Author: Urenus

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh aerial parts of Plantago major L., a native of Europe and Asia. N.O. Plantaginaceae.

The main indications are:

Otitis media. Mastoiditis and post-operative fistulae. Toothache in dental caries. Nocturnal enuresis.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Plantago major, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for plantago major: headaches; enuresis; diarrhoea; rashes.

The attenuations of this sarcode are prepared from the foetal portion of the placenta of a healthy pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

For the main indications see under “Placenta Suis”.

The attenuations of this sarcode are prepared using the whole placenta from the uterus of a healthy female pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) with young.

The main indications are:

Disorders of peripheral circulation. Revitalisation, marbled skin. Prostration. Chilblains. Buerger’s disease. Ulcer of the lower leg. Fissures. Eczemas. Wrinkling of the skin. Scleroderma. Intermittent dysbasia. Dysmenorrhoea. Cramps of the calf muscles. Muscular rheumatism.

A proving of this substance was conducted in the fall of 1994 by Dr. David Riley. Congruent symptoms with Dr. Reckeweg:

• disorders of the peripheral circulation
• prostration
• rheumatism
• cramps of the calf muscles

Concise Materia medica from Dr. Riley’s proving:

Mind

Irritability and anxiety. Nightmares.

Generalities

Loss of energy. Lack of vital heat, sensation of coolness. Weakness and trembling.

Vertigo

Vertigo, worse on closing eyes and lying down.

Head

Headache, worse in the forehead.

Nose

Discharge that drips down the back of the throat. Sneezing.

Throat

Sore throat, dryness and rawness, worse on swallowing.

Stomach

Lack of thirst. Decrease in appetite. Heartburn associated with nausea.

Rectum

Constipation alternating with diarrhoea. Burning and sensation of heat during and after stools. Sudden urging for stool.

Larynx/Trachea

Hoarseness.

Back

Back pain, worse from sitting and relieved when lying down, worse during menses.

Extremities

Coldness and itching of the extremities. Burning pain in the legs.

The attenuations are prepared from tar which is obtained by distillation of the wood of various kinds of pine trees.

The main indications are:

Pain at the third left costal cartilage. Itching eczemas and dermatoses, especially on the backs of the hands.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Pix liquida, published the fol- lowing indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for pix liquida: rimose eczema of the hands and fingers; bronchitis.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh shoots with a length up to 5 cm of the tree Pinus sylvestris L., which occurs in Europe and Northern Asia. N.O. Pinaceae.

The active ingredients are essential oil, oil of turpentine, resins and tannins. The alcoholic extract known as Oil of Pine and used externally is an old folk-remedy, and is recommended for emaciation of the lower extremities, and also in weakness of the ankles, but particularly also for tubercular, rachitic children who are late in learning to walk; it can be given internally or rubbed in externally.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Pinus sylvestris, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for

pinus silvestris: insufficiency of the ligamentous apparatus at the bones; chronic rheumatism; inflammations of the respiratory passages; eczema; hives and rash.

The attenuations are prepared from Picric Acid, C₆ H₃N₃O₇, MW: 229.11.

Aggravated by exertion, reading, and mental work. Utter exhaustion, weakness, must lie down for a long time. Burning pains in the eyes from the light. Boils in the ear. Papular eruptions. Occipital headache aggravated after coitus, from heat of sun and from mental exertion. Sugar and albumen in the urine. Spondylitis. Hypertrophy of the prostate gland.

Typical indications for this remedy are the utter mental prostration, with weak- ness, feeling of tirednes and mental sluggishness to the point of complete paralysis. There is apathy with a lack of energy and initiative. All complaints are aggravated by exertion. Neurasthenia. Seminal emissions.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Acidum picrinicum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for acidum picrinicum: mental and nervous states of exhaustion; cerebrovascular angiosclerosis; sexual disorders; furuncles of the auditory canal; acne vulgaris.

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh root collected in autumn of the plant Phytolacca decandra L., a native of North America, where it grows on fertile, sunny soil, and cultivated in many places in Southern Europe and North Africa, and also frequently found growing in the wild. N.O. Phytolaccaceae.

