ESSENTIALS OF HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS. – Pr Willis Alonzo Dewey – Presented by Dr Robert Séror.

ESSENTIALS OF
HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS.
Pr Willis Alonzo Dewey.
Presented by Dr Robert Séror.

W : Whooping_cough,
Women_diseases,
Worms.

WHOOPING COUGH.

Q. : When is Drosera indicated in whooping cough ?

A. :

Barking cough
that comes so frequently that the patient cannot get his breath ; worse in
evening ; efforts to raise e phlegm end in retching and vomiting.

Q. : What indications has Mephitis in this disease ?

A. :

Whooping cough,
with a marked laryngeal spasm and a whoop ; cough is worse at night on
lying down ; there is a suffocative feeling, and the child cannot exhale.

Q. : How does Corallium rubrum compare ?

A. :

Whooping cough,
with smothering before the cough, and great exhaustion afterwards ; the
child gasps and gasps, and becomes black in the face.

” Minute gun ” cough, short, quick and ringing.

Q. : Give indications for Coccus cacti, another animal remedy, in
whooping cough.

A. :

Paroxysms of
cough, with vomiting of clear, ropy mucus, extending in great long strings
even to the feet.

Sensation as of a thread in the throat.

Q. : How does the expectoration differ from that of Kalium bichromicum
?

A. :

The Kalium
bichromicum expectoration
is yellow, not clear albuminous.

Q. : Give the indications for Tartaricum emeticus in whooping cough.

A. :

Cough worse
when the child is angry, or when eating ; it culminates in vomiting of
mucus and food.

Q. : What is the whooping cough of Ipecac ?

A. :

Convulsive
cough, where the child stiffens and becomes pale or blue and loses its
breath ; great nausea and relief from vomiting.

Q. : What remedy is complementary is whooping cough and convulsions ?

A. :

Cuprum.

WOMEN, DISEASES OF.

Q. : What are the main characteristic female symptoms of Sepia ?

A. :

The menses are
usually late and scanty, though they may be almost any combination ; there
are bearing down pains in abdomen ; must cross limbs to prevent protrusion
; there is extreme weakness, a dragging, weak feeling in the back ; the
womb often feels as if clutched and suddenly released ; gone feeling in
abdomen ; there are symptoms of uterine stasis.

Q. : When is the best time to give Sepia ?

A. :

It comes in
most usually after other drugs.

Hering

called it
“a finishing remedy.”

Q. : How does Lilium tigrinum resemble Sepia ?

A. :

It has bearing
down, everything seems to protrude, and is relieved by pressing the hand
against the vulva.

The ovarian and uterine pains are more intense than in

Sepia
;
the nervousness is
more marked and exercise relieves ; uterus is sore and sensitive ; patient
is better when busy.

Q. : How does Lilium compare with Sepia as to time of aggravation ?

A. :

Lilium
is worse in the afternoon, Sepia
in
the forenoon.

Q. : What drug produces a soreness in the womb, a consciousness of a
womb ?

A. :

Helonias.

Q. : Give some other characteristic symptoms of Helonias.

A. :

Tired, aching
feeling with burning in back and legs ; there is also profound melancholy
; soreness and weight in womb.

Q. : How does Sulphur resemble Sepia in its uterine symptoms ?

A. :

There is the
bearing down and the weak feeling or ” goneness ” in the abdomen
and flushes of heat.

They are complementary.

Q. : Give differentiation between Sepia and Murex.

A. :

The principal
difference lies in the fact that Murex
causes sexual
excitement and copious secretions, otherwise the drugs are very similar.

Murex

has a
feeling as if something was pressing on a sore spot in the pelvis.

Secretions, such as menses and urination, are profuse.

Q. : What other drugs besides Murex produce sexual excitement ?

A. :

Lilium
tigrinum and Platina.

Q. : Differentiate between Sepia and Kreosote in female symptoms.

A. :

Both have
intermittent menses.

Both have dragging down pains in back.

Both have pressure outward on genitals.

Both have painful coitus.

Both have red sediment in urine.

Both have turbid and offensive urine.

Kreosote

has
copious menses, Sepia
scanty.

Kreosote

has
dragging in back relieved by motion, Sepia
is worse from
motion.

The

Kreosote leucorrhoea
is acrid and irritating, excoriating the parts, this Sepia
does not have.

Q. : How does Stannum differ from Sepia ?

A. :

It has
prolapsus with bearing down and melancholy, but it has characteristically
falling of the womb during hard stools.

The patient is so weak that she cannot talk, and has to sit down
several times while dressing in the morning.

Q. : How is Nux vomica distinguished from Sepia ?

A. :

Nux has
a predominance of gastric symptoms ; there is no ” goneness ” as
in Sepia ;
there is less
bearing down and dragging.

Q. : How does the action of Aloe on the uterus compare with Sepia ?

A. :

The relaxation
of tissues is more pronounced under Aloe
;
the heaviness,
weight and dragging down are more intense ; bowel symptoms will decide ;
there is loss of control of rectum and looseness of bowels.

