THERAPEUTIC POINTERS

THE

 Homeopathic Recorder

 Vol. XXVI Lancaster, Pa., January, 1911 

Edited By : Dr. Ravinder Singh Mann

THERAPEUTIC POINTERS 

McCandlish, Hom. World, reports a case of a woman aged 23, 

who since her eighteenth year, had suffered horribly from dys- 

menorrhea, so much so that she would scream with pain. Allo- 

paths and Homoeopaths could give no relief, until he carefully 

took the symptoms, worked them out in the repertory, and was 

surprised to find the result was "Apis." which remedy completely 

cured the patient. 

McCandlish, Hom. World, tells of a "large, hard, tense red 

scar" on a woman's breast from an operation, which, under 

Phytolacca 1. became more like the surrounding skin. 

McCandlish, Hom. World,reports a case of a ten-year-old 

girl discharged as incurable from hospital. She had from birth a 

weakness of the ankle joint, which caused her to drag her right 

foot along the ground when walking ;latterly the weakness began 

to spread up the leg. Conium 30 morning and night, enabled 

her to walk and run “quite nicely now when she likes and when 

she knows she is being watched.” The italics seem to indicate a 

queer mental state. 

McCandlish, Hom. World, reports a case of a man aged 43, 

suffering from itching anus, which was moist, wet, edematous 

and sore. Anacardium 30, morning and night, cured the case. 

Hom. Monthly, November, reports several cases in which 

blood was passed from internal parts by mouth or rectum in 

which Calendula Q. ten drops in half a tumblerful of water, tea- 

spoonful doses of the latter, acted in a most gratifying manner. 

The diseases were tuberculosis, cancer, disease of the bowels, 

etc. The indication is the passing or coughing of blood. Calen- 

dula is a wonderful but little known remedy. 

Dr. Williams (Medical Record) says that the pulp of a ripe 

pineapple applied to a boil will establish drainage in a short time. 

It seems to digest the necrotic head. This seems to be on the 

same principle by which it clears away the membranous throat 

deposits in diphtheria. 

Dr. D. W. Dimock, Brockton, Mass. (Medical World), advises 

as a “mother's friend” the application of ‘olive oil’ over the 

lower abdomen, around and over the vulva and perineum every 

night on retiring" for pregnant women. Keep this up every 

night for months before confinement. One woman who had 

always suffered agonies before had such an easy delivery after 

doing this that she named the girl baby born ‘Olive.’ 

Dr. Geo. D. Scott (Therap. Gaz., Aug.) advises the use of 

fruit juices in the diet of infants : cooked fruit juices are nourish- 

ing and mildly laxative. Perhaps a little fresh juice of ripe 

fruit would also be beneficial. 

Dr. McCandlish, Hom. World, tells of a woman with pains in 

her legs that had been getting worse for three years ; worse in 

the morning so that she dreaded to get up ; neither bone nor joints 

were affected: remedies, including liniments, did no good. On 

the theory that the seat of the trouble might be the facise and 

muscle sheaths. Dr. McCandlish prescribed Phytolacca 1. In 

seven days the pain had entirely disappeared. 

Dr. Ashley B. Palmer, of Seattle, Washington, reports a case 

of anterior poliomyelitis in Iowa Hom. Journal, December. It 

was first treated, but not recognized by an allopath who gave 

castor oil. When seen by Palmer the paralysis was established. 

Case made complete recovery under Gelsemium in rather high 

potency, with some other inter-current remedies as indicated. 

But Gelsemium seemed to be the remedy for the central disease. 

Dr. Lewis Robinson, of Carmel, Maine, writes that he has used 

Crataegus extensively in heart murmurs with excellent results. 

Dr. A. L. Fisher writes of Arnica oil that “it is of great value 

in stopping the falling out of the hair, a serious thing for those 

afflicted, and for which Arnica oil was recommended many years 

ago. I have used the preparation for this trouble many 

times with excellent success, in fact, not a failure.” If we re- 

member aright it was either Dr. Clifton or Dr. Ussher who first 

wrote of this use, in Homoeopathic World, fifteen or twenty years 

ago. 

It should be remembered that an important indication for 

Rumex crispus exists when there is a lacerating pain under the 

clavicle, especially when there is hawking. It should be espe- 

cially kept in mind when the pain is in the breast, in the upper part 

of the lobe of the lung forward, or in the region of the left 

shoulder. — Pop. Z. f. H. 

Caulophyllum is useful in inflammatory rheumatism of the 

wrist. There is sharp pain in the hand and in the finger joints, 

especially in the second joint when closing the hand, and the 

joints are stiff. — Pop. Z. f. H. 

“Cancers — epithelioma — yield very rapidly to the local and in- 

ternal administration of Echinacea. Carcinomas can be arrested, 

the odor destroyed, and the patient made comfortable under its 

use, and I believe that many cures have been and will be effected 

by its use in this most loathsome of all diseases.” — Holmes' 

Eclectic Quarterly, Dec. 

We have often been called to a case which looked to the pa- 

tient and friends that appendicitis was in full blast. The intense 

pain, hardly endurable, with these cases of intestinal colic, I have 

seen them fade away by giving 15-drop doses of Dioscorea in hot 

water every ten, fifteen or twenty minutes. — Dr. F. R. Crowell, 

Lawrence, Mich., in Ec. M. Dec. 

“My first knowledge of the use of Variolinum was given to me 

by that close student and staunch Homoeopath, the late Dr. 

Martin Deschere, of New York. He told me of his experience in 

an epidemic of small-pox in Hoboken, N. J., in the first years of 

his practice. Quarantine was not really attempted at that time, 

and cases were all treated in their own homes. He told me that 

he had small-pox in over one hundred families, and that he used 

Variolinum as a prophylactic in every instance upon those who 

were exposed and did not have a second case in any family where 

the Variolinum was given at once.” — John B. Garrison, M. D., 

in North Am. J. of Hom. 


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