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.

G : Gangrene,
Gastric_derangements,
Glandular_troubles,
Gleet,
Gonorrhea,
Gout.

GANGRENE.

Q. : When is Arsenicum the remedy in gangrene ?

A. :

There is great
relief from warmth.

Dry gangrene of old people, with soreness and burning in the parts
affected.

Q. : How does Arsenicum differ from Secale, another great gangrene
remedy ?

A. :

Secale has
relief from cold applications.

It is useful in the same kind of dry gangrene of old people.

Q. : What is the remedy for carbuncles and boils which become
gangrenous ?

A. :

Carbo veg.

GASTRIC DERANGEMENTS.

Q. : What are the grand characteristics of Nux vomica in dyspepsia ?

A. :

When it is
caused by mental overwork where there is distress in the stomach, coming
on an hour or so after meals, and where the patient is cranky and
irascible, and where he has a dull frontal headache in the morning.

There is often nausea, empty retching and sour eructations.

Q. : What drugs have distress which commences immediately after eating
?

A. :

Lycopodium,
Nux moschata and Abies
nigra.

Q. : What drugs besides Nux are often indicated in the flatulent
dyspepsia of drunkards and those who use alcoholic stimulants ?

A. :

Carbo veg. and
Sulphur.

Q. : What is the characteristic drug for dyspepsia of beer drinkers ?

A. :

Kalium
bichromicum.

Q. : What is an indicating symptom for Nux vomica in an attack of
dyspepsia ?

A. :

Abnormal
hunger, which precedes the attack for several days.

Q. : What drug has the symptom that vomiting occurs three or four hours
after the patient eats ?

A. :

Kreosote.

Q. : What drugs have pain and tenderness in the pit of the stomach,
with aggravation at eleven o’clock in the morning ?

A. :

Sepia,
Sulphur and Natrum
carbonicum.

Q. : What is the characteristic tongue of Nux in dyspeptic troubles ?

A. :

It is usually
coated white, especially on the posterior part.

Q. : What are the special desires and aversions of Nux ?

A. :

There is a
strong desire for beer and bitters and an aversion to coffee.

Q. : What are the characteristic symptoms of Carbo vegetabilis in
dyspepsia ?

A. :

There is a slow
and imperfect digestion.

A weight in the stomach and a faint, gone feeling, which is not
relieved by eating ; after eating a few mouthfuls there is a sense of
repletion.

There is a great deal of burning in the stomach which extends to the
back.

There is a distention of the stomach and bowels, which is temporarily
relieved by belching.

There is heaviness, fullness and sleepiness after eating, and the
flatulence causes asthmatic breathing and dyspnoea.

The patient may even desire to be fanned.

Q. : What are some of the causes of dyspepsia that would especially
indicate Carbo vegetabilis ?

A. :

Dyspepsias from
overeating or high living ; useful in the chronic dyspepsias of the aged ;
or in stomach troubles from abuse of Alcohol.

Q. : How does the flatulence of Carbo vegetabilis differ from that of
Lycopodium ?

A. :

Carbo veg. flatulence
is more of the stomach, while that of Lyc.
is more of the
intestines.

Q. : What other drugs have heaviness, fullness and sleepiness after
eating ?

A. :

Nux moschata
and Lycopodium.

Q. : How does Carbo vegetabilis differ in general from Sulphuricum
acidum ?

A. :

Carbo veg. is
a putrid remedy, and indicated in putrid dyspepsia.

Sulphuric acid

is
a sour remedy and indicated in acid conditions.

Q. : In the pressure caused by flatulence, how does Carbo vegetabilis
compare with China and Nux vomica ?

A. :

It has more
upward pressure on the diaphragm, causing oppression of breathing, while China
has not so much
downward pressure as Nux
vom.

Q. : Give another distinguishing feature between Carbo vegetabilis and
Lycopodium.

A. :

Under Carbo
veg. there is a
tendency to diarrhoea.

Under

Lyc. the
tendency is to constipation.

Q. : What are the symptoms of China in dyspepsia ?

A. :

There is
distention of the stomach, momentarily relieved by belching.

There are sour or bitter eructations.

There is slow digestion, and the patient faints easily.

