MEDORRHINUM

Medorrhinum is the remedy with markedly degenerate of the stigmata in its suspicion, quarrelsomeness, tendency to harm others and animals, criminal behavior which produces in the forms of cruelty and cunning deceit and worst form of meanness.

 

First introduced and proved by Dr. SWAN in 1870's. It is triturated from the gonorrheal discharge.

 

Suited to the manifestations, due to latent gonorrheal poison communicated to the patients from ancestors. Mongoloidism, mental retardation and slow learners with improved academic skills.

 

Mental generals:

Its mental picture is quiet interesting. When the patient is normal he is with high intellectual qualities but when it deranged, it goes up to the level of utmost cruelty.

 

He is Passionate, Adventurer, Individual with enormous appetite for life and experiences of all kinds, All – rounders, Confident and highly intellectuals and detached.

He has a great quality of Independence, sociable and flexible, Great mediators, Emotionally sensitive with Prodigious memory.

 

Person is highly intelligent, Charming and vivacious. Children are precocious, Enthusiastic and inquisitive. Knowledge is born from the action.

Everything must be best and never had done before. Intelligence and heightened cerebral activity towards night. Ultra conscious towards the loved ones especially pets.

 

But the person with excitements and exhilarations and Hasty in actions. He is a procrastinator. He has easy going exterior with internal pushing from back.

 

Individuals are Fascinated with beauty, money and sex. Indulgences with alcohol and stimulants. Sexual drives with all kinds of perversions including the homosexuality.

 

 

But he shows spans extremes of temperament, Fitful, unstable, going from one extreme to another.

 

The individuals are undisciplined with unmethodical work habits with Postponement mentality and last minute rush lead him to, Doubts, lose the idea and recapture them again. So he is restless, impatience and scarcely begins one thing, without completing it want to start another.

 

Restless and impatience about the trifles are due to,

1) Helping nature with internal pushing up

2) Fascinated sexual habits leading to guilt, remorse and self accusation

3) Feeling as if he committed an unpardonable sin.

 

This lead to confusion of mind, over sensitiveness. forgetfulness of facts, figures and names. Spaced out, time passes too slowly. Person become sad, fear of loss of reason, thinking of them aggravates. Cannot speak without weeping. Everything seems unreal, clairvoyance, dreams of ghosts and dead people.

 

He suffers from different kinds of illusions like, hears whispers behind him, fear of being insane. With all these he becomes suspicious, degenerate, fixed ideas and quarrelsome leading to hatred ness, cruel and aggressive and violent at night. Momentary could commit murder in fit of passion, cunning and malicious. He becomes so wild, even torture the loved pets. Changeable moods.

 

Physical generals:

 

• The time of aggravation from sun rise to sun set.
  
• Trembling all over (Subjective) intense nervousness and profound exhaustion.
  
• State of collapse, wants to be fanned all the time.
  
• Craves fresh air, skin cold, yet throws off the covers.
  
• Ravenous hunger immediately after eating
  
• Constant thirst, even dreams she is drinking.
  
• Insatiable craving for liquor, which before she hatred.
  
• Craves salt, sweet and fats, altogether in combination.
  
• Craves oranges and orange juice.
  
• Can sleep only on the back with hands over head.
  
• Pains arthritic, rheumatic, a sequel of suppressed gonorrhea; sore all over the body as if bruised.
  
• Great heat and soreness, with enlargement of lymphatic glands all over the body.
  
• Intense formication all over the body.
  
• Intense restlessness and fidgety of legs and feet.
  
• Fish odour of the body secretions.
  

 

Modalities:

Worse from, when thinking of it, heat, covering, stretching, thunder storm, least movement, sweets and from daylight to sunset.

 

Better from, at the sea shore, lying on stomach, damp weather.

 

For women, with chronic overitis, salpingitis, pelvic cellulites, fibroids, cysts and other morbid growths of the uterus and ovaries, especially if the symptoms points to the malignancy, with or without sycotic origin.

 

For the scirrhus, carcinoma or cancer, either acute or chronic in development with traced out sycotic affections. Also suited to the affections of spinal and sympathetic nervous system.

 

Children with pale face, rachitic; dwarfed and stunted in growth, mentally dull and weak.

LEPTANDRA

Leptandra Virginica.Veronica Virginica.Black Root.Culver's Physic.Tall Speedwell (U.S.A.).
N O. Scrophulariaceae.
Tincture of resinoid Leptandrin.
Tincture of fresh root of second year.
Trituration of dried root. (A fresh plant tincture should also be made and tested.)
The name Leptandra probably comes from Gr. leptos, soft, alluding to the smooth and downy stem. The perennial plant is native to the north and south eastern parts of the United States, growing in mountain meadows and in rich woods.
The rhizome and roots are nearly odourless, the taste bitter and rather acrid, and are generally used dried. V. virginicum contains saponins, hormonal substances, tannins, and volatile oil, including esters cinnamic
acids, and a glycoside resembling senegin [as found in Polygala senega].
The fresh root is a violent cathartic and may also be emetic. The dried root is milder and less certain. Leptandrin, the active principle, is a jet-black, resinous substance, resembling pure asphalt; or, of a greyish-brown colour, with a peculiar, faint cyanic smell and taste. When powdered, it has a black, glistening, soot-like appearance, and coalesces in a warm and moist air.more............

