Sabadilla.
by James Tyler Kent, M.D.
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet(Lecture delivered at the Philadelphia
Post-Graduate School of Homœopathics)
Dr J. T. KentThis is a cold remedy.
The patient is chilly, sensitive to cold air, wants to be wrapped up,
wants hot drinks. He takes cold easily, suffers much from coryza, goes
into the winter with coryza. The chilly nights of August and September
affect him much, bringing on a constant tickling in the nose. The nose
drips, he coughs and sneezes, an excoriating fluid drips from the nose,
the nose looks red. There is lachrymation in the night, in the cold air.
Cold weather sets him coughing and sneezing. Inhalation of cold air
makes sneeze perpetually, the eyes are red from lachrymation. There is
increasing rawness in the nose. This remedy is very useful in hay fever.
Many times it will cut short an attack, but it is not deep acting enough
to keep the patient well, and next season he will have a different kind
of coryza and need some other remedy. This is true of the short acting
remedies.Hay fever is a big
bugbear. It worries the doctors. It worries the people and drives them
to the mountains. When a Homœopathic physician once fully comprehends
our miasms he will see that the hay fever is simply an autumnal
explosion. It might be at any other season. Some are sensitive in the
Spring when the flowers come out, some to mature vegetation. One who
knows the doctrines of psora will see sufficient cause for hay fever. By
elevating the constitution one may cure hay fever in from three to five
years. In a few cases one year will suffice to cure. Palliatives are
sometimes necessary during the hay fever ; Sabadilla
is one of them. The palliative is rarely the constitutional remedy.
Another peculiar predisposition of the Sabadilla
patient is to raise worms : tapeworms, lumbricoides, pin-worm, all
sorts of worms. There is a dreadful itching of the rectum and a
sensation of something crawling in the rectum. There are pin-worms found
in the stool. Give this remedy for pin-worms when there are no symptoms
present, but never give for other worms unless the symptoms agree.A woman called about
her pet dog. He would make a sled of himself and slide along the floor
for the purpose of scratching his anus. I thought he had worms and gave Sabadilla.
The next time I called she said “what did you give him ? He
passed the awfullest lot of worms you ever saw.”The books say it has
cured tape-worm, but I have never seen it indicated in cases of
tapeworms. It is a part of the Homœopathic doctrine that a healthy
stomach will not hatch out worms. Never prescribe for the worms. Stick
to your patient. Doctor your patient. If your patient be restored to
health the worms will leave.
Sabadilla
is
suitable in old, chronic sore throats that are from cold air. The
patient is sensitive to cold air. Every time he takes cold, it settles
in the nose and throat. Tonsillitis going from left to right (op :
Lach.) It has cured diphtheria going from left to right. The
Sabadilla patient craves hot drink, wants hot tea. This at once makes us
stop thinking of Lach.
because Lach. checks from hot
drinks. (Lach. Also < after sleep, and < tight collar). The stomach is disordered. There are nausea, sinking at the stomach and gnawing hunger.
Sabadilla
has cured intermittent fevers where the chill predominates ; there
is slight fever with no thirst, but thirst between the chill and
fever ; the extremities feel cold to the touch, he feels cold all
over to the touch ; there is great coldness of the body but the
patient himself does not feel cold.
Source :
Medical Advance 1894.
Copyright ©
Sylvain Cazalet 2001