There is a sensation as if the food had lodged in the oesophagus behind
the sternum.

The food seems to lie a long time in the stomach and causes
eructations, and is finally vomited undigested.

The distention after eating a little is characteristic.

Q. : What other drug has the sensation as if the food had lodged in the
oesophagus behind the sternum ?

A. :

Pulsatilla.

Q. : What drug has a sensation as if a hard boiled egg lay in the
stomach ?

A. :

Abies nigra.

Q. : How is China distinguished from Carbo vegetabilis ?

A. :

Although useful
in cases where there is depression of the vital powers, it does not have
the belching nor the burning which Carbo
veg. has.

Q. : What are the symptoms of Lycopodium in dyspepsia ?

A. :

The patient has
a vigorous appetite.

After eating a small quantity of food, he feels so full and bloated
that he has to force himself to take another mouthful.

The distress is felt immediately upon eating.

The patient is very sleepy after eating.

There is a great deal of flatulence in the stomach and intestines,
which presses upward and causes difficulty of breathing.

Ravenous hunger, which if not satisfied causes headache, sour taste,
sour belching and sometimes sour vomiting.

Q. : What drugs have a distress which comes on about two hours after
eating ?

A. :

Pulsatilla,
Nux vom. and Anacardium.

Q. : Under what drugs is this sensation of satiety after eating food ?

A. :

Arsenic,
Carbo veg., China, Sepia and
Sulphur.

Q. : Does belching of gas in Lycopodium relieve ?

A. :

It does not.

Q. : How does Lycopodium differ from Nux vomica ?

A. :

The distress
immediately after eating belongs to Lyc.
, while in Nux
vom. the flatus
presses downward rather than upward.

Nux vom.

has
constipation from fitful intestinal action.

Lyc.

from
contraction of the sphincter.

Q. : What is the difference between Sepia and Lycopodium ?

A. :

Sepia has
a sensation of emptiness in the epigastrium, while Lyc.
has a sensation of
fullness.

Both have red sand in the urine.

That of

Sepia, however,
is very offensive.

Q. : What symptom has Lycopodium that is similar to one found under
Argentum nitricum ?

A. :

A great desire
for sweets.

Q. : What drug desires especially oysters ?

A. :

Lachesis.

Q. : What characteristics has Pulsatilla in dyspepsia ?

A. :

Dryness of the
mouth and putrid taste, and a sensation as if the food had lodged under
the sternum.

There is a feeling of fullness and weight in the stomach, which comes
on an hour or two after eating.

There is a great deal of flatulence, which characterizingly moves
about, causing painful sensation about the chest, which is relieved by
eructation.

It is especially useful for dyspepsia arising from fatty foods, pork or
pastry, or from chilling the stomach with ice cream or ice water.

The eructations taste of the food.

Tongue thickly white coated.

Q. : What other drugs have dyspepsia arising from rich and fatty food ?

A. :

Ipecac.,
Thuja and Carbo
veg.

Q. : What other drugs have stomach symptoms caused from chilling the
stomach ?

A. :

Arsenic and
Carbo veg.

Q. : How is Pulsatilla distinguished from Nux vomica ?

A. :

Firstly, by the
mental condition.

Then

Pulsatilla
is worse in the
evening and Nux vom.
is worse in the
morning.

Pulsatilla

has
more heartburn and Nux
vom. more water
brash.

Q. : Give the stomach symptoms of Antimonium crudum.

A. :

Nausea and
persistent vomiting occurring as soon as the child eats or drinks.

Digestive troubles from over-loading the stomach ; a useful remedy for
the ill effects of Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners ; there is the white
tongue and the vomited matters containing food, and there is a great deal
of fullness, distress and distention about the abdomen ; eructations
tasting of food.

Q. : Give the symptoms for Anacardium.

A. :

There is a
sickening feeling, which comes on about two hours after eating, and a dull
pain in the stomach, which extends to the spine.

The great characteristic of the drug is a great relief of all the
symptoms after eating.

The patient is forced to eat to relieve these symptoms.

Tasteless or sour eructations.

Q. : What other three drugs have relief from eating ?

A. :

Petroleum,
Chelidonium and Graphites.

