Dr V Krishnaamurthy
From the time of Dr. Hahnemann itself till the present day Homoeopathy has been enveloped into clouds of mysterious obscurities.
No! Homoeopathy is an exact and accurate science. Precision and versatility is its culture.
No one can use his whims and fancies to distort or mutilate it.
When we come to the practical aspects it is the intelligence of the practitioner that counts more than anything else. Most homoeopaths end up as symptom-coverer as the following case illustration would show:
Case: Letter from Dr. X., M.D.(Radiologist), 33 years, is given below.
“Respected sir, This is Dr. .. These are the following things all my complaints.
- Loss of libido (lack of sexual desire). Since l year, my U.T.A. and stricture problem started. My sexual life very limited. Now we are trying for kids. But I am not much active sexual life. Please do the needful.
2. Three months ago suffered with severe cough. That I had pneumonia patch in right midzone (of lung). No cough subsided but on an off pain is coming right posterial chest wall where pneumonia patch was there previously.
3. Hypertension. My blood pressure sometime touching 150/100. If I take twice (BP tablet) daily dose. Then it will be controlled.
4. Overweight. I observed I am putting more weight. My food intake also seems increased. I am fond of sweets and junk food. My present weight is 118 kg. Please do the needful. Most homoeopaths would work out the case on sexual desire, hypertension, overweight etc. and he ends up with failure.”
MOST IMPORTANT NOTE TO BE BORN IN MIND: We are going to learn something new and unique out of this case. Every case is, of course, unique. There is difference between a symptom-coverer and a true homoeopathic physician. Any average practitioner would work out on the following symptoms:
- Impotency
- Hypertention
- Obesity
What the patient tells is just and mere cotton. No one can wear cotton as such. We have to make thread out of cotton, then weave cloth with the thread; and stitch a shirt out of that cloth. Now only it is ready for wearing. So also, out of the symptoms told by the patient we have to conceive and derive many things. In the above case, the practitioner must work out the case as under:
The age of the patient is 33.
Point No. 1: He has impotency, hypertension. These two symptoms, put together, should be viewed from a different angle. These two normally appears in old age, i.e. above sixty years of age. But we find this in a person of 33 years. Therefore, the term pre-senility should at once come to our mind. In other words, he should be treated as an old age patient.
Point No. 2: He is already an allopathic doctor and medicines taken carefully fail to bring down the blood pressure. Therefore, the term ‘lack of reaction’ should also come to our mind.
The above two symptoms are ‘general symptoms.’ Wherever possible we must always work out cases on ‘general symptoms.’ Craving for sweets, increased intake of food are secondary.
SAMUEL LILIENTHAL’S HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS: Constitution, Age…(page 233-234) –For old people—aged persons get very fleshy: Kali carb., Aur-met., Op., Sec., Amm-carb., Fluor-ac. [We take this because, though the patient is just 33 years old, he has pre-senility.]
These six remedies are studied in Boericke’s Mat. Med. Only the first para or preamble under various remedies are useful for confirming one out of the several remedies selected through the repertory:
The remedy Ammonium carb. was selected because of the following words found under that in Boericke’ Mat. Med.
The diseased conditions met by this remedy are such as we find often in rather stout…have a slow reaction generally, …Mucous membranes of the respiratory organs are especially affected. Fat patients with weak heart. . .
HOW TO CONFIRM A REMEDY WITH BOERICKE. If the remedy selected by you is correct—the similimum, then the symptom appears in the first sentence of that remedy in Boericke. Or, if the symptom appears in the subsequent sentences, it is either given in italics; or, it is preceded by an adjective or followed by an adverb.
Again, let us read Ammon-carb. in the FINAL MAT. MED. OF MIND SYMPTOMS and there we find the following to further confirm our selection:
…makes frequent mistakes in speaking and writing; …gloomy, depressed…[If the reader carefully read the letter of the patient reproduced above, he can notice the glaring spelling and grammatical mistakes made by the patient. For this reason alone we have reproduced his letter without correcting the spelling and other mistakes.]
Amm-carb.10M, one single dose and placebo. Patient shows much progress in his health and is under treatment.
One has to decide whether he would remain as a symptom-coverer in his life-time or he wants to be a Homoeopathic Physician.
Case: [Letter from Mrs. XYZ, 27 years is given below]
“Respected Dr. Krishnamurthy
I am feeling depressed and getting angry very easily because of my problems in the joint family. Frankly I am not enjoying my (present) life. I am always worried of some or the other problem.
I completed the previous medicine you have given. As well I am now using them. The feeling o childlessness is always worrying me a lot. It has been 4 years of our married life.
And, again coming to my problems the growth of unnatural hair is a bit better, but no complete cure is seen. Hair fall, dry skin, loss of elasticity of skin, stretch marks, joint pains are also worrying me a lot. I am also having slight visual disturbances and headache sometimes. Every day I wake up in the morning that I am not active. I am having body pains, backache, due to which the start of the day is lazy and uninteresting. This is all about my problems sir. Kindly give the medicine accordingly.”
Symptoms from the above case to be taken for repertorisation.
- Anger (a symptom of will)
- Worried — Anxiety
- ‘Every day I wake up in the morning that I am not active’ — sleep, unrefrishing.
- Lazy and uninteresting — Dullness.
Kent’s Repertory: Anger (top-grade remedies) + Sleep, unrefreshing (top-grades) = Nit-ac. (we read this remedy in the Materia Medica of MIND Symptoms) and it does not match with the patient. When you get no remedy or one a two remedies (after repertorisation) and they do not match with the patient, you must become alert! You have not chosen the correct rubrics.
Though ‘Sleep, unrefreshing’ is a general symptom, it has no value in the case of dull patients (the start of the day is lazy and uninteresting) there is another general symptom in this case. She has (a) hair fall, (b) visual problems, and (c) headache.
Two or more complaints above the neck: for this take the rubric Congestion in the Chapter Generalities in Kent’s Repertory.
Top-grade remedies common to the rubrics. Anger + Congestion are Acon., Nux-v., Sulph.
We now read these three remedies in the Materia Medica of MIND Symptoms by the author and the following lines under the remedy Sulphur agrees with the case.
. . . Venous lethargy, inclination to consume hours in doing nothing, does not take any interest in anything . . . being too lazy to rouse himself up . . .
Sulphur-10M one single dose in the morning.
Patient showed lot of improvement and is under treatment.
Dr. V. Krishnaamurthy
32/56 Kamakoti colony, Kuppaiah Street
West Mambalam, Chenai – 600 033
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