The main indications are:

Tonsillitis. Violent inflammation of the whole pharyngeal area. Throat swollen and dark red. Diphtheria. Vincent’s angina. Sciatic pain along the outside of the thigh. Mastitis with breast “heavy as a stone”. Breast tumours.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Phytolacca americana, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for phytolacca: extremely feverish infections; mucosal inflammations, es- pecially of the respiratory organs; mastitis and other diseases of the mammary glands; the field of rheumatic diseases.

The attenuations are prepared from yellow Phosphorus, P, AW: 30.97.

The liquid potencies obtained from the solution of white phosphorus in alcohol are used in numerous complaints and diseases which are typical of Phosphorus, the whole remedy being permeated by a characteristic hypersensitivity and excitability with a general aggravation from emotions.

As with Nux Vomica, cold aggravates the complaints; however, it ameliorates the head, stomach and spinal symptoms.

Phosphorus works well in morning diarrhoea, whilst most of the complaints are worse towards evening. The Phosphorus patient feels worse after meals and lying on the left side, although the latter symptom does not hold good in all cases.

Emotionally there is a general excitability and irritability, laughing alternating with crying. There are timidity and fearfulness at twilight and above all during thun- derstorms; the patient fears to be alone, and is hypersensitive to light, noises, music and the scent of flowers, as with Nux Vomica. There is a general tremulous weak- ness with vertigo and possibly headache, which is ameliorated by cool air and wash- ing in cold water.

Thus Phosphorus is indicated in alcoholic tremor. This symptom which occurs during withdrawal treatment, might otherwise provide the incentive to start drinking alcohol again and so prejudice the success of the treatment.

There may be black spots dancing in front of the eyes, or the patient may see as if through a mist with momentary states of blindness. There may also be impaired hearing of the frequencies of human speech sounds. Exhaustion occurs, particularly after emotional states, over-work, acute illness, loss of vital fluids and sexual ex-

cesses. Phosphorus does excellent work particularly in states of exhaustion follow- ing acute illnesses (e.g. diphtheria) linked with sleeplessness. This Phosphorus symptom is also seen in the withdrawal symptoms of alcoholism.

Necrosis of the lower jaw is typical of Phosphorus, as is a grey, mucous coating of the tongue with brown and black patches. There is ravenous hunger and a feeling of faintness with nervousness, worse around 10:00–11:00 a.m. The patient wakes at night feeling hungry; he must eat something, desires cold food, which may then be vomited.

Generally there is a predominant sensation of emptiness and weakness in the ab- domen. The stools are painless, with a sensation as if the anus were open.

In many cases there is a high degree of sexual excitement with accompanying physical weakness and seminal emissions at night. The menses are mostly scanty.

Phosphorus displays characteristic catarrh and cold symptoms, particularly hoarseness with coughing and roughness of the larynx, worse in the evening, the lar- ynx being so sensitive to touch that the patient cannot speak for the pain. In the chest there is a tense, constricting sensation with air-hunger, such as occurs in pneumonia. Lobar pneumonia is a strict indication for Phosphorus, also coughing with mucous, blood-streaked, rusty-coloured and possibly salty sputum. Phosphorus must not be given in low potency in tuberculosis. Indications include stabbing in the left side of the chest and pains in the back as if it were going to break, with tearing pains in the left shoulder, worse at night. There is congestion of blood, possibly with hot flushes, fear and burning in the face and hands and between the shoulder-blades. The patient cannot sleep for internal dry heat. All pains are of a burning nature (as in Sulphur and Arsenicum).

Phosphorus is also an effective haemorrhage remedy. Small wounds, especially, bleed profusely. Thus Phosphorus is also indicated in purpura, bruises, petechiae and haematoma.

The Phosphorus patient is said to feel better after a massage.

Typical of Phosphorus is the stooping posture in patients who are lean, slim and asthenic, have grown too fast, are usually blond and in need of the Alexander Tech- nique.

