A child around 7-8 years came with a viral wart on the inner angle of the left eye. The parents had taken treatment elsewhere by another homeopath. The names of the medicines with which the child was treated were unavailable. A dose of Staphysagria 200 was given to the child. The follow-up a month later did not show any change. I repeated the medicine, another dose of Staph 200. Next month’s follow-up was a happy meeting. The mother reported that the wart fell off during sleep, sometime in the preceding month, when she found, one fine morning that it was gone.
Explanation
When we think of viral warts a lot of medicines come to our mind, viz caust, thuja, nit ac, nat mur and even staph. What was interesting about this case was the way I reached the medicine. Now here was a very shy child who did not make much eye contact (he had been scolded by his mother and was quite angry, and this was his usual way of reacting to being scolded) (quis/who), who was thirstless (quibis auxiliis/concomitant or a generality if you want it from Kent’s perspective) and who had a wart just near the inner angle of the left eye (ubi/ location). Having recently read Guernsey’s Key-notes to the materia medica, I remembered, in Staphysagria it read- ‘Affections of the angles of the eye, particularly the inner. I chose to give staph and when initially it did not seem to work, repeated the same medicine. I was skeptical initially as the case had already been medicated earlier, with remedies I had no knowledge of. So, when I found the location was also covered by staph it gave me confidence (well, you cannot overlook a pointer given by Guernsey!!!) and when it did not work, I repeated rather than changing potency or medicine. And it worked!
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