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Headaches
Warts
Arthritis
In fibromyalgia-type symptoms, remember RHAMNUS CALIFORNICA and CASCARA SAGRADA, especially when associated with constipation. In a speech I gave several years ago in Ohio, I talked of SARCOLACTIC ACID as an acute flu remedy. I suggest you also consider it for chronic fatigue syndrome, the type in which there is recurrent sore throat, with achy, flu-type symptoms and malaise. I also talked of FORMIC ACID for chronic arthritis. Consider, too, LACTIC ACID, in the differential for chronic arthritis. I had a patient with a long history of rheumatoid arthritis. She had been on Plaquenil for the past ten years, plus many anti-inflammatants. It had always flared in the winter for which she was given steroids. The most significant part of her past history was recurrent Strep infections throughout childhood. I gave her homeopathic STREPTOCOCCINUM 10M, one dose. She was about thirty percent better from that single dose, despite the heavy allopathic medications. She did not need steroids that winter.
Fibromyalgia
KEYWORDS: acne, arthritis, asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, cough, infantile colic, fibromyalgia, heel pain, knee, rheumatism, sciatica, sinusitis, synovitis.
Sinusitis
SINUSITIS seems to be increasing in recent years. It is now thought to be the culprit for asthma and even chronic fatigue syndrome. Two main remedies are KALI IODATUM and ARSENICUM IODATUM, especially when there are thick, acrid nasal discharges. ARSENICUM IODATUM has more glandular involvement and night sweats. KALI IODATUM has more acrid discharges and pain at the root of the nose, pulsating or lancinating in nature, extending to the frontal sinuses. STICTA has dull pressure in the forehead and fullness at the root of the nose, with dry nasal passages. Boericke says COCHLEARIA, from the horseradish, has pressing and boring pains in the forehead "as if the frontal bone would fall out." CINNABARIS, from mercuric sulphide, has pressing pain above the root of the nose and shooting pains in the bones of the orbit "running from the inner to the outer canthus. Several years ago a patient of mine called to say that for the past week he had been experiencing chest discomfort while mowing the lawn. He was a pleasant, mild-mannered, mostly sedentary sixty-six year-old male. I immediately sent him to a cardiologist. Two days later he was recuperating from triple bypass surgery. He has continued to do well. Last spring, he called to ask me to send him another bottle of his allergy medicine. I told him, frankly, that I hadn't remembered him having allergies. He reminded me of the severe sneezing spells he would have every spring and fall, until he started using the granules I gave him. I told him I would look it up and send him some more. To my surprise, the remedy was BOVISTA. This prescription was based on the symptom, "nose obstructed, with watery nasal discharge, only from the left side." He had neglected to mention his allergies in recent visits, since he experienced no troubles while using the remedy. Last month, I treated a woman for acute sinusitis. Her symptoms were: pain in the left frontal and maxillary sinuses, with obstruction of the left nose with fluent discharge at the same time. I gave her BOVISTA and awaited her call. The next day she told my secretary the pain was all relieved.
Nutritional Counseling
Constipation
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Irritable bowel syndrome is endemic in our society. There are many reasons, the first of which is stress. Job security and family structure are being eroded. Two income families have less spending potential today than single incomes in the past. I don't envy the young people just entering the job market. Better goal setting, stress reduction, meditation, and exercise are imperative prescriptions for our present generation. More and more food allergies are being implicated in intestinal problems. These have to be ruled out. dairy, wheat, gluten, etc. Sometimes isodes of the offending allergens can be very beneficial. Irritable bowel syndrome is a functional disorder with varied distressing symptoms. Flatulence, cramping, diarrhea and constipation predominate, in various combinations and severity. Morning urging and diarrhea are the most classical symptoms. When the patient is woken out of sleep, early, at five to six a.m., or on awakening is rushed to stool with urging and cramping, then Sulphur is a "Godsend," or Natrum sulphuricum, with its morning aggravation, sensitive-to-touch abdomen, flatulence and very large stools. Forceful or explosive stools aggravated by any food or drink indicate Croton tiglium. A similar remedy with yellow, watery, crampy, explosive stools is Momordica charanta, the Hairy Momordica. Elaterium, the squirting cucumber, which is also in the Momordica family, has forceful watery stools, along with a rheumatic diathesis. Remember Rhamnus california, the California coffee tree, in rheumatic diathesis and fibromyalgia type symptoms, but this is associated with constipation. Even more so, the Rhamnus purshiana, cascara sagrada, has fibromyalgia and constipation. A remedy of recent help to me was Nuphar luteum, the yellow pond Lilly, with yellow, watery diarrhea, worse in the morning. A patient came for impotency. The combination of impotency and irritable bowel syndrome led to Nuphar.
Bronchitis
Urinary Incontinence
ABSTRACT: Several small and unusual remedies prescribed for various clinical conditions are hghlighted. Covered are such conditions as nausea of pregnancy, colds and allergic rhinnitis, external otitis, urinary incontinence, postnasal catarrh, proteinuria, pre-eclampsia, influenza, chronic fatigue syndrome, coughs, diabetic neuropathy, herpes zoster, and facial neuralgia.
Diarrhea
Pneumonia

