SOMETHING ABOUT SILICEA TERRA – PART 1

Scars suddenly become painful. Silica can stimulate the organism to re-absorb fibrotic conditions and scar-tissue.

It is related to all fistulous burrowings.

Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants.

Swelling in the glabella.(like Fluoric acid......Note : Some objective pointers like Linea nasalis of Aethusa,swollen upper lip of Calc carb,moth patches of Sepia and Caulo etc .need to be studied and analysed in light of modern medical knowledge...but nevertheless they are prominently mentioned in our Materia medica)

Exostosis;Ascending effects, Indifference to religion (Dr.Phatak)

PULS is a hot blooded patient but after using that remedy for a while you notice that the patient goes to the other extreme and becomes chilly and wants much clothing, the heat is taken out of the case. SIL is the natural follower of PULS and you would be astonished how often a patient leaving PULS runs toward SIL. SIL goes deeper into the case, it does more curing, and it is the natural chronic of PULS. Other remedies of course follow PULS, but SIL more frequently than any other medicine. When SIL has been administered for a while it cures the cold state and removes the chilliness of the patient (remember, however, that SIL at times has something of PULS in it; in some of its complaints it is aggravated from overheating) and the patient under SIL goes back to the warm state again, becomes warm blooded, wants the warm covers thrown off, wants to be lightly covered. Then it is that FL-AC comes in the series. FL-AC follows SIL as naturally as SIL follows PULS. They exist in threes. It is true that PULS, SIL and FL-AC are similar all along the line as to the nature of their symptoms.(Dr.Kent and Dr.Gaskin)
Silica feels the cold strongly, but one must also remember that, during acute ailments, Silica can also be intolerant to warm stuffy rooms - like Pulsatilla. Conversely, Silica can be aggravated by drafts, even though he or she may not feel the draft particularly. (Dr.Vithoulkas)

Why is Silicea called as Surgeon’s knife? : It forms Sodium silicate, a thin watery, transparent fluid around foreign bodies and provokes the opening or the tract by applying pressure and thus facilitates the expulsion of foreign bodies.

Silicea is probably the most refined of all constitutional types. Almost everything about Silicea is refined; intellect, Aesthtic look, moral sensitivity etc.Only Ignatia and Arsenicum come close to its refinement.

CLINICAL TIP : KALI CARB

Recurrent attacks of colic relieves by Colocynth require Kali c for complete cure (Dr.Kent)

SOMETHING ABOUT VERATRUM ALBUM

Verat album is very well known.......hyperactivity(destructibility on in the later stage),show off ,liar,haughty ,manias(violent,religuous ,lascivious...each trying to SUPERCEDE OTHER two);fancies of pregnancy etc ......

Here is some excerpt from Talcott which explains how these manias interchange.....

Tendency to tear and cut clothing.

When the rage of mania subsides, there is a tendency to converse about religious matters.

The religious natures of the Veratrum patients become chameleon hued in their manifestations.

They pray and curse in alternation for many hours in succession.

Finally these patients despair of salvation, and of their position in society.

When disengaged from religious contemplation, the Veratrum patients are inclined to gossip, to find fault with others, to scold their friends, and to call their neighbors hard names.

The Veratrum patients sometimes fancies herself pregnant, even when eighty or ninety years of age.

MIASMS IN DIFFERENT EYES

Hahnemann's miasm theory,as it has become known,has been a difficulty for homoeopathic practioners ever since.Some have responded like  Stapf and Gross,with embarrasment;others have seen it as the most brilliant contribution to Homoeopathy.Early English writers such as Dudgeon and Hughes were outright in their condemnation of it,while early Americans such as Allen and Kent seized upon it as the missing element in an otherwise perfect science.To this day many practioners ignore it while others make it the foundation of their practice.

(Rima Handley)

SOMETHING ABOUT PHOSPHORUS

1)Vertigo of the aged,it accompanies many complaints agg rising amel stool

2)Lipoma(bar c crocus,phyto d,lapis alba),exostosis,haemorrhagic polyps

3) Amenorrhoea with vicarious menstruation

4) Affability :  It implies easy approachability and readiness to respond pleasantly to conversation or requests or proposals(It is a very small rubric ,Phos being a very important remedy)

5)Clairvoyance due to concern for others

Note:Compare Hecla lava in lower jaw affinity and exostosis

It got very good result in a old lady of 65 vertigo agg walking,rising and agg in presence of crowd

If you take Nash book 'Leaders'. I like Nash, because he is reliable. There is nothing in Nash that I have read, especially his materia medica, that you can remove, that you can say he is wrong for it, or is not confirmed. It is like each thing that he says about his materia medica is something that is confirmed it is like a brick of a building. You cannot change, you can only build on it, but you cannot remove. There are other materia medica, you read it and you cannot associate with it at all.

(Dr. Andre Saine)

SILICEA IS CHILLY IN CHRONIC CONDITIONS BUT MAY BE HOT IN ACUTE AND SUB-ACUTE CONDITIONS

(Dr.Bellokossy)

The liver troubles of Lycopodium are more apt to be of the atrophic variety, while those of China are hypertrophic, both being equally useful in their sphere.

SOMETHING ABOUT CALC CARB

1) Desire we eggs and aversion to meat..... We all know that.... The exact opposite.... Desire for meat and aversion to eggs is Ferr met

2)About 40 % of children need this remedy in the first few years of their life (Ghegas)

3)Most of the problems stem from their passivity. They may be too open to influences from their surroundings, too easily affected,hypersensitive or too armoured and isolated in order to compensate for their lack of ability to meet a challenge by initiative - thus becoming stubborn and obstinate(Whitmont)

SOMETHING ABOUT SULPHUR.....

