Homeopathic remedies related to music. – E. W. Hubbard, M.D. New York. – Presented by Dr Robert Séror

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Homeopathic
remedies related to music.
E. W. Hubbard, M.D.
New York.
Presented by Dr
Robert Séror

J.A.I.H. N° 11-12, 1964, pages 311 to 313

Boenninghausen,
Boericke,
Gentry,
Kent,
Knerr,
Phatak,
Roberts,
T. F.
Allen

Christmas
is connected in our minds with music, whether we harken to the Herald
Angels singing or
hear the church bells ringing at the frosty midnight, or whether the
children listen for the Santa
Claus sleigh bells or
the elders sing hymns by the fireside, or the groups carol in the snow
on Christmas
eve outside the windows of Beacon
Hill at either Craiche
or Krippen.

In studying the remedies greatly influenced by music, one must begin
somewhere.

KENT

Take

Kent’s
Repertory sixth
edition ; Mind, sensitive, music, to, page 78, and you have twenty-one
remedies, only three in highest degree ; Nat. c., Nux v., and Sep.

Not satisfied with the extent of this list I combed the entire
repertory for allusions to music :

Anxiety from music, page 7 ; Dig., Nat. c. ; while playing a
piano ; Nat. c.

Delusions of delightful music, page 29 ; Lach., Plb., Puls.

Fancies he hears music ; Cann. i., Croc., Lach., Lyc.., Plb.,
Puls., Sal. ac., Stram., Thuj.

Excitement
from music, page 41 ; Kreos., Sumb., Tarant.

Hysteria better by music, page 52 ; Tarant.

Indifference to music which he loves, page 55 ; Carb. v.

Irritability, music, during, page 59 ; Caust., Mang.

Restless from music, page 74 ; Nat. c., Tarant.

Sadness from music, page 77 ; Acon., Cham., Dig., Graph.,
Kreos., Lyc., Nat. c., Nat. p., Nat. s., Nux. v., Phos.,
Sabin., Sep., Tarant., Thuya.

Amelior. By sad music; Mang.

Oversensitive to music, page 78 ; Acon., Ambr., Bufo., Cact.,
Carb. an., Caust., Cham., Coff., Dig., Graph., Kreos., Lyc., Merc.,
Nat. c., Nat. m., Nat. p., Nat. s., Nux. v., Phos., Ph. ac.,
Sabin., Sep., Stann., Tarant., Thuj., Viol. o., Zinc.

Thoughts, music, about, in the evening, page 87 ; Ign.

Unconsciousness, music, from, page 90 ; Cann. i., Sumb.

Weeping, music, from, page 94 ; Dig., Graph., Kreos., Kali.
n., Nat. c., Nat. s., Nux. v., Thuj.

Bells, of ; Ant. c. Piano, of ; Cop., Nat. c.

Head, congestion, music, from, page 111 ; Ambra.

Head, pain, music from ; page 144, 297, 321. Acon., Ambr. Cact.,
Coff., Nux. v., Ph. ac. Phos., Podo., Viol. o.

Teeth, pain, drawing, music from, page 442 ; Ph. ac.

Ear noises, music he seems to hear, page 297 ; Ail., Bell., Calc. c.,
Cann. i., Kalm., Lyc., Merc., Nat. c., Phos., Plb., Puls.,
Sal. ac., Sarr., Stram., Sulph.

Piping
; Bor.

Hears music, rest, during ; Nat. c.

Shrill ; Coff.

Whimpering tune ; Ant. c.

Chest, palpitation, music, when listening to, page 876 ; Ambr., Carb.
v., Staph., Sulph.

Sleep, dreams, music of ; page 1242 ; Sarr.

T. F. ALLEN

In T. F. Allen’s Symptom Register of Homeopathic Materia Medica :

Music, agreeable, insensibility to, page 796 ; Ign.

Repetition even when out of humour; Croc.

BOERICKE

In
Boericke, Wm., Materia Medica, page 698.

Propensity to dance; Agar., Bell., Cic., Croc., Hyos.,
Sticta., Stram., Tarant H.

Propensity to sing; Spong., Verat. a., in addition to the dance list.

Roaring in the ears relieved by music, page 733; Ign.

BOGER

In
Boger, Synoptic Key.

Aggravated from music, page 9 ; Calc. c., Graph., Lyc.,
Nat. c., Nux. v., Phos. ac., Sep., Viol. o.

In the supplementary Repertory based on comparisons : Croc.,
Med., Sabin.

Better by music ; Tarant.

Music gives trembling of the feet ; Thuj.