Q. : How does Podophyllum compare here ?

A. :

There is
diarrhoea, and prolapsus and burning in pelvic regions ; there is bearing
down as if the genitals would protrude during stool. It differs from Sepia
in its gastric
symptoms.

Q. : What are the characteristics of Pulsatilla in uterine affections ?

A. :

There is
chilliness ; there is heaviness and weight in pelvic regions.

The menses are delayed and scanty ; the flow is fitful and changeable ;
worse in warm room and better in open air ; amenorrhoea after wet feet.

Q. : How is Pulsatilla distinguished from Sepia ?

A. :

Pulsatilla is
mild, tearful and whimsical.

Sepia

is
depressed, easily excited and irritable.

Pulsatilla

:
blondes.

Sepia

:
brunettes.

Q. : What are the female symptoms of Aurum ?

A. :

Aurum congests
the uterus and it becomes prolapsed from weight ; there is a bruised pain
in uterine region.

Q. : What are the main characteristics of Platina ?

A. :

There is
profuse and clotted menstrual flow occurring too early ; voluptuous
irritation of genitals and nymphomania ; there is prolapsus and induration
of uterus ; ovaries are sensitive and have burning pains in them.

Q. : What drug cures nymphomania from worms crawling into vagina and
there causing irritation ?

A. :

Caladium.

Q. : Mention another drug which has dark, clotted menses, and how is it
recognized ?

A. :

Crocus ;
recognized by the
symptom of a sensation as if something alive were moving about in the
abdomen.

Q. : Give two drugs that have menses of bright red, partly clotted
blood.

A. :

Sabina and
Millefolium.

Q. : What other drug besides Sepia has induration of the cervix ?

A. :

Carbo
animalis ;
distinguished from Sepia
by throbbing
headache which follows menses.

Q. : What two drugs have the symptom that the womb seems as if pushed
up when the patient sits ?

A. :

Natrum
hypochlorosum and Ferrum
iodatum.

Q. : What are the characteristic female symptoms of Actea racemosa ?

A. :

It is
especially a remedy for threatened miscarriage when the pains shoot across
the abdomen from side to side.

Suppressed, tardy or irregular menstruation when accompanied by reflex
disturbances.

Q. : How does Caulophyllum compare here ?

A. :

It produces a
spasm of the uterus and is useful in dysmenorrhoea ; there is a sensation
as if the uterus were congested, with fullness and tension in the
hypogastric region.

Menstruation too profuse and too frequent ; the flow is passive.

Q. : What are the female symptoms of Senecio ?

A. :

The menses are
scanty ; there is apt to be associated with it bladder pains and dysuria ;
suppression of flow causes cough with bloody expectoration ; sleeplessness
reflex from uterine irritation.

Q. : Give female symptoms of Aletris.

A. :

With all
uterine troubles and leucorrhoea there is extreme constipation, great
effort being required for an evacuation ; patient is weak and tired.

Q. : In what condition is Hydrastis indicated ?

A. :

Prolapsus uteri
with ulceration of the cervix ; catarrh of uterus, with thick, yellow,
tenacious discharge.

Q. : What drugs have a sensation in the groin as if sprained ?

A. :

Ammonium
muriaticum, Apis, and
Arnica.

Q. : What are the female symptoms of Apis ?

A. :

Amenorrhoea,
congestion to head, with bearing down pains ; great awkwardness.

Q. : What is the characteristic indication for Mel cum sale ?

A. :

Feeling of
soreness across the hypochondrium from ilium to ilium, in prolapsus uteri
or chronic metritis.

Q. : What, are the female symptoms of Cantharis ?

A. :

Nymphomania,
with the bladder symptoms ; menses too black, too early, and too profuse ;
it favors the expulsion of moles, hydatids, etc.

Q. : What are the menstrual symptoms of Lachesis ?

A. :

Menses scanty
and feeble, black and offensive, with pain in the hips and bearing down in
the left ovary ; better when flow is established.

Q. : What drugs have especially sensitiveness to Coitus ?

A. :

Platina,
Sepia, Belladonna, Kreosote, Ferrum, Natrum muriaticum, Apis and
Thuja.

Q. : What are the uterine symptoms of Palladium ?

A. :

Soreness in
abdomen with downward pressure ; tired feeling in back ; knife-like
cutting pains in uterus ; swelling and pains in ovarian region ; bearing
down relieved by rubbing.

Q. : Give female symptoms of Alumina.

A. :

Chlorosis with
pale and scanty menses and craving for indigestible substances.

Q. : What are the symptoms of the female system calling for Belladonna
?

A. :

Bearing down,
worse lying down, relieved by standing ; menses bright red ; painful
congestive dysmenorrhoea ; offensive menstrual flow, without apparent
cause.

Q. : In this bearing down how does Sepia compare ?

A. :

It has relief
from lying down and is worse from standing, being the reverse of Belladonna.

Q. : What drug has bearing down worse from rest and relieved by motion
?

A. :

Kreosote.

Q. : What symptoms has Bryonia on the female organs ?

A. :

Vicarious or
suppressed menstruation, flow dark and profuse ; sharp sticking pains with
the splitting headache of drug.

Q. : What are the menses of Calcarea carbonica. ?

A. :

Early and
profuse.

