quarta-feira, 30 de setembro de 2015
A 53 years old lady with insomnia for the past 20 years, couldn't sleep at all throughout the night.
Sleeplessness: Patient's Casestudies
A
53 years old lady, Mrs. S.D.(Pin Reference no. L-7921) came to the
clinic with complains of insomnia for the past 20 years. She was unable
to sleep at all throughout the night. She was on tranquillizers for the
same. She would be able to sleep as long as the effect of the
tranquillizers worked, which would be later followed by disturbed sleep.
She was suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome for the past 20 years, but it was diagnosed lately 4 months ago. There would be constant pain, burning sensation in the abdomen. There would be 1-2 stools in the morning, immediately after breakfast. They would be semisolid in consistency. The pain and burning sensation were better by warm fomentation and lying on the back. She had headache since 3 years. The pain would be once in 6 months. But, it was severe hammering pain, which would last for the whole day. It was a one sided headache, with pain around the eyes as well. Her headaches were worse in the morning and by drafts of air. Her appetite had reduced relatively. She would prefer spicy food. Her thirst was normal. The sweat was less. There was marked intolerance for heat and she would feel better in cooler places. Her bowel and bladder functions were normal. She was menopausal since last 12 years. She was a housewife. Her husband had retired from L&T as an engineer. She had an elder son, 26 yrs old, who was married and was staying with them along with his wife. Her 1 son had expired of leukemia 5 years back. She looked tired and exhausted. She was extremely irritable due to the pain and suffering . She said she felt like dying, instead of suffering. Her depression had worsened after her son passed away. She was fed up of life. At night, she her eyes would be wide awake and thoughts would overcrowd her mind. She would think of her son, who they were unable to survive. She thought of the helplessness they had faced. As a child her life was happy and she was well supported by her family. She had done graduation from the arts stream. She was mild and gentle, then. Her father had expired wing to cerebral infarct and mother had ischemic heart disease. There was no other significant family history of any diseases. Based on this history she was given constitutional medicine and specific medicines researched at Life force Center for treatment of insomnia. 6 weeks after treatment, the pain, burning sensation in the abdomen had reduced by 40%. She was generally feeling better, although her sleep had not improved much. 2 months after treatment, her insomnia showed improvement. She was able to sleep well. The thoughts had reduced. After, waking up in the morning, she would feel refreshed, which was never before. Her dependency on tranquillizers was gradually, tapered down. With further continuation of the treatment, her irritable bowel syndrome improved. Her insomnia was further better. |
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54 years old businessman had lost sleep after loss in business. He regained his sleep after treatment.
Sleeplessness: Patient's Casestudies
Mr.
S.S.D. (PIN Number L-9434) was a calm, smiling, polite person. He
presented sleeplessness for over two years. He also had chronic
urticaria.
He was in the business of wholesale trading of commodities. He stayed with his wife and son. He was under lot of stress regarding his business since last two years. There were incidences of cheating, issues of untimely payments, uncertainties about the future, etc. He would keep thinking of all these issues, and so would remain awake for two to three hours, engrossed in thoughts. He reported that he felt that his head was spinning. He felt un-refreshed on getting up. He would feel tired all day long; he had complaints of indigestion and acidity, due to late sleep. Case details: He was reserved by nature. He liked to be alone. He preferred reading books. He said that he had become more anxious off late, and would worry about trifles. He rarely got angry, but if he would be angry, it would be very intense, but for a short while. He had a craving for salty and spicy food. He had an aversion for sweets. He could not tolerate winters and air conditioners. He was thermally chilly. He was a known hypertensive and his blood pressure was well controlled with conventional anti –hypertensive medicines. He had tried sedatives, but they left him feeling drowsy the next day. So he opted for Homeopathy. Dr. Shah studied his case details and prescribed a research remedy, which helped the sleep. Within 8 weeks of treatment he reported very good improvement in his sleep. He would get sleep in 10-15 minutes of lying in bed. He could also control his thought process and let go unwanted and excessive thoughts. He felt refreshed on getting up; he does not feel tired all the while any longer. Within 4 months of treatment, he became as active and attentive as before. |
Hahnemann Revisited
A Textbook of Classical Homeopathy for the Professional
Introduction: A Brief Overview of Hahnemann's Life
by Luc De SchepperSamuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, was a Renaissance genius who was skilled in many fields: he was a master pharmacist, a skilled linguist and translater who was fluent in seven languages, and the forerunner of today's natural healers who promote a natural diet and healthy lifestyle. He could also be called the first psychiatrist, because he was the first person in modern times to promote the humane treatment of the mentally ill as well as curing them with his remedies. Decades before Koch and Pasteur, he understood the principles of contagious illnesses and successfully treated the deadly epidemics which ravaged Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century. Hahnemann could even be considered a pioneer of modern public health and sanitation measures.
