Single dose cure for chikungunya and swine flu in homoeopathy

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Treatment of swine flu

 

By Dr. V. Krishnamurthy (Thirty-eight years of teaching experience in

Homoeopathy, Chinese Acupressure & Dr. Bach Flower Remedies of England)

 

During the years 2006-2008, almost all homoeopathic practitioners had been

giving different remedies for chikungunya disease (mainly Rhus-tox and

Eup-perf.) to be taken for days and weeks with little relief. The undersigned

was the first to declare that the homoeopathic remedy Polyporus Pinicola-10,000x

is almost a specific for chikungunya and with this remedy GIVEN IN ONE SINGLE

DOSE, my students had cured lakhs and lakhs of chikungunya victims during the

years 2006 to 2008. (Rate of success: more than 97%).

 

I am not proud of the above, because it is my duty, as Professor of homoeopathy,

to find out the remedy for any epidemic. [A teacher is he who makes difficult

things

easy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson.] Be that as it may.

 

Though, all practitioners had cured several cases of chikungunya with one single

dose of Polyporus, what was disappointing is that not even a single homoeopath

came forward to ask me as to how I selected Polyporus Pinicola for chikungunya.

 

These homoeopaths (who had cured chikungunya with one single dose of Polyporus)

are now asking me what homoeo medicine is to be given for swine flu. I am not

satisfied with this query. But I would be much pleased if they had asked me how

I arrived at Polyporus Pinicola for chikungunya and further how to find out the

remedy for the present pandemic swine flu.

 

I don't mind declaring the name of the correct homoeopathic remedy which would

be almost a specific for swine flu. Before this I would, first of all, like to

teach the practitioners as to how I found out the remedy for chikungunya. This

is more important. Such a teaching alone would help the reader to find out by

himself a remedy for future epidemics.

 

Chikungunya disease begins with fever, shivering and joint pains. Many patients

had to crawl for going to the toilet etc. because of crippling joint pains.

Their faces were " gloomy. "

 

(See Calvin B. Knerr's Repertory—MIND AND DISPOSITION—Gloomy, in ague: Poly.)

 

(ague: malaria or another illness involving fever and shivering)

 

Now, coming to the much dreaded swine flu.

 

(a) those who had died in hospitals with swine flu had lung failure

 

(b) swine flu starts with fever, sore throat and body pain.

 

Step 1: Fever with body pain, sore throat. The rubric that you must take for

this in Kent 's Repertory is under GENERALITIES. Inflammation, internal:

 

Step 2: Disease of lung that speedily kills any patient; the equivalent rubric

in Kent 's Repertory is Pneumonia (CHEST: Hepatization of lungs)

 

The remedies scoring more points (being common to the above two lists) are

Cactus=4, Iodum=5, Kalic-c.=4, Kali-iod.=4, Lach.=5, Lyc.=4, Merc-sol.=4,

Nux-v.=5, Phos.=6, Sulph.=5, Tereb.=5

 

These remedies were studied in Samuel Lilienthal's HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS

under the chapter PNEUMONIA; Under Merc-sol we find the following words

 

" epidemic broncho-pneumonia " .

 

On the same page under the remedy ferrum met. also, we find the words " epidemic

pneumonia " . But we do not get this remedy in repertorisation.

 

Patients who had come to me after being tested positive for swine flu were given

the homoeo medicine Merc-sol--200 ( one dose only) and after a week when they

tested, the result was negative. All their symptoms disappeared. (Rate of

success: 97%).

 

For prevention, the same remedy Merc.sol--200 may be given one dose once a month

for three months. This prevents swine flu for six months from the date of taking

the first dose.

 

In homoeopathy, cure is easier and quicker than prevention.

 

 

 

 

 

Additional NOTE: In Section 213 of the Organon Dr. Hahnemann tells us that

without prescribing a remedy on mind symptoms a cure is not possible. Let us now

see how the remedy Merc-sol satisfies this requirement.

 

 

 

In big organizations when a person is affected with fever, sore throat and body

pain he is advised NOT TO COME TO OFFICE. In other words, the awe-stricken

non-affected persons run away from the victims as if they are their enemies, for

fear of contracting swine flu.