Endometriosis
C.S., a thirty-two year-old married woman, came in with a four year history of abdominal pains "from ovulation to after the first few days of the flow." She had a prior history of uterine infection and two Caesarean sections. In 1991, a laparoscopy was performed for suspected endometriosis. She was diagnosed as having scar tissue, especially around the rectum, which may have been responsible for her constipation and knife-like pains in the rectum prior to stool. She was put on a trial of Thiosinaminum D3 twice daily for a month and then just at bedtime. Three weeks ago she reported what she called her 'PMS' symptoms as "great". no further abdominal pains.
Pregnancy

Kidney Stones
Anyone who has had children knows the agony of the COLICKY baby. I have oft quoted the old-time statement that "Homeopathy can rest its laurels alone on ARNICA." Second-best might well be CHAMOMILLA. To lower the pain threshold in any illness, notwithstanding the colicky child, is surely a blessing. CHAMOMILLA has made millions of grateful patients. But alas, when it doesn't work, how can we individualize for the correct remedy? Certainly we can use COLOCYNTH or MAGNESIUM PHOSPHORICA, with flatulent colic, when the knees are pulled up and better with pressure and/or heat on the abdomen. STANNUM METALLICUM saved me once, when other remedies failed. It has that strong symptom of better with hard pressure on the abdomen, especially better walking with the child on your shoulder, so as to put pressure on the child's abdomen. ILLICIUM, from anise, has a wonderful track record for baby colic. Or use DIOSCOREA, when the child is worse bending double and is better arching backwards. I remember DIOSCOREA curing a case of kidney stone colic with the two strong symptoms being pain in the kidney region radiating to the testicles and better bending backwards. Have you ever noticed that colic is usually worse in the evening, just as the father comes home from work? What remedy has child good all day and troublesome all night? If you said JALAPA, then you have probably helped many a colicky baby and frustrated parent.

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Sciatica
It is most frequent to have a cough that is loose in the morning and tight in the evening or at night. AMMONIUM MURIATICUM has the reverse modalities: dry in the morning and loose in the afternoon and/or evening. AMMONIUM MURIATICUM has several keynotes. One is coldness between the shoulder blades. The symptom I have used it for most frequently is sciatica, better only when lying down. It is similar to DIOSCOREA in this respect. Remember AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM for lumbosacral pain, especially when worse standing. Most coughs are worse lying on the left side. I believe there is a physiologic explanation for this. I had a patient who complained of a recurrent severe cough every fall, often progressing to pneumonia. His strongest modality was worse lying on the right. STANNUM METALLICUM cured the case. Remember the sweet tasting sputum of STANNUM which has helped me to find the right remedy in several cases. Most coughs are worse lying down. Try MANGANUM or MANGANUM PHOSPHORICA when better lying down. It also has the hoarseness, worse cold and damp like DULCAMARA, and better lying down. Coughs of gastric origin have been helped with SANGUINARIA, when the cough is better after eructations or passing flatus. VERATRUM ALBUM, from the white hellebore, has a cough coming from deep in the abdomen, better eructations, or with concomitant diarrhea. It is similar to SENEGA in its chest symptoms, with lots of mucus in the bronchial tree and difficult expectoration. It is also one of the few remedies worse in a warm room or on entering a warm room from the cold, like BRYONIA. I remember Dr. Rood discussing VERATRUM VIRIDE, from the white American hellebore. It has rapidly progressing lung congestion, dyspnea, heaviness of the chest, livid and bloated fauces, and drop in blood pressure. I suggest thinking about it for ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME. Remember CASTANEA VESCA for its short, tight, 'ringing', cough; COCCUS CACTI for its spasmodic cough, better in the cold air; CORRALIUM RUBRUM for its continuous "minute gun" type cough during the daytime and whooping-type cough at night. CORRALIUM has a profuse postnasal drip which is a good keynote for this remedy. Recently, a patient of mine had bronchitis. She told me she felt as if there were a long, thick string of mucus hanging down the back of her throat. CORRALIUM, saved the day. STICTA is similar in this regard. ANTIMONIUM SULPHURICUM and LEMNA MINOR also should be considered in postnasal drip. NAPHTHALIUM is another hay fever remedy that is efficacious in long-continued paroxysms of cough, worse at night, with tenacious mucus, and inability to catch the breath, worse inspiration, like BROMIUM, MANGANUM, and RUMEX. MEPHITIS has severe, suffocative coughing spasms at night, with contraction of the glottis, worse expiration. Cough "'till blue in the face" is Boericke's description of MEPHITIS.
Laparoscopy