Q. : Under what condition is Petroleum indicated ?

A. :

There is
ravenous hunger and gastralgia relieved by eating ; it being especially
useful in long, lingering gastric troubles with a great deal of nausea.

Aversion to fat food and meat.

Indigestion from

sauer
kraut.

The nausea is worse from riding and motion.

Q. : How does Anacardium differ from Nux vomica ?

A. :

Both have
urging to stool, but unlike Nux
vom. in going to
stool the desire passes away and there is a characteristic symptom of a
plug in the rectum.

Q. : What would indicate Chelidonium in dyspepsia ?

A. :

For this drug
to be effective, liver symptoms must be prominent.

Q. : What drug has gastralgia which is worse from eating ?

A. :

Argentum
nitricum.

Q. : What are the symptoms of Sepia in dyspepsia ?

A. :

There is a
feeling of goneness in the stomach ; not relieved by eating.

There is a white coated tongue and sour or putrid taste in the mouth.

There is nausea at the sight or smell of food.

The

Sepia patient
is worse in the morning and evening.

There is a great longing for acids and pickles, and it is a useful
remedy for dyspepsia from the overuse of tonics.

Sensation of a lump in the stomach.

Q. : Give another drug having a sensation of goneness in the pit of the
stomach which is not relieved by eating.

A. :

Carbo
animalis.

Q. : What drug has nausea at the thought of food ; even mention food
and he vomits ?

A. :

Colchicum.

Q. : What are some symptoms of Sulphur in dyspepsia ?

A. :

There is a
bitter, sour taste and putrid eructation and sour vomiting.

It is useful in flatulent dyspepsia, and if has a feeling of satiety
after eating a small quantity of food, and it has an empty, gone feeling
in the epigastrium about eleven o’clock.

There is a great desire for sweets, which make him sick, causing a sour
stomach and heart-burn.

There is canine hunger.

The patient can hardly wait for meals and is forced to get up at night
to eat.

Q. : What other drug has canine hunger, causing patient to get up at
night and eat ?

A. :

Phosphorus.

Q. : What drugs have a hungry, gnawing feeling in the epigastrium at
about eleven o’clock in the morning ?

A. :

Natrum
carbonica and Natrum
sulph.

Q. : What are the characteristic symptoms of Phosphorus in the stomach
troubles ?

A. :

A craving for
cold food and drink, which relieves momentarily, but which are vomited as
soon as they become warm in the stomach ; there are sour eructations and a
white tongue.

In chronic dyspepsia where the patient vomits as soon as food strikes
the stomach it is the remedy.

Perforating ulcer of stomach vomiting of coffee ground-like matters.

Q. : What other drug has this symptom of vomiting as soon as food
reaches the stomach ?

A. :

Bismuth.

Q. : Give symptoms of Natrum carbonicum in dyspepsia.

A. :

There is
hypochondriasis, morning nausea and empty retchings ; sour eructations and
fetid flatulence and a weak, hungry feeling in the epigastrium at eleven
o’clock A. M.

The patient is low-spirited after a meal and is worse after vegetable
or starchy food, and it is especially useful in dyspepsia from eating soda
biscuits.

Q. : How does Natrum carbonicum stand in relation to Nux vomica and
Sepia ?

A. :

It stands
between them.

Q. : What are the symptoms of Kalium carbonicum in dyspepsia ?

A. :

Dyspepsia of
weak, anaemic and easily exhausted patients who have a tired feeling and
backache.

There is a faint, sickening feeling in the epigastrium before eating,
sour eructations, heartburn and a weak, nervous sensation.

The patient is sleepy while eating, and after eating there is an undue
flatulence ; everything he eats seems to turn to gas.

All the symptoms of

Kalium
carbonica are
aggravated by soup or by coffee.

Q. : What other remedies have the symptoms that everything eaten turns
to gas ?

A. :

Argentum
nitricum and Iodine.

Q. : What drugs also have dyspepsia from loss of fluids, or from
protracted illness ?

A. :

China and
Carbo veg.