 

A lady took his 5-year old son to a doctor. There a patient came to consult the

doctor because he was declared positive for swine flu. Immediately on hearing

this that lady started running away with her son lest he may be infected.

 

The otherwise healthy person considers the victims of swine flu as his enemy.

The victims are asked to keep off till cured.

 

Under the Chapter " MELANCHOLIA " in the reference book HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS

by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal, (page no.700 under the remedy Merc-sol.) we find the

following words:

 

…anxious restlessness as if some evil impended… constant suspicion, considering

everybody his enemy.

 

The following extracts from the Wilkinsons' Materia Medica (under the chapter

`Mind' in the remedy Merc-sol.) also confirms my selection of this remedy for

swine flu.

 

....Desire to flee, with... anxiety and apprehension.... did not know what to

do... Inexpressible pain of soul and body, anxious restlessness, as if some evil

impended...

 

In one of the big multinational companies office at Chennai about 300 persons

were working in the first floor. Immediately on hearing that two of their

colleagues were tested positive for swine flu, all of them started fleeing. This

attitude is found in almost all persons who are running here and there for

preventive for swine flu. Therefore, Merc-sol is almost a specific both as a

preventive and curative.

 

What is most disappointing is that no one talks about Lilienthal's work

HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS, be it in seminar papers, monthly meetings or articles

in journals.

 

Said Charles Gatchell in a review of HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS, " … it is an

extraordinarily useful book and those who add it to their library will never

feel regret… "

 

In a review, Samuel A. Jones said about Lilienthal's HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS

as under:

 

" For the fresh graduate this book will be invaluable… to the older one who says

he has no use of this book, we have nothing to say. He is a good one to avoid

when well, and to dread when ill. "

 

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new subject. Many readers ask me what are the good reference books in

day-to-day homoeopathic practice. For this please the following cases treated

by mew and by my students.

 

athyMost people think that as we have remedies for diabetes in other systems

(like insulin in allopathy) there would be corresponding remedies in homoeo.

This is not so. There is one marked difference between homoeo and other medical

systems (allopathy, ayurveda, siddha etc. etc.)

 

 

 

In allopathy no doctor would give insulin for typhoid; also no one would give

antibiotic for diabetes. This is because insulin is for diabetes and no amount

of insulin will be of any use in typhoid.

 

But in homoeo, one remedy given for eczema patient may be indicated for jaundice

in another; the same remedy may be needed in the third patient suffering from

cancer. In such a case, the question that would naturally arise in the reader's

mind is, " If so, then what is the basis for prescribing or selecting the remedy

in homoeopathy? " Answer to this question will throw light on the uniqueness of

homoeo.

 

There are no `theories' or `principles' in homoeo but everything is practical

and practical only. For learning swimming you do not read any text-book at home

but first get into water. Therefore, let us start with actual cases treated.

 

Case 1: A patient with peptic ulcer, weeping eczema etc. came to me and said,

" Doctor, I am not taking the treatment to live long. But I have an aged

daughter to be married and a son who is looking out for a job. Who would come

forward to marry my daughter, if I have a weeping eczema? Only because of that,

I want to get cured. Before I die, I want to settle things in my family; my

daughter getting married and son getting a job. Then I can die peacefully. "

 

Under the homoeopathic remedy Petroleum (Boericke's Materia Medica) we find the

following:

 

" Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs. "

 

Now, this sentence fits in approximately with the remarks made by the above

eczema patient. This remedy was given in single dose and it cured him

completely.

 

Case 2: A peptic ulcer patient's condition worsened day by day and allopathic

antacids were giving temporary relief. At the height of his suffering (hunger

pain with burning sensation in the food pipe, temporarily relieved by eating) he

was heard saying, " I think that my end is approaching; I must call the lawyer to

write the will; that this hotel of mine should go to my wife; money deposited in

the bank is for my son. My widowed sister who has been living with me for

several years and helping me should take the house which I bought recently. "

 

This mind picture agrees with the remarks made by the patient in case No.1

above. One single dose of Petroleum-10M cured this patient also. We do not

prescribe on names of disease or pathology but on `uncommon' symptoms having no

connection with pathology.

 

(a) The above two cases would show the reader that one and the same

remedy may be called for in different persons with different diseases; also,

 

(b) Persons suffering from different diseases may need one and the

same remedy.

