(Highly nervous brain, mental exhaustion, cerebral depression)
Symptoms:
a) Want of brain and nerve power
b) Nervous exhaustion
c) Defective vitality
d) Anemia
e) Patient suffers from hallucinations and delirium
Remedies:
a) Kali Phos 3x, 4x, or 6x: It restores nerve-power, removes depression of spirits, enhances
memory, reduces sleeplessness; should be taken thrice a day for a month or two as it may suit the patient. Dr Schussler has recommended persistent use of Kali Phos 6x, a dose in the morning, and Silicea 12x, a dose at night.
b) Calcarea Phos 6x: Loss of vigor, numb sensation, depression of spirits with nervous
prostration & profuse night-sweats leads to selection of this remedy along with Kali Phos, since brain-fag is either due to deficiency of potassium phosphate (Kali Phos) or due to loss of albumen. Use of Ferrum Phos 6x occasionally is good for proper supply of iron & oxygen.
c) Calcarea Sulph 6x: “Usually Kali Phos is a good remedy to start with, it gets the mind in
good condition, and aided by Calcarea Phos, Ferrum Phos or Natrum Phos, dependent on condition, soon begins the improvement. Then follow with Calcarea Sulph as soon as the Phos has built up the nerve-cells, and the Sulph is needed to finish up the work which may take from three months to two years or more.” (F. D. Bittinger, M. D., Dayton, Ohio)
d) Zincum Metallicum 6x or 12x: The patient suffers from cerebral depression, defective vitality, brain-fag with forehead cool but base of brain hot, may have convulsive twitching, fidgety feet, trembling; may roll head from side to side; cannot withstand smallest quantity of wine; natural discharges relieve all sufferings; may be given three times a day for two or three days or as may suit the patient.
Bronchiectasis
(Permanent dilatation of one or both bronchi due to infection)
Signs & symptoms:
a) Expectoration of large amount of purulent sputum
b) The sputum sometimes is offensive or stained with blood
Remedies:
1) Antimonium Ars 6x or 12x: Let it be taken thrice a day. It is useful in
bronchiectasis & emphysema (loss of elasticity of lungs with progressive difficulties to exhale) with excessive dyspnoea and cough having much mucous secretion, worse on eating and lying down. There may be pneumonia associated with influenza, left- sided pleurisy, myocarditis and oedema of face.
2) Silicea 12x: It is given 4 hourly for 15/30 days when there is abscess of lungs,
chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, phthisis and/or empyema (purulent exudate in pleural cavity), profuse night-sweat & debility, inflammation of the respiratory tract and copious expectoration of thick greenish yellow pus. Calcarea Sulph 6x follows it well when expectoration is yellow or yellowish green or mixed with blood.
(30) Bronchitis
(Inflammation of the mucous membranes of the bronchial tubes)
Signs & symptoms:
a) Acute bronchitis occurs in wet or cold weather
b) When nose is blocked, one breathes through mouth and inhales
impurities and cold
c) Chronic bronchitis is related to smoking or air-pollution
d) The principal symptom involves cough with mucoid sputum, worse in
the morning and during winter Remedies:
2) Ferrum Phos 6x: In acute or chronic bronchitis, it is the remedy for inflammation
of the bronchi, short oppressed breathing, burning soreness, congestion, painful hard cough, and should be alternated with Kali Mur 6x every two hours for a few days. It can also be alternated with the remedy indicated by the type of expectoration. When the expectoration is clear & watery, Natrum Mur; when distinctly yellow, Kali Sulph; when albuminous, Calcarea Phos; when yellowish green, Calcarea Sulph. 3) Arsenic Alb 12x: Extremely restless, exhausted, chilly patient with
unquenchable thirst, nightly aggravation, dry cough after drinking, expectoration scanty, pain through upper third of right lung, fear of death with cold sweat, let it be given four hourly for two or three days.
4) Antim Tart 12x: Great rattling of mucus with little expectoration although
bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus; dyspnoea relieved by eructation and lying on right side, tongue coated white with red edges; there may be dizziness and drowsiness. Three doses may be given every 15 minutes.
5) Hepar Sulph 6x or 12x: In chronic and “choking cough,” which troubles
whenever the body gets cold or uncovered; the patient sweats, yet pulls blanket around him/her; rattling cough worse in morning, better damp weather and bending backwards. It should be taken twice a day for some days.
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Burns & Scalds
(Biochemic remedies give miraculous results if treatment is commenced immediately in mild to moderate severity of burns. Advanced cases need hospitalization.)