Q. : What are the indications for Graphites in dyspepsia ?

A. :

Tympanitic
distention of the stomach ; the patient is obliged to loosen his clothing
; burning pains and cramps and putrid eructations ; there is a burning,
crampy pain, which is relieved by eating ; there is disagreeable taste in
the morning, and aversion to meat.

Q. : Compare Lycopodium here.

A. :

Lycopodium has
distention with great accumulation of flatus ; but this flatus is not
rancid or putrid as under Graphites.

Q. : What drugs have the symptom that the patient has to loosen the
clothing after eating ?

A. :

Lycopodium,
Carbo veg., Nux vom. and
China.

Q. : What drugs have aversion to meat ?

A. :

All chlorotic
remedies, such as Ferrum
and China.

Q. : What drug has an intense desire for coffee ?

A. :

Angustura.

Q. : Give the stomach symptoms of Ipecac.

A. :

Intense nausea
and vomiting, which is followed by exhaustion and sleepiness.

Troubles arising from fat food, pork, pastry, candy, etc.

The stomach has a hanging down, relaxed feeling.

Q. : What distinguishes it from Antimonium crudum in stomach troubles ?

A. :

The tongue is
dean, whereas in Antimonium
crud. it is thickly
coated white.

Q. : What other drugs have a relaxed hanging down feeling at the
stomach ?

A. :

Staphisagria,
Tabacum and Sepia.

Q. : How is Pulsatilla distinguished in gastric troubles ?

A. :

The distress in
Pulsatilla comes
on while the food is still in the stomach ; with Ipecac
it is while the
stomach is empty ; the tongue, too, with Ipecac
is clean, in
Pulsatilla coated.

Q. : What are the stomach symptoms of Hydrastis ?

A. :

There is a
sinking, gone feeling at the pit of the stomach ; an empty, gone feeling,
as if the patient had suffered from a diarrhoea for a long time ; there
are also eructations and some nausea.

Atonic dyspepsia ; tongue large, flabby, slimy.

Q. : Give the indications for Argentum nitricum in gastric troubles.

A. :

The patient
craves candies or sweets, which disagree ; there is flatulence, which
presses up and causes dyspnoea ; there are violent efforts to belch, and
the gas rises to a certain point, when a sudden spasmodic contraction
pre-vents its escaping, but it is finally expelled in loud reports.

There is severe gastralgia, the pains radiate from the stomach in all
directions ; they are relieved by hard pressure and by bending double ;
the pains often increase gradually, and decrease gradually as under

Stannum,
– vomiting of
glairy mucus relieves.

Q. : How does Bismuth compare in this gastralgia ?

A. :

In Bismuth
it is purely
nervous gastralgia, and as soon as the least food touches the stomach the
patient vomits.

Cold drinks relieve.

Q. : What are the stomach symptoms of Staphisagria ?

A. :

A sensation as
if the stomach was hanging down, relaxed ; it seems to be flabby and weak
; a great desire for wine, brandy or tobacco.

Pain in abdomen after every morsel of food or drink.

Q. : What other drug has similar symptoms ?

A. :

Ipecac.

Q. : What is the chief characteristic symptom of Robinia ?

A. :

Acid dyspepsia
with weight in the stomach and eructations of a sour fluid ; intensely
acid vomiting, it sets the teeth on edge.

Q. : What are the stomach characteristics of Sulphuricum acidum ?

A. :

Extreme
sourness of all vomited matters ; the stomach feels cold and relaxed, and
the-patient desires a stimulating drink, such as brandy ; the stomach is
so weak that all food is vomited.

Stomach troubles of inebriates with these symptoms are greatly
benefited by the remedy.

Q. : What are the stomach symptoms of Arsenicum ?

A. :

Burning,
griping pains in the stomach followed by great prostration and vomiting ;
the vomiting is severe ; the patient vomits water as soon as it becomes
warm in the stomach ; the stomach is very irritable, and it is a remedy
for irritable stomachs of drunkards ; there is heart-burn and gulping up
of a watery substance.

Q. : What are the digestive symptoms of Bryonia ?

A. :

Food distresses
the patient as soon as he takes it ; it lies in the stomach like a hard
load ; there is a white or yellowish-white coating on the tongue ; there
is a faint, weak feeling on sitting up.