LAUROCERASUS

Spasmodic oppression of the chest (Ign.). Dyspnoea, with
sensation as if the lungs would not be sufficiently expanded (Asaf., Crot. tig.). Gasping for breath; suffocating spells. Cough, with a whistling sound, as if the membranes were too dry; from tickling in the throat; in paroxysms; frequent, short; coughing up blood; dry cough, with feeling as if mucus were
hanging in throat, and could not be loosened. Stitches in the region of the heart (Kalm., Kali carb.).
Whooping cough in puny children when there is a history of feeble heart blue cold skin and laryngeal spasm.
Cardiac cough.
Clubbing of fingers, which is a common feature in cyanosis and phthisis, is a characteristic of Lauro. "Lack of reactive power," low vitality, is another keynote of Lauro. This is particularly so when occurring in chest affections.
Long lasting faints (Camph. has sudden fainting); seems to have no reactive power; face pale, blue; surface cold. more..........

LACHESIS

Date: Presenter: Dr.T.Murali
Moderator: Dr.S.Praveen Kumar

Trigonocephalus lachesis. The Surukuku Snake of South America. N O. Ophidia.
Trituration.Dilution.
"The first trituration and first dilution in alcohol of the snake poison Trigonocephalus lachesis was made by Hering on July 28, 1828. The first cases were published in the Archives in 1835. In 1837 this remedy was introduced into our materia medica."
To the genius and the heroism of Hering the world owes this remedy and many another of which this has been the forerunner. When Hering's first experiments were made he was botanising and zoologising on the Upper Amazon for the German Government. Except his wife, all those about him were natives, who told him so much about the dreaded Surukuku that he offered a good reward for a live specimen. At last one was brought in a bamboo box, and those who brought it immediately fled, and all his native servants with them. Hering stunned the snake with a blow on the head as the box opened, then, holding its head in a forked stick, he pressed its venom out of the poison bag upon sugar of milk. The effect of handling the virus and preparing the lower attenuations was to throw Hering into a fever with tossing delirium and mania much to his wife's dismay. Towards morning he slept, and on waking his mind was clear. He drank a little water to moisten his throat, and the first question this indomitable prover asked was: "What did I do and say?" His wife remembered vividly enough.more............

IRIS VERSICOLOR

Date: Presenter: Dr.T.Murali
Moderator: Dr.P.V.Narasimha Rao
Iris hexagona.Blue flag. N.O. Iridacrar.
Tincture of fresh root collected in early spring or autumn.
Trituration of the resinoid, Iridin or Irisin.
The Blue Flag is in great repute as a remedy among the Indians of North America. It was introduced into homoeopathic practice by Kitchen, of Philadelphia, by whom it was proved, as well as by that heroic prover, Burt, and others, of all of whose experiences Hale gives an excellent account.
Kitchen found Iris the most effective all round remedy in cases of vomiting of all kinds. He relates this case: A girl, age 9, had periodic spells of vomiting every month, six weeks, or sometimes four months. The attack would last three days. It began with vomiting of inges then sour fluid, lastly bile,
yellowish and green, with great heat of head. Some general fever and great prostration. Warm perspiration from efforts of straining a single dose of Iris would arrest the attack at once, all other remedies having failed.more...........

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

Date: Presenter: Dr.T.Murali
Moderator: Dr.M.N.Chary
IPECACUANHA
Cephaelis ipecacuanha. N. O. Rubiaceae.
Tincture and trituration of the dried root.
The cough of Ipec. is dry, spasmodic, constricted, asthmatic. "Violent degree or dyspnoea, with wheezing and great weight, and anxiety about the precordia."
"Threatened suffocation from accumulation of mucus." In whooping cough a characteristic is the spasmodic rigidity of the patient. "Child loses breath, turns pale, stiff, and blue; strangling with gagging and vomiting of mucus; bleeding from nose or mouth."
Cough,especially at night, with painful shocks in the head and stomach, and with loathing, retching, and vomiting Cough catching the breath, even to suffocation; during the attacks the child gets quite stiff, its face blue. It is excited by a contractive tickling sensation extending from upper part of larynx to lowest part of bronchial tubes; more..........