Remedies:
Kali Mur 3x: Burns and scalds of any degree; scalds from boiling water; moisten lint with a strong solution of Kali Mur 3x and apply it frequently without removing the lint or put the affected portion in water containing Kali Mur 3x, 30 grains, for some time, it would relieve the pain of severe burns. In case, there is heat and redness, use Ferrum Phos 2x as a powder to dust over the burns. Kali Mur 3x , 5 tablets, should be taken internally also, every half hour 6 or 7 doses, thereafter duration should be increased substantially as may be required, may be two hourly. When suppuration occurs, Calcarea Sulph 6x should be given thrice a day.
(32) Cancer
(A malignant growth or tumor anywhere in the body, eats the affected part, tends to spread indefinitely, returns after removal violently. Yoga and meditation provide relief. Bio-chemic remedies provide resistance, pain relief and mental support. Cancer cells do not thrive in oxygenated condition. Vegetables like cauliflower, cabbage and tomatoes are rich in vitamins A, B, E, so act as anti-oxidants.)
Precaution:
a) Look out for a lump which grows in the breast or elsewhere in the body
b) An ulcer that does not heal quickly
c) Prolonged Bleeding
d) Persistent cough lasting more than two weeks
e) Changes in moles, warts, bowels
1) Kali Mur 3x: Tumors arise primarily from a Kali Mur deficiency which causes an excess
of fibrin in the organism and leads to a tumor. Recent cases of cancer of the breast with prominent symptom of softness & tenderness are curable by use of Kali Mur 3x thrice a day for several days.
2) Ferrum Phos 3x: It is an excellent alternating remedy for excessive pains in cancer.
“Cancer of tongue has been greatly benefited by Ferrum Phos” and “Natrum Phos”. So both can be alternated in 3x or 6x trituration two hourly for days together.
3) Calcarea Fluor 3x: It should be given every three hours for a considerable period of time
for easy handling of Hard lumps, knots, kernels, shiny painful swellings in the female breast, blood tumors on the heads of infants, ganglion, encysted tumors, hardened glands, tumors of the eyelids, hard swelling on the jawbone. It is the constitutional mineral-salt for hard or firm growths or for tough lumps.
4) Kali Phos 3x: It greatly ameliorates the pain in cancer with extremely offensive
discharge and dis-coloration of the tissues, and is quite useful where the malignant tumor has been removed and is in the healing process. Let it be taken thrice a day for a month or two. 5) Kali Sulph 6x: It is given two times a day for several days to cure epithelial cancer (Skin
cancer), with thin yellow or greenish secretions or for those who are better in the cool or cold open air.
6) Silicea 12x: It is a remedy in the cases of multiple keloid, tubercular tumors of the neck,
scirrhus induration of the upper lip and face, uterine cancer, suppurating lumps for those who are generally chilly and seek the warmth. Two doses per diem for several days will be beneficial.
7) Calcarea Phos 6x: It is good for cancer in scrofulous constitutions, goiter, house-maid’s knee, nasal polyp, bursae, acute or chronic cysts when taken two times a day for some days. It is followed by Calcarea Sulph 3x well.
8) Radium Bromide 6x or 12x: It is required for ulcers & cancers due to Radium burns or consequential to any other cause. To reduce severe pain in any tissue or organ, which is worse at
night, better hot bath, it should be given thrice a day for ten days.
9) Eye Cancer: For bony tumors of the orbit, Kali Hyd 1x 2 drops in water should be taken 3 times a day; if there is intense pain over eyes and root of nose, with facial neuralgia & profuse lachrymation, worse warm room and at night; cold food and drink especially milk aggravates.
10) Cancer of tongue: Kali Cynatum 6x is quite beneficial in cancer and ulcers of the tongue. There may be sudden sinking sensation, agonizing neuralgia and loss of power of speech. Symptoms may worsen from 4 a. m. to 4 p. m. It may be taken thrice daily.
11) Cancer of throat: In case the patient takes cold easily, almost always suffers from swollen tonsils with pain in pharynx or larynx, can only swallow liquids and befriends grief over trifles, Baryta Carb 12x three times a day will be beneficial. Nose, Larynx, Lungs may feel as if smoke inhaled. It is slow in action, bears repetition well.
12) Cancer of Uterus: For cancer of uterus, if the patient also suffers from dropsy, offensive bloody leucorrhoea with burning pain in uterus and vagina and deficiency of hemoglobin and red corpuscles, Calcarea Ars 6x should be given 3 hourly and no harm in giving Calcarea Phos 6x simultaneously. 13) Cancer of Ovary, vagina, cervix, uterus: Aurum Mur Nat 3x “has more power over uterine tumors than any other remedy.” Chronic metritis (inflammation of uterus), ossified uterus, ulceration of the neck of womb and vagina with leucorrhoea, hardened cervix & ovaries, ovarian dropsy (morbid accumulation of watery fluid in ovary), inadequate shrinkage of uterus after delivery, high blood pressure, are some of the guiding symptoms. Let it be given thrice a day for some days.
