GAERTNER

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Hypotheses	Features	Similars
Predisposed types	Bright active types. Often intellegent. Often fair hair; blue eyes; freckles. Thin, pale, nervy people.	Phosphorus Silica Merc vivus Tuberculinum (▲rel▼)
Main aetiology	Infective	▼
Secondary aetiologies	Antibiotics, drugs or both	▼
Emergent disturbance	Immune or autoimmune	Carcinosinum
Secondary disturbances	Inflammatory arthritis Inflammatory bowel disease Malabsorbtion syndromes	Sanicula aqua Phosphorus salts Silicates (▲rel▼)
Principle locations	Small intestine + Malabsorbtion	▼
Secondary locations	Lymphatics Glandular Spleen Endothelium Synovium	Asafoetida Ceanothus
GI pathophysiology	Post-salmonella dysbiosis. + Diarrhoea Bloody stool Defective absorption	Aloe Podophyllin

Eyes

White sclerotics. Styes.

Ears

“For cases of children who get a discharging ear every time they cut a tooth, give one dose of Gaertner 30, followed the next day by the dose of Silicea 30, and repeat the Gaertner as soon as there is any sign of a further outbreak of this ear discharge.”— Beta

Nose

Polypi. Catarrh.

Mouth

Salivation. Herpes. Dry scaly eruption. Teeth black. Deep fissures in tongue.

Neck and Back

Pain in hip and back (severe).

Desires and Aversions

Craves: oatmeal (porridge and oatcakes); cheese; eggs; milk pudding; sugar and sweets.
Averse: bread; butter; butcher meat; fish.

Stomach

Pain in stomach. Vomits everything: vomiting < after sweets. Headache and vomiting: acidosis attacks. Dilated stomach. Stomach attacks or gastro-intestinal attacks.

Digestive System

B. Gaertner has its greatest action on the digestive tract. Children fed on artificial food have poor digestion. Inability to digest fat — coeliac disease; ketosis; “intestinal infantilism” are disease complexes found under the ‘provings’ of this nosode.

Extremities

Chilblains on hands in winter. Bites nails. Intractable rheumatic cases. (Laura Hurd).

Urine

Blood and mucus with urine. Burning in urethra.

Genitalia

Profuse offensive leucorrhoea. Hydrocele. Pruritis vulvae.

Bowels

Constipation. Diarrhoea — offensive: attacks every few weeks. Chronic gastroenteritis; tabes mesenterica. Blood and mucus in stool.

Sleep

Sleep walking. Restless sleep; night terrors.

Skin

Urticaria; heat spots. Boils on arms and legs.

Eruption

Back, head, and neck. Circinate eruptions on sternum.

Perspiration

< at night.

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“In all varieties of neurasthenia, I know of no single remedy to compare with the Gaertner nosode.”— C.E. Wheeler

The keynote of Gaertner Co. is “nutrition” and this nosode might suitably be named as “the children nosode”, because in clinical picture you will find something of practically all the nutritional disorders so common in the child, but it is equally found useful in the other extremes of life associated with malignancy. Marked emaciation may be taken as an indication for the use of this nosode.— (Aggrawal, after Elizabeth Paterson)

Gaertner has great relation with malignancy. Dr. John Roppe, the pathologist, found that Gaertner bacillus was in the stool of malignant cases.

‘Children are hypersensitive to all impressions, psychical or physical; overactive brain with under nourised body.’ — John Paterson