THERIDION- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Aversion to profession
  • Easily does the work when creative, however analytical work is difficult
  • Very sensitive to noise
    • Every noise pierces the body sp the teeth
    • Easy startling
  • Fruitless activity, restless, wrings hands
  • Sense of duality
    • As if her head was another strange head.
    • As if vertex did not belong to her
  • Infantile atrophy, infant eats well but emaciates
  • Severe nausea
    • Motion sickness, closes eyes which further agg.
  • Vertigo
    • Meneier’s disease, aural origin
    • On closing eyes
    • With blindness
  • Time passes too quickly (compare: TOO SLOWLY, ARGENTUM NITRICUM, CANNABIS INDICA, NUX MOSCHATA)
  • A tubercular remedy
    • Pthisis florida
    • Scrofulosis, caries, necrosis
    • Violent stitches in upper left chest, below the scapula, extending to neck (ANIS, MYRTUS, PIX LIQ, SULPH)
  • Severe bone pains
  • Chronic nasal catarrh with thick yellow offensive discharge (PULS, THUJA)
  • Headache
    • Deep seated
    • Starts in occiput
    • Starts in morning and stays till evening
    • Agg- < lying down, < least movement of the head, < noise, from someone walking on the floor
  • Spine
    • Very sensitive to touch, sits away from chair to avoid touch
  • Wants to lie down in horizontal position
  • Sits with legs crossed
  • Nervous sensitiveness during
    • Puberty
    • Pregnancy
    • Climacteric

(i.e during change of life phases)

  • Dreams
    • Of journey
    • Of riding horses
    • Of broken tooth     
  • Cravings
    • Bananas
    • Acidic fruits like oranges
    • Wine, tobacco smoke.

(This remedy should be thought when thinking of PHOSPHOROUS. Though we always individualize the case, it’s pathogenesis points towards its usefulness in personality disorders and space occupying lesions in brain and other CNS pathologies.)

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HELLEBORUS NIGER- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Ill effects of blow to head
  • Disappointed love
  • Homesick
  • Psoric children
    • Prone to brain trouble
    • During dentition, brain troubles
  • Slow in answering
  • Involuntary sighing
  • Staring as if lost in thoughts.
  • Very chilly, cannot be covered enough
  • < 4-8pm, thinking of complaints
  • Stupor
  • Child nurses greedily
  • Melancholy/ sadness
    • In young girls
    • When menses fail to return
  • Menses appear and do not return in young girls
  • Staggering walk, muscles refuse their office (when attention diverted from the work she is doing, she faulters)
  • Automatic motion of one hand and leg
  • Dropsical
    • Hydrocephalous
    • All parts are swollen and dropsical
    • Post scarlatina dropsy
    • Dropsy with fever, debility and suppressed urine
  • A dark remedy
    • Sooty nostrils
    • Dusky face
    • Dusky lips
    • Dark hands
  • Headache, severe, bore head in the pillow or moves it from side to side
  • Photophobia
  • Chewing motion of mouth
  • Voracious appetite
  • Sudden screams in sleep.
  • Cri encephalique. Cannot be fully aroused.
  • Breathing better lying down
  • Boring pains in parts that cover the bone

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TILIA EUROPA a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Pains
    • With sweat
    • The more the pain more the sweat (compare CHAMOMILLA)
    • Dragging in nature
  • Muscular weakness of the eyes
  • Neuralgia rt head with veil before eyes
  • Confusion with dim vision
  • Nose
    • Sneezing coryza
    • Nosebleed
  • Uterus
    • Sore feeling, bearing down
    • Puerperal metritis
  • Leucorrhoea
    • When walking
  • Soreness of external genitalia
  • Pelvic inflammation with sweating

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RAPHANUS SATIVUS- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Aversion to females and girls, with nymphomania
  • Sadness alternating with hopefulness
  • Pain in back on swallowing
  • Hot putrid eructation, burning in throat
  • Abdomen
    • Bloated
    • Tympanites
    • No flatus passed up or down
    • Faecal vomiting
  • Urine thick milky
  • Menses profuse and long lasting
  • Oily greasy skin
  • Post operative gas pains
  • Riding in carriage causes pain in heart

(You might think of ASAFOETIDA, which has similar bloating and GI symptoms. ASAFOETIDA however has marked constant eructations and other features which distinguishes it from RAPHANUS. The aversion to females in RAPHANUS with GERD like symptoms should clinch the remedy.)

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SENECIO AUREUS a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Self-centred
  • Whining and irritable
  • Mesnses
    • Dysmenorrhoea with dysuria
    • Puberty agg
    • Amenorrhoea in young girls
    • Amenorrhoea with backache
    • Sleeplessness with amenorrhoea
    • Dysmenorrhoea after abortion
  • Coryza, sneezing
    • Dry mouth, throat
    • With nosebleed
  • Muscles draw in knots
  • Aversion sweets

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CEANOTHUS AMERICANUS- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • A spleen remedy
    • Enlarged spleen in intermittents
    • Painful spleen
    • Breathless from enlarged spleen
  • Cannot lie on left side
  • Liver enlarged and sensitive
  • Chronic bronchitis with profuse secretions
  • Very chilly, must sit near fire to relieve
  • leukaemia
  • Green urine is a very important concomitant of this remedy
  • Left sided pain in
    • Diarrhoea, leucorrhoea or with dyspnoea

(Think of this remedy in grossly enlarged spleen (splenomegaly) differential diagnosis- malaria, myeloproliferative disorders etc.)