However, Phosphorus is frequently also effective in gastric illnesses with chronic dyspepsia, ravenous hunger and vomiting. It is a remedy for the glands, and is indi- cated in bronchial pneumonia, in colds which proceed from the nose downwards into the trachea and bronchi, and in tuberculosis, as well as in chronic diarrhoea. However, only higher potencies must be used where there is a haemorrhagic tenden- cy (especially in tuberculosis). Phosphorus is indicated in hepatitis with jaundice, and in other kinds of impregnation and degeneration phases, e.g. myocardial dam- age, endocarditis and fatty degeneration of the heart, typhoid anaemia, osteomyelitis with fistulae, and also in suppurations of connective tissues and glands.

Clear states of exhaustion require Phosphorus in low potency. Phosphorus has al- ways proved its worth in pneumonia, (orally or injected, in the potencies 10X, 30X, 200X and 1000X).

If the symptoms of Phosphorus are presented schematically, the result is a many- sided remedy-picture as follows:

1. General fearfulness, especially in thunderstorms. Fear of solitude.
2. Vertigo, especially on rising or on changing position quickly.
3. General weakness with trembling of the limbs or as soon as something is picked up. (Withdrawal symptoms in alcoholism. Delirium tremens.)
4. Diseases of the bones, especially of the spine and the lower jaw (after dental ex- traction). Burning between the scapulae.
5. Haemorrhagic tendency. Purpura. Bleeding haemorrhoids. Protracted haemor- rhages generally, also haematoma without obvious injuries. Thrombocytopaenia.
6. Frequent need to eat, especially at night. Subsequent amelioration – if only tem- porary. Dyspepsia. Catarrhs and glandular inflammations, e.g. laryngitis with hoarseness, worse in cold air. Sore, raw feeling under the sternum. Specific for lobar pneumonia. Liver damage. Myocardial damage. Damage to the parenchyma of the kidneys with albuminuria. Nephrosis.
7. Rapid fatigue during coitus with heightened libido and subsequent weakness.
8. Sweating during first sleep and burning heat between the scapulae and in the hands. In tall, slim people who have shot up, asthenic types who tire quickly but soon recover. (Alexander Technique.)

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Phosphorus, published the fol- lowing indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for phosphorus: inflammations of the respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive organs; severe infectious diseases; disorders in convalescence and conditions of ex- haustion, cardiac insufficiency; cardiac pain; circulatory disorders; haemorrhages; blood diseases; vascular diseases; rheumatism; spinal complaints; osteitis and bone decalcification; neuralgia; headaches; paralysis; abnormal growth or development among children; hypersensitivity of the sensory organs; eye diseases; abnormal be- haviour, emotional discord or upset.

The attenuations are prepared from diluted Phosphoric acid, H₃ PO₄ , MW: 98.0.

The main characteristics of Phosphoric Acid are weakness, apathy, indifference and sluggishness of mind and body. Complaints are aggravated by cold and amelio- rated by warmth. The patient may lie there in a state of unconsciousness or as if drugged, without being aware of what is going on around him. However, on waking he is fully conscious (Nash).

However, Phosphoric Acid is not only indicated in typhoid conditions, but the de- pression of the senses may also be due to personal problems and emotional burdens of external origin, rather similar to Ignatia, but substantially deeper-rooted, the pa- tient appearing to be paralysed by grief or other problems. A crushing pressure is often present in the vertex, with pains in the occiput or neck.

In contrast to Calcium Carbonicum patients, who are mostly pyknic, Phosphoric Acid patients grow too quickly. We then find headaches, especially in school pupils when they have grown too fast.

The abdominal symptoms include flatulent distension, rumbling and gurgling and noises as of water, and a colourless painless diarrhoea without any noteworthy weakness or exhaustion. This is in strong contrast to China. Both this remedy and Phosphoric Acid are good remedies for the consequences of masturbation.

