis (bone infection) and in persons taking steroid therapy chronically. Patients taking antiresorptive therapy to reduce fracture risk also may experience ONJ. In this latter case, ONJ most often develops after an invasive (surgical) dental procedure such as dental extraction. ONJ also may occur spontaneously over boney growths in the roof or inner parts of the mouth.

What causes ONJ?

Why some patients taking antiresorptive therapy get ONJ is unknown. It may be due to: 1) a decrease the bone’s ability to repair itself; 2) a decrease in blood vessel formation; or 3) possible effects of infection.

Who gets ONJ?

ONJ associated with bisphosphonate use, also referred to as BON, may develop in patients after taking the medication for as little as 12 months. The risk increases the longer bisphosphonates are taken. Most cases occur after prolonged therapy (more than five years).
For osteoporosis patients who do not have cancer and who are treated with osteoporosis medications, the risk of ONJ is low. Study results vary from less than 1 in 100,000 getting ONJ from bisphosphonate therapy to 1 patient in 263,158. One recent study suggested no increased incidence of ONJ with osteoporosis medication. However, the risk of ONJ in patients on bisphosphonates who have invasive dental work such as dental extraction may be higher. The risk of ONJ in patients taking denosumab (Prolia) is less well studied.
Cancer patients are at particular risk for ONJ. The doses of IV bisphosphonates used to treat cancer can be 10 times higher or more than the doses used for osteoporosis. Furthermore, cancer patients receive IV bisphosphonates as often as every 3-4 weeks, while osteoporosis patients receive only a single IV dose yearly. As a result, the risk of ONJ in cancer patients varies, but it is higher. Even with many risk factors, the incidence of ONJ in some European countries for cancer patients receiving IV bisphosphonates and other cancer treatments may be as high as 1 in 10 patients. ONJ has been most commonly observed in cancer patients with multiple myeloma and breast cancer.
Besides cancer, other risk factors include advanced age, steroid use, diabetes, gum disease and smoking.

How is ONJ diagnosed?

There is no diagnostic test to determine if an individual patient is at increased risk for ONJ. The condition itself is diagnosed only by the presence of exposed bone, lasting more than 8 weeks. Patients typically complain of pain, which is often related to infection, soft tissue swelling, drainage and exposed bone.

How is ONJ treated?

Most patients with osteoporosis who develop ONJ are treated conservatively with rinses, antibiotics and oral analgesics. In the IV trial in osteoporosis mentioned above, both cases resolved within months on such conservative treatment. There are case reports of the use of teriparatide in management of ONJ.

Prevention

A health program of oral hygiene and regular dental care is the optimal approach for lowering ONJ risk. Patients should inform their dentists that they are taking potent antiresorptive therapy. Dentists should consider conservative invasive dental care in patients taking potent antiresorptive therapies.
For instance, endodontic (root canal) treatment is preferred to dental extraction if the tooth can be saved. If dental extraction is needed, full mouth dental extractions or periodontal surgery should be avoided. (It may be better to assess healing by doing individual extractions.)
Patients with periodontal disease should consider non-surgical therapy before agreeing to surgical treatment. Many patients taking bisphosphonates may undergo dental implants without problems. Although some dentists recommend the use of blood tests to decide who is at risk, this practice is controversial due to a very limited evidence base and should not be used at this time.
Those on oral bisphosphonates are at low risk for BON. However, they are not without risk. Any problems developing in the mouth should signal the need for dental review. There is no data to suggest that bisphosphonates should be stopped prior to a dental procedure. However, patients about to start bisphosphonate therapy should consider waiting until any immediate invasive dental surgery is completed.

