The
Homoeopathic Recorder
Vol. XX Lancaster, Pa., April, 1905. No. 4.
A CASE OF COLICKY PAIN WITH A FOETUS-LIKE
MOVEMENT IN ABDOMEN
TREATED WITH
A SINGLE HOMCEOPATHIC MEDICINE.
By A. W. K. Choudhury, M. D.
Patient, a poor Mohammedan female adult, named Makhau,
came under my homoeopathic treatment May 27, 1904. She be-
ing mother of two children, both surviving. She came to me
with the following history and symptoms:
The colicky pain commences from the left ovarian region and
spreads rightward to below the umbilicus, and then extends up-
wards. It is not constant, but when it ails her it increases in the
morning and continues till noon, then the pain subsides and fever
sets in. This fever is characterized by a chill of about an hour,
then a severe heat followed by sweat, no thirst in any stage. The
pain under pressure on the left ovarian region is constant, in-
creasing especially at each menstrual nisus; during menses she
has pains all over body and is feverish; flow copious, may be
with blackish clots, and it continues six days; menses irregular,
some days too early or some days too late. She had been ill nine
months.
She notices a foetus-like movement in the abdomen from left to
right and then sometimes upwards.
Bowels open daily, once; stool hard, not sufficient; never diar-
rhoea; no thread-worms; acidity afternoon, evening or morning;
heartburn; acid eructation; taste in mouth insipid; appetite dull;
urine sometimes colored; sleep, good; heaviness of head; tooth-
ache.
Dark complexion and black hair.
Never leucorrhoea; vertigo when closing the eyes; headache;
photophobia and lachrymation since nine months ago; no warts
anywhere; spleen little enlarged; pain under percussion on right
hypochondrium and epigastrium, and below navel a little to the
left; nails all right; vaccinated in infancy; itching all over body
since about a month; itching increasing while sweating.
1 -6- 1904. — Thuja 30, two doses given; to be taken daily, one
dose.
Diet: Rice, vegetable curry, milk.
Bathing allowed.
7-6-1904. — Felt much better for three days; menses five days;
menses on this occasion at full month; pain in abdomen much
less; no foetus-like movement in abdomen any more; complaints
little increased since yesterday; no toothache; pain all over body;
bowels open; appetite as above; heartburn.
Repeated one dose of Thuja 30.
8-6-1904. — Pain in abdomen no more felt; no more foetus-like
movement in abdomen; pain all over body somewhat less; heart-
burn always, frequent eructation; daily, one or two better stools;
stools soft with bad smell; appetite not good after evening; taste
in mouth insipid; burning of eyes; heat of soles of feet; paleness
of hands and of vertex; pain under pressure on abdomen a little
below the navel and a little to the left, where a hardened structure
of about the size of a hen's egg is felt under the fingers; slight
enlargement of spleen; no pain under pressure on right hypo-
chondrium and epigastrium. Placebo.
She continued under treatment and observation till the 14th
inst., getting only Placebo. She gradually improved and fully
recovered.
Remarks. — Three doses only cured her complaint. A bodily
complaint of nine months' duration disappearing with the ad-
ministration of three doses of the medicine would not fail to excite
envy and admiration in the bosom of our elder brothers, the
allopaths, if they kindly condescend to study the case.
Thuja was tried in this case, and why? Dr. H. C. Allen, in
his Therapeutics of Fevers, mentions Thuja, Crocus, Sulphur and
Nux as having the movements of living child in abdomen.
Our patient was vaccinated; and treating chronic cases previously
vaccinated we may get a good help using Thuja. Her left
ovarian pain increasing at every menstrual nisus is another symp-
tom in the patient to indicate Thuja. So Thuja was selected and
given her.
Satkhira P. O., Calcutta, India.
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