14) Epithelial Cancer: Kali Ars in 6x potency cures epithelial cancer. It may be given three hourly for some days. Kali Sulph and Kali Ars together are also very effective.
15) Cancer of testicles: Aurum Met 6x or 12x very useful in atrophy of testicles, chronic swelling and pain thereof, if taken thrice a day for a few days.
16) Cancer of Pancreas: Pancreas secretes digestive enzymes and insulin. Calcarea Ars 6x gives relief in cancer of pancreas considerably if slightest exertion worsens the sufferings and liver and spleen are enlarged. It may be taken three hourly for some days.
17) Cancer of Prostate: In prostate hypertrophy, Ars Iod and Calcarea Carb, both in 6x potency thrice a day for a fortnight or so are of unquestioned value.
18) Cancer of pylorus and duodenum: Graphites 12x, twice daily for some days eradicates cancer of pylorus if administered early. It is also very good for duodenal ulcers; breath smells like urine. The patient has a tendency to obesity.
A special note on Cancer, AIDS & other fatal diseases:
Foremost is your own firm faith in you yourself, Blessings of God, and completely stress-free life. The unlimited power of the intrinsic faith converts the medicine into an omniscient remedy, and cures howsoever deadly the disease may be. Tension, worry, anxiety, on the other hand, convert a medicine into crude drug and reduce its efficacy. Proper medical supervision is essential.
Carbuncle:
(It is an infective gangrene found in the skin and sub-cutaneous tissues, commonly at nape of the neck) Remedies:
Hepar Sulph 6x or 12x: It opens the abscess and hastens the cure, in cases where suppuration seems inevitable; the slightest injury may have caused the suppuration; the patient may be extremely sensitive to cold air and to the slightest touch. Craving for sour things is very characteristic. He/ she may be sweating but pulls blanket around him/her. Let it be taken four times a day for a week or more. Carbo Veg 12x:, four times a day for a week: It is good for treatment of carbuncles/varicose ulcers, and senile gangrene in toes with hot perspiration, and skin becoming blue or cold ecchymosed with burning pains. Loss of vital fluids and deficient capillary circulation causes blueness of skin. The patient suffers from weak digestion and desires to be constantly fanned.
Calcarea Fluor 12x & Silicea 12x, every two hours alternatively: When the suppurating process affects the bone and there are hard callous edges to the affected part, this treatment is very effective. Deep-seated carbuncles discharging thick yellow pus fall within its curative range. Kali Phos 6x or 12x follows well.
Note: A poultice prepared with the pulp of a fig may be applied on a carbuncle. It would have a soothing and curative effect.
(34) CATARACT
(CLOUDING OF EYE-LIDS; Loss of transparency of the lens of the eye)
Remedies:
a) Calcarea Fluor 6x: Dr R. S. Copeland prescribed it in the case of senile cataract and observed great improvement in sight. In the Homoeopatische Monatsbatter 1882, page 95, a report on thirteen cases of cataract appeared in which it was stated that eleven were cured with Calcarea Fluor and for the remainder two cases administration of Kali Mur was also required. So let it be taken twice or
thrice a day for two/three months followed by Kali Mur 6x similarly.
b) Natrum Mur & Silicea both in 3x potency may be alternated subsequently for some days. It would improve dimness of vision.
c) For cataract appearing with lupus, tuberculosis, gout or cancer, Calcarea Phos 6x will be needed likewise.
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Cervical Spondylitis
Remedies:
1) Phosphoric Acid 1x, twice a day one drop in water after meals for a few months: It suits best to persons who had strong constitution, but have become very weak by loss of vital fluids; mental debility first, physical later. The patient is apathetic, indifferent, and listless. It is the principal remedy for cervical spondylitis; inflammation of vertebrae with tearing pains at night as if joints/bones scraped with a knife. There may be paralytic weakness of spine and boring pain between scapulae. Pains are better by warmth.
2)Calcarea Phos 6x and Mag Phos 6x, each 5 tablets twice a day in lukewarm water alternately: This alternation will cover rheumatic pain and stiffness of neck, cramp-like pain in neck and around shoulder blades, spinal curvature, neuralgic pains with sensation in the limbs resembling electric shocks, relieved by heat, aggravated by cold.
3) Calcarea Fluor & Kali Mur both in 12x potency four times daily for one month
(36) Chicken-pox
(Acute contagious disease occurring usually in children with fever accompanied by sparse eruption of papules, which turn into vesicles and thereafter into pustules; incubation period being 14 to 18 days.) Signs & Symptoms:
b) In 38 to 48 hours it turns into pustules.
c) By the 4th day the pustules shrivel and form crusts.
d) Pains in the back, vomiting, pyrexia are milder than in small pox.