Points to remember

  • Up to 1 out of every 2 women over 50 will break a bone (such as wrist, spine or hip) due to osteoporosis in their lifetime. Each year, about 250,000 will break a hip due to osteoporosis. Of these, up to 24% will die, and less than 25% regain full function. Vertebral (spine) fractures, which occur twice as often as hip fractures, also cause back pain and increased mortality.
  • Up to 1 out of 4 men over 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis in their lifetime. Each year, about 80,000 men will break a hip.
  • Oral or IV bisphosphonates have been shown to prevent 50-70% of vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women and 40-50% of hip fractures in clinical trials. Denosumab (Prolia) has been shown to reduce vertebral fractures in 70% of postmenopausal women and 40% of hip fractures.
  • Given the risk of osteoporotic fracture, and the low risk of ONJ associated with potent antiresorptive therapy use, the benefit of preventing osteoporotic fracture clearly far exceeds the risk of ONJ.
                                                           
Homoeopathic Treatment for Caries
 It is a bone affection (disease), which means decay. Or caries is an inflammatory decay of bone or teeth, usually associated with pus formation. It is referred with various names- for example, caries of teeth, caries of spinal bone, or spinal tuberculosis, caries of cervical bones, etc.
 Causes Tuberculosis of bones, degeneration of bones, after bruise or contusion of bones or after fracture of bones, weak brittle bones are the causes of caries of bone. It is also due to the deficiency of vitamin D in the body.
 Cures
 1. Caries of Teeth. Angustura, Calc. fl, Calc. p, Fluor ac, Hekla, Kreos, Sil, Staph, Syphilinum.
 2. Caries of Bones. Arg. m, Aurum, Asaf, CalcA, Calc. p, Con, lod, Phos, Sil, Symph, Syphilinum.
 1. Angustura-30, 200. . In caries or necrosis of bones', especially long bones, lower jaw and Tibia bone (shin bone) pain with crackling of joints, bone crumbles to pieces, great craving for coffee aversion to solid food, over sensitiveness, and stiffness of muscles and joints, pain in legs on walking. Caries of bone with painful ulcer which is very painful and affects the bone, tenesmus even with soft stool, rofuse, copious flow of urine with cold extremities, be given in 30 or 200 potency.
 2. Arg. met. 30. . In caries of bones, of joints and cartilages, with pain in knees weak trembling legs, swelling of ankles, scrofulous caries of bones with white swelling, rheumatic, arthritic, bruised pains in joints, tenderness, tearing pressure and pain in bones. Urine profuse frequent turbid, diabetic with gradual emaciation, desires cool open air. Give in the morning and evening with some gaps during its curative action.
 3. Asaf-oetida-6, 30. . Inflammation and caries of bones, of soft parts of bones with ulcers, softening (degeneration) of bones, uIcers very sensitive to touch due to hardness around edges, which bleed easily with thin, foetid or offensive pus. Drawing pains in bones worse during rest at night. It suits well in cases of deep ulcers with caries of bones, especially syphilitic subjects, fatty people who are having disteneded bloated heavy tympanitic abdomen full with gas, bone pains worse at night, warm weather, better in open air, pressure and from motion.
 4. Aurum. met.  In caries of cervical bones, bones of the palate, cries of mastoid process (the prominence on the mastoid portion of the temporal bone just behind the car, mastoid process consists of mastoid bone, air space, extending in a backward and downward direction from the mastoid antrum i.e.  an air space between the mastoid process). In caries and necrosis of nasal bone causing foetid purulent bloody discharge with in gums, in caries of teeth, bones with bone pains worse at night, tearing boring, burning, stitching pains in bones in syphilitic subjects, with feel as if they were broken foul discharges'. In caries of teeth, with loose teeth in their sockets, gums foetid breath, bone pains worse at night. In diabetic patient with high blood pressure