 

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Let us now see further three actual cases treated where three patients, all of

them having the same complaint, viz., `headache', were cured by different

remedies:

 

Case 3: A patient with chronic headache, after spending millions with various

doctors and specialists came to me. After finishing the history of his seven

years' sufferings, he ended up saying: " Doctor, if you or any one can cure me

of this terrible headache, I won't mind even giving away half of my property

(worth three millions) to him. "

 

Doctors of all other systems would simply ignore these words told by the patient

at the end of his talk.

 

If a patient says that he is ready to pay 1.5 millions for getting his headache

cured, we can say that he is " deplorably downhearted. " [deplorable = shockingly

bad]

 

Under the homoeo remedy Stillingia (Wilkinson's Materia Medica), we find the

words " deplorably downhearted; suffering extreme torture from bone pains; "

Stillingia, one dose cured him.

 

Case 4: Here is another case of headache. This 55-year old male patient

remarked: " Doctor, all these years I have been having these torturing bone pains

in head; my sufferings are such that no amount of compensation would satisfy me.

Even if you make me President of all the countries in the world that would not

be a sufficient compensation. "

 

The equivalent words or phrase for this statement of the patient would be:

 

Extreme sadness, abject despair, uncompromising melancholy

 

The above is found under the remedy Selenium (See Boericke's Mat. Med.)

 

Selenium, one dose, cured him.

 

Case 5: A middle aged man of forty enters my clinic complaining of headache for

a few months. After telling me that he tried allopathy, ayurveda, homoeopathy

etc. he told me that the pain in head started the previous year when he was

having malarial fever; though malaria was cured, pain in head continued.

(Certain cases are the easiest to work out; certain cases are difficult)

 

Calvin B. Knerr's Repertory: Chapter No. 40.

 

Fever, intermittent (ague):…. with headache; Cina, Cist., Kali-c., Polyp.

 

Fever, intermittent apyrexia:… headache, Arn., Natr.m., Polyp., Puls.

 

Polyporus Pinicola, being common to the above two lists was given in single

dose. Total relief felt for a month after which he reported relapse. The same

remedy was given this time in single dose in a higher potency and it is now

more than seven years and he is free from headache. Also, his chronic

constipation was cured.

 

Thus, in cases No. 3, 4 and 5 above though the complaint, viz., `headache' is

same in all of them, each patient got different remedies.

 

To be precise, those symptoms which doctors of other medical systems would

ignore, we take that and that alone for prescribing or selecting the remedy in

homoeopathy.

 

There are no specifics in homoeopathy.

 

Why should we do like this? Why not have a specific remedy for jaundice; and

another for headache and so on and so forth?

 

Our answer: Dear reader, the above method of prescribing on `uncommon' symtpom

alone can cure patients with ONE SINGLE DOSE or a few doses.

 

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[in each medical system there may be something unique, and without arguing which

one is the best, the intelligent man takes the best from each.]

 

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70 to 90 per cent of caesarean surgeries can be done away with three doses of

homoeopathic medicine.

 

The foetus (baby in the uterus of the pregnant mother) 1-3 weeks prior to

delivery date (so long remaining in upright position) turns upside down, and the

uterus descends down in such a way that the head of the foetus remains fixed in

the pelvic floor of the mother. 1-3 weeks later, at the delivery time the mouth

of the uterus dilates and the child comes out. Even after the full term of ten

months if the child does not turn upside down, or turns half-way and lies

crosswise,

 

or

 

having turned upside down, does not descend further down, the attending lady

doctor would say that head is still floating or is in incorrect position and so

opens the abdomen to take out the child. This is called caesarean surgery. 70 to

90 per cent of caesarean surgeries at the present day are conducted solely for

this reason.

 

At this time if the patient takes three doses of the homoeopathic medicine

Pulsatilla-1000, every 4-8 hours, in the next twenty-four hours it would be a

normal and safe delivery.

 

In the reference book The Accoucheur's Emergency Manual by Dr. W. A. Yingling,

M.D., of U.S.A. we find the following :

 

" Abnormal presentations may be righted if (Pulsatilla is) given before the

membranes are ruptured or the presenting parts are firmly engaged… "

 

In a maternity hospital, Pollachi Road, Dharapuram, Tamilnadu, by using

Pulsatilla and other remedies there has not been even a single caesarean for the

past several years and the doctor in-charge has put up a board " Caesarean-free''

Clinic. The Dharapuram Lions Club has given her a certificate testifying this.