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HOMEOPATHIC MANAGEMENT OF HAEMORRHOIDS/ PILES

Patient Management/Removal of maintaining cause

TYPES AND SYMPTOMS

Piles are swollen or thrombosed blood vessels inside or outside anus.

Internal piles are generally bleeding in nature and are painless, with patient complaining of drops of blood during stools.

External piles are painful and feel like a swelling or a bunch of nodules. They are generally non bleeding. External piles are felt as swelling outside the anus and are tender to touch as they may be thrombosed, this may cause spasm of anus causing retention of stools and increasing their bulk and hence exacerbating the problem by entering a vicious cycle.

Sentinel pile is actually a dead skin tag that hangs out after been torn from the rectal mucosal lining.

Othe symptoms of haemorrhoids may be

  • Itching around anus.
  • Feeling of lump in anus while sitting.
  • Feeling something hanging.
  • Pain as if something was sticking inside anus or like a thorn stuck there.

PRECIPITATING FACTORS

  • Sedentary life style- long sitting hours either due to work or habit may predispose a person to develop piles.
  • Eating non healthy and processed food.
  • Conditions that increase intrabdominal pressure such as Pregnancy.
  • Obesity.
  • Medication causing constipation
  • Compromised liver etc.

DIET

Dietary fibres are important part of a balanced diet.

They give bulk to the stool and ensures gut health by enhancing growth of beneficial flora, promotes gut movement and binds toxins.

Lack of fibre in the diet causes constipation, which in turn pushes the person to apply pressure during stools.

A chronic tendency of such habit can cause both external and internal piles.

EXERCISE

A sedentary habit also promotes the development of piles.

Exercises ensures a regular bowel movement and helps in preventing constipation, which prevents pile affection.

MANAGEMENT

  • Homeopathic Medicine

Homoeopathic medicine given internally, suitable to patient depending on symptoms and cause treats haemorrhoids in no time.

Medicines to tackle acute pain and bleeding can be AESCULUS HIP, ALOE SOCO, PEONIA, RATAHNIA, HAMAMELIS, CALCAREAN FLUOR etc, depending on symptoms.

Treatment of long-standing haemorrhoids require constitutional treatments based on a detailed case taking.

  • Ointments

Use of local ointments expediates the process of healing. Ointments generally used are AESCULUS OINTMENT, HAMAMELIS OINTMENT etc.

  • Sitz bath

Patients are advised to sit in hot water bath with buttocks submerged with or without medication (medication like CALENDULA Q, PLANTAGO Q etc). this soothes the pain and reduces spasm.

  • Diet and exercise are two very important factors in both prevention and treatment of piles. A fibre rich diet and regular exercise eases bowel movement and helps in healing of haemorrhoids.

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ERIGERON CANADENSE- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers

Prepared from tincture of the fresh plant when in bloom, it produces hemorrhages and tenesmus.

  • Haemorrhage/ hemorrhage
    • Bright red
    • In gushes, on slightest exertion
    • Metrorrhagia
    • Dysentery
  • Dysuria with metrorrhagia
  • Vesico-rectal tenesmus
  • Urinary retention
  • Injury around eye from blow
  • Ecchymosis
  • Placenta previa- its tendency to produce free haemorrhage makes it useful in placenta previa.
  • Tympanites
  • < rainy weather

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SYMPHYTUM- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Bones
    • Communited fracture
    • Non healing fractures, callous does not form
  • Injury
    • Pain in periosteum remains after bones have healed
    • Injury to sinews, bones, tendons
    • Blunt injuries to eyes involving eyeballs
    • Penetrating injuries to perineum
  • Coldness
  • Gastric and duodenal ulcers

(Clarke in his THE DICTIONARY OF PRACTICAL MATERIA MEDICA very beautifully explains the difference in injury of ARNICA and SYMPHYTUM

Arn., soft parts, Symp., hard; Arn., painful swelling with discoloration, Symp., without discoloration; Arn., sore, bruised lame; Symp., pricking, stitching, jagging pains)

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VISCUM ALBUM- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Blood won’t clot, wounds wouldn’t heal.
  • Epilepsy
    • A glow rises from feet up (epileptic aura)
  • Chorea
  • Limbs
    • Rheumatism from cold
    • With pain in limbs, pain in ankle and knee alternating with pain in elbow and shoulders
    • Numbness and sensation of spider in hand and feet
    • Trembling sensation
  • Females
    • Metrorrhagia, partly clotted bright blood
    • Retained placenta
    • Complaints of climacteric years
  • Heart
    • Hypertrophied and failing
    • Cannot lie on back reclining or on left side
    • Weak pulse
    • Valvular diseases
  • Hypertensive albuminuria
  • Palpitation during coition.

(A rheumatic remedy with heart and joint symptoms, it should be thought of in females who suffer from heavy bleeding)

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