ACORUS CALAMUS- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers

A lesser-known remedy not found in old homeopathic literature; it found its way in homeopathy from its use in other traditional medicine (sweet flag). It is prepared from the rhizome of the plant. To understand the background of this remedy the reader is given a snapshot of its traditional use and its pharmacological effects found in various research papers.

In traditional medicine it has been used in material doses as:

  • Memory enhancer

The recent research into its properties has revealed many other effects in material doses such as:

  • Anti inflammatory
  • Antioxidant
  • Hypolipidemic
  • Cytoprotective
  • Antimicrobial
  • Strong anticonvulsant
  • Anti-arrhythmic
  • Anti cancer
  • Radioprotective and DNA repair activity
  • Licicidal activity

Homeopathic proving symptoms are:

  • Extreme forgetfulness, dementia
  • Convulsions
  • Affects membranes
    • Mucous cystitis
    • Bronchitis with copious mucus production
    • Mucous colitis
  • Aphasia
  • Unconsciousness
  • Aggravation- < cold damp weather
    • Sinusitis
    • Rhinitis
    • Bronchitis
    • Cardiac disorders etc
  • Lymphadenitis
  • Chronic abscess
  • Osteonecrosis and other bone diseases
  • Alters liver function
  • Amenorrhoea
  • Dry mouth with drinking water at short intervals

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TEREBINTH – WEGNER’S GRANULOMATOSIS, VASCULITIS AND DIC LIKE CONDITIONS

Internal Medicine/Knowledge of Disease

Wegner’s granulomatosis

A type of vasculitis (necrotizing granulomatous vasculitis) where granuloma formation affecting both respiratory tract (characterised by granuloma and later scarring) and kidneys (characterised by crescent glomerulonephritis).

The disease has a classic triad of upper and lower respiratory tract involvement with kidney disease.

The clinical feature includes bloody nasal discharge, cough, haemoptysis, dyspnoea, eye involvement like scleritis. Palpable purpuras in skin. Renal disease is characterised by haematuria, proteinuria etc.

During active phase there may be constitutional symptoms like fever, arthralgia, weight loss etc.

Lab findings may include mild hypergammaglobulinemia, leucocytosis, mild anaemia and raised ESR and mildly raised RA factor.

Biopsy from granulomatous tissue or kidney will clinch the final diagnosis.

(Ref- Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine)

TEREBINTH has special affinity for both lungs and kidneys (Ref Boger Synoptic Key). With its haemorrhagic diathesis it comes very close to Wegner’s granulomatosis in its presentation.

Not only Wegner’s granulomatosis but also other vasculitis syndromes and DIC can be covered by homeopathic  terebinth.

Symptoms like congestion and inflammation of inner organs together with haemorrhagic tendency also point towards DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulation) like phenomenon. Palpable purpura and constantly forming ecchymosis of terebinth symptomatology point towards this pathology.

DIC secondary to septicaemia like condition can also come under purview of this deep acting medicine, where symptoms like metritis after use of pessary can point towards PID and then later septicaemia like state.

MATERIA MEDICA OF TEREBINTH- https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/terebinth-a-snapshot/

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TABACUM AND TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY/ BROKEN HEART SYNDROME

1 Comment / Internal Medicine/Knowledge of Disease

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy or broken heart syndrome or stress induced cardiomyopathy is an acute stress induced cardiomyopathy particularly after a very distressing event esp an emotional one. There is no problem with the coronary vessels but the walls show ballooning. The condition can be self-limiting or turn chronic in some.

Patients often present with chest pain, have ST-segment elevation on electrocardiography (ECG), and have elevated cardiac enzyme levels consistent with myocardial infarction (MI). However, when the patient undergoes cardiac angiography, left ventricular (LV) apical ballooning is present, and there is no significant coronary artery stenosis.

(Reference- emedicine medscape)

Tabacum the homoeopathic medicine has acute dilatation of heart after a severe shock.

(Reference- Acute dilatation caused by shock or violent physical exertion. Boerick Materia Medica)

Case- A young male of 40 yr of age came with complaint of low ejection fraction (44%) on echo, taking modern medicine for last 5 yrs. He was normotensive, non-diabetic, active, non-smoker prior to development of his tiredness, which was later diagnosed as cardiomyopathy. On detailed questioning by author, it was found that his complaints started after sudden unexpected demise of his father with who he was very close. This had affected him deeply. There was no history of any viral illness, positive family history of heart complaints or any other significant past history. The case was thus diagnosed as Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy or Broken Heart Syndrome. Patient was given a dose of TABACUM 1M, and another dose of TABACUM 10M after 4 months. In between along with his allopathic medicine ARJUNA Q was also given. An echo after 6 months month showed EF of 55%, with marked improvement in his symptoms and quality of daily life.