Remedies: (The same remedies are very good for Small-pox also. It has been eradicated. So we have not dealt with it separately.)
2) Ferrum Phos 3x: The treatment may be commenced with Ferrum Phos, which alone may
serve the purpose. It may be alternated with Kali Mur 3x, 2 hourly, when vesicles open and if white coated tongue is seen, as the basic cause of chicken-pox is a deficiency of the inorganic salt Kali Mur. When the skin is dry, rough, hot or when desquamation sets in, alternate Kali Sulph 6x with Ferrum Phos.
3) “If the pustules become purulent Calcarea Sulphurica is indicated. Should symptoms of
adynamia and of decomposition of the blood arise, Kali Phosphoricum is to be given. When the pustules are confluent Natrum Muriaticum is called for” Dr Schussler.
Preventive of Chicken-pox, Small-pox: Kali Mur 3x twice daily for a week.
(37) Chikungunya
(It is a relatively rare form of viral fever. The symptoms include headache, conjunctivial infection, slight photophobia, high fever, a petechial or maculopapular rash and crippling pains affecting multiple joints.)
Remedy:
Bio-combination No.28 of SBL or Schwabe, 4 hourly for a fortnight may be quite useful. Remarks: Chikungunya is a dangerous disease. If condition does not improve despite medication, hospitalization is a must.
(38) Cholera:
(Highly infectious intestinal disease characterized by bilious vomiting, diarrhea, sudden loss of fluid, scanty urine, weak pulse and drastic fall of blood pressure, abdominal pains and cramps. The discharge from the bowels resembles rice-water. The patient should be urged to drink hot water as much as possible conveniently. A half teaspoonful of salt should be added to each quart of water.)
Remedies:
2. Cuprum Met 6x or 12x: The tongue of the patient protrudes and retracts like that of a snake. Nausea is greater than in any other remedy. Summer causes cholera with cyanosis, severe colic, spasms and cramps in abdomen, also in calves, and soles. Vomiting is relieved by drinking cold water. First few doses may be given half hourly.
3. Arsenic Alb 12x: It is a very good remedy for cholera, which is caused by consumption of decayed food, spoiled meat. It may be due to injurious effects of watery fruits. Intense agony, prostration, and burning thirst characterize cholera. Mentally restless, physically too weak to move. Great thirst for cold water, drinks often but little at a time; burning pains; the affected parts burn like coals of fire; body cold as ice; craves milk, coffee, acids. Symptoms generally worse 1-2 p.m., 12-2 a.m. Three doses half hourly may be good enough.
4. Kali Phos 6x: It is a specific Biochemic medicine against cholera. Dr Schussler himself has cited a case of an old person who was attacked by severe vomiting and diarrhoea, accompanied by exceedingly painful cramps in calves, low pulse and rice-water discharges. Kali Phos cured. Four or five doses consisting of 5 grains may be given every 5/10 minute in hot water, as may be required.
5. Cholera Infantum frequently appears among teething children in summer, due to deficiency of Calcarea Phos which may be given in 6th trituration, 2 tablets thrice a
day in hot water. If febrile symptoms appear, it may be alternated with Ferrum Phos 6x. During attack the child should not have any milk; food also should be as less as possible. As soon as it recovers, barley water with a little cream and warm water are recommended.
6. Natrum Sulph 3x acts as a preventive of cholera as it regulates the water in the blood and should be taken in hot water. A deficiency of sodium chloride leads to cholera. So Natrum Mur 3x may also be needed.
7. Cuprum Acet 3x: In case any person in the family or nearby is already suffering from cholera, the other members should take one dose in the morning, the other dose in the evening daily for 5 days for prevention of the disease.
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CHOLESTEROL
in the body naturally. There are two forms basically: i) Low density lipoprotein (LDL), ii) High density lipoprotein (HDL).
LDL forms fatty deposits which clog up the arteries, and form blood clot. So it is known as bad cholesterol. For prevention of heart attack, the level of cholesterol must be lowered. HDL is good as it reaches liver wherefrom it is eliminated. Oats reduce blood cholesterol. Soya bean reduces bad cholesterol.
Remedies:
a) Ferrum Phos 3x thrice a day: It is needed to establish normal circulation of blood and to remove complications arising from excessive action of heart. It is an excellent remedy for children and old people in alternation with Calcarea Phos 6x and occasional dose of Kali Sulph 12x.
b) Kali Mur 6x: For that condition of blood which leads to the formation of clots, let it