SOME CASES OF RHEUMATISM By Dr. Mossa

 The

 Homoeopathic Recorder

Vol. XX, Lancaster, Pa., January, 1905  No. 1

SOME CASES OF RHEUMATISM

By Dr. Mossa, Stuttgart

Translated for the Homoeopathic Recorder from Allg. Hon. Zeit.

Edited By Dr. Vandana Patni

Gnaphalium

A servant girl, twenty-nine years of age, had suffered much 

ever since her ninth year from rheumatism. This pain roved 

about in all the joints, sometimes in the fingers which are red and 

swollen, then again in the shoulders or the loins. She cannot 

sleep at night. The joints are stiff and sore and hard to move. 

The mother-tincture of Gnaphalium, ten drops a week, continued 

for two months, brought remarkable relief. In the course of two 

months she was freed from all pains, except a slight aching in the 

back (Cartier). Gnaphalium is generally most useful in non- 

inflammatory rheumatism, and still more in nervous rheumatism 

and in gouty myalgia. 

Kalmia Latifolia

A school boy, ten years of age, had an attack of rheumatic fever, 

lasting thirteen days. Acute pains in the shoulder-joints and in 

the upper arm, jumping from one side to the other; penetrating 

lancinations in the cardiac region, worse at night; thirst for large 

quantities of water; great restlessness. Pains darting through 

the intercostal muscles in the left side, worse while breathing; 

the tongue, red in the middle, with a red triangular spot on the 

tip; the joints neither reddened nor swollen. Temperature higher, 

respiration 48-60 ; the cardiac pains worst while lying down. The 

boy had had a similar attack the year before, which had been less 

painful, indeed, but which under allopathic treatment had lasted 

six weeks and a half, and had left behind a deficiency of the 

valves. On giving him Kalmia latifolia the pain disappeared in 

two days. 

Medorrhinum

This remedy is according to J. H. Allen most effective in rheu- 

matism after gonorrhoea, especially when the small joints are 

affected. The gonorrhoea in such cases has often been quickly 

repressed. Whenever in rheumatism the joints, especially those 

of the fingers and toes, or the knee joint, are swollen, we should 

think of Medorrhinum; for there is usually a specific infection pres- 

ent. This remedy has cured gouty exudations, extending to the 

whole of the body. The patients in such cases have hardly any 

use of the joints affected (similarly as Rhus in muscular rheuma- 

tism). It is worse in cold weather, better when it is warm.

Winter is always the worst season with such patients, especially 

when it is cold and moist. They complain of heaviness of the 

limbs while walking, as if the limbs would refuse their service. 

In Arthritis deformans, this crux for patients and physicians, 

Dr. Bonino has found the best results from a weekly alternation 

of Causticum and Thuja. In pronounced gout Urtica urens has 

been most serviceable.