 

(2) If the babe in the uterus stops growing, allopathy has no cure and they

abort the child. But if one single dose of the homoeopathic medicine Secale

Cornutum-10M is given, the babe starts growing. (See Calvin B. Knerr's

Repertory, p. 698. Pregnancy, foetus, development arrested: Sec.)

 

(3) After caesarean (or for that matter after any abdominal surgery) there

would be pain in the sutured place lasting for years. But one single dose of the

homoeo medicine Staphysagria-1000, completely cures in twenty-four hours all

post-operative abdominal discomforts.

 

(4) Some newly married women are prone to urinary infection and they spend in

thousands. Again, the same homoeo medicine Staphysagria-1000, in one single

dose, would cure the condition in just a day's time.

 

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Random Notes on practice

 

A teacher is he who makes difficult things easy

 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

 

Certain symptoms cannot be classified in the repertory under any head. Therefore

it is better to memorise and keep them in your finger-tip.

 

For the following two cases (case No. 6 & 7) one and the same remedy cured.

 

Case 6: A patient consulted me for allergic rash on skin on both upper limbs

and chest.

 

He said, " Doctor, for the last three years I have gone to allopaths, ayurveda,

homoeopaths etc. They have treated me for weeks and months with just five per

cent relief. If I eat unstrained cooked rice or wheat flour preparation I would

get distension of my belly; that evening the rash on skin will start; in the

night if I pass flatus freely per ano or have a free bowel movement the rash

would disappear. "

 

Case 7: A school boy of twelve was brought by the parents. The mother started

talking: " Doctor, he has to leave the house for school at 9.30 in the morning.

He gets up at 6.00 a.m. By 7.30 a.m. he becomes so restless—jumps, cries etc.

This would last for half-an-hour. Then this disappears; it is followed by 3-4

times loose bowel movement. After that he becomes completely all right and goes

to school. "

 

In both the above cases the symptoms that should come to our mind is given

below:

 

" Symptoms disposed to appear perio-dically and in groups... intermitting . . . "

 

The above lines are found in the remedy Cuprum met. (Boericke's Materia Medica.)

This remedy cured both the above patients (case No. 6 & 7) in one single dose in

the 200th potency.

 

Case 8: A patient consulted me for constipation. Even laxatives and purgatives

were said to be of no use . He further said that for several years he had been

taking daily anticonvulsant drug for epilepsy and if he stops it, he would get

convulsions.

 

The following under the remedy Opium (in Wilkinson's Materia Medica) agrees with

this case:

 

" …Increased irritability and action in voluntary muscles, with diminution of it

in involuntary muscles… "

 

When the intestine is full with faeces, urging is felt (involuntary muscles.) In

the instant case these muscles are not functioning. Movement of limbs is

controlled by voluntary muscles and he gets convulsions in them (increased

irritability and action).

 

Opium-10M one single dose cured his constipation and he was asked to stop

anticonvulsant drugs; he did so and to his surprise convulsions did not appear.

 

Case 9: A patient showed his right leg with ulcer. He got injury a few months

earlier but so far it did not heal in spite of best medical treatment. After a

pause, the patient continued, " Doctor, ever since the accident I feel numbness

in my right upper arm and I am unable to use it freely. Has this non-healing of

wound in my leg anything to do with numbness in my arm? But my arm was not hurt

in the accident. "

 

We say that homoeopathy is a system of medicine where the patient tells or

indicates the remedy to us. In Wilkinson's Materia Medica the following

sentence under the remedy Pulsatilla agrees with this case:

 

… " depression of vital power on one side and increased irritability on the

other… "

 

Pulsatilla-10M, one single dose cured both the ulcer on the leg and numbness in

the arm.

 

Case 10: The one symptom in the remedy Belladonna (found in Wilkinson's Materia

Medica) will highlight what is meant by `uncommon symptom'; also it would

illustrate the uniqueness and superiority of Wilkinson's Materia Medica.