Hahnemann would merit a prominent place in the history of medicine for any of his contributions. His greatest contribution, of course, is the founding of the system of homeopathy, an unparalleled achievement: so far as we know, Hahnemann is the only person to have envisioned an entire system of medicine and then fully developed it into a powerful and practical tool within the span of a single lifetime. He was a true visionary whose understanding of the energetic basis of health and healing anticipated by a century the paradigm of matter as energy in modern physics. And allopathic medicine has barely begun to incorporate an understanding of the mind-body connection which Hahnemann delineated nearly two centuries ago.
I would like to begin this exposition of Hahnemann's system with a brief overview of his life, and I would encourage interested readers to explore the topic further. Rima Handley's A Homeopathic Love Story provides an enjoyable introduction, with her In Search of the Later Hahnemann helpful for understanding how Hahnemann practiced at the culmination of his career. Of the several biographies of Hahnemann available, my favorites are Haehl's Life and Works of Hahnemann and Bradford's Life and Letters of Hahnemann. These worthwhile books will provide a deep insight into Hahnemann's struggles and the obstacles he had to overcome.
With very little money, Hahnemann left for Leipzig in the spring of 1775 to study medicine. He supported himself by giving private lessons in French and German as well as translating treatises on medicine, botany, and chemistry, a work he would continue for the next 20 years. One of his professors, Dr. Bergrath, was so impressed with the young student that he obtained for Hahnemann the privilege of attending lectures for free. Not satisfied with the dull book-knowledge that this university had to offer (they had no hospital of their own), he soon moved to Vienna. Again, he found good fortune in Dr. Quarin, who helped Hahnemann through his years of a meager existence.
Hahnemann published many works on chemistry, the most celebrated being a treatise on arsenic poisoning. Some of his critics would later say that Hahnemann would have been a great chemist had he not turned into a great quack. In 1789 the family moved to Leipzig and Hahnemann published a treatise on syphilis, remarkable for its description of a new preparation of mercury which he had developed and which is known to this day as Hahnemaniann soluble mercury. Hahnemann's writing and chemistry provided only a meager income for his family, however, and they often lacked the bare necessities for survival. In one touching vignette, Hahnemann recounts scrubbing the family's laundry with raw potatoes because they could not afford soap.
It was also around this time that Hahnemann made his mark as a psychiatrist. Asylums at this time were usually run in connection with prisons; the mentally ill were crowded in close quarters with insufficient food. Worse, they were abandoned by physicians, who believed that insanity was contagious. Instead, the mentally ill were chained, flogged, and teased for the amusement of visitors. The first real asylum for mental patients was opened by Hahnemann in Georgenthal, where Duke Ernst of Gotha put one of the wings of his castle at Hahnemann's disposal. It was designed for the wealthy insane and melancholic. He had only one patient, the well-known author Klockenbring of Hannover, who was suffering from a full-blown mania which modern psychiatrists would have great difficulty treating. Yet Hahnemann cured him completely in seven months. In order to get a sense of this magnificent cure, I urge the reader to read this case in Dudgeon's Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann, page 243. It was the first time in the modern era that insane people were treated with gentleness, humaneness and compassion instead of coercion.
After this, mainly out of financial need he moved again from one village to another, violently attacked by doctors and pharmacists. His practice of making his own medicines aroused their jealousy, and the pharmacists brought action against him for interfering with their privileges. Unfortunately his enemies won and Hahnemann was prohibited from dispensing his own medicines. It was during one of those moves in 1794 that he lost a newborn son in a carriage accident in which his son Friedrich (the only one of the family who would become a homeopathic physician) was also injured.
In 1800 a scarlet fever epidemic gave Hahnemann the opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of the new type of medicine he was researching, based not only on the Law of Similars but also on the concept of highly diluted, potentized doses. Hahnemann created a sensation when he successfully used Belladonna in homeopathic doses as a cure and preventive for the epidemic. Hahnemann was attacked again because he asked a small remuneration for his discovery (which was understandable, considering his poverty-stricken circumstances), although he made his Belladonna available free of charge to poor patients.
