Migraine :– Making sense of the symptoms Part 1

Homeopathy is capable of dealing with migraine effectively.  Homeopaths receive lot many calls to attend patients with acute and chronic headaches. Hope this chart _ Formulated with inputs from text books dealing with Chronic miasms will be of some help in dealing with migraine sufferers. It is hoped that a miasmatic sense of the symptoms will be helpful in hitting the Bull's eye with the right remedy.

Location – Modality - Miasm – Remedy chart

Of Psoric	Of sycotic	Of syphilitic	Of tubercular
Location
Frontal_Vertex_Temporal	Vertex _Occ parietal	Occipital _ Temporal _ Base of brain	Patchy _ Rt eye to Left ear
Often only external		Internal head _ Meninges	Extremely painful
Sensations
Sharp	Dull	Constant	Throbbing
Severe	Aching	Persistent	Hammering
Paroxysmal	Heaviness	Stitching	Pressive
One sided	Reeling	Tearing	Tightness
Long standing		Boring	Band feeling
		Digging
		Maddening
		Sharp
		Cutting
Aggravations
<>  with Sun			Holidays
< Morning	<Morning to night	<Evening and morning	<Forenoon
	<<Mid night	<<Night	<Evening
<Cold	<Cold	<Hot Warm weather	<Cold
< Hunger
Ameliorations
<Anxiety
>Rest	>>Motion >> Violent excessive	<Rest	>Rest
>Quite			>>Quite
>>Sleep			>>Sleep
			>>Eating
>Warmth	>> Warmth
> Natural discharges	>>Abnormal discharges		>> Epistaxis
Concomitants
Fear	Urogenital symptoms	Suicidal	Red face
Anxiety	Cross	Imbecility	Throbbing carotids
Apprehension	Irritable	CVS/CNS disturbance	Nose bleed
Red face	Jealous		Cough
Throbbing Carotids	Restless		Coryza
Hot flushes			Cold
Perspiration

QUOTABLE QUOTES FROM MASTERS

41. The small booklets from Kent,"Use of the Repertory" (43 pages) and from Margaret Tyler, "Different Ways of Finding the Remedy" (22 pages) provide rich advice that even veterans will benefit by repeated study. Students are strongly advised to read and absorb the invaluable hints given by them. Yet, I cannot resist the temptation to quote a few note worthy instructions.

      (a) "No great work has ever been done without great effort and great self-sacrifice. Homoeopathy is no art for the lazy and the dullard (Tyler).

(b) "Totality does not mean that every little symptom, depen­dent on some gross pathological lesion, has to be covered.

      (c) A drug picture, to complete, does not consist of strings of little symptoms, but of broad outlines of mental and peculiar symptoms; peculiar to one drug, distinguishing it from all others.­

(d) When you have taken a case on paper, you must settle the symptoms that cannot be omitted.

(e) Do not expect the remedy that has the generals to have all the little symptoms. It is a waste of time to run about for the little symptoms.

      (f) Get the strange, strong, peculiar symptoms, and then see to it that THERE ARE NO GENERALS IN THE CASE THE OPPOSE OR CONTRADICT.

     (g) The general symptoms, reactions to temperature and weather, to foods, to environment generally must be very definitely marked in the patient, to be used at all, and if so marked and definite, they could correspond in impor­tance of type with the drugs in their rubrics

      (h) You may cover the superficial drug picture, but you have to go ultimately, for the peep DISTURBING CAUSE (T.B., syphilis, etc.) before you can get maximum results.

     (i) Supposing the patient is liable to fits of depression, and yet cannot endure any attempt at consolation; that he become a fiend even if you enquire what is amiss; in short you find him worse from heat and worse from consolation, which have got to be in equal type in the patient, and in the drug, you have reduced your area of search to Lil-t, Nat-m and Plat you will gradually find, as you work down the rubrics in the repertorial chart, that one drug stands out more and more prominently - it may not be in all the rubrics, but it has GOT TO BE IN ALL THE IMPORTANT ONES - those best marked in the pa­tient, and of highest grade.