Music induces dancing ; Tarant.

Ideas gay and musical ; Sulph.

BONNINGHAUSEN

In Bönninghausen Characteristics and Repertory :

Music,
Intolerance of, page 214 ; Acon., Coff., Ign., Cham., Ph. ac.,
Sabin., Viol. o.

Music, indifference to, page 284 ; Ign., Viol. o.

Music aggravates, page 755 ; Acon., Ambr., Anac., Bry., Calc.
c., Carb. an., Cham., Coff., Croc., DIG., Graph., Ign.,
Kali. c., Kreos., LYC., Nat. c., Nat. s., NUX. V., Phos.,
Ph. ac., Puls., Sabin., Sep., Stann., Staph., VIOLA O., Zinc.

Worse from organ music; LYC.

GENTRY

In Gentry, W. D., Concordance Repertory. New York, 1890 Vol.
1 :

Apprehensive, depressed by music, page 97 ; Dig., Sabad.

Can’t bear music during menses ; Nat. c.

Can’t tolerate noise, talk, music, odors or light ; Bell., Colch.,
Nux. v., Stram.

Music, repugnant ; Acon., Nux. v., Sabin.

Sad from music ; Nat. c., Nat. m., Sabin.

Weeps from music ; Graph., Kreos., Nat. s., Thuj.

KNERR

In
Knerr, Calvin B., Repertory o f the Guiding Symptoms, vol. 1, page
67.

Averse to joyous music but affected by saddest ; Mang.

Weeps at violin ; Viol. o.

Weeps from music ; Graph.

Palpitation from music ; Staph.

PHATAK

In Phatak, Concise Repertory, Bombay, 1964, page 185.

Ameliorated by music ; Aur., Tarant.

Music aggravates ; Ambr., Calc., Croc., Dig., Graph., Lyc.,
Med., Nat. c., Nux. v., Phos., Ph. ac., Sabin, Sep., Viol. o.

ROBERTS

In Roberts, H. A., Symptoms As If, page 22 :

As if under the influence of pleasant, quick music ; Zinc. p.

Now that we have listed the homeopathic remedies relating to music it
remains for us to make a connection between these remedies and the
historical account of the influence of music given by

Reed,
in the first part of our Triptych, and in the possible help to the
Autistic children into whose self-immolation Nordoff has admitted us as
the Pied-Piper into the mountain.

The homeopathic

Chronic
Constitutional Remedy
is inevitably both soothing and releasing.

What Lyc., Phos., Sulph., and Thuja, can do for night
terrors !

How Zinc

speeds up the lagging nerves, the power of Tarantula over
trembling, of Mygale over the writhings of chorea !

Nux vomica

can introduce rhythm into the functions.

Sepia

which so loves to dance, can bring feelings to the most
indifferent.

The melancholic are reached by the sodiums whose very life is music ;
the failing memory is jogged by Lyc. and Mercury.

Crocus

steadies the hysteric, and Ambra soothes the
tremulous.

Aur.

finds salvation from its unspoken and dangerous despair in
the language of music.

Cic.’s

twitching becomes more rhythmic and tolerable.

The lump of only partly incarnated flesh which is Med., that
great remedy for impermeable moronics, develops toward normalcy.

There is a whole vast field in which different musical instruments
could be studied in relation to the types of mental and emotional
illness.

May a fruitful collaboration between Mr.

Nordoff’s
music and the homeopathic remedies accord !

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Allen, T. F.: Symptom Register of Homeopathic Materia Medica: Boericke
& Tafel, Philadelphia.

Boericke, Wm.: Materia Medica with Repertory: Ninth Ed.
Boericke & Tafel, Philadelphia.

Boger, Cyrus M.: Synoptic Key: Fourth Ed. Parkersburg, W. Va.

Bönninghausen, C. von: Characteristics and Repertory: Parkersburg,
W. Va.

Gentry, W. D.: Concordance Repertory: Vol. 1. Chatterton &
Co., New York City.

Kent, James Tyler: Repertory: Sixth Ed. Erhart & Karl,
Chicago.

Knerr, Calvin B.: Repertory of Hering’s Guiding Symptoms: Vol. 1. Bhattacharyya
& Co., Calcutta.

Phatak, S. R.: Concise Repertory of Homeopathic Medicines: Sunanda
Publications, Bombay.

Roberts, H. A.: Sensations As If: Boericke & Tafel,
Philadelphia.

Numérisation, vérification, coloration, mise en page, illustration,
pour mes archives et mon site.

Le
Lundi 8 Avril
2002.

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