Success was achieved again in 1813 when Hahnemann used homeopathy to treat an epidemic of typhus, which affected Napoleon's soldiers after their invasion of Russia. Soon the epidemic spread to Germany, where Hahnemann cured the first stage with Bryonia and Rhus tox. Again he was attacked by the pharmacists for encroaching on their privileges by dispensing his own medicines The Leipzig city council ordered Hahnemann to cease such activity in 1820. This persecution reached its climax in 1821, forcing Hahnemann to move to Köthen. There he was protected by Duke Ferdinand of Anhalt-Köthen, who was one of his patients and who allowed him to practice as a doctor and dispense his own medications. (Germany at that time was a loose association of duchies and city-states, each with its own laws.)
During this time Hahnemann developed the next stage of his understanding of chronic diseases, the concept of miasms. He published his discovery in 1828 in the first edition of Chronic Diseases. Although the concept was well received by Hahnemann's staunchest supporters (Stapf, Gross, Hering, and von Boenninghausen), most homeopaths felt it was too far-fetched and disavowed it. A Dr. Trinks had schemed behind Hahnemann's back with Hahnemann's publisher to delay its publication, another of the many obstacles Hahnemann faced in developing and publicizing his new system.
Hahnemann was joined in Köthen by his next energetic assistant, Dr. Gottfried Lehman, who turned out to be the most faithful of Hahnemann's helpers. But he was dissatisfied with the "pseudo-homeopaths" of nearby Leipzig, and he distanced himself from them more and more. In 1833 the first homeopathic hospital was opened in Leipzig under the direction of Dr. Moritz Müller; its founders hoped it would benefit from its proximity to the internationally-famous Hahnemann. At first Hahnemann was very enthusiastic, providing financial support and traveling to inspect it in 1834. But the clinic ran into financial problems after Hahnemann left for Paris in 1835 and closed for good in 1842.
Mélanie's role in Hahnemann's life is controversial. After eight decades of struggles, poverty, and adversity, he was able to enjoy the evening of his life with his young, beautiful, well-to-do and well-connected wife, who brought many members of the French nobility and high society to see him. On the other hand, Mélanie successfully isolated him from his children for the rest of his life. Mélanie convinced Hahnemann to come back to Paris with her, holding out the promise of his enjoying rest and the adulation of French society, many of whose members had adopted homeopathy. But after a long and strenuous trip to Paris, she convinced Hahnemann to practice again. The practice was probaby tiring for the elderly Hahnemann, but we can be grateful to Mélanie because it gave him the opportunity to experiment and perfect his LM method. Mélanie learned homeopathy from her husband and worked as his assistant in the afternoon, running her own clinic for poor people in the morning. She even printed her business cards as Dr. Mélanie Hahnemann, the first female "physician" in France.
To conclude this little prologue about Hahnemann, it is fitting to mention Hahnemann's great qualities of character which we homeopaths, his intellectual heirs, could all aspire to. First, Hahnemann had tremendous perseverance in pursuing what he believed to be true. At every step in developing his system he met with great discouragement and abuse. Hahnemann suffered from the attacks of the orthodox medical establishment of his time, which used all the legal and political weapons at their disposal to stop him. The journals of his time printed scathing, even libelous, critiques. The criticisms he endured only stimulated him to perfect his system. But many letters found after his death revealed how much Hahnemann suffered from this undeserved and unceasing persecution.
Hahnemann had an unfortunate limitation which in some ways hindered the development of homeopathy, and which we modern homeopaths would do well to learn from. At a later stage in his life he became intolerant of contradiction, viewing with suspicion anyone who did not agree with him in every detail. He said: "He who does not walk exactly on the same line with me, who diverges, if it be but the breadth of a straw to the left or right, is a traitor and I will have nothing to do with him." Dr. Gross, one of Hahnemann's first and best disciples, wrote to Hahnemann that the loss of his child had taught him that homeopathy did not suffice in every case. Hahnemann never forgive him for this remark. Hahnemann alienated many of his followers with his rigidity and intolerance, although it is also true that he felt betrayed by many of them.
Exercise 9 Ipecachuana (Ip.)
Constant nausea not ameliorated by vomiting is the main feature of this remedy. One of the accompanying signs is clean or slightly coated tongue. It is also indicated in spasmodic suffocating cough with vomiting and dyspnoea; the patient is pale, gasps for air, and is aggravated by least motion.
Exercise 9 - EH Analysis
In the following graph, taken from the Encyclopedia Homeopathica (EH) software analysis, each symptom included in the search is represented by a different color. The length of the bar for a particular symptom (represented by a color), indicates how many times this symptom was mentioned in the materia medica for that remedy.