     G) The use of the repertory in homoeopathic practice is a necessity if one is to do careful work. Our materia medica is so cumbersome without a repertory that the best pre­scriber must meet   with only indifferent results (Kent).

DESIRES _ AVERSIONS _ FEARS 

While flipping through case after case are we homeopaths taking enough guard to elicit pure desires and aversions of the patient ?  Are we giving due attention to whether the anxieties and fears expressed are the result of any previous incident in the life of the patient or close relatives ? If not are we making the right prescription ?


It is my experience that when asked about desires and aversions patients jump the gun and list out many things. On close scrutiny I am forced to strike off many of them since they are not genuine desires/ aversions.  A genuine desire/aversion  must come from the heart. Any desire or aversion influenced  previous  advise by doctors, dietitians, magazine articles, changing belief system of the patient etc must be carefully sorted out and deleted.   "Some heart transplant recipients start craving things the heart's previous owner liked."  You can see how closely the desires and aversions of a person are related to his heart. 

The same hold true to fear and anxiety. Fear and anxiety caused by a previous incident need to be counted with caution and in comparison to the incident that made the fear and anxiety appear.


Next time you take the case please be mindful of these suggestions and see the difference 

Gall stone or kidney colic

                                               - Discussion  Dr J T Kent  Lesser writings

In any case of gall-stone or kidney colic you cannot tell if there will be more stones.
When the stone has been formed, it is separate from the patient.
When the patient is under the influence of pain, it is the spasm from the stone in the ureter; clutching of the muscles.
The remedy that fits the constitution has a tendency to prevent the manufacture of more stones and relieves the spasm that occasions the pain.
After the remedy there may be an outpouring of stones, either renal or gall-stones.
In one case a teaspoonful of stones were discharged in one or two days.
The fibres were relaxed and the kidney was emptied of stones.
This the remedy does when aimed at the patient.

Sneezing _ Anti histamins and Asthma

 "Sneezing is an important part of the immune process, helping to keep us healthy and sniffle-free" says Dr Neil Kao, an allergy and asthmaspecialist. These line are from an article named Eleven surprising sneezing facts at http://www.webmd.boots.com/allergies/features/eleven-surprising-sneezing-facts.

           Given the fact that sneezing is defense mechanism of the body which in turn keeps it healthy and going what are you doing by meddling with it. You might well be feeling sneezing to be very irritating and  troublesome.  The same is true with cough, diarrhea, vomiting and fever. They are all irritating symptoms. But they are the attempt by the body to get rid of the offending substances and to activate the defense mechanism.

         So what are we doing by meddling with these very core  defense processes and suppressing them. By suppressing sneezing we are allowing the allergen, which the body want to reject out a free access to the lungs. The substance remains in tolerable and the body reacts to it and this in turn results in  lungs getting edematic and you become asthmatic.

         The disease, sneezing which ought to have been treated by correcting your body's intolerance to the allergen now get to threaten your life with a condition called Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). So be aware

          In asthma and allergy HOMEOPATHY is YOUR best Friend

Homeopathy is nothing but placebo !!!!         

When I hear or read someone making a statement ridiculing the miraculous effect of homeopathy, I tend to recall this very worthy words of Neitzsche. 

In fact those who have experienced the beneficial effects of homeopathy, often times miraculous, will never ever doubt the efficacy of homeopathy. Even those who have had such experience might well differ from  some of the empirical explanations given by homeopaths regarding the way homeopathy works. But the Prevention, Cure and  Palliation provided by the sweet pills to millions of its followers is an undeniable fact. 

Yet skeptics, those who either had no experience with homeopathy or had some bad experience at the hands of unscientific and half backed homeopaths.

What is homeopathy's fault ? 

