Case No. 1
Miss V.C., age 23 years, consulted on October 7, 1985. The main complaints recorded were ?postnasal drip. She expressed it as mucus from right nostril moving down pharynx to right side of throat. Duration 5 years.
Aggravated for last 10 months. Had Homoeopathic treatment with partial improvement. No significant ex-pectoration. Whitish mucus, no blood.
Throat feels fatigued from talking, as if voice yould fail her — "have to strain to speak"
When sitting unoccupied right arm feels weak.
Right side of back has "pins and needles off and on".
Low back pain on right side.
Pain legs, below knees, mainly right, occasional both.
Said it felt as a severe ache. Could give no modalities.
Vague right sided headache, ?heaviness. If bends head backwards, occasionally associated sensation of a ball rolling backward in head.
Some burning sensation with increased lachrymation in right eye from time to time.
Pain in right ear from exposure to cold draft. Sensa-tion of a discharge from the ear whereas actually it is not so. It may be pointed out here that almost all the symptoms that she mentioned of different parts of the body were on the right side.
Hair falling.
She was a vegetarian. Had desire sweets.
Hot patient. Excessive perspiration from hands only in winter. It can drip and things slip from hands. Hands and feet are cold in winter and there is burning in
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mer and these are both subjective and objective. Burn-ing specially in the feet and she wants to keep them soaked in water. Lips crack in winter.
M.P.: 5/28-32, regular. Has dysmenorrhoea — an in-tense heaviness in the hypogastrium. Starts one or two hours prior to flow and continues for three to five hours after onset with cold sweat and associated nausea.
Breast sensitive/painful to touch 4 to 5 days prior to M.P. Leucorrhoea off and on, variable consistency, bland, associated with low back discomfort.
Light sleeper. Dreams — routine matters of the day, mostly of things talked about just prior to falling off to sleep.
Mentals: Irritable, must express it otherwise feels restless or sort of suffocated. If expressed then feels fine very soon. Fear of lizards and to some extent of dogs. No fear dark or thunder. When sad she does not express it but cries at night. This is not very frequent.
At this point mentioned a symptom which could be considered peculiar in adults. She had a strong pica ten-dency — a craving for eating mud (Multani mitti only) and of eating raw rice.
P.I.: Pneumonia frequently till age 4. Worms in childhood. Typhoid at 14 years. U.T.I, in January 1985.
F.H.: Father-asthmatic.
1985
October 7: Calcarea carbonica 200/3 powders through the evening and at bedtime.
October 28: Hemicrania headaches better, other symptoms same. Repeated Calcarea carbonica 200/3 powders at 15 minutes interval.
December 18: Pain breast before M.P. is less but not much change in other symptoms including pica. As the
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symptoms still pointed to Calcarea carbonica, the same was repeated.
1986
January 21: A feeling of coldness in lower half of legs and feet though objectively not so. Hands and upper limbs generally get tired soon, much headache in the previous month. Postnasal discharge and pica continue.
Calcarea carbonica 1000/3 powders at 15 minutes in-terval. This was repeated by my Assistant on April 2, as I was not then in town.
April 30: Reported low grade pyrexia — upto 99.5, occasionally 100°F. No cough. Calcarea carbonica 10M
— I powder at bedtime.
June 2: Low grade pyrexia persists. No special symptoms with the fever. Tuberculinum bovinum 200/3 powders at 15 minutes interval.
July 18: Pyrexia continued as also pica.
Alumina 200/3 powders on the same day.
October 20: Now temperature remains normal. Pica is less but not totally gone.
Repeated Alumina 200/3 powders at 15 minutes in-terval.
1987
Was seen in January and February 1987 and was doing well and no particular complaints.
On December 9, 1990, another relation came for treatment and mentioned about her having been well through all these years after the treatment that she had had from me.
Case No. 2 (Postnasal Discharge)
Mr. P.K., age 44 years. Consulted on September 9, 1968. He had been married 21 years and had 3 children.
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He was in business, his duties being in the office (Seden-tary).
Complaints: His main complaint was "Phlegm chest".-This had been there off and on from boyhood.
Initially from nose, now postnasal drip — thick yellow, sweetish at times. Sometimes felt bad smell also. This he felt himself. There can be long remission also. Ears get blocked with cold. Green chillies result in stuffy nose or irritation in throat almost immediately, "I am allergic to it". Use of beer, betel or even slight exposure gives a cold. In fact, anything very cold and very hot upsets. His other complaints were piles — "Feel generally con-gested in that region". Flatulence — has been using Becozyme two tabs, for a long time. Stopped two months ago. Isabgol amel. Had been investigated in U.S.A. and diagnosed as "Nervous Stomach".
Sudden pain in vertex and then cannot talk — then pain in chest and gets nervous about heart.
Having a cold for the previous three weeks.
Appetite: Good. Non-vegetarian, likes sweets, sour, likes his drinks cold and his food warm. B.O.R.
Sleep: Good, except when he drinks or there is over-eating.
Vaccination for small pox: Every three years. No other inoculations.
Nervous temperament generally, feels afraid when hears of the death of any friend. Fear going in aircraft, fear dark, fear thunderstorm, gets upset if there is delay in receiving an expected letter, would feel insulted ex-cessively. The fears are less when in company and lot of people around. With a cold sex urge goes down consid-erably. If any one encourages him, he feels elated and Okay. Says, "When I am healthy, I am very bold."
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P.I.: Herpes in 1967, Appendicectomy 1964, Syphilis in 1945 for which he received the standard treatment then available — Arsenic Injections.
F.H.: Father had Asthma. One daughter similarly suffers from colds.
Reports: T.L.C. 9250. D.L.C. P65L24M3E8
X-ray — P.N.S. — "Right maxillary sinus opaque, thickened mucosa or fluid."
O.E.: B.P. - 110/70. Pulse 64-68/mt. Heart, Lungs, Abdomen — N.A.D.
1968
September 9: Pulsatilla 30/28 powders q.i.d.
This was for the cold was having at the time.
September 21: Reported better. Cold practically cleared. Phosphorus 200/1 powder followed by
Sac-charum lactis. .
October 29: Reported progress "Phlegm is M.B.
Flatus passed very easily with your medicine". Feeling of flatulence is more after lunch and in the evening around 6-7 pm. During this time had piles bleeding once. B.R.B.
Phosphorus 200/3 powders at 4 hrly. interval.
December 11: No piles bleeding after last visit, ten-dency to be hasty and hurried, for sex weakness took Oligoplex No. 1 on his own. This contains Acidum phos-phoricum and six other remedies. The sex urge is less
otherwise normal. At times pain in left shoulder region with palpitation. He ascribes it to indigestion, "My digestion has never been good".
Kali phosphoricum 3x/24 powders t.i.d.
1969
This was repeated on February 19,1969.
August 2: Reported again. Has been generally much
better-Kali phosphoricum helps considerably. Nervous-Ill
ness-gone, sleep-normal, sex-normal. Piles — If used toilet paper for a few days instead of the usual Indian custom of washing after stool. Colds have also improved.
His present complaints were pain in right thigh, knee joint and leg from mid June. This started while he was coming down on a mountain side on slippery ground (Gulmarg to Tanmarg). It had rained but he was well protected and did not get drenched but it was strenuous to walk as the wet ground was slippery.
Rhus toxicodendron 200/3 powders t.i.d. followed by
Saccharum lactis.
The pain was relieved in a few days and I did not see him except in some social gatherings till December 1993, when he came for an entirely different problem (Tin-nitus aureum). He had remained well through the inter-vening twenty four years.