This is a case of 65 yr old female who had severe knee pains for the last 4 yrs. Her pains would exacerbate at the change of weather and after exertion. She also suffered from chronic allergic cough, which would be constant throughout the day, at intervals, not abating with anything, for the last 2 yrs. She was also very chilly. The author treated this case with complete failure for 2 yrs. The pains and cough alternated, and the treatment given was at most palliative. The remedies which seemed indicated did not help, whether deep acting or acute. While studying a medicine the writer came across a symptom, which encouraged her to give STICTA PULMONALE 1M/ 1 dose to this patient. The result was astonishing. Within a week, her chronic cough of 2 yrs vanished, and her knee pains reduced to a large extent, though her treatment had to be continued (striking the underlying miasm).
Explanation
The symptom that prompted the prescription was ‘rheumatic pains precede catarrhal symptoms’ (Boericke Materia Medica). After STICTA, the allergic cough vanished, which was last to appear (Hering law/direction of cure) and the knee pains reduced to a large extent. This case highlights the importance of concomitant symptoms, anamnesis and last but not least, a constant need for a homoeopath to read, search and find the right remedies for their patients because it is only through the right remedy that a cure is possible.
Aude Sapere
Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/
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