 

A patient came in with pain in the femoral part of urethra and backache. It was

worse while riding the two-wheeler. He showed his medical file (given by

allopathic hospital) and therefrom we noted the following points:

 

hydroureteronephrosis—Left kidney

 

pain in femoral part of urethra

 

pain in sacral region.

 

His complaint (pathology) is in kidney/ureter but he has pain in femoral part of

urethra and sacrum. This is something rare-strange-peculiar. Both these painful

places are at the same distance from the seat of affection—kidney.

 

Under the remedy Belladonna (Wilkinson's Materia Medica) we find the following:

 

" Inflammation of internal organs… The inflammation… runs in radii as it extends

to adjacent parts. "

 

(Femoral part of urethra and pain in sacrum are more or less at equal distance

from his left ureter)

 

Belladonna-10M, single dose, cured him.

 

[Wilkinson's Materia Medica is available with us for sale. For getting this

book by post, you may send us Rs.380=00 (overseas US $ or Euro 15=00 to our

Chennai address.]

 

Case 11: Two years after case No. 5 above, a lady came to me for cervical

spondylitis. These patients get pain normally in the neck extending to head or

one upper limb. Strangely this patient complained of unbearable pain in both

shoulder tips. (Both shoulder tips are at the same distance away from the

cervical vertebra.) Belladonna-10M, single dose cured her.

 

Case 12: A lady, the mother-in-law of a fourth stage cancer patient, came to

me asking medicine for cancer. When I asked her to bring the patient she said

that he wouldn't come. I asked her to tell me in verbatim what he had said. She

replied, " He does not say anything.''

 

At this stage I asked her whether she did not care to go and see her son-in-law

who is said to be in fourth stage cancer. She replied:

 

" My daughter wrote me a letter stating that doctors have said that he would live

for another six months only, and he is not afraid of death, but he wants to live

with his family in the same quarters in which he had been living all along and

said that he does not want anyone (be it friends or relatives) to visit him.''

 

(Sometimes, we do get valuable symptom from the report of messengers).

 

Let us now see how to work out this case.

 

" Does not want anyone to visit him "

 

– Aversion to company

 

" Till death wants to live with family in the same

 

quarters where he had been living all these years "

 

– Homesick

 

Kent's Repertory was consulted:

Company, aversion to: (several remedies)

Homesickness: (several remedies)

 

Remedies common to these two rubrics and scoring more points are: Aur.-4,

Carb-an.-6, Ign.-5, Nat-m.-5

 

To confirm one out of the above four remedies, they were studied in HOMOEOPATHIC

THERAPEUTICS (By

Dr. Samuel Lilienthal) under the chapter " Carcinoma.'' Under Carb-an. we find

the words

 

" cachexia full developed " .

 

Again, in the chapter `Melancholia' under the remedy Carb-an. we find the

following words: " desire for solitude. "

 

Carb-an.-10M, single dose was prescribed. Patient is improving.

 

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Case 13: Homoeopaths are not properly trained in the subject of case taking in

five years of college study. The other day, I was sitting in the clinic of a

homoeopath.

 

A patient walked in asking the doctor whether he has medicine for diabetes. The

doctor started giving a lecture to the patient that he makes his prescription

(?) on `symptoms' and so the patient should first tell his symptoms.

 

The patient abruptly told, " Feel my pulse (stretching his hand towards the

doctor)', give medicine. " The poor doctor turned to me and said, " this is the

problem… patients do not tell symptoms… "

 

I told him to ask the patient to wait outside, then explained him how to

classify or convert the very attitude/tone of this patient into a mind symptom.

 

Let us recall and recollect the way the patient talked and his tone. In olden

days, the king would talk as under:

 

" Let so-and-so- be brought before me alive or dead within twenty-four hours! " It

is in `imperious' manner (or royal language) with an air of command. The manner

of the king would be stiff and pretentious. So also, the abovesaid diabetic

patient talked in a similar manner. " Feel my pulse (stretching his hand) and

give medicine. "

 

In Calvin B. Knerr's Repertory, Mind (page 19) we find the following:

 

Answers, imperiously: Lyc

 

Lycopodium 10M, one dose cured the patient of his diabetes. Even if he had any

other disease (other than diabetes, Lycopodium would have cured him).

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