 5. Calc.c. 30, in caries of spinal bones and teeth with tardy, delayed development of bones, non-appearance of teeth, sweating of head and body worse during sleep at night. Curvature of spine or long bones, exostosis and caries of the bones, softening of bones (wasting away of bones) caries of teeth in children with enlarged belly and thin legs."
 6. Calc. Phos-30. . In caries of bones, worse after fracture or non-union of bones, with the result, they become soft or are wasted away. Curature of spines and long bones with diarrhoea and emaciation, caries of hip-joint and heel with suppuration and stitching pain due to the pus formed. Fistulus ulcers in bones discharging pus with small pieces of bones.
 7. Calc. fl. 30. . In osteosarcoma (cancerous hard tumour of bone) with suppuration be given in alternation with Calc-phos, head remedy for caries and necrosis of teeth with loss or softening of enamel, teeth become loose in their sockets.
 8. Capsicum - 30. . In caries of mastoid process with great burning smarting, tearing pains in the car, worse when coughing, sneezing.
 10. Fluoric acid-30. . In caries with suppuration of long bones, pains in bone, worse at night, with extreme weakness or prostration, offensive discharge from the cars nose, due to necrosis of bones, discharges thin and excoriating, caries and necrosis in psoric or syphilitic subjects, caries of teeth, with dental fistulae. Patient is worse from heat and warmth, hot drinks, better in cold season, while walking.
 11. Heckla-lava-3x, 6x, in caries of teeth, jaws with gum abscess or in osteitis, periostitis, exostosis, osteo-sarcoma, and rachitis, or in Nodosities and necrosis of bones. Ulceration of nasal bones.
 12. Iodum-30. . In Osteo-malacia (A morbid softening- wasting of bone) lod. 30 in alternation with Calc.c. 30 may be given to cure osteomalacia, nightly bone pains, arthritic pains in joints with swelling and general emaciation.
 13. Phosphorus-30. . Head remedy for caries of bones, necrosis of lower jaws with tearing pains in bones, worse at night, from least touch, warmth of the bed - hip-joint disease, caries of Tibia with oozing of watery pus. It complements Sil in bone diseases or when Sil. fails to complete the cure or when progress Is arrested. In diseases of teeth, with bleeding from dental sockets, after extraction of teeth, teeth turned grey, with caries necrosis of jaws and bleeding gums.
 14. Merc. Sol. 30 decaying and loosening of teeth, bleeding gums, pus formed in gums, in caries of teeth, bones with bone pains worse at night, bones feel as if they were broken.
 15. Silicea-30 - 200. . In caries necrosis and ulceration of bones, with fistulous openings discharging offensive pus, swelling around fistulous opening with bluish red appearance, very sensitive to touch, caries of bones in T.B.  subjects, or having scrofulous history of bone. Patient is worse by cold better by warmth always sits in the sun to warm up the body. In curvature of hones, rickets and diseases of hi-joint. Phosphorous comes for help if sil-fails.
 17. Staphy-30. . In syphilitic caries, with arthritic nodes in broken down patient, painful ulcers with scanty watery discharge, bone easily breaks down under pressure, shooting tearing boring pains in bones, during caries of bones. In caries of teeth, when teeth become black, looseness of teeth in gums with pus formation at their roots, worse by least touch, aching after eating or drinking. Teeth turn black and crumble away.
 18. Symphy-30, 200. . In fracture of bones, which are irritable at point of fracture, or in wounds of bones, or in periostitis- traumatica.
 19. Syphilinum.-200, in curvature and caries of cervical bones, spinal bones, with constant pain in bones worse at night, with utter prostration and debility in the morning, shifting rheumatic pains worse at night. In ulcerations of mouth nose genitals skins with succession of abscesses, caries of nasal bones, ear bones, in syphilitic teeth decayed subjects. In ulceration of gums with smarting and burning, excessive flow of saliva, which runs out of the mouth- during sleep at night.
                                                                     Source from Dr.Gupta