We know that Sulphur should not be given after Calc carb....similarly it should not be given after Aurum met also...as it may spoil the case

REPERTORY AND MATERIA MEDICA (RPERTORY vs. MATERIA MEDICA part 1)

The basic method of homeopathy is to take a complete case, do a good case analysis and find a correspondence in the materia medica. If you do not find the rubric, don't worry, the rubric is there to lead you to the materia medica. If you have only found one remedy in the materia medica and it corresponds, be sure you have a cure, regardless of what is in the repertory.

(Dr.Andre Saine)

LECTHIN - 'THE ARNICA OF MIND'

It is not an uncommon remedy for brain fag. It is probably one of the four or five most regarded remedies for brain fag, especially when occurring in students. I'm telling you that, because many of you are students and it's picture results from excess studying, very commonly from excess studying. Lecithin is sometimes called the 'Arnica of the mind', so for brain fag following emotional shock, or strong emotions, or exertion of the mind. They can absolutely not concentrate or think. There will be some irritability with this, but you will especially notice that brain fag. It may be difficult to pick out Lecithin from other remedies.

There will be a few characteristic symptoms that I remember by heart. It is one of the remedies; I don't think it is in the repertory that burps loud, loud eructation. They will have a lot of flatulence and a lot of eructation, a bit like Argentum nitricum. There will also be a total loss of sexual power in Lecithin. Lecithin is very close to Phosphoricum acidum and to Phosphorus. Phosphoricum acidum, depression or brain fag after a grief. Lecithin will be the same thing and you may be misled, because one contains the other. If Phosphorus would have brain fag, or depression, in terms of the sexual power it is the opposite. The more Phosphorus gets weak, the higher is the sexual desire. But with Lecithin, that will be an easy differential symptom with Phosphorus, with Lecithin the sexual desire is gone with the brain fag

(Dr. Andre Saine)

Lecithin is not unknown to us... But we owe to Dr. Andre Swine for elaborating this aspect for us.
We  hav been using  Lecithin in anaemia succesfully ..... I guess it is a neglected galactagogue.

Trying to understand some words in our Homeopathic Materia Medica : CHAGRIN

CHAGRIN
Chagrin (noun)
annoyance or shame at having failed
(Compact Oxford dictionary)

distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure
(Merriam Webster )

In our Synthesis repertory CHAGRIN is the cross reference of 'ailments from mortification '

(Many a times we take for granted the meanings of certain words in our Homeopathic literature..... Which is such a wrong habit... Isn't it?)

PRESCRIBING TIP FROM Dr. H. A. Roberts and Sir Boenninghausen

Our way, too, must lie in the golden mean between these two points, the one too general and the other too individual to assure us of a true totality. If we can find a remedy that has the "more striking, particular, unusual and peculiar (characteristic) signs and symptoms of the case" and in addition covers the chief complaint as well, we may consider ourselves as having a sound basis for the prescription of the simillimum.

Phosphorus acts most beneficially when patient suffers from chronic loose stool or diarrhoea -  Dr. Hahnemann

SOMETHING ABOUT KALI CARB(something different from what we have been reading...)

1)NEVER WELL SINCE PNEUMONIA

2)PERHAPS THE BEST ENERGISER AFTER SULPHUR (Dr.George Royal)

3) Delayed menarche(Caust,Graph,Nat m ,Puls,Senecio)
(Early menarche  Calc c,Cham,Phos,Sabina,Sil)

4)Complementary to Carb v ,Nit a and Phos

5) Especially sub acute conditions (Kali bi,Kali m),also acute and chronic

6) Cures permanently recurrent attacks of colic after it is being relieved by Colocynth

7) Various fears associated with hoarding instinct,essentially possessive

 - Art and science are inseparably bound together, Every art has its foundation in science, and every science finds its expression in art.

Consciously or unconsciously the artist or the craftsman at work is applying principles and laws, formulated and systematized knowledge of which constitutes science.

 Exceptionally an artist, by virtue of inherent capacity and genius, may not be aware that he is applying scientific principles in his work. The "Art Instinct," when powerful, may express itself spontaneously and naturally by force of an internal feeling or native impulse, grasping principles intuitively and subconsciously and developing its own methods of technique through individual experience. But such endowment is rare, and even the greatest natural genius does not reach his highest development until he has awakened to the existence of theories, laws and principles and viewed his work consciously from the scientific stand point.

One of the best remedies with which to begin the treatment of a chronic case : Calc;Puls; Sulph

DREAMS AND HOMOEOPATHY
(part 1)

 I consider any dream worthy of inclusion in the analysis of the case if

I. Dream is recurrent
II. The dream has made a big impression on the patient

Having decided that a particular dream is worthy of being included in your case analysis, there are three ways of using the dream as a symptom

• Consult the repertory
• Ask the patient to interpret the dream
• Attempt an interpretation of the dream

(Dr. Harsh Nigam)

SOMETHING ABOUT THE FEES POLICY OF Dr. HAHNEMANN

Hahnemann's policy on fees for his services had not changed throughout his career, since his days in Hettstedt.As far as possible he kept to the principle of ' no cure, no fee'and the fees were calculated on a sliding scale according to the patient's   means,whereby the poor would pay nothing at all.