You will notice that, for the most part, only characteristic symptoms were chosen. This allows for easy differentiation of the correct remedy. The first remedy on the left is the correct remedy and the answer to the exercise. Usually, it has the longest bar of the graph, and comprehensively covers all the symptoms.
The EH screenshot is followed by a list of the RADAR Keynotes of that remedy, and a link to a query file that users may download and install into their own EH program in order to duplicate the analysis.
RADAR Keynotes for Ipecachuana
* Complaints associated with NAUSEA, VOMITING.MIND:
- Full of desires, but doesn't know for what. Feels unfortunate.
- Impatience. Restless.
- Morose with contempt for everything. Jealous.
- Disposition to be angry. Irritability from noise.
- Ailments from mortification, with indignation; suppressed anger.
Silent grief.
- Fear of death, with sighing.
- Indifference to pleasure. Joyless.
- Children cry and howl. Hard to please.
GENERALITIES:
- Sensitive to warm and cold.
- < Vomiting.
- Periodicity.
- HEMORRHAGES, bright red.
- Obesity.
- Ailments from suppressed eruptions, anger, vexation.
- Convulsions from indigestion.
FOOD AND DRINKS:
- Desire: Indistinct, delicacies.
- Aversion: Food in general.
- < Veal, rich food, raisins.
HEAD:
- Headaches:
With strong nausea, vomiting (Iris, Meli, Puls, Sang).
Ext. to all bones of head, teeth, root of tongue.
NOSE:
- Epistaxis, bright red, clotted, < coughing (Dros).
FACE:
- Cyanosis with respiratory complaints.
- Blue circles around eyes.
- Flushed. One sided congestion (Acon, Cham, Ign, Puls).
- Stiffness of muscles during cough.
MOUTH:
- Clean tongue, or only thin white coating.
- Child puts fingers in mouth.
STOMACH:
- Uneasiness. Horrid sick feeling.
- NAUSEA, VOMITING.
Vomiting does not relieve.
Nausea but not able to vomit.
< From smell or thought of food, rich food, ice-cream, sweets.
< Looking at moving objects (Cocc, Jab).
< Coughing. With headache. With hemorrhage.
- Stomach feels relaxed, as if hanging down like a bag.
ABDOMEN:
- Stitching pain in umbilical region.
RECTUM:
- Diarrhea with nausea and vomiting, griping at navel.
- Hemorrhoids bleeding profusely.
URINE:
- Red urine (brick-dust sediment) with pain about navel and nausea.
FEMALE GENITALIA:
- Menses too early and profuse.
METRORRHAGIA WITH BRIGHT RED, GUSHING BLOOD,
NAUSEA AND FAINTNESS.
< During and after labor; motion.
- Pain from navel to uterus with menses, labour.
LARYNX/TRACHEA:
- Croup.
RESPIRATION:
- Respiratory complaints with nausea.
- SUFFOCATIVE FROM ACCUMULATION OF MUCUS (Ant-t); in children; < 7 p.m.
- Asthmatic. RATTLING < warm moist weather.
COUGH:
- SUFFOCATIVE cough with retching, vomiting.
- Loose cough without expectoration.
- Whooping cough with epistaxis and vomiting (Dros).
EXPECTORATION:
- Hemoptysis, < exertion (Erig, Mill).
CHEST:
- Bronchitis in children. Asthmatic bronchitis.
BACK:
- Stiffness and contraction of muscles of neck with cough.
- Opisthotonos.
EXTREMITIES:
- One hand cold, one hot (Chin, Lyc, Puls).
SKIN:
- Itching with nausea, > after vomiting.
Compl: Ant-t, Arn, Ars, Calc, Cupr, Sulph.
DD: Ant-t, Cocc, Dros, Kali-s, Mill, Puls, Sang, Tab.
EH Query File
Here is the EH Query file for you to install in your own program.1. To download the file, right click on this link and choose "Save File As", "Save Link As", or "Save Target As", depending on your browser.
2. Many browsers will change the file extension to .htm when you download. Be sure that the file name ends with .qry. If your browser has changed the extension, change it back to .qry
3. Open EH, go to the Find Window (F4) and chose the Search pull down menu. Select Recall the Query.
4. Double click on the query file you would like to open. You will then find the same query that was used to create the analysis screenshot for that remedy.
5. To view the analysis in EH, hit the function key (F8) and you will see the analysis for that query.
Note: EH owners who download these queries may get different results, based on the database of books they own. In particular, the Vermeulen books seem to be of great help in answering these exercises.
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