(Reference- The Book of Cause and Effect and It’s Homoeopathic Remedies- Dr Shivangi Jain)

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AMYL NITROSUM- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Facial flushing is a grand concomitant of this remedy and accompanies almost all the symptoms.
  • Congestion as generality
    • Acute or chronic
    • Rush and Congestion of blood to head and face
    • Flushing and then hot sweat, all over the body or in parts
    • Localized flushings
    • Other parts may be icy cold
    • Least emotions cause flushing of face (FERRUM, COCA)
  • Throbbing and pulsations
  • Craves fresh air, opens the window in the coldest of the weather (SULPH, LACHESIS, ARGENTUM NITRICUM)
    • Can’t bear anything around neck, loosens collar
  • Constant stretching and yawning (KALI CARB)
  • Convulsions
    • Immediately after delivery
    • Paroxysms run close to each other
    • Grasping at imaginary things during convulsions
  • Chorea, all muscles are in motion
  • Angina
    • With facial flushings
    • With pain in rt shoulder and arm
    • Sensation of band around chest
    • Choking in throat, pain extending into chest
    • Fluttering and tumultuous action of heart at slightest excitement
  • Menses
    • Left sided headache during menses, starts in morning, peaks and decreases by evening
  • Headache
    • Dreamy confounding with headache
    • Flushing of face with headache
    • Migraine with pallor (ARS)
  • Aggravations
    • Emotions
    • Slight causes
    • Climacteric
    • Heat and closed room

(Compare GLONINE, BELL, LACHESIS)

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ELAPS CORALLIUM

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Can’t be left alone lest something will happen to them
  • Oscillatory motion, must have
  • Angry about self < least contradiction, blood boils, body shudders
  • Imagine beaten he is
  • Desire to out in country and play in grass
  • Irresistible desire to scream on top the voice
  • Rt sided
    • Rt side feels paralyzed, weak or numb
  • Aggravation- < approach of storm
  • Discharge
    • Black
    • Haemorrhage, black
    • Stool of black frothy blood.
  • Fear
    • Rain, horror of
    • Causes chattering of teeth
    • Of fatal disease
    • Fear of apoplexy
  • Adynamic sepsis
  • Spasm of oesophageal muscle
  • Deafness at night
  • Illusion of hearing something at night
  • Red spots on face
  • Nose
    • Chr catarrhl congestion
    • Stuffed feeling
    • Yellowish green d/c and crusts
    • Ozena
    • Nose bleed
    • Pain from  nose to ear on swallowing
  • Peeling of skin of palm and finger tips
  • Icy cold feet
  • Extremely chilly
    • Internal coldness
  • Chest
    • Collapsed left lung
    • Air hunger
    • Rt apex painful
    • Haemorrhage of inky blood
    • Painful cough
  • Weak arm
  • Red spots on face
  • Dreams
    • Biting arms
    • Dead bodies
  • Bites hand in sleep
  • Can speak but cannot understand speech

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AILANTHUS GLANDULOSA- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Reckless about present and future
  • Streptococcal infections
  • Annual return of complaints
  • Thinness
  • acridity
  • Low fever
    • With livid skin
    • Adynamic fevers with weak heart
  • Scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid
  • Suppressed eruptions, malignant scarlatina
  • Ulcerated and haemorrhagic mucous membranes
  • Prostration from the very onset of the disease
  • Fetor, debility and lividity
  • Stuporous, drowsy, low muttering delirium, can’t understand what is said to him
  • Headache
    • Congestive
    • With sighing and drowsiness
    • Suffused eyes
  • Skin
    • Large blisters on skin
    • Livid skin which blanches on pressure, the color is very slow to return
  • Face mahogany red
  • Throat
    • Itching in throat
    • Swollen, red, sore
    • Aml hot drink

(Clarke Materia Medica in ARUM TRIPHYLLUM

AILANTH- (scarlatina; depressing, stupid, drowsy sleep

ARUM TRI- raw bleeding surfaces, picks them till they bleed.  An indication of its curative action in scarlatina is the urine becoming more abundant and watery

CINA- boring nose in complaints

AMM CARB- acrid discharge from nose in scarlatina, but right parotid more decidedly affected in Am. c., and drowsiness is marked