The most striking difficulty with homeopathy is it's ideas and postulates are far ahead of the material science of the day. Hence some of the loose ends, where results were obvious but the mechanism remained obscure, were explained by theories that remained far ahead of the science of the day. In all earnestness postulates of Homeopathy mentioned in the Organon of Medicine got explained by men of the time based on limits of knowledge of the time. This in turn resulted in some people clinging to these bits and announcing that homeopathy is all fraud.

Secondly at a time materialism and massive drugging were the trade marks, the process of dilution adopted by homeopathy was far beyond the imagination of the "Scientific minds". 

Homeopathy is even today being crucified by those who are unable to comprehend the way of nature, where  only minimum is needed to produce maximum effect. Now, with nano technology being able to demonstrate behavior similar to original substance in some of the highly diluted homeopathic medicines the argument against homeopathic ultra dilutions hold no water.

But overtime many of the  homeopathic principles are being accepted by modern science. The most striking one is the use of inhalers to manage asthma where the quantity of drug used is very significantly low compared to tablets that were the earlier routine.

With the advent of Antibiotic resistance and drug induced diseases the medical world is at cross roads. The only positive and sustainable direction that the wise will now adopt is that of homeopathy since it offers to replicate the natural laws of cure. 

Yes, as predicted many many years ago ....... HOMEOPATHY is THE medicine of the coming times.

  Hahnemann's Theory of Chronic diseases 

......... In the words of  Stuart Close MD

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     In formulating his "Theory of the Chronic Miasms," Hahnemann did for pathology what he had already done for therapeutics: he reduced a great mass of unsystematized data to order by making a classification based upon general principles.
     This classification of the phenomena of disease led to the broadest generalization in pathology and etiology that has ever been made, and greatly simplified and elucidated the whole subject.
     Hahnemann's generalization was based upon his new and far-reaching discovery: the existence of living, specific, infectious micro-organisms as the cause of the greater part of all true diseases,
     The history of the progress of natural history shows how men first approached nature; how the facts have been collected, and how these facts have been converted into science by successively broader and broader generalizations leading to the discovery of basic laws of nature.
     The work of Hahnemann in pathology may be compared to that of Cuvier in zoology, who reduced the entire animal kingdom to four fundamental classes, based upon the general characteristics of their internal structure: Vertebrates, Mollusks, Articulates and Radiates. Until Cuvier's time there was no great principle of classification. Facts were accumulated and more or less systematized, but they were not arranged according to law.
     Hahnemann reduced all the phenomena of chronic disease according to their causes to four fundamental classes, Occupational or drug diseases, Psora, Syphilis and Sycosis.
     Taking the entire mass of morbid phenomena, he first eliminated all of the numerous symptoms and so-called diseases which are merely local, temporary and functional, in persons otherwise healthy, due to non-specific causes, such as indiscretions in diet or regimen, mechanical injuries, undue exertions or indulgences, emotional excesses, etc. Such conditions are not true diseases, but mere indispositions, which disappear of themselves under ordinary circumstances when the cause is removed, or yield easily to corrective hygienic, dietetic, moral or mechanical measures. They ordinarily require no medicine. In this class of cases are included many of the so-called occupational diseases, caused by exposure of healthy persons to noxious influences incidental to environment or vocation, such as unsanitary dwellings, exposure to fumes and emanations from chemicals, absorption of minerals, such as lead or copper, etc.

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             This, the most fundamental and indispensable aspect of homeopathy is the most neglected part too. Most of us are taking this part of the theory of homeopathy, the most genuine theory on classification of disease ever proposed, so lightly  and lamenting on poor results that are coming out of half backed prescriptions.  Our teachers need to evolve better techniques to make the theory of Chronic disease more comprehensible to the students. The differentiation of diseases into various classes must be demonstrated practically and the application of the theory into practice and the advantages of strictly following the theory in practice must be stressed at every clinical setting. Hope men of medicine better understand the theory and put it into practice so that CURE is made possible.

            Dr Samuel Hahnemann deserved to be decorated with Nobel Prize for Medicine  either for his discovery of the LAW of SIMILAR or for the discovery of the THEORY of CHRONIC DISEASES.