Plastic Surgeons

Laparoscopic Surgery
Over the years I have reported on various small remedies that have been very useful to my patients. I usually don't go about looking for new remedies, But in everyday practice, as one peruses the repertory and materiae medicae while studying a case, one can't help but scan across many facts and remedies that one has never come across before. It is these tidbits that catch my eye, that inspire my further investigation. When thinking about remedies to present for this paper, my first thought kept coming back to Thiosinaminum, from the Oil of Mustard seed. Time after time it has helped women with abdominal adhesions either from prior pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, or abdominal or pelvic surgery, including laparoscopic surgery. It is said to dissolve scar tissue. I find it to have an anti-inflammatory action as well. I say this because patients seem to respond so quickly, before any significant cicatrical absorption reasonably could take place.

Acne Treatment
Ulcer
I asked her to wash the wound with this solution twice daily. She returned five weeks later. The ulcer was sixty percent closed and half as deep. However, a small satellite ulcer had developed about an inch from the original. This had happened several times in the past. Because of the satellite lesion and the burning pains she felt while cleaning out the sloughing tissue each night, I gave one dose of Anthracinum 200C. Five weeks later there was only a pinhole size opening remaining in the satellite lesion. The main ulcer had healed.
Eczema
Clark describes Chrysophanic acid, from Chrysarobinum, as a powerful irritant to the skin. The main symptoms being eczema behind the ears with oozing and large thick scabs, similar to Oleander or Scrophularia in scrofulous-like children. I have also used it with success in atopic conditions about the face and eyelids.
Lesions
I remember a homeopathic doctor in Michigan who was very successful in treating arthritis with homeopathic bacterial nosodes. Recent literature has shown positive identification of bacteria and viruses in the synovial tissue of arthritic joints. If we could identify this early in the disease, what benefit might we bring to mankind. I am indebted to a patient for helping me find a remedy that I now use more frequently in my practice. She was a thirty-five year-old woman who came to me for chronic acne since her teenage years. She worked in a veterinary clinic and said that sometimes she went home and her urine smelled like cat urine. Now maybe that is not unusual for someone who works in that occupation, but on checking the repertory it led me to VIOLA TRICOLOR. This remedy is quite useful for acne and impetigo-like lesions about the face, especially in children. When chronic or recurrent pustular-type lesions do not respond to the seemingly correct remedies, try a dose of ARSENICUM ALBUM. It has been my 'sheet-anchor' in this circumstance.
Rashes
Psoriasis
Speaking of the skin, psoriasis is a deep-seated illness that is difficult to treat both allopathically and homeopathically. Here is a remedy that has recently caught my attention. Manganum aceticum. I have used this remedy in the past mainly for the keynote symptom of cough, better lying. I use the phosphate of Manganum, in this instance, something I learned from Dr. Rood when she taught us years ago. The skin symptoms of Manganum are definitely not well repertorized in Kent...

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