There is a characteristic sleeplessness at night, with debilitating sweats and wak- ing with ravenous hunger and a craving for cold milk or beer. After meals the patient complains of great exhaustion and possibly sour eructations or a taste as of rotten eggs. After drinking water there is heartburn, or vomiting of sour mucus, which makes the teeth feel blunt.

The weakness which runs through the whole remedy also finds expression in the respiratory organs. Here the patient is so short of breath that he cannot talk for long on account of weakness in the chest. Spasmodic painful constriction of the chest may also occur, and coughing with tickling in the larynx. There is chronic laryngeal and bronchial catarrh, with a tendency to bleeding, dryness and roughness in the throat. A nasal voice is also typical.

A typical genito-urinary symptom is an escape of prostatic fluid (prostatorrhoea) before urination, and frequent urination at night. The urine may have a red sediment and a greasy layer on the surface. The urine is generally very copious and light- coloured, watery or milky. Headache is ameliorated by copious urination (cf. Gelsemium.)

There is impotence in males, with failure to maintain the erection during coitus, and without seminal discharge. This can frequently be a consequence of coitus in- terruptus or masturbation. There is an itching of the scrotum, anus or vagina.

The menses arrive late and are scanty. There is leucorrhoea with large lumps and an unbearable odour.

Summing up the main symptoms of Phosphoric Acid, we have the following typi- cal remedy-picture:

1. Mental exhaustion. Weakness of memory. Consequences of personal problems, over-work and sexual excesses. Reluctance to talk. Sleepiness.
2. Aggravation from cold, amelioration from keeping warm.
3. Sleepiness during the day and sleeplessness at night, with exhausting sweats. Twitching and movement of limbs during sleep. Worrying or lascivious dreams with seminal emissions. Refreshed by a short sleep. Waking with ravenous hunger.
4. Gums bleed easily. Scurvy. Dryness of the oral mucosa. Tongue coated white or yellow. Aversion to rye-bread, craving for milk or beer. Taste as of rotten eggs.

Vomiting of sweet or sour mucus. Chronic painless diarrhoea which does not ex- haust the patient.

• Irritable conditions of the bladder. Prostatorrhoea before urination. Frequent uri- nation at night. Burning or cutting pains during urination. Retention of urine. Urine has red sediment and greasy layer on the surface.
• Impotence. Seminal emissions. Failure to maintain erection during coitus, with seminal discharge lacking. Menses late and scanty. Leucorrhoea with large lumps, offensive.
• 7.   Itching of the anus vagina and scrotum.
• Chronic catarrh of the larynx and air passages.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Acidum phosphoricum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for phosphoricum acidum: exhaustion of the mental and physical activity, disturbances of the calcium metabolism, diarrhoea.

The attenuations are prepared from the glycoside, Phlorizine, C₂₁H₂₄O₁₀ · 2H₂O, MW: 427.4, which occurs in the bark of root and trunk and in the branches and leaves of various members of the Rosaceae family, e.g. apple, cherry, and plum trees.

When small quantities of Phlorizine are taken or, better, injected subcutaneously, this precipitates a severe glycosuria which occurs without any preceding hypergly- caemia and continues even when the blood-sugar level becomes low. This effect comes about because the kidney has become permeable to lower levels of blood-glu- cose.

In kidney diseases, glycosuria occurs late, minimally or not at all. Thus it seemed obvious and consistent with the Law of Similars and the Reversal effect (Arndt- Schulz) to use Phlorizine in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. However, this was not attended by spectacular success, probably because in most cases of diabetes mellitus we are dealing with degeneration phases or genetically determined phases which, being cellular phases, are on the right of the Biological Division, and are therefore, as Hahnemann remarked in the Organon, no longer fully accessible to cure with single homoeopathic remedies in most cases, being manifestations of Psora.

A doctor who is working in a biological way and is not achieving results with sin- gle remedies along the lines of classical homoeopathy enlists a number of curative possibilities which can be realised throug E. Bürgi’s synergistic principle, i.e. com- bination-remedies, especially if these are used parenterally and thus come into close contact with the body’s Greater Defensive System directly and possibly undiluted.