AMM MUR- scarlatina

Arg Nit- scarlatina, painful red blotches left side of tongue)

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HURA BRASILENSIS- a  snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Morbid conscientiousness
  • Skin
    • Leprosy
    • Splinter like sensation under thumb nail.
    • Eruptions
      • Vesicular
      • Eruptions over malar bones or skin covering bones directly
      • Miliary eruptions
    • Skin feels hide bound
  • Fears death of someone, very weepy.
  • Weepy
    • Morbid tendency to
    • Alternate laughing and weeping
    • Gets irritated by trifles and then cries
  • Memory
    • Uses wrong words
    • Takes wrong streets
  • Dreams
    • Pleasant dreams, of prisoners being freed
    • Of parties
    • Of houses being built
    • Of corpses
    • Revolution

(Part used- milky juice of the plant. It is an evergreen tree.)

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MELILOTUS ALBUS/ OFFICINALIS

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Congestion
    • Of blood to head
    • Causing headache
  • Intense red face with all complaints as concomitants
  • Unusual mental activity, could go without food or sleep
  • Headache
    • In hot weather
    • With redness of face
    • Amelioration by epistaxis (BUFO, FERR PHOS, MAG SULPH)
  • Convulsions
    • From blow to head
    • Dentition during
    • Eclampsia
  • Constipation
    • No desire for days together (ALUMEN)
  • Complaints from blow, injury
  • Religious mania
  • Thinks people are looking at him, wants to hide, runaway, escape
  • Dreams of bickering
  • Delusion every one looking at him, wants to escape and hide.
  • Raw feeling
  • Aggravation
    • Walking, hot weather, approach of storm, rainy weather
  • Amelioration
    • Applying vinegar (compare BELL which has agg from vinegar application), nosebleed, haemorrhages > congestion
    • Profuse urination >

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NAJA- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Effects of grief
  • Depressed, suicidal insanity, brooding over imaginary troubles (AURUM)
  • Nervous excited tumultuous with cardiac effects
  • Doesn’t want company
  • Very chilly, sensitive to cold
  • Sense of responsibility, knows what he needs to do but can’t bring self to do it
  • Fear of rain
  • Shooting pain in head as if a blow in occiput
  • Heart
    • Complaints after viral infections (? Myocarditis) or damaged by prolonged inflammation
    • Hypertrophy of heart, palpitations etc.
    • Pains in heart with choking of throat and inability to speak, the pain extends from shoulder to back of neck
    • Cough from chronic organic lesion of heart
    • Pulse irregular in force but regular in rhythm
    • Pains shooting from ovaries to heart
    • Palpitations after public speaking
  • Skin
    • Sweating of hands and feet
    • Sweating at ankles
    • Itching cicatrices
  • Grasps throat, chokes
  • Some modalities which are like Lachesis
    • Aggravation lying on left side
    • Aggravation after sleep
    • Can’t bear pressure of clothes
  • Aggravation after menses is opposite of Lachesis in NAJA
  • Profound log like sleep

(NAJA is to be thought of when you are thinking of LACHESIS. Dr Sarkar says that Naja is a chilly LACHESIS. However, NAJA has more of nervous troubles as compared to LACHESIS which is more haemorrhagic in nature. While burning characterise LACHESIS it is choking and constrictions that characterize NAJA. Much more aloof than LACHESIS (who is talkative) NAJA has a tussle with his conscience regarding his duties. He gets up at night, choking and grasping throat. An incomparable homoeopathic medicine in post viral myocarditis.)

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CLEMATIS ERECTA- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Complaints from homesickness
  • Skin
    • Itching with profuse desquamation
    • Chronic herpes with agg after washing
    • Moist eruptions, spreading from corrosive ichor
    • Tetters
  • Urine
    • Burning and pain while urinating
    • Stricture of urethra
    • Urine passed intermittently initially until a flow is established
  • Glands
    • Swollen, indurated, painful
    • Testes, inguinal, mammae
    • Cancer mammae
  • Eyes
    • Affections of
    • Iritis, conjunctivitis, blepharitis, meibomitis
    • Photophobia
  • Aversion to and aggravation from washing
  • Amelioration from sweating      
  • Body painful to touch and sensitive to external impressions
  • Muscles
    • Relaxed, flabby
    • Vibrations in body on lying down

(Think of this remedy in Reiter’s triad/ reactive arthritis involving urethritis, conjunctivitis and arthritis)

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