Q. : What are some female symptoms of Michella ?

A. :

Engorged cervix
with irritation at the neck of the bladder.

Q. : What are the symptoms calling for Gelsemium ?

A. :

When the uterus
feels as if squeezed by a hand ; scanty flow ; aphonia and sore throat
during menses.

Q. : Give female symptoms of Graphites.

A. :

The womb feels
as if it would press out of the vagina ; enlargement of left ovary with
scanty delayed menses ; ante flexions and ante versions ; dysmenorrhœa of
fat women with herpetic eruptions, patients constantly cold.

Q. : What are the characteristic symptoms of Natrum muriaticum in
female affections ?

A. :

There are
scanty menses, painful coitus and red sediment in urine.

Menses may be scanty for a day or two then copious ; the sadness of the
drug is increased before the menses.

When the patient gets up in the morning she must sit down to prevent
prolapsus.

Backache and morning aggravation are characteristics.

Q. : What is the menstruation of Conium ?

A. :

Late and
scanty.

Q. : What are some other female symptoms of Conium ?

A. :

Mammae lax and
shrunken or become enlarged and painful.

Fibroid tumors of the uterus, induration of cervix, ovaritis with
lancinating pains ; itching around pudenda — ill effects of suppressed
sexual instinct.

Q. : What are the indications for Secale in uterine hemorrhage ?

A. :

Persistent
hemorrhages of dark, thin blood.

It is a passive flow and it may be offensive.

There may be coldness, formication and tingling.

Q. : How does this compare with Bovista ?

A. :

Bovista has
bright, thin hemorrhage ; it is very periodic.

The flow chiefly occurs at night or in the morning.

Q. : Give the hemorrhage of Ustilago.

A. :

The flow is
bright red, partly clotted.

Slight manipulations, such as examinations, cause hemorrhage.

Menorrhagia from retro flexions.

Q. : What drug has dark, thick uterine hemorrhage, and menstruation
occurring chiefly at night ?

A. :

Magnesia
carbonica.

Q. : What drug has menses flowing only in daytime when about on feet ?

A. :

Causticum.

Q. : What are the hemorrhages of Trillium ?

A. :

Bright red,
profuse hemorrhages, with faintness in abdomen.

It is an active acute hemorrhage, with pains in sacroiliac
synchondroses.

Q. : How does Millefolium compare here ?

A. :

It is a remedy
for thin, bright red flow.

Q. : What is the metrorrhagia of Sabina ?

A. :

Bright red,
paroxysmal, with pains in limbs.

Uterine hemorrhage at change of life.

Q. : Ipecac has the same symptoms as Sabina, how is it distinguished ?

A. :

By the nausea.

Q. : What drug has early and scanty menses in tall, slender females ?

A. :

Phosphorus.

Q. : What are the female symptoms of Kalium carbonicum ?

A. :

Menses are too
early and too profuse, and last too long ; there may be itching of the
body during menstruation and a great deal of backache.

Amenorrhoea, with backache.

Q. : What are the female symptoms of Calcarea fluorica ?

A. :

In excessive
menstruation with bearing down pains, flooding ; displacements of the
uterus ; prolapsus ; dragging pains in the region of the uterus and in the
thighs.

Q. : Give three remedies having early and profuse menstruation, stating
how they may be distinguished.

A. :

Belladonna
: Menses too early and too profuse, with downward pressure as if
everything would protrude, bright red in color, or of decomposed, dark red
blood, which feels hot to parts.

Calcarea carbonica

: Too early, profuse, and last too long in characteristic Calcarea
patients ; the feet feel cold and damp.

Nux vomica :

Too
early and profuse ; nausea in the morning during menses, with chilliness
and pressure towards the genitals.

Q. : Distinguish three remedies having early and scanty menstruation.

A. :

Conium is
one of the principal remedies for early and scanty menses, accompanied by
painful cramps in abdomen, preceded by soreness or nodular swellings of
the breast.

Silicea

: Menses
early and scanty ; the discharge has an acrid smell ; cold feet during
menses ; burning soreness and itching of the pudenda.

Phosphorus

:
Early and scanty menses, preceded by leucorrhoea.

WORMS.

Q. : What are the symptoms calling for Cina in worm affections ?

A. :

Sickly, pale
face, with rings around the eyes ; gritting of the teeth at night ; canine
hunger, or variable appetite ; the child picks its nose and cries out in
its sleep ; jerking of hands and feet ; urine milky.

Q. : In what intestinal condition is Natrum phosphoricum indicated ?

A. :

In intestinal
worms, either long or thread worms, with symptoms of acidity, picking at
the nose, squinting and twitching of the facial muscles.

Q. : What indications has Spigelia in worm affections ?

A. :

Strabismus,
jerkings with paleness of the face, blue rings around the eyes, faint,
nauseated feeling and colic about the navel.

Q. : What is a useful remedy for pin worms ?

A. :

Teucrium ;
there is much
itching about anus, capricious appetite, picking of nose, offensive
breath, disturbed sleep and general restlessness.

Q. : How does Stannum act as a vermicide ?

A. :

According to Hahnemann
it so stupefies the worms that purgatives would dislodge them at once.