Workshop on healthy environment for heart organized on World Heart Day

NAGPUR: A workshop on the topic 'Healthy Environment for the Healthy Heart' was organized at Aadil Homeo Heart Care Centre by National Academy of Homoeopathy India (NAHI) and on the occasion on World Heart Day recently. The occasion also doubled up as the eleventh anniversary celebration of this one-of-its kind centre.

The workshop was inaugurated by Dr Kasim and Dr Sagira Chimthanawala along with paediatrician Dr Rajiv Mohta who was the chief guest. Dr Aadil Chimthanawala who has been using the principles of homeopathy to help people suffering from heart diseases shared his experiences of the past 11 years.

"We were the first in India to introduce homeopathic treatment of heart diseases. Over the last 11 years, we have been successfully able to formulate treatments for hypertensions, ischemic heart diseases, arrhythmias and several other kinds of problems. we have also been able to introduce new drugs," said Dr Aadil Chimthanawala, the founder of the centre.

Dr Mohta spoke extensively on the healthy environment to be inculcated in a child from the beginning for a healthy heart for a lifetime. He informed about what the parents and teachers could to do ensure this healthy environment.

Doctors from Malaysia and China who were also present on the occasion presented some models about the action of various homeopathic drugs on the heart.
Source - Times of India

City doctor gets national award

Dr Ravinder Kochar, principal of Lord Mahavira Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, was conferred with national 'Rashtriya Vidya Saraswati Puraskar 2014' by the International Institute of Education and Management, New Delhi, recently. He received the award for his outstanding achievement in the field of homoeopathic education.
Dr Kochar owns an experience of 29 years in the profession and about 20 years' experience in teaching. Prior to this award, he had received many other awards, including state award by Council of Homoeopathic System of Medicine, Punjab, Chandigarh; Best Citizen of India-2000 by International Publishing House, New Delhi; Millennium Achiever Award 2000-2001 from New Delhi, Tamir Patra Award by Homoeopathic Medical Association of India, Punjab, State Branch; State Award for Best Service in Medical Profession by Shaheed Memorial Trust (Regd.), Punjab; Great Achiever of India Award by Front for National Progress-Delhi; Bharat Vikas Award by Integrated Council for Socio-Economic Progress (regd) Delhi and Rashtriya Rattan Award by Global Economic, New Delhi. He is a life member of Indian Red Cross Society, Ludhiana, and Asian Homoeopathic Medical League (regd) He was also the chairman of Adhoc Board of Studies in Homoeopathy, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences.
Dr Ravinder Kochar showed his gratitude towards the organising committee and said such awards boost the morale of individuals to do more for the benefit of society. College management, faculty and students congratulated the principal for his success.
 Source Hindustan Times
Monday, October 6, 2014

Homeopathy a better option to treat diseases: Experts

INDORE: With more number of people seeking out natural healing for ailments, once criticised homeopathic medicines are getting tremendously popular even as practitioners too claim to treat most of the difficult diseases from root.

While people are accepting homeopathy as an effective science, still many aren't clear when to consult a homeopath. Indore-based homeopathy practitioner Dr AK Dwivedi says there are times when allopathic treatment is required and times when homeopathy is needed. ''In situations of surgery or emergency, there's no alternative to allopathy. After surgery, you can go to a homeopath. Medicines like Annica Montana speed up the healing process," he said. He further added that there are medicines if taken religiously can even save people from undergoing scalpel.

As the world observed World Heart Day on September 29, Dr Dwivedi said that maintaining healthy heart is important to lead a healthy life. Cardiovascular disease generally refers to conditions that involve narrowed or blocked blood vessels that can lead to a heart attack, chest pain (angina) or stroke.

"Homeopathic remedies (Aconite, Cactus, Cratagus, Naja, Digitalis, Carbo Veg, Gelsesmium, Lachesis) are prescribed by symptoms rather than conditions to treat heart disease, on case to case basis as particular illness can manifest differently in different people. In my daily practice patients come before and after angioplasty and open heart surgery and homeopathic medicines give best result in either condition," he said.

Another homeopathic medicine practitioner, Dr Chetna Shah says, "Despite the carping critics, homoeopathy, which is around 250 years old, continues to be tremendously popular. People including allopathic doctors are accepting the homeopathy as it can deliver good results alongside. Growing popularity can be gauged from the fact that World Health Organiation has recognised it as the second largest system of medicine in the world. By 2017, the homeopathy market is estimated at Rs 52,000 crore."
                                                                                                                              Times of India
Sunday, October 5, 2014

Materia medica

The life-work of the student of the homoeopathic Materia Medica is one of constant comparison and differentiation. He must compare the pathogenesis of a remedy with the recorded anamnesis of the patient; he must differentiate the apparently similar symptoms of two or more medicinal agents in order to select the similimum. To enable the student or practitioner to do this correctly and rapidly he must have as a basis for comparision some knowledge of the individuality of the remdy; something that is peculiar, uncommon,  or sufficiently characteristic in the confirmed pathogenesis of a polychrest remedy that may be used as a pivotal point of comparison. It may be a so-called "keynote", a "characteristic, " the "red strand of the rope, " and central modality or principle - as the aggravation from motion of Bryonia, the amelioration from motion of Rhus, the furious, vicious delirium of Belladonna or the apathetic indifference of Phosphoric acid - some familiar landmark around which the symptoms may be arranged in the mind for comparison.

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