Articles from: January 2017
PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM (Ph-ac.) فاسفورک ایسڈ – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM (Ph-ac.) فاسفورک ایسڈ
The characteristic of this remedy is the great weakness which begins on the emotional level and gradually progresses to the mental and physical levels. The most usual cause is grief which progresses to such depth that freezes the individual. The patient becomes apathetic and indifferent that nothing can excite them. They stare at the wall with an empty look. They don’t care if they live or die.
The falling of hair and the desire for juicy things are confirmatory symptoms for a Ph-ac. case.
INDIFFERENCE, APATHY, AILMENTS FROM GRIEF
MENTAL
Weakness on the emotional plane progressing to the physical and mental planes.
AILMENTS FROM GRIEF. Ailments from grief, disappointment. Prostrated and stupefied with grief. Silent grief.
INDIFFERENCE TO EVERYTHING, APATHY.
Memory weakness, dullness. Has to reflect long before answering. Forgetful of words while speaking.
PHYSICAL
WEAKNESS AND LASSITUDE <after emissions, after eating, exertion, morning.
Faintness from loss of fluids.
AILMENTS FROM GRIEF: falling of hair, headache, diarrhoea, palpitations etc.
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PETROLEUM (Petr.) پیٹرولیم پٹرولیم – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
PETROLEUM (Petr.) پیٹرولیم پٹرولیم
DRY SKIN, NAUSEA
MENTAL
THINKS HE IS DOUBLE OR SOMEBODY ELSE IS LYING NEXT TO HIM.
Feels that death is near and has to settle his affairs (presentiment of death).
Depression with dim vision.
Loss of memory, confusion. Does not recognize well known streets.
Excited, irritable after coition.
PHYSICAL
Affects the skin and the mucus membranes.
SKIN: DRY, CRACKED, DIRTY, HARD, ROUGH, THICKENED, raw. Wounds heal slowly.
ERUPTIONS, usually with painful cracks. Eczema, psoriasis, herpes. <winter.
Itching of skin, must scratch until is raw.
DRY SKIN with INCREASED MUCUS SECRETIONS.
Diarrhœa during skin eruptions.
Sea-sickness, car-sickness.
Falling out of hair.
Weakness, stomach emptiness, hunger after stool or during diarrhœa.
Ravenous hunger, frequently awakened by it at night.
Burning sensation is marked.
MODALITIES
AGG.: cabbage, flatulent food (beans and peas), after coition, eating after.
AMEL.: summer.
DES.: brandy, beer.
AVERS.: fat, meat.
OPIUM (Op.) اوپیم – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
OPIUM (Op.) اوپیم
The keyword for Opium is the sleepiness. The opiates in the brain of these patients are so much increased that promote sleep very easily leading even to narcolepsy. The opiates not only make the patient sleepy but make them blissful. They are so blissful that they don’t feel the pain of their complaints, they don’t realize the seriousness of their condition. Sleepiness and other symptoms can come after a frightening experience.
SLEEPINESS, BLISSFULNESS
MENTAL
AILMENTS FROM FRIGHT - convulsions, chorea, neurological disturbances etc.
Sleepy expression of the face. Somnambulism.
Indifference to suffering. CHEERFUL AND HAPPY during sickness, during fever. Does not complain, wants nothing, and seems to be in bliss though very sick. Says he’s well when sick.
Abundant ideas, vivid imagination. Ailments from excessive joy.
PHYSICAL
OVERPOWERING SLEEPINESS, NARCOLEPSY. Falls asleep while talking, sitting, etc. Falls into a heavy stupid sleep.
PAINLESSNESS of usually painful complaints.
Snoring, respiration is arrested, difficult, slow <during sleep.
SEVERE CONSTIPATION. Constipation of read more [...]
NUX VOMICA (Nux-v.) نکس وامیکا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
NUX VOMICA (Nux-v.) نکس وامیکا
The central idea in this remedy is the irritation of the nervous system. The individual is excited, impatient, quick to act and very irritable. It is often used in states of exhaustion from over-working, where the nervous system cannot tolerate the slightest stimulus. The noise, the light, the traffic, every little stress is intolerable. The irritability is found and is a leading characteristic during acute diseases.
On the physical level, this over excitability manifests in twitching, jerking, headaches but primarily in the sensitivity of the stomach.
OVEREXCITABILITY OF NERVOUS SYSTEM, IRRITABILITY
MENTAL
ANGRY, IRRITABLE, IMPATIENT, quarrelsome.
Easily offended. May become violent. Sudden impulse to kill even for a slight offense. Sudden impulse to throw the child out of the window or into fire. Desires to kill the husband.
Critical.
Increased ambition, competitive, industrious.
Jealous. Ailments from jealousy.
Fastidious, wants things in certain place
Oversensitive to external impressions: noise, music, odor, light.
PHYSICAL
STOMACH AFFECTIONS: gastritis, indigestion, read more [...]
The Controversy Over the “Memory of Water” (George Vithoulkas)
For a very long time, the idea of the “memory of water” tantalized not only the homeopathic community, but also serious scientists and researchers like Luc Antoine Montagnier, a recipient of the Nobel Prize.
This misconception originated from an experiment conducted by the famous allergologist, Dr. Jacques Benveniste. He claimed to have shown in an in vitro experiment that highly dilute potencies of bee poison (apis mellifica), even beyond the Avogadro number, are capable of producing structural changes in living organisms in the same way that the real poison from the bee can bring these changes about, being the actual degranulation of basophils. His paper was published in Nature under an obligation to prove his findings in front of a scientific committee in his own laboratory. Benveniste could not reproduce the results that his team was claiming.
When a similar experiment was repeated by a different group of scientists and filmed by the BBC, it also failed.
While it was obvious that the experiment was proved to be false, the scientific community concluded, by an extension of logic, that since the experiment was false, therefore homeopathy must also be a false read more [...]
A Case of Depression and Lack of Confidence (Noirin Carr McGarrigle)
On 8, August, 2013 a 21 year old female who I will refer to as “T” came to my clinic for help with chronic anxiety. She was reserved and childish with great anticipatory fear. She had little or no confidence / self esteem. She felt different from others her age. This created feelings of isolation and irritability when around others.
Homeopath: What can I do for you today?
Patient: I always feel like an outsider. I am not a chatty person. I speak only when spoken to. People don’t understand me. They just don’t get me, get who I am. It makes me feel sad having to put on different faces. I don’t feel strong enough or have the confidence to be me. My mentality is “no I can’t”. It overwhelms me. I put up a wall, a block in my mind. I cry at night. It takes hold of you. I want to go away, go away from life. The same feeling is always there just the situation changes. I don’t want to do what I don’t want to.
Physical Generals:
Thirst? I drink a lot of water
How does heat /cold affect you?
I don’t like heat but I like to be warm. I really feel worse for being cold and have to wrap up my hands, feet and head when going out in cold weather. read more [...]
Hussain Kaisrani, The chief consultant and director at Homeopathic Consultancy, Lahore is highly educated, writer and a blogger 