IGNATIA

Date: Presenter: Dr.T.Murali
Moderator: Dr.B.Ramaswamy
Ignatia amara. (Strychnos ignatia ? Strychnos multiflora ? The actual tree from which the so-called "beans" are obtained is not known.)
Faba indica.St. Ignatius' Bean. (Philippine Islands.)
N.O.Loganiaceae.
Tincture and trituration of the seeds.
HAHNEMANN, Mat. Med. Pura, vol. ii of original, vol. i of translation. Contains 620 symptoms from self and 175 from others.
A large shrub or small tree, climbing in habit, found growing in the Philippine Islands and Cochin China.
The seeds of Ignatia contain a larger proportion of strychnine than those of Nux vomica, yet there is a great difference between the characteristic features of the two drugs. Ign. has been called the "feminine" of the "masculine" Nux-v. The consequences of worry or a worrying state of mind, no
less than grief, call for Ign. an introverted stated of mind.
CONSTITUTION
It is adapted to the sensitive, excitable, nervous temperament, women of a sensitive, easily excited nature, dark hair and skin, but mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid to execute. Romantic, idealistic and overworked. Suitable to persons who had been starving either from want or other causes.more..............

HAMAMELIS

Date: Presenter: Dr.T.Murali
Moderator: Dr.S.Praveen Kumar
H. macrophylla.H. dioica.H. virginica.
Witch-hazel. N.O. Hamamelidaceae.
(A shrub growing in all parts of U.S., in damp woods or along streams; flowers in autumn, flowers yellow, the seeds ripen the year following).
Tincture of fresh bark of twigs and root. A resinoid, Hamamelin, is also prepared.
The deep red colour of the tincture of Hamamelis may be taken as the signature of its therapeutic action. No remedy has a wider sphere of usefulness in cases of haemorrhage and disordered blood-vessels.
It has also a decided relation to the effects of mechanical injuries including burns of the first degree, and as a local application it takes rank with Arnica and Calendula in the homoeopathic amamentarium.
Hering, who learned its properties from Mr. Pond, of "Pond's Extract" fame (Pond was a patient of Hering's), made the first provings and introduced the remedy into homoeopathy. He defines its position as being between Acon. And Arn. "Pond's Extract" is an aqueous distillate prepared from the leaves.
A number of interesting superstitions are associated with the shrub; and shoots of it are used as "divining rods" for discovering water and metals.
Hale has given a very full account of the remedy.more............

GLONOINUM

Date: Presenter: Dr.T.Murali
Moderator: Dr.P.V.Narasimha Rao
Glyceric trisnitrate, C3H5 (NO3)3. Nitro-glycerine; product of action upon glycerine of a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids.
Its taste is sweet, pungent, and aromatic; but in ascertaining this great precaution should be used, for a very minute quantity put upon the tongue produces a violent headache for several hours. This effect was experienced by several persons in my laboratory, and I have frequently felt it myself.
(SORRERO, Comptes Rendus, Feb. 15th, 1847.)
Dr. HERING, struck by the foregoing observation, tested Gl. (so named by him from its then chemical formula) on a number of healthy persons, and published his results in the Brit. Fourn. of Hom., vol. vii (1849), and again more fully in his Amerikanische Arzneipriifungen, Nos. 1 and 2 (1853). From
the letter work we select the following :
MORRIS DAVIS took 1/10 dr. observed a kind of burning on sundry small spots on lips. After 10 m. throbbing in temples and rush of blood to head, temporal arteries throbbed perceptibly; pain over eyebrows; the slightest shaking of head increased headache, this lasted 30 m. On walking in street, all the
objects seemed starting, the houses did not seem in their right places; the way home seemed 3 times longer than usual. (Am. Arzneipr., 46.)more............

GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS

Date: Presenter: Dr.T.Murali
Moderator: Dr.S.Praveen Kumar
G.Lucidum.G.Nitidum.Bignonia sempervirens.Yellow Jasmine. N.O. Loganiaceae.
Tincture of bark of the root.
Proved by Dr.J.H.Henry(1852),Dr.E.M.Hale(1862)
GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS is yellow flowering plant indigenous to the sough. It is an evergreen, and puts forth its fragrant flowers among the earliest in the spring. It is highly poisonous; especially active in this respect is the bark of the roots. During our late civil war this plant was largely used in the south as a substitute for Opium as a narcotic.
It is a member of Loganiacea, all of which are more or less poisonous, from this order we obtain also Nux vomica, Ignatia and Spigelia.
Its alkaloid, Gelsemine, is a mydriatic like Atropine and Duboisine. Applied locally or sued internally in large doses, it dilates the pupil. Given internally in small doses, however, it contracts the pupil.
It is not only one of the most important additions to the materia medica for whose introduction we are mainly indebted to Hale, but it is also in the first rank of importance among the vegetable polychrests.
A drug is of importance in homoeopathy not so much by reason of the great number of the symptoms it causes, as by possessing a number of well-marked and clearly characterised symptoms which correspond to symptoms constantly met with in every-day practice.more........