Q. : What is the sphere of action of Cadmium sulphate ?

A. :

It is a cross
between Arsenic and
Bryonia, and
comes in between those two drugs in certain stomach conditions where we
have the characteristic Arsenic
symptoms, and a
desire to keep perfectly quiet, as under Bryonia.

Q. : Give the stomach symptoms of Calcarea.

A. :

Pressure in the
stomach, the pit is swollen like a saucer turned bottom side up ; sour
vomiting and ravenous hunger in the morning ; the patient cannot bear
anything tight about the waist.

Q. : What are the stomach symptoms of Hepar sulphur ?

A. :

Craving for
acids, alcoholics and strong tasting substances ; hunger and gnawing in
the stomach ; cannot bear anything tight about the waist.

Q. : What are the indications for the use of Abies Canadensis ?

A. :

There is a
gnawing or burning in the stomach, a hungry, faint, weak feeling with
craving for indigestible or unsuitable articles of food.

Q. : What is the great characteristic of Abies nigra ?

A. :

A sensation as
if the patient had swallowed some indigestible substance which had stuck
in the cardiac extremity of the stomach ; a hard boiled egg sensation ;
dyspepsia from abuse of tobacco.

Q. : Give the stomach symptoms and cravings of Alumina.

A. :

Constriction on
swallowing food, and the patient is always worse after eating potatoes ;
there is craving for chalk, charcoal, slate pencils and other indigestible
substances.

Q. : What are the dyspeptic symptoms of Arnica ?

A. :

Throbbing
headache and drowsiness after a meal ; tendency to putrescence, foul
breath, shiny tongue, belching of gas which tastes like rotten eggs ;
tympanitic distention of the abdomen, foul-smelling stool and a great deal
of weakness.

Q. : What are the stomach symptoms of Ferrum metallicum ?

A. :

There seems to
be no secretion in the stomach capable of changing the food, and it is
vomited as taken.

The appetite is ravenous.

Q. : What are the digestive and bilious symptoms of Iris versicolor ?

A. :

Severe burning
distress in the stomach, vomiting of food, vomiting of excessively acid
substances, with distress over the liver.

Q. : What are the digestive symptoms of Ignatia ?

A. :

Bitter taste in
the mouth and regurgitation of a bitter fluid, gastralgia and hiccough,
relieved by eating and smoking.

Empty, gone feeling and great nervous depression ; empty retching,
relieved by eating ; the patient vomits simple food, but retains such
things as cabbage.

Q. : Give the stomach symptoms of Kalium muriaticum.

A. :

Dyspepsia, with
white tongue ; pain after eating ; liver sluggish ; fatty food disagrees ;
indigestion, with vomiting of a whitish mucus, with gathering of water in
the mouth.

Q. : What are the gastric symptoms of Kalium bichromicum ?

A. :

Bitter
vomiting, mixed with mucus, renewed by every attempt to eat or drink ;
fullness even after eating a small quantity, worse from meat ; dyspepsia
from beer.

Q. : Give the gastric symptoms of Calcarea phosphorica.

A. :

Excessive
flatulence ; the patient craves ham, bacon, salted or smoked meats.

Enlarged mesenteric glands ; pain after a small quantity of food.

Q. : What are the digestive characteristics of Colchicum ?

A. :

Extreme
aversion to food, nausea and loathing at the thought of food ; he gags at
the mere mention of food ; loss of appetite, great debility and brown
tongue.

Q. : What are the digestive symptoms of Cyclamen ?

A. :

Aggravation
from fat food, desire for lemonade, and thirst ; otherwise similar to Pulsatilla.

Q. : What are the stomach symptoms of Belladonna ?

A. :

Pain in the
stomach, worse during a meal.

Gastralgia, Pains go to spine, not much thirst.

Q. : What are the stomach symptoms of Natrum muriaticum ?

A. :

There is a
violent thirst ; aversion to bread ; water brash and feeling of weakness
and sinking in the stomach.

Q. : What are the stomach symptoms of Asa foetida ?

A. :

Belching of
rancid gas, and an empty, gone feeling in the stomach in the forenoon,
greasy taste ; burning in the stomach and oesophagus ; great meteorismus.